This document outlines goals and plans for implementing ePortfolios. It will: 1) Define ePortfolios, discuss implementation strategies, and consider available technologies. 2) Provide an overview of how ePortfolios can be used for learning, assessment, and professional development. 3) Suggest questions to consider for implementation, such as defining learning outcomes and understanding stakeholders. The goal is to help participants gain a better understanding of ePortfolios and develop an implementation plan tailored to their needs and curriculum.

2. Goals and Objectives
• Gain a better understanding of how ePortfolios
can be used to promote
learning, assessment, and professional
development
• Consider ways for better implementation within
curricula
• Learn of the technologies and ePortfolio
systems/platforms available
• Develop a plan for implementing portfolios with
curricula and select the technology that best
meets this plan

3. Session Outline
• Define ePortfolios
o Contexts
o Purposes
• Implementation
o Guided Process
o Pedagogy
o Technology
• Points to Ponder
• Q&A

4. ePortfolio: A Definition
ePortfolios can "enable learners to manage
the complexity and variability of learning
designs and opportunities in formal and
informal settings in order to gather evidence of
their resultant deep learning.”
Trent
Batson, http://www.aaeebl.org/tbb?mode=PostView&b
mi=1075857

5. Portfolios in Academic Contexts
•Individual learning
portfolios
•Course-based learning
portfolios
•Programmatic
assessment portfolios
•External accreditation
portfolios
Assess
Share
Select Reflect
Collect

6. Putting It All Together
Learning
AssessmentProfessional
Development
Academic
Accreditation
Learning
Portfolios
Departmental
Development
VTeP

7. Implementation: Questions to Ask
• Where do you fit within the
diagram?
• What are the primary activities
that you would like to represent
in an ePortfolio?
• What are the required needs
that you must have met by
ePortfolio technologies?
• What are the desired goals that
you would like to see in
ePortfolio technologies?
• What is the "next step" with your
ePortfolio use?

8. Implementation: 8 Central Issues
(Chen & Penny-Light, 2010)
1. Defining learning outcomes
2. Understanding your learners
3. Identifying stakeholders
4. Designing learning activities
5. Including multiple forms of evidence
6. Using rubrics to evaluate ePortfolios
7. Anticipating external uses of evidence
8. Evaluating the impact of ePortfolios

9. Implementation: Conditions for Success
(Knight, Hakel, & Gromko, 2008)
• eP-based curriculum
• Feedback
• Include engagement and personalization
• Examples
• Time for development
• Faculty promote value of eP
• Technical assistance

10. Implementation: Other questions
• How long will students need access to the
portfolio?
• Who will be viewing the portfolio?
• Who will own the contents of the portfolio
(institution, faculty, students)?

11. First Things First! Pedagogy
• Technology is constantly changing
• Pedagogy is key
o Focus on understanding the clear purpose behind
the ePortfolio
o Make it pedagogically meaningful
 If this happens, the rest will fall into place

12. Identifying Technologies: Questions to Ask
• Hosting (local and/or
vendor)?
• Outcomes
assessment/tracking?
• Presentation showcase?
• Directed/guiding
portfolios?
• Social networking?
• LMS and/or SIS
integration?
• Pricing?
• Security?

13. Identifying Technologies: 3 Examples
http://tinyurl.com/eptechlandscape

14. Some Helpful Links
• https://eportfolio.vt.edu/index.html
• https://eportfolio.vt.edu/training.html
• https://eportfolio.vt.edu/gallery/Gall
ery_Presentation/presentationgaller
y.html
Association for
Authentic, Experiential, Evidence-
Based Learning
http://www.aaeebl.org

15. Thank You
Questions?
Contact
Marc Zaldivar
marcz@vt.edu
Teggin Summers
teggin@vt.edu

16. Points to Ponder
• Where are you in terms of your eP
implementation?
• What are the current institutional efforts within
your organization? How might you leverage
them?
• What are your curricular goals?
• Which technologies match your activities and
outcomes?