Exploring freeform portfolios for postgraduate teaching

Exploring freeform portfolios for postgraduate teaching David Horwitz & Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams Learning Technologies Programmer & Associate Professor Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town 15 June 2010

Masters programme in Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Education at UCT

Online Learning Design Course

Key elements of the course

Types of e-portfolio 11th Sakai Conference - June 15-17, 2010 Self-awareness Self-efficacy Motivation Drive Engage with formative feedback Review academic progression Use to promote career opportunities Online Learning Design course Adapted from http://www.eportfoliopractice.qut.edu.au/docs/AeP_presentations_web/AeP_Ward_7Feb08.pdf

Online learning design teaching

Online Learning Design e-portfolio

E-Portfolio: Workflow Create a project site Create an introductory page with links to each of the sections Create a page for each section Write the content for each section & add hyperlinks to class documents, external papers or self generated documents Make site available to peers (optional) Make site available to lecturers for draft formative assessment Lecturers provide comments in Rubric 1 Edit e-portfolio in light of comments Make site available to lecturers for final formative assessment Lecturers provide comments in Rubric 2 Edit e-portfolio in light of comments Lecturers create meta-site linking all e-portfolios to one site with Rubric 3 Lecturers grade e-portfolio in Rubric 3 Moderator grades e-portfolio in Rubric 3

Key challenges for students
Understanding the concept of an e-portfolio being displayed as a group of linked pages with internal hyperlinks – needed a mind map
Renaming pages and losing links
Devising suitable navigation techniques between pages
Swapping between preview and editing mode
Identifying which media were not accepted for embedding in the wiki, eg. Video

Navigation strategies in the wiki

Key challenges for lecturers
Making in-text comments
Following the navigation strategies adopted by each student
Having no easy way to link to a rubric for assessment
Making the each e-portfolio available to the external moderator entailed the creation of a new meta-site to link them all

Rubric – separate document

Key challenges for external moderator
Understanding the conceptual map of each student’s site
Following the navigation strategies adopted by each student
Having no easy way to link to a rubric for assessment

External moderation meta-site

Lecturers
Easy set up and tracking of set of spaces based on group membership
Different views for co-ordinators, examiners and students
Version tracking
not individual pages but the complete space + comments and annotations
Ability to lock portfolios at submission time

Students
Mostly covered by content authoring ideas
However
Linking must be intuitive and easy but flexible
Orphaned and renamed pages will always be an issue
View versions of specific snapshot versions of the whole space

Examiner
Overview of portfolios
Ability to sort gradebook by grades
Access to all versioned spaces from different lifecycle points

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Exploring freeform portfolios for postgraduate teaching

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