EDUCAUSE Live! July 7, 2005 1:00 p.m. EDT (12:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. MDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT); runs one hour

The Current State of E-Portfolios in Higher Education

Special Guest

Trent Batson
Director, Information and Instructional Technology Services
University of Rhode Island

Trent Batson is a former English professor enlightened enough to have joined the IT ranks 20 years ago. An EDUCAUSE award winner in 1989, he has moved from directing award-winning funded projects involving technology and learning to acting as campus IT administrator, focusing in particular on e-portfolios over the past four years. Batson has taught at seven universities and has served as an IT administrator at three. He also spent a year working for WebCT. Batson has researched and taught courses on the history of technology and culture and authored a book on technology innovation published by Cambridge University Press. He is a coleader of the New England ePortfolio Project, a 22-institution consortium, and a board member of the Open Source Portfolio (OSP), a Mellon-funded project involving Indiana University and the r*smart group, working with the Sakai project. His article on e-portfolios is the most widely quoted seminal article on the topic.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Trent Batson, and the topic will be "The Current State of E-Portfolios in Higher Education."

According to Casey Green’s 2004 Campus Computing Survey, the number of institutions offering e-portfolios doubled from the previous year to include nearly one-third of U.S. institutions, and growth is as rapid in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and Canada. This presentation will map the national e-portfolio sector and offer recommendations for campus e-portfolio strategies, from the viewpoint of campus IT.

Related EDUCAUSE Resources

• ELI Learning Technologies: E-Portfolios
• E-Portfolios
• Archives of past EDUCAUSE Live! seminars

Additional Resources

• "The Electronic Portfolio Boom: What's it All About?" Campus Technology