EPAC April 2009 Webcast and chat

in partnership with the University of British Columbia

Developing Communities of Practices for ePortfolios: 

Brainstorming Strategies to Build Connections and Buy-in with Faculty

Thursday, April 16th at 10 a.m. PT/12 p.m. CT/1 p.m. ET

 

Miss the webcast/chat?  Read the transcript, check out the resources, and contribute to our ongoing discussion here.

 

DESCRIPTION

• What are some ways to introduce faculty to the concept of an ePortfolio? 
• What are faculty member's concerns and how can we effectively address them?
• What strategies can we use to encourage and facilitate faculty buy-in around ePortfolios?

 

These are just a few of the questions to begin a collective brainstorming session around approaches to developing an ePortfolio community of practice among faculty.  We are delighted to have Roselynn Verwoord, Isabeau Iqbal, and Catherine Paul from the University of British Columbia, Canada, join us for this interactive webcast/chat and to share their firsthand experiences with building and facilitating the ePortfolio community of practice at UBC.  Some of the strategies they have used to engage faculty include building prestige for faculty participants by sending them to events and thereby encouraging them to report back to the community and fostering collaborative projects around writing grants and articles, developing resources, and joint presentations.  We will be using the UBC experience as a case study to launch what will be a creative and generative discussion so please join us!!

 

We encourage to you to check out the Cambridge, Kaplan, & Suter (2005) article and welcome your additions to the list below.

 

CHAT PARTICIPANTS

1. Isabeau Iqbal, University of British Columbia

2. Catherine Paul, University of British Columbia

3. Roselynn Verwoord, University of British Columbia

4. Abigail Baker, Student learning outcomes, assessment and accreditation  office at URI; functional owner of our program assessment tool, TrueOutcomes, a Cengage Learning product

5. Trent Batson, formerly of URI; currently Dir Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning

6. Betsy DeGeorge, Publications Mgr. for Univ of TN College of Social Work

7. kele fleming, UBC

8. David Hubert Salt Lake CC

9. Gary Kleemann, Emeritus, ASU

10. Paula Michniewicz, Salt Lake Community College

11. Ramona Montagnes, Director of the UBC Writing Centre--and a member of this community of practice

12. Rebecca Peet from UCSC

13. Suzanne Topp, Salt Lake CC

14. Cindy Underhill, UBC, Office of Learning Technology

15. Marij Veugelers, Univ of Amsterdam

16. Kathleen Willbanks, CSU System

17. Jean Woodward, College of Pharmacy, Student Affairs, University of Illinois-Chicago

18. Helen L. Chen, EPAC and Stanford University

19. John Ittelson, EPAC and CSU Monterey Bay

 

 

ARCHIVED RECORDING

https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2009-04-16.1020.M.02984EFFCBB5CD0C1A76736A8667F9.vcr

 

CHAT TRANSCRIPT and SLIDES

UBC Chat transcript: 2009.04 EPAC chat with UBC transcript.pdf

UBC Webcast slides: 2009.03 EPAC Chat with UBC slides.pdf

 

RESOURCES AND ISSUES MENTIONED DURING THE DISCUSSION

Cambridge, D., Kaplan, S., Suter, V. (2005). Community of Practice Design Guide:  A Step-by-Step Guide for Designing & Cultivating Communities of Practice in Higher Education. Available from the EDUCAUSE website:

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NLI0531.pdf

 

LaGuardia Community College ePortfolio Resources for Faculty

http://www.eportfolio.lagcc.cuny.edu/faculty_resources.html

San Francisco State University ePortfolio Resources for Faculty

http://eportfolio.sfsu.edu/fac_over.php

 

Chen, H.L., & Ittelson, J.C.  EPAC: Building a community of practice around ePortfolios.  In J. Zubizarreta, (Ed.), The Learning Portfolio: Reflective Practice for Improving Student Learning (pp.109-120).  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Can be browsed here: http://books.google.com/books?id=cDA9YTAMDGkC&dq=the+learning+portfolio+zubizarreta&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=lGX3p5EHuq&sig=M6iumvbpcSGtL2B9sPQd5pP81GE&hl=en&ei=V6LfSZ26NZrqtQP3gsG6CQ&

 

ePortfolios and employability - Kathleen Willbanks from the CSU is researching this

from the UK: http://www.passportfolio.com/ and https://www.careerswales.com/progressfile/default.asp

 

Everett Rogers Technology Adoption Lifecycle model: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_lifecycle

 

Gartner Hype cycle:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

 

Increasing interest in portfolios in graduate medical education as seen with the

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)

https://www.acgme.org/acWebsite/portfolio/learn_cbpac.asp

 

UBC's LEAD project: http://www.lead.ubc.ca/about/index.html

 

The Canadian elearning conference is still accepting early bird registration: www.celc2009.ca

 

Virginia Tech webcast on "Institutionalizing the ePortfolio: Addressing Assessment, Pedagogy, and Professional Development Issues for Widespread Adoption" with C. Edward Watson, Shelli Fowler, and Marc Zaldivar.  Highly recommended and very relevant to our discussion: http://connect.ag.vt.edu/p35207599/

 

Blog posting: Australian e-Portfolios Symposium 2009 - Establishing an e-Portfolio community of practice – was held at Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus on 9 – 10 February 2009. http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/e-portfoliosblog/?p=45

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Roselynn Verwoord, Community of Practice Developer, Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth, University of British Columbia; Master of Arts Student, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia.

E-mail: tag DOT copdeveloperAT ubc DOT ca

 

Isabeau Iqbal, Educational Developer/Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth, University of British Columbia and Doctoral Student, Educational Studies, University of British Columbia.

email: isabeau DOT iqbal AT ubc DOT ca

eportfolio: <http://www.cfkeep.org/users/iqbal/port2008

 

Catherine Paul, Community of Practice Facilitator, Office of Learning Technology, University of British Columbia

email: catherine DOT paul AT ubc DOT ca