My introduction to the work on ePortfolio adoption at UWO for the UW LTDC committee

1. UW Oshkosh:
ePortfolio
adoption
R. John Robertson,
LTDC & Site Admin meeting,
UW Whitewater, 8-9th October 2012

2. Overview
Organizational context
Pilot models and questions
D2L, artifacts, assessment

3. Context of ePortfolios @ UWO

4. ePortfolios
What type of ePortfolio are we interested in?
● admission
● learning
● professional assessment
● employment
Others may follow

5. Communication lines
Learning Technologies working with:
● USP Council
● Provost's Office (Assistant VC for Curricular
Affairs and Student Academic Achievement)
● Faculty Senate Committees (indirectly)
This presentation presents the issues,
challenges, and efforts of all those involved

6. Pilot
This semester
Courses in Theatre, Health Education, Writing,
Communications, and Computer Science
Some courses part of USP, some not
Mixture of experience with ePortfolios
About 250 students

7. Emerging models
As ePortfolio use is [initially, currently] targeted
at a program level we've identified two different
models of participation, both of which we're
exploring in the pilot.
● Lite: the course produces an artifact and
reflection for the program ePortfolio
● Full: using the ePortfolio inside the course
and the collection of artifacts as a process

8. Emerging questions
How to use D2L
Meaningful artifacts and reflections
Training and support
Assessment
Alignment with LOs

9. D2L ePortfolio
D2L ePortfolio as student space & artifact store
eP Presentations
-templates
-themes
Aside: creativity and given 'academic' format
Investigating alignment with key course
structures

10. D2L ePortfolio
Working through options for:
Placing the Dropbox?
Rubrics and other Feedback?
Reflections (formatting)
Copying to ePortfolio - working out the workflow

11. D2L ePortfolio workflow

12. D2L ePortfolio
Storage
aka: hurray for Utility/ System!
aka: hurray for Kaltura!
aka: erm web2.0 meets FERPA [= unknown?]

13. meaningful artifacts
discipline specific
learning objective/ outcome aligned
Questions:
what to do with large classes and multiple
choice quizzes?
what to do with group projects?
what to do with civic engagement?
reflections?

14. support needs
Content management for students
digital literacy: description, ipr, media skills
Assessment
Using rubrics/ feedback
recording alignment with learning outcomes
Reflection
developing good questions
articulating disciplinary learning

15. supporting institutional assessment
what data do we have?
what is useful?
how do can we supply it to supporting
institutional assessment processes?
investigating competencies in D2L (circles
rather than straight lines)