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Electronic Portfolios in Higher Education

Electronic Portfolios in Higher Education. Paul Wasko, Office of the Chancellor Brenda Lyseng, Century College. The Menu for Today:. What are portfolios and their uses? What is eFolio Minnesota? What do electronic portfolios look like? How can I set up my portfolio?

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Electronic Portfolios in Higher Education

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  1. Electronic Portfolios in Higher Education Paul Wasko, Office of the Chancellor Brenda Lyseng, Century College

  2. The Menu for Today: • What are portfolios and their uses? • What is eFolio Minnesota? • What do electronic portfolios look like? • How can I set up my portfolio? • What are the uses of portfolios: • For faculty? • For students? • For a course or program? • For an institution?

  3. Knowledge about yourself is all you need! eFolio Minnesota http://efoliominnesota.com eFolio Minnesota Help Site http://help.efoliominnesota.com AAHE's Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices for Students, Faculty and Institutionshttp://aahe.ital.utexas.edu/electronicportfolios/TOC.html AAHE's Electronic Portfolios Community of Practicehttp://aahe.ital.utexas.edu/electronicportfolios/cop.html Ingredients and Tools

  4. Step 1: Discover what a portfolio is and how you can use it • A portfolio is a systemic and organized collection of work and assessments that documents a person’s efforts, progress and achievements. • They are used for education, career, and personal goals. • They can be both formative or developmental and summative in nature.

  5. Step 1: Discover what a portfolio is and how you can use it Key feature of a portfolio is reflection.

  6. Uses for faculty: Job hunting Faculty enhancement Legacy project Instructional Professional archive Step 2: Consider Uses by Faculty

  7. Step 3: Make a professional portfolio • Professional portfolio is a comprehensive description of your professional life and achievements • Reflective, purposeful, analytic, and developmental • More than a resume – includes narrative • Use your narrative to summarize and state your claims. These should be supported by evidence.

  8. Items to include in a professional portfolio: professional goals and interests expertise, knowledge, scholarship professional competence and expertise areas college and community service selective personal data Step 3: Make a professional portfolio

  9. Items to include in a teaching portfolio: Advising/counseling Classes Course information Student work Exams Peer testimonials Student evaluations Development activities Awards and recognition Work samples Memberships Step 4: Make a teaching portfolio

  10. Questions to ask for a teaching portfolio: How do you teach? Why do you teach as you do? How do you know it’s working? Step 4: Make a teaching portfolio

  11. Uses for students: Job hunting Show completion of a field of study Show completion of campus-wide competencies Use as an advising tool during college career Step 5: Usesin the Classroom

  12. Step 5: Uses in the Classroom Ideas generated by MnSCU faculty – find at www.efoliominnesota.com • Educational Planning • Demonstrating Student Learning • Track Development during a Program • Prepare for Transition to a Career • Means to Evaluate a Course

  13. Step 6: Uses for the Institution • Assessment of probationary faculty • Institutional site for documentation of institutional effectiveness • Other ideas?

  14. Icing on the Cake: eFolio Minnesota!

  15. Time for Dessert! • Portfolios have been used by many within individual courses or for a series of courses. • What tools would be useful for both you and the students? • We would love to hear your ideas!

  16. Guides • Assocation of American Geographers: Professional Portfolioshttp://www.aag.org/Careers/UW/Profportfolios.html • Martin Kimeldorf's Portfolio Library: Planning and Design Guidehttp://www.amby.com/kimeldorf/portfolio/p_mk-08.html • Student Academic Portfolios at Southern Illinois Universityhttp://www.siue.edu/~deder/assess/portf.html • The Teaching Portfolio (Brown University)http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Sheridan_Center/pubs/teacport.html • University of Saskatchewan: Definitions, Links, Bibliographyhttp://library.usask.ca/education/portfolios.html • Warren Sandmann's Portfolios Page (Minnesota State University, Mankato)http://www.mankato.msus.edu/acadaf/Html/AAProgram_Assessment/MOMPortfolios.htm • What Teachers Learn from Student Self-Assessments (Evergreen College)http://www.evergreen.edu/washcenter/resources/assess/e2johnso.htm

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