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Electronic Portfolios

Explore the transition from traditional manual portfolios to electronic portfolios at Messiah College, enabling effective data storage, access, and presentation. Learn about the benefits, challenges, and future plans for e-portfolios in academia.

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Electronic Portfolios

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  1. Electronic Portfolios Chip Stiles Serensoft, LLC Debbie Loop Messiah College

  2. Presentation Available at: www.serensoft.com

  3. Messiah College • Messiah College • Small Christian Liberal Arts College • Central PA • Dept of Nursing (largest major) • Approx. 225 students • BSN degree • Chair + 9 FT faculty

  4. EPortfolio Myth Busters • Affordable • Limited involvement from IT • Faculty does not need to be technologically savvy • Does NOT need to be a campus-wide initiative (to begin)

  5. Messiah CollegeHistory of the Portfolio • Began in 2001 • Manual accordion-style file • Archived assigned materials • Advisor-Advisee appointments • Students hand delivered portfolio to employers….

  6. What we had…

  7. Disadvantages of the Old System • Heavy and cumbersome by senior year • Only permitted storage of hard copy documentation of materials • Employers were requesting materials prior to interviews • Employers wanted to review materials after the interview • Costly to mail

  8. Time to Change "Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.”— Pauline R. Kezer

  9. Challenges Faced at Messiah College • New Learning Management System (LMS) being considered • Lack of IT knowledge r/t new LMS • Limited IT knowledge of nursing faculty • Phasing in of a new nursing curriculum • Accrediting body (CCNE) of the Nursing Program is in the process of changing accrediting standards

  10. Serensoft Consultation • IT contact at Educause Conference • (Fall 07) • Campus visit • Begin Assessment Process • Understand OSPortfolio functionality • Discuss Dept of Nursing needs • Project Agreement • Work begins

  11. Step 1: Build a Matrix

  12. Developing a matrix is a process • Expect it to be iterative • You likely won’t get it perfect the first time • The Matrix is the foundation of the portfolio…the place where all of the information resides. • Worth doing very carefully

  13. Every Matrix has to begin somewhere…

  14. Matrix Development • Responsibility of Dept of Nursing • Curriculum Outcomes (10) • Derived from the AACN Essential documentation of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice • Nursing courses (16) • Sophomore, Junior & Senior years • Form Specification • Create Cell Descriptions and Instructions • Template Specification

  15. OSPortfolio Application • Responsibility of Serensoft • Creation of Matrix in OSP • Cell menus • Guidance to Dept of Nursing in designing cell descriptions, rationale and evidence collection • Template Creation • Institutional • Professional Development • Skin development

  16. Implementation of e-Portfolio • Description and guidelines of e-Portfolio developed and added to work site • Sophomore students will be oriented to e-portfolio at the end of April • Faculty orientation to be completed in May

  17. Future of e-Portfolio at Messiah College • Campus wide implementation • Department use • Institutional assessments • Writing across the curriculum • Service learning • Accrediting standards • Service provided to alumni • Hierarchical Wizard • Add an overarching matrix that addresses the specific accrediting standards

  18. Chip Stiles Serensoft Consultant chip@serensoft.comSerensoft, LLC 603-766-0444 155 Fleet Street Portsmouth, NH 03801 Presenters • Debra Loop MSN, RN Assistant Professor of Nursing, Clinical Track • dloop@messiah.eduMessiah College • 717-766-2511 x 6620 One College Ave Box 3031 Grantham, PA 17027

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