The Promise of ePortfolios

Connecting Academic Achievement with California Workforce Development

Kathleen Willbanks, Ruth CoxFriday, Aug. 9, 2008

Presenters

• San Francisco State University (Academic Technology)

– Ruth Cox (ruthcox@sfsu.edu)

• CSU Center for Distributed Learning– Kathleen Willbanks (kathleen@cdl.edu)

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Who are you?

• Turning Point:• I work at a:• Career college • Community or Junior college (2 year)• Liberal arts college • Technical college • University college • Institutes of technology (and Polytechnics) • Private

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Nation’s largest, most diverse university system

450,000 students

1,800 degree programs

47,000 faculty and staff

23 campuses

$4.5 billion budget

The CSU

HumboldtChicoSonomaMaritime AcademySacramentoEast Bay

SanFrancisco

San JoseStanislaus

FresnoBakersfield

NorthridgePomona

San Marcos

MontereyBay

San DiegoFullertonSan Bernardino

Long Beach

San LuisObispo

Channel IslandsLos Angeles

Dominguez HillsChancellor’s Office

CSU’s Mission

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To provide California’s students with accessible, affordable higher education so they can successfully enter the workforce.

“Working for California”

The History of ePortfolios in the CSU

• Schools of Ed - State Requirements• Continued interest & Multi-campus

cooperation • Disciplines expand

– NCATE, ABET, AACSB• WASC Accreditation & Aggregation of

Assessment data• Workforce Development

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Reasons for ePortfolios

• Why should we use ePortfolios?• Reflection• Pedagogy• Accreditation• Workforce Development• Other

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Portfolios are not a new idea…

For years…• Universities have used

paper-based portfolios to assess student work

• Share work for accreditation/programreview

• As a valuable tool for career connections

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But today…

• In an ePortfolio we can collect, select, reflect, direct, build, and publish a wide range of digital artifacts using electronic technology as the container.

• ePortfolios can be shared worldwide.

http://rachelpoulain.sfsu.myefolio.com

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SF State Student Portfolios

ePortfolio.sfsu.edu

Regional Partnerships

• SF State • Humboldt

State • CSUMB• SJSU• K-12

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•CCSF•SMCCCD

–Cañada–Skyline–CSM

•De Anza•more comm.colleges in Monterey Bayand Humboldtareas

CSU Activities

• 2002 – 2003 Schools of Ed• 2003 – 2004 Report to the Deans, Vendor Review• 2005 – 2006 Vendor Research/CoP/f2f meetings• 2006 – 2007 MERLOT, Teaching Commons, National

Coalition for ePortfolio Research, Campus survey• 2007 – 2008 Build case studies, promising practices,

Campus survey, newsletter, advisory group

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CSU Activities

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http://eportfolio.edutools.info

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What products?

• If you have a product or are looking for one, let us know which one:

1. LiveText2. TaskStream3. eFolio4. Blackboard5. Angel6. Open Source7. Other

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http://eportfolio.merlot.org/

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Challenges •Engaging Partners and Funding

–Capacity connecting to campus activity–Archiving/maintaining ePortfolios–Connecting more directly with CA workforce development–Getting outside support for ePortfolio projects–Funding in the current economy

Holistic Look at ePortfolios

Film clip on ePortfolios: Voices of students, faculty, advisors & employers

Perspectives on Teaching, Learning and Working with ePortfolios

http://streaming.bcit.ca/TEK/ePortfolio.wmv (6 minutes)

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Take Away Menu

• In your handout:– 1. Alan’s graphic – 2. Defining ePortfolios & CDL graphic– 3. ePortfolio growth at SF State flow chart – 4. How to implement/challenges – 5. Partnership notes – 6. References to MERLOT

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