Presentation on ePortfolio and identity construction at AAEEBL conference, Boston, 20-22 July 2010

1. Beyond ePortfolios
identity construction in a digitally extended world

2. ePortfolio

3. Identity

6. “The overwhelming feelings of crisis (in education), of
‘living at the crossroads’, …have little to do with the
faults, errors or negligence of the professional
pedagogues or the failures of educational theory, but
quite a lot to do with the de-regulation and privatization
of the identity-formation processes, the dispersal of
authorities , the polyphony of value messages and the
ensuring fragmentation of life… Beyond all this slicing
and spicing, one can sense the crumbling of time.
(Crisis) plays havoc with all the rules … the fragmentary
life is lived in fragmentary time.
Zygmunt Bauman, The Individualized Society, 2001

7. “The overwhelming feelings of crisis (in education), of
‘living at the crossroads’, …have little to do with the
faults, errors or negligence of the professional
pedagogues or the failures of educational theory, but
Fragmentation
quite a lot to do with the de-regulation and privatization
of the identity-formation processes, the dispersal of
authorities , the polyphony of value messages and the
ensuring fragmentation of life… Beyond all this slicing
and spicing, one can sense the crumbling of time.
(Crisis) plays havoc with all the rules … the fragmentary
life is lived in fragmentary time.
Zygmunt Bauman, The Individualized Society, 2001

9. “[...] Most research on identity question the
past or the present ( "Where are you from?"
and "Who are you?"), while the concern with
identity is actually mostly connected to the
invention of self. Ordinary dreams prepare
the future, including the immediate future.
The self-concept is an instrument of action
and change.”

10. “[...] Most research on identity question the
past or the present ( "Where are you from?"
and "Who are you?"), while the concern with
identity is actually mostly connected to the
invention of self. Ordinary dreams prepare
the future, including the immediate future.
The self-concept is an instrument of action
and change.”

11. I D E N T I T Y
PORTFOLIO

12. I D E N T I T Y
PORTFOLIO

13. narration
invention
I D E N T I T Y
PORTFOLIO
Archives Projections
Traces Plans
Past Future
Telling stories Dreaming

14. External
Past
I Future
Me
Internal

15. External
Past I
Me
Future
Internal

16. narration action
invention
External
Past I
Me
Future
Internal
reflection

17. We
External
Past
I Future
Me
Us Internal

18. “Every relationship. . . implies a definition of self by others
and other by self. . . A person's 'own' identity can never
be completely abstracted from his identity-for-others.
Ronald Laing, Self and Others, 1961

19. “If I am I, simply because I am I, and thou art thou simply
because thou art thou, then I am I and thou art thou. But
if I am I because thou art thou, and thou art thou because
I am I, then I am not I and thou art not thou.”
Rabbi Mendel of Kotsk (quoted in Ethos and Identity, Epstein, 1978)

20. Identity construction

21. Individual
Society

22. Individual
Society
Government
Organisations
Businesses
...

23. “Identity is a historical process which, after a
transition phase where it was directed from
above by the State, has fully emerged at the
individual level from less than half a century
as self-invention.”

24. “Self identity is not a set of traits or
observable characteristics.
It is a person's own reflexive
understanding of their biography. Self-
identity has continuity, but that continuity
is only a product of the person's reflexive
beliefs about their own biography.
It explains the past and is oriented
towards anticipated future.

25. Reputation
Construction
Construction
Reflection
Services
Reflection
Me Others
Control
Exploitation

26. People Organisations Networks
Competency Competency
Status Reputation
profile management
Project
Activities Contributions management Collaboration
Assets / Capital Knowledge Knowledge Audience
management
Professional Learning Learning
Transformation
development organisation community
Adapted from Fred Cavazza: http://www.fredcavazza.net/index.php?2006/10/22/1310-quest-ce-que-lindente-numerique

27. What are the problems with
identity technologies?

28. Where is the identity we have lost
in digital identity?

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31. Identification to
Identification of

32. Identifier
I d e n t i t y

33. R el atio n sh ips
Attributes

34. Priva c y
Intimacy

35. Tr u s t
Walls

38. Closed society Open Society
Architecture Integration Aggregation
Systems Disconnected Networked
Security Walls Trust
Data Hiden Discoverable
Identity External constraints Inner potential

39. Identity systems do not use the properties of the network topography

40. What are the problems with ePortfolios?

41. Assessment
Focus
Learning

42. Accountability
Focus
Employability

43. Individual
Learning
Community

44. Institution
Ownership
Individual

45. L e a r n e r
Driver
Te a c h e r

46. Services
Institutions
Interoperability
across silos

47. ePortfolios
are
personal information silos

48. ePortfolios
are
personal information silos
hosted in information silos (ePortfolio platforms)

49. ePortfolios
are
personal information silos
hosted in information silos (ePortfolio platforms)
managed by fragmented institutional silos

50. 10 ePortfolio challenges
2009

51. ePortfolio
challenge

52. ePortfolio
1. Universal ePortfolio Repository
2. Universal Competency Identifiers
3. ePortfolio social
4. ePortfolio semantic editors
5. ePortfolio Readers
challenge
6. Open & Trusted Service Architecture
7. ePortfolio based performance support system
8. ePortfolio discovery mechanism
9. URIs as tags
10. Universal Metadata

53. What are the problems with
employability ePortfolios?

54. ‘Classical’ View
Candidate Employer
Profile
Match Profile

55. Less ‘Classical’ View
Candidate Employer
Profile
Profile
Sole trader
Match
Entrepreneur Partners
Profile
Profile
Profile
Clients
Needs

56. Are there domains experiencing
issues similar to ePortfolios?

57. Curriculum Vitæ

58. CRM vs CRM

59. Personal health records

60. "The vision for the future of health care starts with the
premise that consumers should own their own total
personal health and wellness data and that only
consumers, not insurers, not the government, not
employers and not even doctors, but only consumers
should have complete control over how it is used"
Adam Bosworth, Google Vice- President
speech to the 2007 AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association)

61. Is there a solution for ePortfolios?

62. Is it possible to have a system supporting
simultaneously
accountability, employability and learning?
learning individuals, communities and organisations?
ownership by individuals, communities and institutions?
interoperability across applications and organisations?

63. Is it possible to have a system supporting
simultaneously
YES!
accountability, employability and learning?
learning individuals, communities and organisations?
ownership by individuals, communities and institutions?
interoperability across applications and organisations?

64. It is an architecture, not an application

65. Based on a simple principle...

66. Free personal data!

67. While the centre of gravity of
information systems is moving from
organisations towards individuals...

68. While the centre of gravity of
information systems is moving from
organisations towards individuals...
Yet, we can observe an increasing
fragmentation of personal data

69. Yet, we can observe an increasing
fragmentation of personal data
Source du graphique : Fred Cavazza

70. Yet, we can observe an increasing
fragmentation of personal data
Source du graphique : Fred Cavazza

71. We are not in control on how our
personal data is being used

74. Enslaved personal data
affects our ability to freely
construct our identity

75. FROM
Applications, the masters of my data

76. TO
Applications, the servants of my data

77. How?

78. Splitting data, metadata & services
in a trustworthy environment

79. Service Service
Metadata Metadata Me
Data Data

80. Service Service Service Service Service Service
Metadata Metadata Metadata
Data Data

81. Service Service Service Service Service Service
Metadata Metadata Metadata
Data Data
Trust Architecture

82. Service Service Service Service Service Service
Metadata Metadata Metadata
Data Data
Trust Architecture

83. IoS compliant
IoS Infrastructure
Business Services
Business directories
Dashboards
Quality Control
VRM Application
(trust monitor/
enforcing agents)
P er s on a l
Social Networks D ata S t ore s
Career Management
Shared D i str i b u te d
User
User
VRM Application
Web Services Re p o s it o r y
Healthcare
(AIM, calendars,
User directories, harvesting, (privacy protection)
Learning Services
publication, search engine,
... etc.)
IoS Architecture

84. IoS compliant
IoS Infrastructure
Business Services
Business directories
Dashboards
Quality Control
VRM Application
(trust monitor/
enforcing agents)
P er s on a l
Social Networks D ata St ore s
Career Management
Shared D i str i but e d User
VRM Application
Web Services Re p osi t ory User
Healthcare
(AIM, calendars,
directories, harvesting, (privacy protection) User
Learning Services
publication, search engine,
... etc.)
IoS Architecture

85. IoS compliant
IoS Infrastructure
Business Services
Dashboard
Business directories
Quality Control
P er s ona l D a ta
Sto re
Web Services
VRM Application
Shared
Social Networks
Dashboard Dashboard
Career Management
P e rs o n al Data
VRM Application Store User
User
Healthcare
Learning Services
P e rs o n al Data User
... Store
IoS Architecture

86. IoS compliant
The society of Subjects
Business Services
Business directories
S u bj e ct S u bj ect S u bj ect S u bj ect
Quality Control
VRM Application
Social Networks S u bj e ct S u bj ect S u bj ect S u bj ect
Career Management
User
VRM Application S u bj e ct S u bj ect S u bj ect S u bj ect User
Healthcare
Learning Services User
S u bj e ct S u bj ect S u bj ect S u bj ect
...
IoS Architecture

87. Service Ser vice
Provi sion Provision
D ata Data
My Data Data Provision Our Data Data Pro vis ion
Consumpt ion Consumption
My Dashboard Our Dashboard
Personal Proxy Business /Network Proxy
S e rv i c e S erv ice S e r vi c e S e r vi c e S er v ic e
Pro v i si o n Provision P ro vi sion P ro vis io n P rov i s i o
Data D at a Da ta Data D a ta D a ta D a ta Da t a D at a
M y D a ta M y Data M y Da ta M y Da ta My D a t
s umpti o n Pro vi s io n C onsump tion Provision C on su m p tio n P ro vis io n C on su m p tio n P ro v is i o n Co n s u m p t i on
My My My My My
D a s h bo a rd Dashb oard D a sh bo a rd D a sh bo a rd D as h b oa
S e rv i c e S erv ice S e r vi c e S e r vi c e S er v ic e
Pro v i si o n Provision P ro vi sion P ro vis io n P rov i s i o
Data D at a Da ta Data D a ta D a ta D a ta Da t a D at a
M y D a ta M y Data M y Da ta M y Da ta My D a t
s umpti o n Pro vi s io n C onsump tion Provision C on su m p tio n P ro vis io n C on su m p tio n P ro v is i o n Co n s u m p t i on
My My My My My
D a s h bo a rd Dashb oard D a sh bo a rd D a sh bo a rd D as h b oa

88. Structure of a PDS

89. All by me
All by us
All about me
All about us
All by me All by me
All about me
All about me

90. Paradigm shift

91. Individual
Corporation

92. Individual
Corporation

93. Individual
Corporation

94. Individual
Corporation

95. Corporation Individual

96. Corporation Individual

97. Corporation Individual
Business Privacy
enabler enforcer

98. me
me
me
me
me

99. me
me
me
me
me

100. me
me
me
me
me

101. me

102. me

105. I am in full control

106. I am in full control
I can be discovered

107. I can be discovered
I am in I full control
can hide

108. I can be discovered
I am in full control
I can hide
I can share

109. How can services interact with PDS?

112. Query
Metadata harvested in PDS
Return numbers of matching profiles
Notify subjects that they have been searched
Subjects decide to connect (or not) anynomously to query
Query maker can push information to connected profiles

113. Benefit #1

114. Reduce asymetry of information
access / broadcast

115. Benefit #2

116. Meaningful anonymous interaction

117. Prospects can stay anonymous
while their needs are visible

118. The 7 Rules of the IoS

119. 1. Personnal control
7 Rules
2. Discoverability
3. Instant Social Networking
4. Ubiquity
5. Symmetry
6. Minimisation
7. Accountability

120. New manifesto

121. Now, imagine....

122. Imagine a network made up of personal data stores, where identity
data and personal information systems representing individuals are at
the very centre of the architecture. Imagine a situation where online
connections to people, services, and to documents are seamless,
rather than being fragmented over a number of services. Imagine a
scenario where personal identities are securely held in one logical
space and shared dynamically across a number of communities.

123. Use cases

124. Lifelong learning
Lifelong & life wide learning portfolios
Informal learning recognition

125. Healthcare
Sharing and augmenting personal health records
Creating an AA group
Analysys of buying patterns

126. Policies
Citizen dashboards
Learning / intelligent territories
Accountability

127. Business
Create instantly a competitor to Facebook
Get competitive business offers
Vendor Relationship Management

128. M I S S I O N
Put people back into control of their personal data:
creating the technical and organisational conditions for
individuals to be able to reunite their personal data and
take over control and their exploitation.

129. M I S S I O N Put people back into control of their personal data:
creating the technical and organisational conditions for
individuals to be able to reunite their personal data and
take over control and their exploitation.
Support research on identity construction: inviting all
fields of knowledge to confront current identity theories
and practices across cultures, worldwide, to the new
reality of a digitally expanded world.

130. And now?

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between citizens and rities,
his first keynote spe ech to leaders of cha
ses.
voluntary grou ps and social enterpri

135. “The real danger is not that computers
will begin to think like men, but that men
will begin to think like computers.”
Sydney J. Harris

136. “I find television very educational. Every
time someone switches it on I go into
another room and read a good book.”
Groucho Marx

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