Scaling Up: Documenting ePortfolio Progress

Scaling Up: Documenting

ePortfolio ProgressLinda AnstendigSamantha Egan

Beth Gordon KlingnerThomas Hull

Jim StenersonAndrew Wier

AAEEBL Conference August 1, 2013

Teaching Circles

Tenure & Promotion

Digital Commons

LinkedIn & ePs

Assessment Pilots

Reporting

KPIs

eTerns Department Initiatives

Teaching Circles

Student Development Career Services

Research

Making Connections Grant

MUG

Contest Winners

Connect to Learn Grant

Weaving ePortfolios in the Pace

Culture

Teaching & Learning

Assessment

CareerStudent Development

Tenure & Promotion

Departmental Approach: Biology• Tenure and promotion• Biology pilot

– Independent Research • Lab notebook

– Introductory Microbiology • Semester projects on Bacterial Phyla• Review paper, news articles, images, videos, peer

feedback• Material from ePortfolios included in course final exam

Microbiology Student ePortfolios

Quantitative Data: Reporting

• Custom usage reports for Mahara• KPI development

– Generating KPI data

Mahara Custom Report Sample

KPI Sample

Qualitative Data: Student-Faculty Research Project

• Conducted a series of interviews with students on their perceptions of the benefits ePortfolio

Qualitative Data: Spring Contest Entries

Tenure and Promotion

• ePortfolios Used for Developing Electronic Dossiers

• Workshops• Reviewers’ buy-in• Positive Feedback• Year 3 – Institutionalized

Scaling Up Projects: Assessment Project

• Goal – To study the relationship between strong ePortfolio usage over time and grades and overall student engagement as shown in NSSE results.

• We will work with our programmers to define a new group of “super users” to track

• We will identify their first log-in date and their University ID so we can compare to other reports

“The ePortfolio showed me so much. When I went back and read the introduction to myself, I honestly felt so proud of myself. I didn’t think that whatever I was thinking to myself or what was wandering in my brain would be well written in the introduction. But I was impressed, by what I wrote…This ePortfolio showed a great part of me, I even saw it when I attached the resume, I didn’t realize all my accomplishments I have done in high school. This actually made me reflect back on how well I have done these past few years, and I hope that at Pace I will reach for everything I am set to achieve!”-Kenya V., Pace Prep student

Scaling Up Projects: Pace Prep 2013

• ePortfolio webpage: www.pace.edu/eportfolio

• ePortfolio Blog: http://eportfolio.blogs.pace.edu

• Mahara User Group Facebook Group: Search “Mahara User Group” on FB

• Contact us: eportfolio@pace.edu

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