To Join or Renew annual institutional membership in AAEEBL, click here:

1. Institutional membership (college, university, community college, K-12 district) is $800 USD per year. Joining now covers from now to June 30, 2011. Individual high schools can join for free.
   
   
2. By joining now, individuals from your institution receive a $100 member discount from the registration fee for our annual world conference held in Boston this year, from July 19 to July 22 (applies to first three registrants from each member institution). Member discounts are also offered for AAEEBL regional conferences and other events
   
   
3. Corporate affiliates contact David Marble at david.marble1@gmail.com to discuss membership as a Corporate Affiliate.
   

Why Join AAEEBL?

• Approaching 100 institutional members
• Approaching 15 Corporate Affiliates
• Collaborating with all current ePortfolio projects and initiatives world-wide
• AAEEBL's Second Voice Initiative, creating a path for portfolio practices and institutional transformation
• Conferences: 5 in 2010
• Forums for discussion and information
  
• Back-end support for activities: an AAEEBL ecommerce site, Quickbooks Office, EventBrainz proposal management
• Create a career path
• Learn from colleagues
• Establish collaborative projects
• Have your story published in The AAEEBL Learner
  
• Participate in strengthening the portfolio movement
  

With 90 institutional members in the U. S., Canada, the U.K., the Netherlands, and Australia, a growing number of regional chapter conferences in the U. S., and fifteen corporate affiliates (sponsors), AAEEBL is moving toward establishing a world-federation for the ePortfolio community in collaboration with all existing portfolio organizations and initiatives.

AAEEBL emerged from the pre-existing ePortfolio community. It is a community effort, more a coalescing of energies than a startup. By joining AAEEBL, members of your campus community can influence the direction of the portfolio movement and industry, can establish a professional identity, can join in research projects sponsored by AAEEBL, can publish in The AAEEBL Learner, issued 6 times a year, learn about portfolios and can present at either our world conferences or at our AAEEBL regional conferences. Individuals receive member discounts for conferences.

Portfolio concepts about active learning, assessment for learning, reflective and integrative thinking, and about outcomes-based curricular design are demonstrating the test of time. The number of institutions, states, and countries engaged with portfolios continues to grow. The number of vendors also continues to grow. A realization is emerging that portfolio thinking and approaches are a vehicle for institutional transformation toward practices appropriate in the knowledge economy of this century. Big mouthful, but we talk with many campuses and schools and find more and more evidence that portfolios are becoming a part of the permanent landscape, that administrators and faculty are gaining awareness of the value of portfolio thinking and practices, and that accreditation bodies find value in certain kinds of portfolio-based assessment.

AAEEBL is a community-based (literally -- the community was there before AAEEBL) association whose goal is to increase the use and understanding of portfolios for all of education globally. This can only be accomplished in partnership with leading schools and colleges and universities, existing portfolio initiatives, the industry and with government agencies involved with portfolios. We hope you will want to be part of AAEEBL, or continue to be part of AAEEBL, and to help portfolios continue to spread in influence.





Trent Batson: trentbatson@mac.com