ePortfolios and Metacognition in Online Basic Research Methods - SPS

Barbara Walters, Consortial Faculty,
CUNY Online Baccalaureate
Ellen Smiley, Academic Director of the CUNY Online
Sarah Morgano, ePortfolio Communication Coordinator
Kate Noel Moss, Learning Community Instructor,
William Bernhardt, Consortial Faculty,
http:// cunyonline.digication.com/portfolio/directory.digi

Web 2.0 tools facilitate shared knowledge, reflection, and metacognition among CUNY Online Baccalaureate students in a research methods learning community. E-Portfolio modeling encourages ownership transfer and thoughtful self-navigation of program learning goals, targeted in course objectives and assignments. Examples highlight tiers in a scaffolded series of competencies that are pre-requisites to capstone projects in our Communication and Culture concentration.

Steering Committee for Online Resources and Education (S.C.O.R.E.) 2005
CUNY Online Baccalaureate: Fall 2006
Designed for “degree completers”
Single cross-disciplinary concentration: Communication and Culture
Expanded in initial year from 250 students in 30 sections of 17 courses to 400 students in 62 sections of 50 courses
B.S. in Business, Spring 2008; M.S. in Business Management and Leadership, Fall 2009
Spring 2010, over 750 students enrolled in 67 classes across three degree programs

Clear Goals
Institutional Mission
Program Goals
Curriculum Development
Course Objectives
Pedagogy
Deep learning – non-content teaching and learning goals (Keith Roberts)
Constructivist learning -- WAC and WID (Bloom, Perry and Bean)
Reflection and Self-Navigation (John Dewey and Lev S. Vygotsky)
Communities of Practice – Learning Communities
Assessment and Evaluation

Goal:
Inclusion of all students in the program
Use of ePortfolios to mirror, map and communicate progress
Reflection and Social Networking
ePortfolios and Communities of Practice
Blogs
Wikis
Expo
Digication

“ If you don’t know where you want to go, you might end up somewhere else.”
Yogi Berra
Photo Credit: Yogi Berra’s game-worn jersey, Photography Collection, The Glory Days: New York Baseball 1947-1957, and exhibit from Museum of the City of New York, which ran from June 27 to December 31, 2007. Used under a Creative Commons “Attribution/Noncommercial/ No-Derivative Works”
*Cf. Andrea Leskes, AACU, 2005, CUNY Research Seminar

* Adapted from Andrea Leskes, AACU, 2005, CUNY Research Seminar
Mission Assessment/ Reflection We are here Double Loop Learning

This course title and sequence have changed as a result of this double-loop learning.

TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS
LEARNERS
Clear program goals
Clear learning goals
Alignment between mission, guiding principles, goals, assignments and assessments
Self-directed
Aware of the process
Integrative
Adaptive
Adapted from Andrea Leskes, AACU, 2005, CUNY Research Seminar Open system

Visible Knowledge

Basic Competencies: Fall 2008
Course redesign
Assessment
Course Goals and Objectives: meetings in teams
Transparent assignments and assessments
Faculty Development or Community Building around Basic Principles

I. Inquiry and Critical Thinking
II. Communication
III. Cultural Diversity and Social Responsibility
IV. Creativity
V. Teamwork and Leadership
VI. Knowledge Base

Basic Competencies CC 401 CC 403 CC 404 CC 405 CC 406 CC 407 CC 408 CC 409 CC 411 CC 499 I. Inquiry & C. Thinking X II. Comm. X III. Cult. Div. & Soc. Resp. X IV. Creativity X V. Teamwork & Leadership X VI. Knowledge Base X

Fall 2008 Expo Pilot
Summer 2009 Digication Pilot
Ongoing Communities of Practice
Discussion Forums
Blogs
Wikis
Expo
ePortfolios

Blackboard has always had the discussion board, but new tools allow new outlets for student contributions in online courses: blogs (collective or individual) and wikis. How can these tools be used effectively (and non-redundantly) in the Blackboard environment?

Enables journal style entries separated and tagged by name, date, and time, appearing in reverse chronological order
Allows students to create web-based diaries or other types of web records
Possibilities include documents, links, images, plus a comments feature
Journal, viewing, and comments can be open to individual students, groups, or entire class
Tool for reflection

An effective tool for collaborative student website authoring: think Wikipedia
Provides a venue for teamwork and reflection
Facilitates text, image, or other media links and/or displays
Assessment tools available
Wiki editing, viewing, and comments can be available to class or team

110 Students in Five Courses
COM 110 Digital Information in the Contemporary World
ART 210 Modern Art in the City
ENG 102
CC 410 Introduction to Research Methods
CC 409 Studies in Communication and Cultural Change
CC 499 Senior Research
Evaluation
Model ePortfolio
Student Resource Site

Sample Student ePortfolio : Created for students to mirror. Basic Academic ePortfolio Template : Created for students to model.

Ownership Transfer Social Networking

CC 499 Senior Research
Initially a contract and guidelines
Double loop adjustment
Skills students should have at registration for CC 499: Fall 2009
Literature searches and review
Creating theory and hypotheses from literature
Statistical Skills
SPSS
Basic descriptive statistics
Tests of significance
Basic research
Ethnography
Content Analysis

A direct result of NOT evaluating evidence (reflecting).

This course was revised as a result of this double-loop learning.

CC 401 and Deep Learning
Transition to Four-Year College
Pre-Reflective:
Knowledge exists absolutely and can be ascertained by direct observation
Quasi-Reflective:
Knowledge is uncertain; evidence is used but it is idiosyncratic
Reflective
Knowledge is constructed by evaluating evidence
Change in Research Methods sequence and course numbers
Introduction of Write-from-the-Start
Learning Community: COM 110 and CC 401

Shared Knowledge

Reflection

Thanks to SPS Deans George Otte and Brian Peterson; Sylvie Richards, SPS Media and Technology Specialist; B.Loerinc-Helft, Academic Director of the CUNY Online Programs in Business; Washington Hernandez, Operations Manager, Ericke Wong, Operations Assistant; Phil Pecorino, Howard Wach, Jordi Getman, Carl Grindley, Joe Ugoretz and Rob Whittaker, Colleagues in the CUNY Online Baccalaureate; Bret Eynon, Assistant Dean and Executive Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at LaGuardia; and all of our mentors and colleagues at LaGuardia Community College and in Cohort A at Making Connections.

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