An ePortfolio is an online collection created by a student that showcases their work, as well as helps the students themselves track progress. This includes, notes, videos essays, art and etc.

Keeps you encouraged by showing progress

ePortfolios help students and people in daily lives keep track of the process they have made overtime. Constantly tracking your progress with an ePortfolio can help you see how you’ve progressed in a certain topic. It can help encourage learners to keep pushing on as they see the progress and improvement they’re actively making. You can see how your though process changes overtime and it shows off how you’ve developed as a learner.

Can help you learn and retain topics faster

Aside from keeping you encouraged, ePortfolios also are a great place to teach you how to take in new knowledge as well as retain older knowledge. When students learn new topics, they tend to forget the old ones. With how structured ePortfolios are, it’s easy to dig deep into your learning process so you can progress as a learner faster, as well as easily go back and reflect on old notes.

It is easy for peers to help and support you in your learning journey

When writing in an ePortfolio, you can choose to have everything public. The benefit of this is, if you are struggling in the learning process, you can have one of your peers access your ePortfolio. They can then see how you’ve been keeping up with learning and what methods you’ve been using and from there they can offer you constructive critisicm on the topic you’re struggling with.

Reference

https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/teaching-resources/teaching-tips/educational-technologies/all/eportfolios