Katarina Bizjak Slanič, Osnovna šola Janka Glazerja Ruše

Portfolio is a tool, which has the potential to enhance teaching and learning in a positive way. E-portfolio, an electronic collection, usually assembled and managed by a user on the internet, has in comparison to paper portfolio advantages and disadvantages.

Mahara is a new internet environment for e-portfolio, supported by National Education Institute of the Republic of Slovenia in the project EUfolio. One of the goals of the project is to plan and implement e-portfolio in the function of assessment and support of learning in the classroom.

In the first part of the paper we complementary use the qualitative and quantitative research methods to determine the effectiveness of teaching with EUfolio. User experience is presented from three perspectives. From the perspective of teachers, pupils and other school staff of Janka Glazerja Ruše primary school included in the EUfolio project. Today the technology in schools is no longer a question therefore we only ask ourselves which technology we are going to use. In the second part of the paper we investigate the efficiency of Mahara in comparison to other tools we use (Moodle, Microsoft Office etc.).

The results indicate that the user experience of various stakeholders of the project is different. Students do not differentiate between the different tools as much as the teachers. Among all the components there is an indication that the skill of teachers to use the tools seems to be the most important for positive user experience.