Reflecting on prior learning in higher education. Using an e-portfolio with students in the post-secondary age group

Higher Education is facing new challenges related to lifelong learning, as many students, even in the traditional post-secondary age group, are involved in working experiences. This paper therefore presents the construction of a portfolio based on the reflection and demonstration of prior learning in a first cycle university degree program. Students were asked to make explicit what they had learned in each significant experience, then to identify the most appropriate strategies to demonstrate the acquisition of their competences. The use of an e-portfolio allowed to improve building the students’ network of learning resources in the framework of competence logic and assisted the teacher to properly post feedbacks to help the students to reach the goals previously fixed.