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Rebecca Wilson, Project Manager, Australian Catholic University ACU required an ePortfolio solution for accreditation, embedding graduate attributes, and to provide a repository for Students and Academic staff’s electronic artefacts. The presentation will provide an overview of the selection criteria, evaluation of products, Desire2Learn implementation experiences, and pilot outcomes.
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Rebecca WilsonProject Manager
25 June 2010
ACU ePortfolio Project
A purposeful collection of information and digital artefacts that demonstrates development or
evidences learning outcomes, skills or competencies
An electronic tool that helps you successfully achieve your goals by better understanding yourself
and receiving valuable feedback from others
Definition
Project Overview
Why we did it Selection
criteria
Evaluation stage
Implementation
and Review
Why we did it
• Desire to extend the online learning systems to include a personal learning space
• Curriculum requirement for certain faculties
• Aid with transition from learning to working environments
• Provide students with an ePortfolio for life
Project Sponsor
Paul Campbell, Director of IT
Project Steering Committee
Dean of EducationAssociate Dean of Health SciencesExecutive Manager, Office of Student SuccessDirector, Learning and TeachingDirector of IT
Project Working Group
Project ManagerDirector of ITAssociate Dean EducationeLearning Coordinators (Education, Health Sciences)LecturersManager, ACUOnline (support and training)Library representativeOffice of Student SuccessIT Client Services
Project Teams
Monthly meetingsWeekly meetings
Scop
e of
the
Proj
ect
12 month pilot – starting February 2010
Students in select course units across Health Science and Education faculties
All academics teaching those course units
All academics
Easy to use, web-based
Ability to present in a multi-page website
Store a wide range of digital artefacts, reflections and presentations
Able to personalise and customise presentations
Ability to communicate with and assess student portfolios – to be adopted as a choice by lecturers
Students able to flag content using the University’s approved attributes
Flexible file size and storage limits
Ability to statistically report on ePortfolio use
Sustainable after graduation
Selection Criteria
? Integration with LMS for marks, assessments, artefacts
Mahara• Relatively inexpensive solution
• Good community base
• Unable to create multipage views
• Limited theme design and customisation by student
• Unable to rate against graduate attributes
Pebblepad• UK based with AUS rep• Rate against graduate attributes, and
self made attributes• Customisable presentations• Wizard-like system• Interface is childlike• Flash technology and potential issues
on different platforms in use
Desire2Learn• Canada based with AUS rep• Web-based, platform independent• Simple interface for data input• Able to customise and personalise presentations• Management of graduate attributes• Not previously in use at Australian universities
Careerhub• Australia based• Aligned with an existing project at ACU• Good resume building tool• No theme design or customisation by student, difficult to manage content• Poor tracking of experiences and reflections
Product selection
and
evaluation
Graduate Attributes
Desire2Learn Competencies
Graduate attributes created as
Learning Objectives
Activities can be created under each Learning Objective
Activity results can be measured
Engage ACU and D2L project teams
Identify/purchase hardware
Software installation by D2L in Canada, including ACU branding
Integration to AD for same sign on
Integration to Banner for student enrolment details
UAT by ACU
Implementation
Trainingo Train the Trainer sessions
o eLearning Coordinators, IT staff, Learning and Teaching staff
o Students and academics provided with online self-paced tutorials and documentation
o Academics trained by their faculty eLearning Coordinators
October 2009
November 2009
December 2009
January 2010
Review process has just commenced
Initial statistics:
Mid Pilot Review
1st week To date
No. of user accounts 4336 4428
No. of active users 223 2473
No. of logins 431 21288
No. of items created 174 18292
Artefacts 71 12416
Reflections 60 3439
Collections 11 749
Presentations 32 1688
Shared items 0 5945
Feedback
…taken to the assignment tasks like “ducks to water” and I have not heard one complaint from any of them. I find all this student activity quite amazing…
Student motivation to learn and self assess has improved. They are learning more independently.
The immediate benefit that I experienced with Desire2Learn was the paperless assessments. Being able to access students work from home without have to take it home was great. A definite time saver.
There have been no problems reported to me by staff or students associated with not understanding how to use the software…
Problems were related to equipment and space, the usual problems…
Initial problems with students not accessing ePortfolio – this was improved with the addition of formative assessment/class activities built around ePortfolio
Some anxiety around using ePortfolios. Resolved with regular small training bite sessions.
Lessons Learnt
Coordinating with LMS project
Involvement of faculty staff
Keep up the momentum
Support resources
Thank you
Questions?