1 / 21

Epsilen and ePortfolios in California’s Community Colleges

Epsilen and ePortfolios in California’s Community Colleges. Epsilen launched in September 2007, after six years of field testing and development. From the print edition of The Chronicle: 9/14/2007

nicole
Download Presentation

Epsilen and ePortfolios in California’s Community Colleges

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Epsilen and ePortfolios in California’s Community Colleges

  2. Epsilen launched in September 2007, after six years of field testing and development. From the print edition of The Chronicle: 9/14/2007 New York Times Develops Online Course ContentBy JOSH FISCHMAN (Information Technology ) ...and continuing-education courses. The project puts the newspaper's Knowledge Network on an interactive Web platform called Epsilen Environment, developed at Purdue and Indiana Universities. Epsilen works like an academic version of ...

  3. Epsilen Features & Functionality Epsilen is a comprehensive environment that provides the wide-ranging tools and services that meet the needs of students, educators and administrators in their day-to-day learning, teaching, networking, and professional growth.

  4. Epsilen can take your institution into the next generation of eLearning and networking

  5. Epsilen Includes A Robust Suite of Tools • ePortfolios Lifelong professional and academic portfolios. • Professional Networking Identify others with similar teaching, research, and career interests. • Collaboration Tools Workgroups, document sharing, blogs, wikis, web sites, email and messaging functionality. • Peer Review Share documents, research, rating system. • Learning Matrix Automated outcome assessment, for institutions, or departments. • Global Learning System (GLS) Course delivery across the campus, the state, the globe.

  6. Epsilen is centrally hosted so your college won’t have to provide additional software management Epsilen provides the technical support and let’s colleges do what they do best Teach!

  7. Epsilen Can Help Your College Address the Goals of the California Community College Strategic Plan

  8. Epsilenhelps colleges: • Provide for increased interaction between teachers, students and counselors, both inside and outside of class • Increase opportunities for institutional and instructional collaboration and coordination • Provides students with a way to showcase their skills and for potential employers to see their work • Support innovative instructional programs and strategies CA CC Strategic Plan

  9. Increase Student Teacher Contact

  10. Learning Matrix Can Be Used to Monitor Student Progress • Counselors can monitor the student’s progress toward graduation – GE requirements and major courses • Matrix can be used for students to monitor their progress in a class • Matrix can be used to measure SLOs in a class, program or major

  11. Epsilen and Basic Skills • ePortfolios allow students to see the real world importance of improving their reading, writing and English skills • Teachers and students can interact outside of class • Students can work in groups on projects and assignments • Students can network with one another on classroom assignments

  12. e-Portfolio and Basic Skills The first draft of a student’s ePortfolio may be full of errors

  13. ePortfolio and Basic Skills Final Versions are Much Improved

  14. ePortfolio Tools and Resources Share It, Showcase, Resume, Learning Matrix, Certifications, Peer Review, Links, Blogs

  15. Epsilen Resumes for Workforce Development • Stephen Ruiz • _________________________________________________________ • Objective: Seeking a position where I could utilize my people skills • Experience: • Banquet Server 9/12/06 - 1/18/08 • Set up and break down meetings, parties, weddings. • Serving and busing the events. • Customer care and greeting • Blackjack/hold'em Dealer 5/19 /06 - 9/8/06 • Counting numbers extremely fast • Customer care and greeting • Handled Chips • Retail Store 5/13/05 - 11/17/05 • Customer Care and Greeting People • Cashier • Stocked Merchandise

  16. Showcasing Student Work

  17. Cross-Campus Collaboration Spring 2007 • 2 University of Alaska, Anchorage (UAA) Art Appreciation Classes (121 students) collaborated on research projects with • 3 University of Toledo (UT) English Writing Classes (58 students) • Over a four week period • 4000 miles apart / 4 hours time difference

  18. Outcomes and Results Project presentation Peer review Group leadership Learning from each other Digital Identity Form Relationships Meet Challenges Learn by Example

  19. Imagine How Collaborations Could be Used With International Education Programs • Connect an on-campus class with a class being taught in another country • A class on your campus could connect with students in another country to share ideas and work on common projects

  20. Learning by Example

  21. Tomorrow’s ePortfolio, Today

More Related