The school development project ePortfolio Hessen is a project in Germany for testing e-portfolios in school lessons. The test lessons started with the beginning of the school year 2006/2007 in several selected schools in Hesse (currently six schools). Teachers were prepared in training courses which were conducted by the Institute of Education (Department of School education) of the Jusus-Liebig-University Giessen.

The lessons were individualised. Students were supposed to learn how to reflect and present their skills and competencies. The constructive and productive ability by using new media (e.g. Weblog, Social Software) was also part of the teaching. One goal of this project was to build and invigorate these competencies in secondary school by using an e-portfolio.

E-portfolios will be evaluated to find out more about the students’ individualised, differentiated, and self-reflected learning.

The e-portfolio software runs on the official Hessian education server where the individual assets are stored.