Breakout Sessions

Small Group Session I: Scenarios/Use Cases

Friday, October 25, 2002
8:55 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. SESS01

Small group participants will review case studies that have been developed by E PAC members. Within each group, participants will be asked to assume the various roles of those involved in the process, including students, faculty, IT coordinator, and other university community members. The group will consider issues revolving around the use of e-portfolios (what), not the technical specifications (how).

Conceptually, electronic portfolio development appears to be at the point where course management systems were when they first emerged as large-scale systems. In order to avoid some of the pitfalls experienced in that development process, such as "feature creep" to adapt to unanticipated requirements, we want the users and tool-builder community to work together to understand what the needs are and how the products will be used. The use cases provide the means to communicate these needs and uses.

Work product for this session: Set of refined e-portfolio use cases/scenarios

Postconference Resource

Small Group Session II

Friday, October 25, 2002
10:55 a.m. - 11:55 a.m. SESS02

There will be a choice of small group topic areas, based on attendee interest.

Higher education system and teaching and learning issues: Continue the discussion on the "big ideas": What are the teaching and learning issues associated with e-portfolios? What are the higher education system issues?

Institutional planning, implementation, and programmatic issues: Refine rubric for evaluating the implementation of e-portfolio systems (what elements need to be addressed for successful implementation within a system including readiness, infrastructure, and organizational issues? Review how acceptable and manageable these infrastructure and systemic issues are, how this can be supported, whether teachers and students will use the resources and capabilities, what needs to be planned for to assure success, and so on.

Use cases: Continue the development of e-portfolio use cases.

Functional specifications: Refine the functional specifications that describe what e-portfolio systems need to be able to do, by use case.

Small Group Session III

Friday, October 25, 2002
4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. SESS03

Review the draft work products for the day (a revised set of use cases describing the potential consequential uses of e-portfolios; a set of functional requirements for each use case, and a rubric for evaluating e-portfolio systems and their implementation) will be discussed. Discuss next steps.

2002 Fall Focus Session		Breakout Sessions Small Group Session I: Scenarios/Use Cases Friday, October 25, 2002 8:55 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. SESS01 Small group participants will review case studies that have been developed by E PAC members. Within each group, participants will be asked to assume the various roles of those involved in the process, including students, faculty, IT coordinator, and other university community members. The group will consider issues revolving around the use of e-portfolios (what), not the technical specifications (how). Conceptually, electronic portfolio development appears to be at the point where course management systems were when they first emerged as large-scale systems. In order to avoid some of the pitfalls experienced in that development process, such as "feature creep" to adapt to unanticipated requirements, we want the users and tool-builder community to work together to understand what the needs are and how the products will be used. The use cases provide the means to communicate these needs and uses. Work product for this session: Set of refined e-portfolio use cases/scenarios Postconference Resource Small Group Session II Friday, October 25, 2002 10:55 a.m. - 11:55 a.m. SESS02 There will be a choice of small group topic areas, based on attendee interest. Higher education system and teaching and learning issues: Continue the discussion on the "big ideas": What are the teaching and learning issues associated with e-portfolios? What are the higher education system issues? Institutional planning, implementation, and programmatic issues: Refine rubric for evaluating the implementation of e-portfolio systems (what elements need to be addressed for successful implementation within a system including readiness, infrastructure, and organizational issues? Review how acceptable and manageable these infrastructure and systemic issues are, how this can be supported, whether teachers and students will use the resources and capabilities, what needs to be planned for to assure success, and so on. Use cases: Continue the development of e-portfolio use cases. Functional specifications: Refine the functional specifications that describe what e-portfolio systems need to be able to do, by use case. Small Group Session III Friday, October 25, 2002 4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. SESS03 Review the draft work products for the day (a revised set of use cases describing the potential consequential uses of e-portfolios; a set of functional requirements for each use case, and a rubric for evaluating e-portfolio systems and their implementation) will be discussed. Discuss next steps.
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