Voici quelques passages pour appuyer l’élargissement du portfolio scolaire :

• Of even greater concern, as the culture of the e-portfolio proliferates, it will contribute to an ossification of the current prefabricated, one-size-fits-most e-portfolio model. Institutions and commercial entities that bind their energies and resources to current e-portfolio constructs may be slower to develop and embrace a yet to be developed transformative educational paradigm that more completely integrates education across the lifespan.

• The LPWS [Lifetime Personal Web Space] will thus be organized more like our brains than our file cabinets.

• The LPWS construct will enable users to preserve more knowledge over time and to forge richer connections between their academic and work endeavors.

• A fully developed LPWS paradigm will require integration between multiple systems (educational, social, business, and government).

• [...] an individualized Web space that can simultaneously function as a vade mecum, a paidogogos, a “guide on the side,” a life-long storage space that retains work products and their seminal versions, and a virtual exhibit of one’s evolving work.

L’idée d’un portfolio virtuel, contenant des archives textuelles, audio, vidéo — et qui sait ce que l’avenir nous réserve — vaut mieux, à tout prendre, qu’une pierre tombale.