My slides from the kick off of a small ePortfolio pilot at UWO

1. ePortfolio Pilot
Beginnings
August 20th 2012

2. Outline
Context
Aims
Outputs
Courses and cohorts
Introductions
Models of participation
Support discussion
Plans for the next meeting

3. Context
Why are we running an ePortfolio pilot?

4. Context
wider adoption in institution in particular in USP
an ePortfolio based approach can help students learn to
learn and collect evidence of their abilities
ePortfolios play a role in helping us as an institution
evaluate and evidence student learning

5. Context
what types of ePortfolio are there?
Admission to a program
Learning process
Showcase for resume
which are we interested in?
learning portfolio first,
employment portfolio & others may come
later

6. Aims
What factors influence the successful
adoption of ePortfolios?

7. Aims
Find out about and support what you want to try
with ePortfolios
Work with students to understand the support
they need to use ePortfolios, then scope and
develop that support
Explore what we (UWO) can learn (and
evidence) from the use of ePortfolios
As a community of scholarship explore and
reflect on about our use of ePortfolios

8. Outputs
course development for you
a faculty guide to ePortfolios
a student guide to ePortfolios
a sample set of ePortfolios for evaluation

9. Introductions
Who are you?
What interests you about ePortfolios?
What experience do you have with ePortfolios?

10. Courses and cohorts
Which courses are you planning on using
ePortfolios with?
How many students are you anticipating in your
courses?

11. Models of participation
lite - content from your course as part of a
bigger program
using ePortfolio as a mechanism for final
assignment.
Students submit their assignment to you
through D2L ePortfolio and alongside their
submission they provide a few lines reflecting
on their experience

12. Models of participation
lite - content from your course as part of a
bigger program
Example History 101
Term paper - "Should I stay or should I go? The
Clearances and US Immigration in the 1800s"
Reflection -A short paragraph by the student
about the process of writing the essay

13. Models of participation
full - ePortfolio use in your course as well as
your course as part of a bigger program
[Your idea here]

14. Models of participation
full - ePortfolio use in your course as well as
your course as part of a bigger program
Example History 101
Thesis statement,
Collected artefacts and sources
Peer commentary and tutor feedback
Term paper - "Should I stay or should I go? The
Clearances and US Immigration in the 1800s"
A short reflective paragraph about the process

15. Assessing the pilot
What questions do we want to ask?
Why?
Does your course align with any of the
university learning outcomes?
Interesting questions document - and how
might we assess our exploration of these.

16. Examples for discussion
https://sites.google.com/site/nadinemacbalespring/

17. Examples for discussion
https://sites.google.com/a/pdx.edu/priceac/

18. Examples for discussion
https://sites.google.com/a/pdx.
edu/eportresources/Home/ePortfolio-Showcase

19. Support discussion
What? where? when? how?
What resources do you have ?
For you?
● Learning, teaching, and assessment peer
support
● Tech training
For students?
● Concept
● Tech support

20. Plans for the next meeting
Review interesting questions document
Email before the meeting: briefly articulate what
you want to do, how, what questions you want
to explore - time to discuss this
Identify specific support needs (practice/ tech)
Discussion in more detail about what we want
to explore
Logistics - health warnings for students- we will
be looking at what you do
Evaluation - what questions do we want to ask?

21. Contact details
John Robertson
ePortfolio and online learning support
robertrj@uwosh.edu
920 424 0487