One of the major drawbacks of work-based qualifications has always been the sheer amount of dead time involved in the process - time when nothing is happening. Dead time is demotivating for the learner and frustrating for the employer. And for the training provider, who is paid on results, it is a straight kick in the wallet. A solution to this problem is to use an e-portfolio instead of a paper-based one. This is an approach that is proving highly...