Understanding Basic Concepts of ePortfolio Pedagogy and Choosing the Best Technology Marc Zaldivar, Director, ePortfolio Initiatives Teggin Summers, Associate Director, ePortfolio Initiatives
Understanding Basic Concepts of ePortfolio Pedagogy and Choosing the Best Technology
Marc Zaldivar, Director, ePortfolio InitiativesTeggin Summers, Associate Director, ePortfolio Initiatives
Goals and Objectives
• Gain a better understanding of how ePortfolios can be used to promote learning, assessment, and professional development
• Consider ways for better implementation within curricula
• Learn of the technologies and ePortfolio systems/platforms available
• Develop a plan for implementing portfolios with curricula and select the technology that best meets this plan
Session Outline
• Define ePortfolioso Contextso Purposes
• Implementationo Guided Processo Pedagogyo Technology
• Points to Ponder
• Q&A
ePortfolio: A Definition
ePortfolios can "enable learners to manage the complexity and variability of learning designs and opportunities in formal and informal settings in order to gather evidence of
their resultant deep learning.” Trent Batson,
http://www.aaeebl.org/tbb?mode=PostView&bmi=1075857
Portfolios in Academic Contexts
•Individual learning
portfolios
•Course-based learning
portfolios
•Programmatic
assessment portfolios
•External accreditation
portfolios
Assess
Share
Select Reflect
Collect
Putting It All Together
Learning
AssessmentProfessional
Development
Academic
AccreditationLearning
Portfolios
Departmental
Development
VTeP
Implementation: Questions to Ask
• Where do you fit within the diagram?
• What are the primary activities that you would like to represent in an ePortfolio?
• What are the required needs that you must have met by ePortfolio technologies?
• What are the desired goals that you would like to see in ePortfolio technologies?
• What is the "next step" with your ePortfolio use?
Implementation: 8 Central Issues(Chen & Penny-Light, 2010)
1. Defining learning outcomes
2. Understanding your learners
3. Identifying stakeholders
4. Designing learning activities
5. Including multiple forms of evidence
6. Using rubrics to evaluate ePortfolios
7. Anticipating external uses of evidence
8. Evaluating the impact of ePortfolios
Implementation: Conditions for Success(Knight, Hakel, & Gromko, 2008)
• eP-based curriculum
• Feedback
• Include engagement and personalization
• Examples
• Time for development
• Faculty promote value of eP
• Technical assistance
Implementation: Other questions
• How long will students need access to the portfolio?
• Who will be viewing the portfolio?
• Who will own the contents of the portfolio (institution, faculty, students)?
First Things First! Pedagogy
• Technology is constantly changing
• Pedagogy is keyo Focus on understanding the clear purpose behind
the ePortfolioo Make it pedagogically meaningful
If this happens, the rest will fall into place
Identifying Technologies: Questions to Ask
• Hosting (local and/or vendor)?
• Outcomes assessment/tracking?
• Presentation showcase?
• Directed/guiding portfolios?
• Social networking?
• LMS and/or SIS integration?
• Pricing?
• Security?
Identifying Technologies: 3 Examples
http://tinyurl.com/eptechlandscape
Some Helpful Links
• https://eportfolio.vt.edu/index.html
• https://eportfolio.vt.edu/training.html
• https://eportfolio.vt.edu/gallery/Gallery_Presentation/presentationgallery.html
Association for Authentic, Experiential, Evidence-Based Learning
http://www.aaeebl.org
http://electronicportfolios.org
Points to Ponder
• Where are you in terms of your eP implementation?
• What are the current institutional efforts within your organization? How might you leverage them?
• What are your curricular goals?
• Which technologies match your activities and outcomes?