This document outlines a strategy to develop an electronic portfolio project called the Notre Dame Electronic Portfolio (NDeP) to help students play a more direct role in their personal and professional development. The NDeP will utilize Google applications to allow students to collect, organize, and publish examples of their work, reflections on skills and goals, and other materials to showcase for advisors, employers, and others. It is intended to help students strengthen key skills like problem solving, communication, and independence through self-assessment, reflection, and goal setting within their portfolio.

1. PERSONALIZED DEVELOPMENT AND
ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIO PROJECT
Jessica Kuczenski, Mark McCready, Josh Enszer
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Xiaojing Duan, Paul Turner
Office of Information Technologies
Jay Brockman
Associate Dean for Educational Programs
7/31/09

2. Goal Analytical and
Problem Solving
Skills
 Produce Organizational
Define and
Understand
engineers who Skills Engineering
Concepts
are one step
ahead of peer “Six Tool”
schools Engineer
 People who are
closer to the Creativity and Understand
Technical
Independence
second job than Problems
our peers
Communication
Skills

3. The personal organizational skills, the Strong analytical and problem
sense of personal responsibility and solving skills and overall
commitment, the initiative, and the Analytical and technical expertise in chemical
ability to self-assess necessary to be Problem Solving
Skills engineering concepts and
a consistently successful professional
principles
Define and
Organizational Understand
Skills Engineering
Concepts
Development of independence and Ability to define and understand
creativity in thought and action, engineering components and
with skills and aspirations such as “Six Tool” phenomena in the context of systems
leadership, teamwork and that extend beyond the domain of
entrepreneurism Engineer traditional chemical engineering
Creativity and Understand
Independence Technical
Problems
Understanding of technical
Strong communication skills (oral problems in the broader context
Communication
and written; listening, Skills of society, including external
comprehending, ability to interact economic and possibly social
with peers and professors) factors

4. Strategy
 To accomplish this, improvements in the educational
process need to be made outside of the classroom
 Students need to play a more direct role in their
personal development
 Goal-setting
 Identify personal aspirations and make a plan to get on this
track
 Self-assessment
 Identify strengths and weaknesses
 Set short term goals and verify that these are met
 Set longer term goals and a plan to reach these
 Reflection
 Demonstrate attainment of the “tools” by providing
evidence and reflecting on how this evidence meets their
goals

5. Mechanism to Attain Six Tools
 The Notre Dame Electronic Portfolio
(NDeP)
 Using electronic technology to collect,
select, build and publish a student’s best
work
 Students create an e-portfolio that includes:
A career plan using pre-input choices with some
customization and reflection
 Evidence and reflection on their attainment of the
“tools” using personal experiences both from
coursework and outside the classroom
 Organized, customized and publishable form to
show academic advisers, future employers,
friends and family

6. Overall NDeP Aspiration
 The Notre Dame Electronic Portfolio (NDeP)
 Helps students play a more direct role in their personal
development
 Aids in student-adviser communications
 Allows students to showcase their best work Employers
Students NDeP Friends
gSite
NDeP
Family
Advisers
ABET

7. NDeP Format
 The Google Applications Suite is being utilized as the
format for NDeP
 Gmail – Already implemented for student email
 Gdocs – Large storage capacity, can store all documents in
one place online
 Includes document, presentation, spreadsheet, and form capabilities
for customizable content
 Gsites – Can publish most documents to web form and
even build own website

8. NDeP https://sites.google.com/a/nd.edu/nd/
 NDeP currently offers an informational Gsite to
introduce student’s to the e-portfolio concept
 Includes:
 Registration survey
 “How To” pages
 Informational pages
 Resources (templates)
 Research links
 News/Announcements

9.  Registration Survey
 Creates talking points
between student and
adviser
 Career interests
 Curricula options
 Course selection
 Assessment of the “Six
Tools”
 How important they view
each tool to be towards
their career
 What is their perception
of their skills
 What evidence they have
to prove their skills
 Reflection
 Goals
 Short term and long term