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This article considers the various uses of e-portfolios in an educational context and looks at the particular characteristics of the electronic version of portfolios. It then focuses on the application of the e-portfolio as an assessment method. A case is made for the use of the e-portfolio as an appropriate end of course assessment process where learning objects are the basis of the course design. Evaluation data from such a course is presented. This is a post-graduate online course run by the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University. Conclusions are drawn from the evaluation about the appropriateness of eportfolios as an end of course assessment method. E-portfolios in lifelong educationAs with all terms that have acquired the prefix 'e', e-portfolios are an adaptation of the original concept, in this case portfolios, to the electronic domain. The 'e' could and no doubt will be dropped, but in the meantime, it is useful to highlight the specific features that electronic access and digitisation provide to the portfolio process compared to the paper-based versions of portfolios.There are different uses of educational portfolios, prepared for different purposes and using different kinds of resources producing a taxonomy of electronic portfolios in order to discuss and classify examples:• those for developmental purposes; • those for presentation purposes; • those for assessment purposes.LaGuardia College in New York has embraced the e-portfolio developmental approach which they define as:

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