E-Portfolios

Bridging the Gap Between Classroom, Community & Career with Online Portfolios

Monday, January 26, 2004
1:05 p.m. - 2:05 p.m. CONSES10

Jason E. Johnson, CIS/CIT Instructor, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana-Richmond

Michaelann Jundt, Director, Carlson Leadership & Public Service Center, University of Washington

Tom Lewis, Director, Catalyst Research & Development, University of Washington

NLII Key Theme - Electronic Portfolios

The University of Washington is developing a cross-unit, collaborative culture where online portfolios are used both within the classroom curriculum and for activities such as service learning, self-reflection, academic planning, and career planning. During this interactive session, we will describe and demonstrate two notable projects that use the online Catalyst Portfolio to integrate students' university experiences, bridging the gap between classroom, community, and career.

Designing an Open Source Electronic Portfolio System

Monday, January 26, 2004
2:10 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. CONSES12

Trent Batson, Special Projects; Ofc of VP ITS, University of Rhode Island

Kari Branjord, Director, Enterprise Application and Web Development, University of Minnesota

Stephen Cawley, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, University of Minnesota

Jay Fern, Academic and Faculty Services, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Janice A. Smith, Education Consultant, The rSmart Group

Paul Treuer, Associate Professor, Director Knowledge Management Center, University of Minnesota Duluth

NLII Key Theme - Electronic Portfolios

The speakers will facilitate a presentation by a panel of representatives from the Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) community. The panel will outline the advantages of the Open Source Portfolio (OSP) as a resource for student learning, personal and professional development, assessment, and employment. OPSI is an open, collaborative organization constructing a common solution of non-proprietary, interoperable, electronic portfolio software. The panel will provide specific attention to the OSPI vision; collaboration among participating OPSI institutions; the OSP interface with student information systems, course management systems and assessment modules; services provided to institutions adopting OSP; and strategies for effective OSP implementation.

Electronic Portfolios: Systems & Communities

Monday, January 26, 2004
10:40 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. CONSES02

Karen Belfer, Instructional Development Consultant, British Columbia Institute of Technology

Maureen Kent, Director, AGSC Learning Centre, The University of British Columbia

Rodney Williams, Clinical Assistant Professor-Learning Technologies Program, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

NLII Key Theme - Electronic Portfolios

The NLII has invested considerable work in electronic portfolios because of their potential to support learning - for the individual student, faculty person and staff member, and for the institution. Electronic portfolios have gained momentum as important enterprise-level academic software systems, with increasing institution-wide integration of implementations at the individual faculty member or student, course, program, and institutional levels. Increased integration also means increased complexity. Through this session, which will be informed by the experiences of project team members from large enterprise portfolio systems at University of Michigan and University of British Columbia, participants will: 1) explore the different uses of electronic portfolios (ranging from university admission, to courses, degree programs, professional practice, and to institutional self-study); 2) gain an understanding of some of the complexities involved in building and sustaining a campus-wide community with diverse members around conceptual and technical ideas involved in creating and using ePortfolio systems; and 3) will learn how other institutions are dealing with issues involved in creating and maintain ePortfolio systems.

Postconference Resource

Individual and Institutional Folio Learning

Tuesday, January 27, 2004
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. FS05

Darren Cambridge, Assistant Professor of Internet Studies and Information Literacy, George Mason University

Helen L. Chen, Research Scientist, Stanford University

Kathi Ketcheson, Director, Office of Institutional Research and Planning, Portland State University

NLII Key Theme - Electronic Portfolios

E-portfolios are more than just a technology: they imply a process of planning, keeping track of, making sense of, and sharing evidence of learning and performance. Using e-portfolios well requires embracing a set of practices and an understanding of learning that Helen Chen and her colleagues have dubbed "folio thinking." In this presentation, we will detail our shared understanding of folio thinking as it applies to both individual and organizational development, drawing on examples from our experiences and those of other e-portfolio practitioners from around the world. We will explore in-depth how folio thinking applies to student learning portfolios based on research conducted at Stanford, how it applies to the development of an institutional portfolio and its application in accreditation at Portland State, and how this student and institutional folio thinking can inform the development of next-generation e-portfolio technology.

Postconference Resource