“Psalms,” The Gutenberg Bible Volume 1 Folio 298r (vellum) The British Library

1. “Psalms,” The Gutenberg BibleVolume 1 Folio 298r (vellum) The British Library

2. “What happens when text moves from page to screen? “First, the digital text becomes unfixed and interactive. The reader can change it, become writer.” Richard LanhamThe Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts

3. “Does a technology’s ideology determine, or at least influence, a culture?” Siva Vaidhyanathan The Anarchist in the Library

4. Evolving Digital Vocabularies

8. Making it Real: Learning with ePortfolio in a Digital Age Bret Eynon & J. Elizabeth Clark LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

9. AAC&U’s Project VALUEePAC: ePortfolio Action & Communication Inter/National Coalition for ePortfolio ResearchAAEEBL International Conference, July 2010 A Global Reach: Europe, Oceania, Latin America

13. Career & Credential ePortfolios Assessment ePortfolios Course ePortfolios Learning ePortfolios Integrative ePortfolios Current ePortfolio Typologies

14. Adaptive Interactive Integrative ePortfolio as Social Pedagogy Recursive Embodied Collaborative

15. 30 campus teams: 15 CUNY,15 non-CUNY, 10 Community College, 20 BA and Graduate programs FIPSE-funded Mini-Grant & Seminar Program Sustained prof’l learning community: campus teams plan and implement ePortfolio

16. CUNY 2 Yr College 15,000 credit students (+ 35,000 non-credit) Dizzying diversity: 70% non-native born, from 160 nations, 119 primary languages Majority female, low income, first generation college-goers City of the World • 2/3 non-native English speakers • 80-90% must take developmental skills

18. A Learning Faculty • Outcomes Assessment via Periodic Program Reviews • Nuanced assessment Real student work and faculty-developed rubrics • Measure growth over time, across disciplines

19. Close the Loop • Mini grants help programs address key needs identified by assessment • Shared examination of student learning builds shared responsibility for student success From:
Beyond Crossroads Live A Learning College

20. Enrich Student Learning: • Student engagement: reflective, motivated learners • Integrative Pedagogy • Link across semesters • Connect classroom & lived experience • eResume for Career LaGuardia’s Integrative Strategy • Assessment: College-wide focus on learning. Faculty-led, using authentic classroom work

23. ePortfolio @ LaGuardia • Rigorous faculty development • Pervasive element of classroom pedagogy • Built into General Education and disciplinary curricula • Visible linkages between teaching and assessment • Technology support from IT staff and student mentors • College-wide leadership A Whole College Project

24. The Challenge of Integration • “Fostering students' abilities to integrate learning--over time, across courses, and between academic, personal, and community life--is one of the most important goals and challenges of higher education. • “The undergraduate experience is often a fragmented landscape of general education, concentration, electives, co-curricular activities, and, for many students "the real world" beyond campus. An emphasis on integrative learning can help undergraduates find ways to put the pieces together and develop habits of mind that will prepare them to make informed judgments in the conduct of personal, professional, and civic life.”

25. ePortfolio & Integrative Learning • Helps students to: • Examine links across courses, disciplines & semesters • Consider growth and change over time

26. ePortfolio & Integrative Learning • Link academic & lived experiences • Develop new sense of self as learners & emerging professionals • Prepare to present to employers and 4 year schools

27. Student Academic Curriculum Across Semesters External Audiences Faculty Connecting through ePortfolio Across Disciplines Lived Curriculum Student

28. Limited course-focused ePortfolios in a single set of courses in learning communities that set a context for basic skills learning or for initial, college-level work. The Evolution of Student ePortfolios Mature, capstone ePortfolios that contextualize learning in a major, connect courses and personal interests, and integrate learning across the curriculum.

29. A Digital Archive Becomes an ePortfolio

30. A First Course Experience: Becomes a Basic ePortfolio

31. Becomes a Multi-Semester Record of Student Learning, Artifacts & Reflections

32. “What we ask students to do is who we ask students to be.” ~ Kathleen Blake Yancey Becomes A Capstone ePortfolio

36. Raju Maharjan’s Capstone ePortfolio

37. Learning From Others

41. Making Connections: “The characteristic of artistic design is the intimacy of relations that hold the parts together.” John Dewey: Art and Experience Student Learning Spaces: Cornerstone Integrative Learning Projects

42. “Songs of our Fathers”Illustrative Outcome by a Freshman Composition Student

43. “Memories of My Mother”Illustrative Outcome by a Freshman Composition Student

44. Interdisciplinary Wiki

45. Acting-Student’s Collaboration with AFreshman-Composition Student’s Essay “Ghetto Home World”

46. Student Reflection: Actively Making Connections Intentional Curricular Design Integrative Institutional Structures Connected Learning Integrative Pedagogy: Guiding & Prompting Reflection

47. Lessons Learned • Integrative Approaches: enrich ePortfolio’s value • Value the Visual: build ownership & engagement by crafting digital identity • Collaboration & Exchange: make ePortfolio a site for reflective conversation • Assessment: as a faculty learning & research effort • Support Learning: persistent & creative search for resources, structures & new technologies • Whole College Strategies: mobilize students, faculty & staff to build integrated learning structures

48. Questions and Answers • We will be available during the round table discussions today, and later, from 5-6:00 p.m. at the hotel bar for small group discussions about our work. Looking forward to talking with you!