At the 4th meeting of this group Angela Smallwood suggested that it may be fruitful to combine the perspectives of the various pieces of work reported to the group over the last year by considering developments in the context of a maturity model. It was agreed that this was worth exploring and this page is to provide a focus for the discussion. It seems to me (Nigel Ecclesfield), that we could look at this at a number of levels;

• System maturity - what needs to happen at national and international level to provide systems services and processes that support the four functions of an e-portfolio - interoperability and policy issues such as personalisation, data security

• Organisational maturity - having the services and processes in place to receive and support the creation and development of e-portfolios including IAG and assessment

• Practitioner maturity - having the capability to work with learners to produce or develop e-portfolios or related materials

• User maturity - this may be the area that will pull the others as more people develop their social and learning profiles using Web 2.0 tools.

While it is possible to apply this in the context of Becta's e-maturity model, there are a range of perspectives that could be brought to bear on this issue. We would like to hear your views before 31st January 2008 and I will summarise the responses and key issues for our next meeting. If you would like to put up a substantive discussion piece, please edit this page or send a file with a covering note and Hema and I will put it on the wiki and provide links. If you have a short comment to make, please use the "Comments" facility above.

Nigel