Doctoral Attributes Workshop and the ePortfolio framework

Doctoral Attributes Workshop (DAW) and the ePortfolio/Portal framework AuSakai 2009 Patrick Fong Gordon Yau

About this Presentation
Overview of the Grad Research ePortfolio portal framework.
Components in the framework.
Live demo of framework.
Doctoral Attributes Workshop (DAW) - technical overview.
Live demo of DAW.
Questions.

Overview - Introduction
Overview: ePortfolio/Portal framework
Online tools, workshops, resources and support programmes.
Beginning of candidature completion and beyond.
Audience: Research higher-degree students (PhD).
Run by Melbourne School of Graduate Research.
Suite of 5 Sakai sites & 1 site template.
Currently 100 postgrad students.

Overview - Structure Grad Research Portal The sweet sweet framework suite 1. Starting Out 2. Ethics Intensive 3. Master Classes 4. Completion Site Template My site Doctoral Attribute Workshop tool

Framework components
Hub/portal to access all Grad Research Portal sites.
Central announcement area.
Customised “Home” page.
“ Setting up your portal site” module.
Profile template.
Graduate Research Portal site 1. Starting Out 2. Ethics Intensive 3. Master Classes 4. Completion Site Template Doctoral Attribute Workshop tool Grad Research Portal

Overview
Seamless access to Postgraduate Essentials (PGE) Strategies for a Successful Start to your PhD - a website on internal authenticated system.
PGE helps PhD candidates who have just started their candidature.
1. Starting Out 2. Ethics Intensive 3. Master Classes 4. Completion Site Template Doctoral Attribute Workshop tool Grad Research Portal GRP1 - Starting Out site

Overview
Ethical issues relating to research (eg, stem cells, commercial aims, IP… ).
Boutique 4-week course - students enrolled in smaller batches. First batch has 40 students.
Supported by forums.
1. Starting Out 2. Ethics Intensive 3. Master Classes 4. Completion Site Template Doctoral Attribute Workshop tool Grad Research Portal GRP2 - Ethics Intensive site

Overview
Aimed towards students at mid-point of their research degree.
Website with forum, blog and live chat.
1. Starting Out 2. Ethics Intensive 3. Master Classes 4. Completion Site Template Doctoral Attribute Workshop tool Grad Research Portal GRP3 - Master Classes site

Overview
Seamless access to PGE Completion and Beyond website on internal authenticated system.
Website with forum, blog and live chat.
1. Starting Out 2. Ethics Intensive 3. Master Classes 4. Completion Site Template Doctoral Attribute Workshop tool Grad Research Portal GRP4 - Completion site

Overview
Research Higher Degree students can create sites.
Template includes information + selection of tools:
Announcements
Resources, Forums
Wiki, Schedule/Calendar
Email Archive
Roster (Site members)
Search
link to MSGR website.
1. Starting Out 2. Ethics Intensive 3. Master Classes 4. Completion Site Template Doctoral Attribute Workshop tool Grad Research Portal Site Template

Overview
Our first Sakai tool.
Identify skills and abilities to be developed.
14 Graduate Attributes (set by Provost).
Patrick will tell you more!
1. Starting Out 2. Ethics Intensive 3. Master Classes 4. Completion Site Template Doctoral Attribute Workshop tool Grad Research Portal Doctoral Attribute Workshop

Demo of Grad Research Portal Sakai@Melbourne: https://sakai.unimelb.edu.au/portal/ Let’s have a look

Sakai tool - Doctoral Attributes Workshop
Doctoral Attributes Workshop
(DAW)
1. Starting Out 2. Ethics Intensive 3. Master Classes 4. Completion Site Template Doctoral Attribute Workshop tool Grad Research Portal

Doctoral Attributes Workshop
What is it - Post graduate tool
Tech - Build on Apache Wicket framework
Tour - Simple CRUD functionality

Post Graduate Tool
Reflective tool to assist post grad students
Students map tasks they do for their PhDs to pre-determined attributes .
Benefit
keep track of what they have done so far
know what else is required

Post Graduate Tool
List of Example Activities
Meet with my supervisor
Conduct my literary review
Make sure journals up to date
Attend regular meetings
Join a reading group

Scrum development methodology
Statistics
Team size - 5 people (3 developers, Scrum-master, Product Owner)
1 week sprint-planning
2 hour Scrums
30-day sprints

Wicket framework
Allows the developer to embed logic into a static web-page.
Using wicket:id tags.

Sakai tool - Doctoral Attributes Workshop <input type=“text” wicket:id=“wicketid”/> class WebPage { … } HTML code Java class

Wicket framework
Benefits
Separation of concerns
embed logic into a HTML page while maintaining page layout.
“ Web-isms”
Out-of-the-box or third-party AJAX framework.
Modal Windows.
Disadvantages (for us)
Unable to customise modal windows.

Tour
URL - http://sakai.unimelb.edu.au/portal

Credits
Melbourne School of Graduate Research
Dr David L Martin Research, Project Management & Pedagogic Design
Dr Angela Woods Advisor
Dr Jeanette Fyffe Advisor
Learning Environments
David Adam Program Leader Design & Development
Gordon Yau Software Development Supervisor
Patrick Fong Java Programmer
Gavin Leys Graphic Interface Designer
External consultant
Steve Swinsburg Sakai Programming

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