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The Pace ePortfolio as Educational Passport: Enhancing Students' Interdisciplinary, Co-Curricular and Experiential Learning. Linda Anstendig Beth Gordon Klingner Hillary Knepper Andriy Danylenko Samantha Egan Domingo Rodriguez. What is an ePortfolio?.
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The Pace ePortfolio as Educational Passport: Enhancing Students' Interdisciplinary, Co-Curricular and Experiential Learning Linda Anstendig Beth Gordon Klingner Hillary Knepper Andriy Danylenko Samantha Egan Domingo Rodriguez
Introducing ePortfolios to the Pace Community • Spring 2010 pilot (20 Sections, 230 students) • Faculty Development Day-Trent Batson, keynote speaker • Student focus groups • Training staff/faculty/student group • Coordinated with Career Services on resume section • Held student contest
Before and After: Pace’s customized template Mahara Out of the Box
2011 Timeline Begin Pilot with Student Life Hire 2 new “eTerns” Assessment Pilot Pilot with Career Services Pilot with Student Life Start new cycle of Teaching Circles Student Showcase Create Rubrics
Pace’s Spring 2011 Pilots • Student Leadership Pilot: Student Life and ePortfolios are teaming up with ePortfolio to create a leadership certificate program for student leaders. Students will create a robust Extracurricular/Co-curricular Activities page, and will blog about their development as a leader. • ePortfolio Assessment Pilot: The ePortfolio Advisory Board subcommittee is using ePortfolios to evaluate evidence of three student learning outcomes: Communication, Analysis, and Information Literacy and Research Skills. • Career Services Pilot: A select group of students participating in internships this semester will use ePortfolios to blog about their experience and to post artifacts from their position. Faculty advisors will use the blog instead of the traditional internship log to review students’ progress and grant credit.
Best Practices • Hillary Knepper, Assistant Professor, Public Administration • Introducing ePortfolios to students • ePortfolio assignments • Program-wide study group • MPA Student Association group • Andriy Danylenko, Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Linguistics • ePortfolio assignments • Developing a faculty ePortfolio
ePortfolio Applications Outside of the Classroom: • Student Life • Present and reflect on leadership skills • Define role in campus culture • Career Services • Showcase accomplishments, developed skills • Present themselves, their education, and their experience in a new, creative way • Reflect on their education, and co-curricular/extracurricular experiences • Gathered feedback from employers
Faculty ePortfolios • Collect their own Artefacts to share with selected audiences – students, peers, etc. • Enable reflective learning, collaboration, and discussion among students • ePortfolio for Tenure, Appointments and Promotions evaluations
Pace Faculty Testimonials “With the ePortfolio, students become creators of content, not just consumers of content.” Connie Knapp, Dean of Seidenberg School of Computer Science ---- “Electronic portfolios help keep our learning environments dynamic.” Hillary Knepper, Assistant Professor of Public Administration ---- “The greatest gift we can give students is to teach them to express an idea, present their point of view about the idea, and support the idea. The ePortfolio is the perfect tool for this.” Paul Kurnit, Clinical Professor of Marketing
Student Testimonials “I think that e-portfolio should be mandatory for every course, especially the MPA program. It is a nice way to display your work in an organized manner.” Student, Masters of Public Administration Program ---- “ ePortfolio is the now. LinkedIn is black and white; ePortfolio allows you to customize and personalize your page as you see fit.” Richard Bonhomme, Senior Media, Communications and the Visual Arts student ---- “The site is very easy to navigate and if help is needed, there are people to lend a hand. A big thanks go to Samantha Egan, a former Editor in Chief of The Paw Print and now, in my opinion, one of the faces of the ePortfolio program.” Michael Oleaga, Sophomore Media, Communications and the Visual Arts major