During the last fifteen years an "old" didactical method of reform pedagogist, namely portfolio work, has gained great attention in all educational contexts as a method for supporting learning, acquisition, assessment and presentation of competences and skilss. "New" for educationalist is now the use of digital media, web-publishing tools and/or Learning Management/Content Management Systems for creating, documenting and presenting digital / electronic portfolios. In this session we will concentrate on the aspect of "quality" of an ePortfolio, useful methods of assessment and evaluations of ePortfolios as product, process or also ePortfolio projects. We will explore the relevance of traditional educational research methods and concepts of didactical quality andwhether they can be applied to evaluation of technology-enhanced learning scenarions. We will discuss the lack of adequate research methodology in eLearning in general and competence developement by ePortfolios in particular. Attwell, G. (2006), Next Generation Learning and Personal Learning Environments, paper presneted at Alt C conference, Edinburgh, September 2006, http://www.theknownet.com/knownet/writing/weblogs/Graham_Attwell/entries/3984412244 Downes S. (2006), Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge, http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/paper92/paper92.html Hiler J. (2002), Blogosphere: the emerging Media Ecosystem, http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/blogosphere.htm Lave, J., & Wenger, E. (1991). Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Scot Wilson (2006) Future VLE, the visual version, http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/scott/blogview?entry=20050125170206 Seely Brown J. (1999) Learning, Working & Playing in the Digital Age: Creating Learning Ecologies, Transcription of a talk by Brown at the 1999 Conference on Higher Education of the American Association for Higher Education. http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/seelybrown/, accessed 25 July, 2004Van Harmelen M. (2006a), Personal Learning Environments, http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/jitt/index.php/Personal_Learning_Environments Van Harmelen M.(2006b), Personal Learning Environments, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06), http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/~mark/docs/MvH_PLEs_ICALT.pdf Vygotsky, LS, (1978), "Mind in Society - The Development of Higher Psychological Processes." Editors: Michael Cole, Vera John-Steiner, Sylvia Scribner, and Ellen Souberman, Harvard University Press, Massachusetts, USA.The discussant will be Pekka Kamarainen (ITB, Germany)