Welcome to ePortfolios: An Overview

1. Welcome to ePortfolios:An Overview Susan KahnIndiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)Judith Kirkpatrick University of Hawai`i, Kapi`olani Community CollegeYves LabissierePortland State University WASC ARC Conference

2. Framework:ePortfolios have various stakeholders: students, faculty, program directors, campus-wide initiatives and services, administrators, others. WASC ARC Conference

3. Framework, a definition:An ePortfolio is a collection of multimedia-rich, linked documents that students, faculty, programs, and/or administrators compose, maintain, synthesize, and develop over time. WASC ARC Conference

4. Venues:ePortfolios make possible an integration of multiple venues for learning, including class, course, program, and extracurricular input. WASC ARC Conference

5. Multiple Venues:ePortfolios encourage users to make connections in their interdisciplinary learning. WASC ARC Conference

6. Perceptions:ePortfolios help developers make sense of higher education through reflective analysis that users make to connect their learning experiences. WASC ARC Conference

7. Developers and Viewers:ePortfolio development and sharing is based on the student-developer and faculty choice. WASC ARC Conference

8. How to start: Identify constituent groups at your institution that might want to use ePortfolios Identify administrators to facilitate, developing an inquiry group or taskforce Seek funding WASC ARC Conference

9. Cross Disciplines: Collaborate with as many constituents as you can. Develop "matrix thinking" and rubrics of assessment for ePortfolios WASC ARC Conference

10. Pathways to ePortfolio Development Emphasize the integration of ePortfolios in cross-curricular or integrative development practice. This can be fun. WASC ARC Conference

11. Identify and Submit Key Works within a Degree, Program, or Certificate Students’ key works/artifacts demonstrate progress toward or achievement of a learning goal. Examples: a research paper, exam, creative work, taped oral presentation, business plan, or lab report. Examples should include supporting material • Student reflective analysis of works/artifacts • Peer review • Faculty comment WASC ARC Conference

12. Measured Milestones Along the Way • Developed rubrics as scoring systems define the evidence needed to demonstrate achievement of particular learning goals set by the major and/or the institution. • Rubrics are diagnostic (not just the student’s best work) allowing student progress and achievement to be measured. WASC ARC Conference

13. Sample MATRIX that includes Reflective Thinking WASC ARC Conference

14. SAMPLE RUBRIC for Reflective Thinking WASC ARC Conference

15. Higher Education Benefits from ePortfolio Benchmarks Scholarship as Public Enterprise. Transparent Assessment. Multiple Audiences are Considered Students Interact with Other Students and a Broader Audience than Faculty alone. WASC ARC Conference

16. ePortfolios Frame Learning Value on student work and voice Assessment is used as a means to give students a sense of their capacity Assessment serves the need of student learning. WASC ARC Conference

17. Love, McKean and Gathercoals:Five Levels of ePortfolio Maturation They considered “eight physical and theoretical qualities inherent in portfolio/webfolio processes and applications to determine five levels of maturation.” Level 1—Scrapbook Level 2—Curriculum Vitae Level 3—Curriculum Collaboration Between Student and Faculty Level 4—Mentoring Leading to Mastery Level 5—Authentic Evidence as the Authoritative Evidence for Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting” Love, D., G. McKean, et al. (2004). "Portfolios to Webfolios and Beyond: Levels of Maturation." Educause Quarterly 27(2): 24-37. WASC ARC Conference

18. Ingredients for Success Funding for time and professional development. Acknowledgment for faculty who use ePortfolios and document their use in reviews, requests for merit raises, or other forms of remuneration A budget that plans for long-term support WASC ARC Conference

19. Suggestions for Success Document use of ePortfolio use for administrative reporting. Support campus events and showcases that demonstrate ePortfolio use Seek and assure long-term budgetary commitment to hardware and software use. Allow for individuals, courses, programs, disciplines, extracurricular groups to collaboratively design their matrix. WASC ARC Conference

20. (I)NCEPR http://ncepr.org (Inter) National Coalition for ePortfolio Research Around forty colleges and universities around the country are or have been conducting research about ePortfolio effectiveness in higher education. Cohort I (2004-2006) and II (2005-2007) have finished (some would say just begun) their projects and will be publishing a research collection by mid-2008, edited by Darren Cambridge, Barbara Cambridge, and Kathleen Yancey. The next cohort application is due April 25, 2008. WASC ARC Conference

21. Cohort I of the (I)NCEPR2004-2006 Alverno College IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis) La Guardia Community College (CUNY) Northern Illinois University Portland State University Stanford University Virginia Tech University University of Washington WASC ARC Conference

22. Cohort II of the (I)NCEPR2005-2007 Clemson University George Mason University Kapi`olani Community College (University of Hawai`i system) The Ohio State University (Columbus) Thomas College (Maine) University of Georgia (Athens) University of Illinois (UC) University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Washington State University WASC ARC Conference

23. Cohort III of the (I)NCEPR2006-2008 Arizona State University (Polytechnic Campus) California State Universities (San Jose, San Francisco, Monterey Bay, Systemwide Office) Florida State University Framingham State College (CT) George Mason University (VA) Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Pennsylvania State University Seton Hall University (NJ) University of Sheffield/Hallam (UK) University of San Diego (CA) University of Waterloo (Canada) University of Wolverhampton (UK) WASC ARC Conference

24. Copy of slideshows: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kirkpatr/arc WASC ARC Conference

25. Portland State University WASC ARC Conference

26. Kapi`olani Community College, University of Hawai`i WASC ARC Conference

27. Indiana University WASC ARC Conference

28. University of Illinois/Champaign-Urbana WASC ARC Conference

29. University of Nebrask Lincoln Teacher Ed WASC ARC Conference

30. Ohio State University WASC ARC Conference

31. Washington State University WASC ARC Conference

32. Alverno College WASC ARC Conference

33. University of Minnesota WASC ARC Conference

34. University of Georgia Athens WASC ARC Conference

35. Clemson University WASC ARC Conference

36. Thomas College (Maine) WASC ARC Conference

37. Johns Hopkins University WASC ARC Conference

38. St. Olaf College WASC ARC Conference

39. Florida State University WASC ARC Conference

40. Kalamazoo College WASC ARC Conference

41. La Guardia Community College WASC ARC Conference

42. Stanford University WASC ARC Conference

43. Virginia Tech University WASC ARC Conference

44. University of Nebraska Omaha WASC ARC Conference