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Empowering Learners with E-Portfolios: A Smart Start Guide

Discover the benefits of e-portfolios in an urban university with 20,000 students spread across 3 campuses. Explore technology initiatives for supporting diversity and enhancing skills. Learn about the advantages, uses, and development issues of e-portfolios, and explore the desired outcomes and activities related to their implementation. Find examples of e-portfolio systems used in institutions and explore next steps in incorporating e-portfolios effectively.

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Empowering Learners with E-Portfolios: A Smart Start Guide

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  1. ePortfolios: Starting Smart Patricia McGeeThe University of Texas at San Antonio

  2. Context • Urban • 20,000 students • 3 campuses • New college • PT3 • MS/AACTE Innovation

  3. Issues  Technology Initiatives • Diversity: supporting a variety of abilities, needs and preferences • Skills: technical, organizational, cognitive • Literacy: includes technology • Integration/modeling best practices  Accountability  Marketability

  4. E-portfolios, what are they? • Collections of work designed for a specific objective to provide a record of the accomplishments. • Reflection, communication with instructors, or presenting examples of outstanding work and credentials to potential employers. • Mary Diaz’s metaphor • mirror (reflective about growth over time), • map (planning, goal-setting, navigating artifacts), • sonnet (expression and diverse ways of looking at and being in the world)

  5. E-portfolios: The advantages • Organizational flexibility • Display flexibility of content and ideas • Ability to connect content to various schemas for representation in multiple ways – standards, key concepts, interdisciplinary connections. • Communication tools • Collaboration tools • Cost benefits o Accreditation o Uniform and consistent measures of progress

  6. E-portfolios: Why use them? • To collect, store, manipulate and share information digitally. • To become a vital part of a students' permanent records, and of their management of their own learning. • To support learner-centered teaching and learning to be outcomes-oriented. • To support accreditation review. • To serve as anadvising tool.

  7. Development Issues • Improve student institutional learning. • Privacy and ownership issues. • Technical standards and interoperability. • Management of systems and repositories. • Impact on registrars and student services. • Integration with K-12.

  8. What do we want? • Constructing a rationale grounded in institutional values. • Promotes equity, fairness, and accountability • Develops and applies new knowledge of best practices • Prepares educators/leaders to succeed in diverse contexts • Builds community within and at large • Fosters the holistic development of all its members • Uses resources effectively and efficiently so that the College graduates citizens who are engaged in productive contributions to self, society, and the global community.

  9. Activities: E-portfolio Issues • Rank order the most important issues. • Describe what it looks like, how is it used, how it works, what is in it. • Align to Standards. • Develop Conceptual Framework • Select ePortfolio system.

  10. Examples • Alverno • Missouri State • Penn State • Stanford e-folios • UT Austin Learning Record • University of Iowa

  11. E-portfolio Systems • Stanford • Epsilon. This group is looking for institutions to beta test their system which automatically assigns a URL and sets up a Web site for every user. • Learning E-Portfolio from U. of Michigan is an open source initiative.

  12. E-portfolio: Next Steps • What needs to occur to set determine action plan? • Sub-committee • Timeline • System analysis • Institutional fact-seeking • Identify benchmarks and assessments/reviews • Prepare guidelines, protocols, and processes

  13. http://coehd.utsa.edu/users/pmcgee/portfolios.htm

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