Forum on Digital Learning & ePortfolios January 2015

Portfolios as a Pathfinder Through the ForestGail Luera, Ph.D.

Tiffany Marra, Ph.D.

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Presentation Overview

Proven implementation strategies, both technical and pedagogical, for portfolios at the program, college, and university level to help with four targets:

1) making students aware of what they should learn

2) capturing learning over time

3) establishing a sense of community

4) sharing models for new students as they begin their course of study

Examples of these strategies in action at multiple institutions

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Context and Challenge at UMD CEHHS

College of Education, Health and Human Services (CEHHS)

– Public University– Shared governance– Student population– Faculty/teacher scholar model– Changing landscape– Goals emerged from bottom-up model

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Target One

Target One: Making Students Aware of What They Should Learn

Portfolio structured aroundunit-wide outcomes:

–Pedagogical knowledge–Content Knowledge–Caring-reflective practitioners

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Target Two

Target Two: Capturing Learning Over Time

– Identify common touchpoints across the curriculum– Integrate into introductory, mid level, and capstone

courses– Acknowledge and validate learning outside of the

classroom as a component of professional development

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Example One

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Example Two

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Target Three

Target Three: Establishing A Sense of Community

– Peer Review– Showcase at the end of the term– Community of support for bidirectional feedback

• Student teaching university supervisors• Student teaching faculty• Past instructors

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Rubric for Portfolio Review

Used at beginning, middle and end of student teaching

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Target Four

Target Four: Sharing Models for New Students As They Begin Their Course of Study

– Gallery of portfolios for new students to see examples of real student work and experiences in student teaching

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Example

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Moving Beyond CEHHS to Other Colleges

• Engineering• Blueprints• Sociology• Chemistry• Health Policy Studies• Academic Service

Learning• History• Psychology

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Considerations for Implementing At Other Institutions

• Tribeca Flashpoint Academy

• Purdue University Calumet

• Prairie View A & M• Colorado Technical

University• University of Toledo

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Implementing At Your Institution

Discuss guiding questions:

– What do you hope to enhance through the use of portfolios in your area of responsibility?

– What learning outcomes do you hope to see students displaying on portfolio?

– What do you hope to see in your gallery after one year?

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You’re Invited to Our Teaching & Learning Collaboratory

• Share a business card • We will send you an

invitation to an online community where we can continue to share best practices in teaching and learning

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Questions?

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• Gail Luera – grl@umich.edu

• Tiffany Marra– tiffany@seelio.com

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