The document discusses eportfolios and institutional change. It explores eportfolios as products or processes and issues of ownership and control between students and institutions. Next generation learning environments are examined, including interoperability, personalization, analytics, collaboration and accessibility. Tensions are outlined between student and institutional focus regarding control, ownership, integration and structure. Trends in unbundling education and micro-credentials are mentioned. The workshop materials focused on introducing eportfolios as personal learning environments, their benefits, current education trends, and overcoming barriers to change.

1. Eportfolios: Building our stories while negotiating institutional
change by Marie B. Fisher (ACU), Andrew Hill (ACU) and Christine
Loughlin (ContentEd)
Our stories branch out, grow, extend our challenges, change us
and the world around us…

2. Threshold concepts

3. Defining an ePortfolio?
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Product or process?

4. Institutional Concept - Ownership
Joyes, G., Gray, L., & Hartnell-Young, E. (2010). Effective practice with e-portfolios: How can the UK experience
inform implementation? Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 26(1), 15–27

5. Next Generation Digital Learning
Environments
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Interoperability and Integration
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Personalization
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Analytics, Advising, and Learning Assessment
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Collaboration
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Accessibility and Universal Design
EDUCAUSE - Next Generation Learning Environments
http://www.educause.edu/focus-areas-and-initiatives/teaching-and-learning/next-
generation-learning-challenges

7. Student v Institutional focus
1. Control - structured and unstructured learning activities
2. Ownership of data and content
3. Institutional integration — data exchange or tightly
connected with enterprise level systems
4. Structure — centralized and decentralized teaching and
learning approaches
Siemens, Gasevic & Dawson (2015). Preparing for the Digital University: a
review of the history and current state of distance, blended and online learning.
Future Technologies Infrastructure for Learning (pp199 – 234)

8. Unbundling education
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What is the pull of ePortfolios?
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What does the learner need and how can it
provide value for industry?
− Prosolo
http://dalmooc.prosolo.ca/prosolo/login.xhtml
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Micro competencies?
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Badging

9. Workshop Materials
• In the workshop Marie Fisher & Andrew Hill (ACU) and Christine Loughlin (ContentEd Courses)
facilitated a workshop together focusing on introducing the Eportfolio as a personal learning
environment for (and yourself) and your students by engaging them in the process of acquiring
knowledge, skills and attributes for integrating into their personal learning environments.
Why produce an Eportfolio?
What is ‘the pull’ of an Eportfolio?
What are the current trends in Education?
What needs to change eg people, institutions, those with power – should they rethink
What was your motivation?
Did your thinking change?
What do you hope to learn today?
Threshold concepts – how do we push through the barriers?

20. Additional Reference
‘Eportfolio Adoption and Implementation in a Multiple Campus University Environment’ by Marie B. Fisher,
Andrew J. Hill, Australian Catholic University, Australia,Literacy Information and Computer Education Journal
(LICEJ), Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2015
http://www.infonomics-society.org/LICEJ/Eportfolio%20Adoption%20and%20Implementation%20in%20a
%20Multiple%20Campus%20University%20Environment.pdf