Implementing ePortfolio: Challenges and Opportunities

1. Implementing ePortfolio: Challenges and Opportunities John Gosney and Lynn Ward Indiana University

2. IUPUI: Institutional Profile Founded 1969 with a strong local mission Blended campus Metropolitan research university 20+ schools (15 with professional/pre-professional foci) Commuter campus, ~30,000 students (~20,000 undergraduates)

3. IUPUI’s ePortfolio Timeline • 1998 – Campus adopts a competency or ability-based model • 2000 – Work begins on developing a portfolio • 2002 – Commitment to portfolio as evidence for next accreditation visit • 2003 – Early development work scrapped; IU joins OSP • 2012 – Next accreditation visit; will we be ready?

4. Assessment Needs Document and demonstrate the effectiveness of IUPUI’s approach to general education (HLCNCA and ICHE) Document student achievement in programs subject to specialized accreditation (Education, Engineering, Visual Communications, etc.) Standard reports that aggregate and summarize assessment data across courses and programs Filter and group on demographic and academic criteria 4

5. Feature: Blind Evaluation • How hard can it be??? • Evaluators can see names of students • Evaluators can see names of other evaluators • Students can see names of evaluators

6. Impact on Other Tools

7. Impact on Other Tools

8. Opportunity for Change Review of technical implementation Review of organizational methods and processes Review of curriculum structure in a single department and across institution 8

9. Local vs. Community Needs • Specific needs of each institution – “I need what I need and I need it now!” • Merging different methods/ideas of teaching and learning • The good – but complex – community development process

10. Local Enhancement Process 10

11. OSP Community Enhancement Template • Procedure for proposing new feature requests/enhancementshttp://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/OQG • Sample requesthttp://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/M4CVAQ

15. QUESTIONS??? 15