Academic Impressions Web Conference

September 28, 2007

ePortfolios for Learning and Assessment

Trent Batson, Joel Cassola & Associates, [email protected]

Helen L. Chen, Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning, [email protected]

Overview:

Web-based eportfolios have become a popular and powerful way to describe, reflect on, and demonstrate what students know and can do. ePortfolios represent a technology and a pedagogical approach for facilitating integration of formal and informal educational experiences, regardless of the program of study.

Faculty face unique challenges using eportfolios. Not only must they learn new skills and adapt to new technology, but they must also understand how to promote and nurture new ways of thinking about what their students are learning.

Join us for the ePortfolios for Learning and Assessment web conference as we review the basic issues and challenges related to eportfolio activity.

Presentation slides and handouts
Presentation slides, handouts, and accompanying resources

Academic Impressions brochure
Description of the web conference from Academic Impressions

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The following references and links loosely map to the sequence of slides and case studies in the Power Point presentation:

George Lorenzo and John Ittelson, An Overview of E-Portfolios, The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, July 2005.

Mark Prensky, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, 2001 http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky - Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants - Part1.pdf

Educause, Educating the Net Generation, 2005 http://www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen

Diana Oblinger, Boomers, Gen-Xers and Millennials: Understanding the New Students. EDUCAUSE Review, Vol 38, No. 4, July/August 2003, pp. 37-47.

http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0342.pdf

Helen L. Chen. Reflection in an Always-on Learning Environment: Has It Been Turned Off? Campus Technology Newsletter: Technology-Enabled Teaching/eLearning Dialogue, September 21, 2005. http://www.campus-technology.com/news_article.asp?id=11802&typeid=155

Rebecca Blood. Weblogs: A History and Perspective. September 7, 2007. http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html

Scott Carlson. The Net Generation Goes to College. Chronicle for Higher Education, October 7, 2005. Section: Information Technology, Volume 52, Issue 7, Page A34 http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i07/07a03401.htm

Helen L. Chen. Symposium: Learning Reconsidered: Education in the Digital Age. Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 57(4), 292-317, Winter 2003.

L. Hamp-Lyons & W. Condon. (1998). Assessing the Portfolio: Principles for Practice, Theory, and Research. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Barbara L. Cambridge, Ed. (2001). Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning. Washington, D.C.: American Association for Higher Education.

Lee Shulman. (1998). "Teacher Portfolios: A Theoretical Activity" in With Portfolio in Hand: Validating the New Teacher Professionalism, Nona Lyons, Ed. New York City, NY: Teachers College, Columbia University.

Pat Hutchings. (1998). The Course Portfolio: How Faculty Can Examine their Teaching to Advance Practice and Improve Student Learning. Washington, D.C.: American Association for Higher Education.

Helen L. Chen & Cynthia Mazow. Electronic Learning Portfolios in Student Affairs, Net Results, June 16, 2002. http://www.naspa.org/netresults/article.cfm?ID=825 (National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA http://www.naspa.org/) membership required)

Helen L. Chen & Tracy Penny-Light. The Learning Landscape: A Conceptual Framework for E-Portfolios. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2005. Link to poster

St. Olaf College Web Portfolios

"To David Booth, director for the Center for Integrative Studies and associate professor of religion at St. Olaf College, assessment is not the primary question for their Web portfolio project. Rather, this project is geared to an Aristotelian notion of "genius" finding similarity among dissimilar things, and the students' ability to communicate these notions. Booth and his colleagues argue for portfolios based primarily on this rationale."

  • Electronic Portfolios Advance Integrative Learning at St. Olaf College, Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) Newsletter, May 2003 http://www.aacu.org/aacu_news/AACUNews03/May03/feature.cfm
  • Center for Integrative Studies: http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/cis/web_portfolios.htm
  • Example 1: Kathryn Sederberg, Franco-German Studies, http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/cis/wp/sederbek/index.html
  • Example 2: Aaron Schloer, Cinema and Social Thought, http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/cis/wp/schloer/Web_Portfolio/index.html
  • Chen, H.L., Cannon, D.M., Gabrio, J., & Leifer, L. (2005, June). Using Wikis and Weblogs to Support Reflective Learning in an Introductory Engineering Design Course. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, Portland Oregon. 2005 ASEE Design in Engineering Education Division Best Paper. Link to paper

    Gabrio, J., Cannon, D., Chen, H.L., & Leifer, L. (2004). Idea Logs: Supporting Individual and Team Reflection in Design Thinking. Link to poster

    Kapi'olani Community College ePortfolio

  • https://eportfolio.kcc.hawaii.edu/portal
  • rSmart and the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) which includes the Open Source Portfolio: http://www.rsmart.com/
  • LaGuardia Community College ePortfolio

  • LaGuardia ePortfolio homepage: http://www.eportfolio.lagcc.cuny.edu/
  • Example of a student ePortfolio: Sandra Rios, http://www.eportfolio.lagcc.cuny.edu/ePortfolios/Advanced/Sandra.Rios/Spring_2005/index.html
  • Alverno College

    Alverno College has a long history of outcomes-based curriculum, assessment-as-learning, and work with portfolios. I would also recommend "Learning that Lasts" which is a detailed analysis of Alverno's program.

  • Alverno's Digital Diagnostic Portfolio: http://ddp.alverno.edu/
  • Marcia Mentkowski and Associates, Learning That Lasts: Integrating Learning, Development, and Performance in College and Beyond, Jossey-Bass, 2000. http://depts.alverno.edu/ere/publications_etc/ltl_marketing.html
  • University of Rhode Island, http://www.uri.edu/assessment/

    Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching CASTL Program, http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/programs/index.asp?key=21

    Portland State University

  • Portland State's institutional portfolio: http://portfolio.pdx.edu/
  • PSU's KEEP Toolkit Snapshot describing their Integrative Learning Project with The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Association of American Colleges & Universities: http://www.cfkeep.org/html/stitch.php?s=57779320569503&id=9982562055795
  • The Carnegie Foundation's Teaching and Learning Commons: http://commons.carnegiefoundation.org/
  • The Carnegie Foundation's KEEP Toolkit: http://www.cfkeep.org
  • Visible Knowledge Project, Georgetown University, http://crossroads.georgetown.edu/vkp/

    Connecticut College

  • http://www.conncoll.edu/
  • https://aspen.conncoll.edu/camelweb/public/login.cfm

  • Additional Resources

    Webinar: What is happening with Sakai?

    Let's face it - no one knows teaching and learning better than you do. It is at the heart of what you do!

    That's why Sakai is the right course management and ePortfolio system for higher education. Built by higher education for higher education. Today, Sakai is evolving at a faster rate than any other CMS. Come join Chris Coppola, Sakai Foundation board member and President of The rSmart Group to learn about today's robust functionality and the service and support models that make it the right choice for your faculty, your students and your institution.

    October 11, 2007

    2:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time

    https://www.yugma.com/scheduler/enroll.php?meetid=rnAoHddzDVShE8Rr/xYw Q==

    November 6, 2007

    2:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time

    https://www.yugma.com/scheduler/enroll.php?meetid=UmZYKeJwD0yku HRg7Lbdw==

    Using Wikis to Build Learning Communities

    Gilbert, D., Chen, H.L., & Sabol, J. (January 30, 2006). Using Wikis to Build Learning Communities: Successes, Failures, and Next Steps. Educause Learning Initiative annual meeting, San Diego, CA. Link to Poster, Link to Case Studies

    Gilbert, D., Chen, H.L., & Sabol, J. (in press). Building learning communities with wikis. In R.E. Cummings & M.Barton (Eds.), The Wild, Wild Wiki. Under contract with digitalculturebooks, an imprint of University of Michigan Press.

    EPAC Community of Practice

    Previously sponsored by the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative/Educause Learning Initiative and the American Association for Higher Education, the EPAC Community of Practice has been a leading resource on electronic portfolios since October 2002. Current EPAC co-facilitators include: Barbara Cambridge (National Council of Teachers of English), Darren Cambridge (George Mason University), Helen L. Chen (Stanford University), and John Ittelson (California State University Monterey Bay). Because we are in the process of transitioning our listserv to a new host sponsored by MERLOT, send your contact information to Helen L. Chen <[email protected]> if you would like to join or remove your name from our listserv. Joining EPAC is currently free and all community members share the following benefits:

  • Virtual interactions through monthly online chats & discussions, audio and video conferences discussing ePortfolio-related issues, case studies, pedagogical approaches, assessment techniques and best practices;
  • Networking and face-to-face opportunities with EPAC members at conferences and meetings;
  • Exchange of resources via the EPAC email listserv and eventually the EPAC website;
  • Tracking of international and national conferences, requests for proposals and funding opportunities;
  • Active exploration and evaluation of tools and practices to support ePortfolio-related activities, reflective thinking, and community-building.
  • MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) ePortfolio Portal: http://eportfolio.merlot.org/

    Eventually, this will be the place to go to join EPAC, access ePortfolio-related resources, and view archived EPAC chats and webcasts.

    Inter/National Coalition on Electronic Portfolio Research, http://ncepr.org/ncepr/drupal/about

    The Inter/National Coalition on Electronic Portfolio Research is systematically addressing the question: "What learning is taking place as a function of digital portfolios? How do we know?" The Coalition has been bringing together faculty from ten campuses per year in successive cohorts since 2003. Ten institutions in a cohort each design a campus-based research agenda, enact it, and report out results. The first two cohorts (2003-2006 and 2005-2008) are currently doing both this campus project and a collective project, the latter focusing on the effect of learning of reflection supported by eportfolio use. The third cohort (2006-2009) is featuring teams on campuses at which academic affairs and student affairs educators are collaborating to support in-class and out-of-class learning through eportfolios. A fourth cohort (2007-2010) sponsored by the Centre for Recording Achievement has selected 11 schools from mainland Europe, the UK, and the U.S.

    Association of American Colleges & Universities:http://www.aacu.org

    AAC&U is an excellent resource on liberal education, general education, integrative learning, global learning, and especially assessment. Check out their meetings, online resources, and their publications for more information.

    Apple Learning Interchange: http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/

    The Apple Learning Interchange (ALI) is a free online resource for educators and co-sponsors EPAC's free webcasts and online chats. This community provides a wealth of content ranging from simple lesson ideas to in-depth curriculum units, rich with digital media. ALI enables educators to create their own curriculum content, find colleagues and collaborate around their classroom methods and experiences, and share movies, images, sounds, and other powerful teaching tools. Accessing these assets is then as easy as opening any iLife application or plugging in your iPod. In the Higher Education community, you can connect and collaborate with colleagues on best practices, exemplary teaching practices, and the ways you are transforming teaching, learning, and research on your campus. Consider adding a comment to an existing exhibit, adding a message in the conversations area, or submitting an exhibit on an innovative program or project on your campus. Also check out Academic Intersections, an online peer-reviewed journal publishing accounts of research or creative works that embrace multimedia as a fundamental aspect of higher education in the 21st century.

    The Summer Institute at Wallenberg Hall: Using ePortfolios for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, http://wallenberg.stanford.edu/summerinstitute/2007/portfolios07.html This hands-on interactive workshop was offered at Stanford University this past summer and may be offered again in the future. Please feel free to contact Helen Chen if you would like to be added to our mailing list for updates on future workshops.





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