This document discusses the use of online e-portfolios for a postgraduate course on online learning design at the University of Cape Town. It describes key elements of the course including using e-portfolios for self-awareness, career development, and receiving formative feedback. Challenges identified include navigating the e-portfolio wiki interface and linking pages. The document also outlines the e-portfolio workflow and assessment process, which includes students making their e-portfolios available for comments and grading from lecturers and an external moderator.

1. 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

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

3. Online Learning Design Course

4. Key elements of the course

5. 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

6. Online learning design teaching

7. Online Learning Design e-portfolio

8. Online Learning Design e-portfolio

9. 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

10. 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

11. Navigation strategies in the wiki

12. 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

13. Rubric – separate document

14. 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

15. External moderation meta-site

16. 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

17. 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

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

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