Design of E-Portfolio to Enhance Career Development for TVET Graduates

Abstract

Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is an education sector that prepares individuals with the skills required by the industry to improve the individuals’ employability and competitiveness as workforce at national and international levels. The use of information technology as education technology in TVET supports the integration of technological advancement with TVET components in order to assure the compatibility between the graduates’ skills and the industrial needs. E Portfolio as one fruit of the advancement of knowledge and technology offers a new solution to improve the absorption of TVET graduates as the workforce into the industry. The usability of E-Portfolio is determined by the design of E-Portfolio development that should describe the skills and competences of the graduates more precisely to the industry with an expectation to increase the absorption of the graduates into the employment world. E-Portfolio in this article is designed using website-based technology that is supported with four features, namely Portfolio Insight, Portfolios, Portfolio Journey, and My Library. Navigation support system is included in the design of E-Portfolio and becoming innovative in portfolio development stages. The navigation support system takes a form as the textual guidance in the media users choose to exhibit their learning evidence