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2008_11 EPAC Chat

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EPAC November 2008 online chat:

ePortfolios -- A Signature Assessment for Liberal Education?

Wednesday, November 5 at 10:15 a.m. PT/12:15 p.m. CT/1:15 p.m. ET

 

In the essay, Toward a Signature Assessment for Liberal Education, Carnegie Senior Scholar Lloyd Bond calls for an assessment that captures the vision of liberal education.  Could ePortfolios be a solution?  What are the advantages and disadvantages of ePortfolios over other assessment approaches?  In preparation for our discussion, please read Lloyd Bond's essay prior to the session at: http://bondessays.carnegiefoundation.org/?p=8

 

RESOURCES AND ISSUES MENTIONED DURING THE DISCUSSION

 

CHAT PARTICIPANTS

  • Betsy DeGeorge - Publications Manager for the University of Tennessee College of Social Work Office of Research and Public Service
  • Kevin Kelly, Online Teaching and Learning Coordinator at San Francisco State University
  • Lisa Kvas - Career eFolio regional project manager--Mesabi Range Community & Technical College in NE Minnesota
  • Trent Batson, Next Generation ePortfolio (NGeP) initiative
  • Mike Reese, Center for Ed Resources at Johns Hopkins
  • Teggin Summers, Assistant Director for Virginia Tech's ePortfolio Initiative
  • Una Daly, Eportfolio pilot coordinator at Foothill Community College in No. CA using eFolio and eduBlogs and other Web 2.0 technologies
  • Helen Chen, EPAC co-facilitator and Research Scientist, Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning

 

CHAT TRANSCRIPT

Joined on November 5, 2008 at 10:00 AM

 

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Moderator (Helen): Welcome everyone!  We'll get started shortly but in the meantime, please introduce yourself by typing into the chat window.  Thanks & welcome!

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Betsy_DeGeorge: Betsy DeGeorge - Publications Manager for the University of Tennessee College of Social Work Office of Research and Public Service

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Trent: I'm Trent Batson

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Moderator (Helen): Hello Trent!  Betsy, great to "see" you again in our EPAC chats!

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KevinKelly-SFState: Hi, everyone. I'm Kevin Kelly, Online Teaching and Learning Coordinator at San Francisco State University.

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Trent: Good article, Helen

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Moderator (Helen): Great to have you with us, Kevin!

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Lisa: Greetings!  Lisa Kvas - Career eFolio regional project manager--Mesabi Range Community & Technical College in NE Minnesota.

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KevinKelly-SFState: Thanks, Helen. Great to be here. I have a meeting with some Stanford folks at 11, but I am looking forward to it. Ruth Cox wishes she could be here, but is at the WCET conference in Phoenix today.

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Trent: Nice to meet some new folks; good to see old friends as well

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Moderator (Helen): Welcome Lisa!  and Una, great to see you as well.

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Mike: Mike Reese here.  I work in the Center for Ed Resources at Johns Hopkins

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Moderator (Helen): Welcome Mike! Why don't we go ahead and get started. First off, just want to make sure everyone knows how to change the size of their chat window by going to View --> Layouts --> Wide layout.  You can then open up the Chat window by clicking and pulling it to the right.

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Una: I am the Eportfolio pilot coordinator at Foothill Community College in No. CA using eFolio and eduBlogs and other Web 2.0 technologies.

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Betsy_DeGeorge: Have we all read our article?

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KevinKelly-SFState: Helen, since this is my first ePAC chat, is there a protocol?

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Moderator (Helen): We are hoping to resume our regular EPAC chats and webcasts on a monthly basis.  Before we end today, I'd like to take a few minutes to solicit ideas for future topics, etc.

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Trent: Is everyone here instersted in student learning portfolios?  Or are some of you assessment folks?

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Una: student learning primarily but with a new focus on vocational portfolios

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Mike: I"m interested in both.

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Betsy_DeGeorge: I was working last year with our college on some assessment type efolios

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Teggin: Interested in both.

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Moderator (Helen): So the cool thing about these EPAC chats, Kevin is that there isn't any protocol at all!  It's a free for all of ideas and a little chaotic and stream of consciousness so feel free to dive in.

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Betsy_DeGeorge: I'm interested in both

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KevinKelly-SFState: Also interested in both

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Trent: Helen:  do you have something brief to say about the article?

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Moderator (Helen): A transcript will be posted later so you can catch up on the various conversation streams.  Also if people have resources to share, please post so we can make those available as well.

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Lisa: Thanks--I didn't want to miss a thing!  For the record, I read the article.  We are looking at implementing eFolios for gen ed assessment and as individual learning and life planning portfolios.

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Moderator (Helen): Welcome Teggin! Would you mind introducing yourself to the group?

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Trent: Bond's idea of a liberal assessment sounded a bit like experiential learning and evidence of

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Teggin: Hi!  Sure -- My name is Teggin Summers, and I'm the Assistant Director for Virginia Tech's ePortfolio Initiative

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KevinKelly-SFState: I was interested to see no mention of learning objectives at the course or program level.  I was surprised that the author proposed using a professional test maker perspective, rather than someone at a higher education institution.

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Teggin: I just learned about this group today, so I'm here to mostly observe a bit

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Betsy_DeGeorge: Our college was trying to get ePortfolios started as a way to track competencies for accreditation.

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Trent: that's the assessment management use of eportfolios

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Una: the Foothill grant was writtent to give teachers alternatives to multiple choice tests for assessments.

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KevinKelly-SFState: I was also surprised at the use of the word "cantankerous" to describe university faculty. I work with many of our 1600 faculty members personally, and only know a couple who fit this description. They are hard to pin down though.

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Moderator (Helen): Building on Lisa's comment, I would agree that we could broaden this beyond liberal ed to gen ed, other programs, etc.

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Trent: Hey, I'm faculty and pround of my cantankerosity

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Betsy_DeGeorge: Our faculty was pretty darn cantankerous when asked to use eportfolios

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KevinKelly-SFState: Interesting!

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Trent: just kidding Kevin

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KevinKelly-SFState: For us, it's more a matter of overwhelmed or uninformed.

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Moderator (Helen): Betsy, what were their concerns?

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Una: The faculty at FH who are interested in ePortfolios mostly are professional programs and internship, work experience.

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Lisa: Every campus seems to have its faculty "champions" who are willing to innovate and try new things!  

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Betsy_DeGeorge: The primary concern for faculty was: Who is going to grade these.

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Trent: right

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Trent: some places develop a committee

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Trent: some places use alumni

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Betsy_DeGeorge: The problem seemed to arise from the student choice of what would demonstrate a competency

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Una: Yes, grading was mentioned but also integration with the CMS was a concern.

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KevinKelly-SFState: Right, Lisa. If we use Gladwell's Tipping Point ideas, we can use those early adopters to help promote ePortfolios to additional faculty.

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Mike: We haven't had any faculty who are cantakerous about eports, but they are resistant to a wider adoption of eports because it requires rethinking how we structure/perceive the curriculum.

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KevinKelly-SFState: Betsy, was the problem that students would now have a choice?

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Trent: exactly

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Betsy_DeGeorge: If they chose something that had already been graded by another faculty member, then there could be conflict

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Una: Yes, we are trying to link ePOrtfolios with SLOs needed for accreditation process.

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Moderator (Helen): Mike, of course some would say that having that conversation is a good thing.

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Lisa: Being pretty rural, we have faculty wondering whether they can mandate them when some students have very real barriers to accessing the technology.

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Una: Yes, the power of eportfolios is in multiple streams of feedback.

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Betsy_DeGeorge: It does take a curriculum rethink

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Mike: true, we are just getting to the stage of having a university-wide conversation

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Trent: should be a record if the artifact was already graded

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KevinKelly-SFState: Mike, that seems more accurate. I think the scope of change that ePortfolios represent may scare faculty who don't know enough about them and who know that there is no additional compensation or recognition in most cases.

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Betsy_DeGeorge: Yes Trent, but if it is being used for a second purpose there is some question

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Una: yes, it is more work for faculty to implement ePortfolios but hopefully more benefits as well.

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Trent: right, Kevin, the challenge is not the technology but figuring out how to put eportfolio at the center of the curriculum

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KevinKelly-SFState: If we look at the national conversation, though, ePortfolios are emerging more and more as an important method of student-centered (or institution-centered) assessment

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Mike: as part of that conversation we are trying to coordinate between faculty support groups (T&L centers, central IT) to make sure we can support the transition to a new curriculum approach

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Betsy_DeGeorge: A multiple choice test is easier to assess than an ePortfolio

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Moderator (Helen): I'm intrigued by the idea of the ePortfolio concept facilitating this conversation about curriculum design/redesign/reform

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Trent: When folks have adopted ePorts as just a trangential activity, nothing happend

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Una: Yes, Betsy, but what does it tell the student or teacher about the actual learning and ability to apply the knowledge.

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Moderator (Helen): Betsy, that may be true but what does it really say about the student, his/her learning?  Is this where learning outcomes should come in?

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Mike: Trent, that's what's happended at JHU to date - isolated pilots without much activity beyond the early phase.

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Betsy_DeGeorge: Trent I agree, the activity needs to contain value

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KevinKelly-SFState: The debate between Lisa Graham Keegan (McCain Campaign) and Linda Darling-Hammond (Obama Campaign) mentioned ePortfolios alot.

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Trent: really????

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Moderator (Helen): Mike, you raise a good point about stakeholders, who else on campus needs to be a part of this conversation in order to have a successful implementation.

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Moderator (Helen): Kevin, do you have a link or reference?

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Una: That was an interesting debate ... I'll have to reread it.

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Trent: a campus-wide assessment management rollout if a huge job

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Trent: using a learning portfolio in a course can be done pretty quickly

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Lisa: We are looking at having our faculty define their curriculum projects and activities and connect them to our gen ed req's.  I think it will demand a change in thinking about why we assign what we do and how those assignments connect to a bigger picture and purpose for liberal ed.

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Mike: We are hoping to bring in potential users - faculty, advisors, students, etc.  I'd like to hear from others who we should invite to the table.  We are just in the planning pahse for this eport summit

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KevinKelly-SFState: There is an embedded YouTube video of the debate here: http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2008/10/at_the_end_of_last.html

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Moderator (Helen): Mike, I will send a reference to Spelman's spel.e.folio -- they actually have a map of their stakeholders that might be useful to take a look at

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Betsy_DeGeorge: Helen - the value of the eportolio is unquestionably greater but at a great price of time and effort for both student and faculty. Therefore the upfront buyin has to be there. In our case, the dean was on board but not the faculty. They dug in there heels and opted for the test rather than eport

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Mike: Thanks, Helen

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Moderator (Helen): That sounds like a great approach Lisa.  Again this idea of ePortfolios facilitating the larger conversation about learning outcomes, golas, etc.

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Trent: Usually, student services, advising, Univ 101, admissions, alumni relations are also interested in ePorts

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Una: Yes, we have heard about this during the eFolioCA trainings

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Una: Sorry, I mean eFolio CA colleges are interested in using it for student affairs, alumni connections, undergrad research, etc.

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Trent: for assessment management systems ("eportfolios"), institutional research is very interested

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Betsy_DeGeorge: The younger faculty folks in our college are excited about the ePort project. The older ones are quite undone by it.

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Moderator (Helen): What would be some strategies to get faculty buy-in?  Time of course is an issue.  Would it be possible to start with pilots, early adopters?

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KevinKelly-SFState: Lisa and Mike, those sound like good approaches. Mike, we look at the users' teaching and learning needs first, but we pull in early adopters who understand technology AND teaching to help the conversation.

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Betsy_DeGeorge: We have been trying a pilot project with one of the younger faculty folks at the undergrad level

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Trent: Good approach, Kevin

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Una: Kevin, yes early adopters particularly in the same discipline have made a difference in adoption.

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KevinKelly-SFState: Helen, the pilots are a good way to start, but there has to be a plan to go along with it. Our campus now has around 30 of 80+ departments involved in pilots or post-pilots...it's hard to support these efforts when there's no campus-wide plan.

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Trent: Early adopters help others re-design their teaching methods and syllabus

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Lisa: I think pilot projects might work well on our campus.  It will be easier to sell the idea to other faculty when they are exposed to the innovative and admirable work of their colleagues...

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KevinKelly-SFState: We are trying to get the early departments to become more self-sufficient, so we can help new departments start, but there is a backlog.

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Moderator (Helen): Kevin, have the pilots been useful in fostering faculty buy-in?

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Betsy_DeGeorge: People who have worked with paper ports are much more likely to be interested in eports

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Una: Kevin - yes, what kind of information is out there on how to move from pilots to campus-wide adoption?

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Lisa: One of our MnSCU (Minnesota State Colleges and Universities) campuses is using Awards of Excellence funds to dangle a carrot.

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KevinKelly-SFState: Helen, in some cases yes, especially when they were all involved at the beginning (e.g., this semester ALL 5 Liberal Studies faculty met with us several times (and in the summer too) to prepare for their pilot roll out)

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KevinKelly-SFState: In other cases, when it was one or two faculty members moving forward, some of the other faculty do not have buy in

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Betsy_DeGeorge: Kevin: are you using a particular system of portfolio presentation?

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Una: Betsy - yes, it is much easier to transition the paper portfolio depts to eportfolios because they've actually done the hard work of looking at learning outcomes and evaluation.

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KevinKelly-SFState: And when the momentum grows from the students, the faculty push back is strong because they have been peripheral and now have a much shorter timeline to play catch-up.

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Betsy_DeGeorge: Una, yes, they have bought the general concept

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Trent: I think Kapio'lani Community College requires new faculty to use an eportfolio for their annual review, thereby developing eportfolio expertise among faculty and making them less "cantankerous"

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Betsy_DeGeorge: One difficulty we faced as a single college was lack of IT support.

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Una: We've had issues where students don't see the eports as relevant especially when faculty have chosen to keep the eports private and not share with other students.

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Moderator (Helen): Before I forget -- SpEL.Folio: http://www.spelman.edu/wcenter/cwp/EFOLIO_PAGES/Efolio_index.html and http://campustechnology.com/articles/41320 - What Is the Purpose of an Electronic Portfolio? Is the Answer the Key to Your Successful Implementation?

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KevinKelly-SFState: Betsy, we have five or six tools in use on our campus, but we recently conducted a faculty-led investigation of open source eportfolio tools. See the Fall 2008 uypdate at http://teachingcommons.cdl.edu/eportfolio/ and click "ePortfolio Development" to download the report.

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Una: Betsy, what product were you using for ePorts?

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Moderator (Helen): Lisa, you also mentioned some IT challenges... what do you currently have in place?

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KevinKelly-SFState: Trent, Kapi'olani's approach is a good one. Everywhere I have seen faculty portfolios first, I have seen more buy in with the student portfolios.

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Betsy_DeGeorge: We ended up using the wiki system that is integrated into our Blackboard expoLX

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Una: Kevin, Glad to hear that.  I am teaching several faculty eport workshops this Fall in an attempt to get faculty over the hump so to speak.  I am using free tools for this (wordpress, google sites)

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Moderator (Helen): More about Kapi'olani - http://www.hawaii.edu/kccceltt/profdev/eportfolio/Student_ePortfolio_Manual/docs/10Matrix.pdf and https://eportfolio.kcc.hawaii.edu/portal

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Betsy_DeGeorge: Our IT dept couldn't seem to integrate OSPortfolio

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Moderator (Helen): Kapi'olani is also a member of the International Coalition on ePortfolio Research which has a book coming out soon - http://www.ncepr.org

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Una: Betsy, yes I can see how that would require IT support on campus.  The tools we chose for deployment have either a help desk or online email support for students.

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Trent: and see my article today in Campus Technology, Web 2.0 newsletter, called "Machines are Dumb."

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Lisa: While we have wonderful IT resources on campus, our internet connectivity and accessibility off campus can cause some problems.  Students not being able to gain internet access or trying to use dial-up to participate.

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KevinKelly-SFState: Una, there are conversations about students' use of Web 2.0 tools for ePortfolio-type activities without recognizing that fact. For example, the reflective writing aspect of portfolios is conducted in blogs instead.

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Teggin: Just to let you all know, we are using Sakai and their Open Source Portfolio software

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Trent: How do you like OSP?

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Teggin: While not without its own little bugs, we have found it to be relatively easy to integrate and it seems to be taking off with some of the pilot projects we are working on

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Betsy_DeGeorge: I have personally used the ELGG/Eduspaces portfolio system and love it. The blog integration is great

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Una: Kevin, yes we have an English instructor who does this with his students but he actually calls them ePortfolios -- he is ahead of the curve and has been doing for a couple of years.

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Teggin: I say this with the caveat that I've been in this position for almost a month now, so I am still learning my way around

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Trent: Hey, that's good to hear, Betsy

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Moderator (Helen): Lisa, you raise an important concern.  I wonder what the solution could be -- more robust software or web-based applications or maybe it's time to think about other kinds of eportfolio delivery methods such as through cell phones.  Any thoughts?

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Betsy_DeGeorge: If you are using the Sakai system, then the OSP is a good solution I would think.

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Betsy_DeGeorge: Has anyone used the Blackboard ePortfolio system. Is it worth the $$$

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Mike: Teggin,  I heard all incoming VT students are expected to define and then document learning outcomes before graduation.  I know everyone isn't using eports to do that so how else are programs meeting the learning outcomes requirement?

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Mike: How much extra is the BB eport module?

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Moderator (Helen): Or as Betsy mentioned earlier, perhaps there's value in introducing the concept of the portfolio and to let the actual uploading, etc. happen while students on campus.

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Lisa: eFolio Minnesota, as a state-wide--and now expanding nationally and internationally--works wonderfully well!  It is life-long--you can take it with you from cradle to grave!

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Una: Helen, there is an interest new eport organizer product called airset that works over cell phones as well as computers (you do need internet access from your cell phone).

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Teggin: That's a good question, Mike.  I'm not 100% sure of that answer, but I imagine they are working on that individually within departments

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Trent: Last I heard, Mike, BB eport module was $35 for a mid-size univ

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Trent: $35 thousand, sorry

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Lisa: I appreciate it even more after attending the EiFEL ePortfolio conference in October which had a whole track geared toward interoperability...

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Mike: Thnks, Trent

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Mike: hehe, I added the "K" automatically

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Moderator (Helen): Lisa, you've probably also looked at LaGuardia which has computer labs on campus for students to do their ePortfolio work (mainly web pages using artifacts collected via their BB CMS)

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Moderator (Helen): Una, do you have a link for airset?  Sonds intriguing.

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Lisa: LaGuardia's work is spectacular!  I also attended their conference in April and got to see the interesting widespread use of eFolio!

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Trent: for learning, eP tools can be almost anything; for assessment management, you need the actual assessment management technology

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Una: Yes, we are using eFolio Minnesota for about five dollars per student per year.  It's an older product and there will be an upgrade next year to add many new featuers.

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Moderator (Helen): Lisa, how was the EiFeL conference?  What are the latest trends going on with ePortfolios overseas?

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Trent: $5/student is not bad

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Betsy_DeGeorge: So you can license the eFolio MN product per student?

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Lisa: The European countries are working toward a regional approach to ePortfolios and have really invested in the idea of using them as career labor market tools.

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KevinKelly-SFState: Betsy, we have bought blocks of eFolio MN accounts for departments, which is close to a per-student model

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Trent: Digication is an online subscription eP

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Lisa: eFolio can be licensed on an individual basis.

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KevinKelly-SFState: The thing I like about not having one tool is that we focus on the ePortfolio PROCESS, rather than the product

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Una: Helen, here is the link to airset http://www.airset.com/, lots of intriguing new ideas in this product.

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Trent: absolutely, Kevin

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Teggin: Good point, Kevin.  I think that is something we gain using OSP

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Betsy_DeGeorge: Kevin I agree theoretically

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Moderator (Helen): Kevin is there more faculty buy in as a result since the tool is then tailored to their specific needs?

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Betsy_DeGeorge: but practically? ? ?

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Moderator (Helen): What are the IT challenges?

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Trent: Wow, Airset is "your Web computer."

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Betsy_DeGeorge: My husband is at a small college and is just relying on Google.

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KevinKelly-SFState: Now that we have been working on the process with around 1/3 of our departments, we can afford to find one tool (and need to if we want to be able to support it centrally), but it needs to be flexible enough to meet diverse needs

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Trent: Having many tools for eP means that central IT will support only a fraction of them

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Moderator (Helen): FYI -- eFolio MN: http://www.efoliominnesota.com/

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Trent: At MIT, there will be and are multiple tools

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KevinKelly-SFState: Helen, I would say that the faculty buy-in probably would not change much if they had fewer choices in terms of tools, as long as it is easy to use and they have support for themselves and their students.

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Lisa: Thanks, Helen.  I don't really know much about pricing.  I do know that California is launching eFolio California...

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Una: Yes, using 2 tools for the pilot has been twice as much work for preparing training and support but in the end it helps you identify the critical factors for succes with the students and faculty.  I do select the tool based on the fit with the department.

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Teggin: I suspect faculty buy-in is increased when people are able to customize ePs to meet their own needs

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Betsy_DeGeorge: I think that the best tool would incorporate the needs of the individual, immediately and lifelong, the college, item by item and with a view to accreditation, and the university as it serves both student and community. What can do all of this?

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Una: Teggin, it makes a big difference to the students if they can customize.  I know because I made a mistake with this early on in one of our pilots.

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KevinKelly-SFState: I have seen the opposite approach fail. A CSU campus bought TaskStream for the entire campus, but they had no buy-in so it was a lot of money wasted up front. Even with a faculty senate resolution, you need champions, as was mentioned earlier, and people who can attest to the benefits.

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Trent: I'm in favor of using various eP technologies for learning, but just one for assessment management, of course.

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Moderator (Helen): Betsy, it seems like what you've described is not a tool that can do all of these things -- it's the conversation that needs to happen among all stakeholders.

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Betsy_DeGeorge: True, true

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Lisa: We are pretty lucky in MN to have a team our of our system office (MnSCU) who provide training--including institutional portfolios for accreditation purposes--and a 24/7 help desk to assist with any technical issues.

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KevinKelly-SFState: Betsy, you are right to bring up lifelong learning. We are trying to connect with our Advancement/Alumni group to see how we can include ePortfolios as part of the alumni package. We don't want our students' work to disappear x months after graduation.

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Trent: The effort is in changing how we think of learning

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Betsy_DeGeorge: Amen Kevin

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KevinKelly-SFState: Trent brings us back to one of the earlier points of this chat.

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Una: A great article (it's old)  on building an ePortfolio culture at your campus.  I used this extensively in my thesis last year:

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Una: Gathercoal, P., Love, D., Bryde, B., & McKean, G. (2002). On implementing web-based Electronic Portfolios in Liberal Studies 92, Educause Quarterly, 25, 29-37.

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KevinKelly-SFState: We are all preaching to the choir, so how do we create an eportfolio culture? Oh...Una beat me to it.

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Trent: So, I've been using "experiential and evidentiary learning" in addition to "ePortfolio"

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Betsy_DeGeorge: It has taken me years to get comfortable with all the practical and philosophical aspects of ePortfolios and I'm a fan. It may take a while for the learning culture to embrace this.

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Moderator (Helen): Link to article Una mentioned from EQ: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0224.pdf

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Trent: Una:  I remember that article!

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Una: Yes, they have chart at the end of the article that identifies critical factors they found at their campus (Cal Lutheran)

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Trent: Betsy:  yes, I think transforming to use eportfolios effectively is synonymous with transforming higher education for this century

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Moderator (Helen): Everyone -- it's 11 a.m./12 p.m./1 p.m./2 p.m. now and I want to be respectful of people's time.  Could you please post your email addresses so I can send contact info for everyone who participated today in case you'd like to follow-up individually?

 

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Moderator (Helen): also, I'm trolling for ideas for future chats and webcasts -- any ideas off the top of your head?

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KevinKelly-SFState: Una, three admins from my campus are giving a presentation about WASC and ePortfolios are a part of that prezo

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Lisa: How about web 2.0

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Trent: Web 2.0 would interest me

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Moderator (Helen): Lisa, Trent -- I may follow up with you on ideas, possible articles, websites for a web 2.0 and eportfolios chat.

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Una: I am interested in vocational eportfolios but that is somewhat externally motivated.

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Betsy_DeGeorge: Thanks for the conversation

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Trent: take care everyone!  Nice chat

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Moderator (Helen): Una, - vocational like career planning?

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Lisa: Thanks everyone!

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Betsy_DeGeorge: Helping people learn to read ePortfolios

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Una: Well, I think this is more like vocational training -- I'll know after I meet with the VP tomorrow.

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Moderator (Helen): Okay - keep me posted on that Una.  I'm happy to pursue further but will need some help on how to develop.

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Una: Betsy, there is an instructor at College of San Mateo who is trying reading portfolios.  I can send you her contact info

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Moderator (Helen): Betsy, by learning to read do you mean learning how to grade/score ePortfolios?

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Teggin: Yes, thanks everyone!  Bye!

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Betsy_DeGeorge: Yes do

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Moderator (Helen): Una, do you have any references for that instructor?

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Una: sorry, I was mistaken about what betsy needed.  I thought she meant student reading.

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Moderator (Helen): Betsy, please clarify if you can since we're confused!

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Betsy_DeGeorge: The general reader -- The faculty person, the accrediting team, the employer

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Moderator (Helen): Okay that helps.  Kathleen Yancey (now of Florida State) used to run a workshop where they would read/review student portfolios.  The popular approach now seems to be using rubrics to evaluate what's in the portfolio (artifacts, etc.).

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Una: Betsy, this is an important area (not what I originally thought) and I would like more information about this as well.  Not only reading student eportfolios but giving feedback that is constructive, etc.

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Betsy_DeGeorge: I've got to run but I'll email you later.

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Moderator (Helen): Sounds good - thanks!

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Una: Yes, rubrics should work with faculty but what about supervisors in an employment situation.

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Moderator (Helen): I'm thinking maybe we'll need to do a session on rubrics.

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Una: Thanks for inviting me -- I found the discussion very energizing. 

 

 

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