Workforce / Professional Development Panel: View from the top: Workforce development, education, social networking, and ePortfolios Stephanie Couch Gerry

Workforce / Professional Development Panel:View from the top:

Workforce development, education, social networking,

and ePortfoliosStephanie Couch

Gerry HanleyAli Jafari

Kathleen Willbanks

ePortfolio - Day of DialogueFebruary 25, 2009 8:30 – 5:30

ePortfolio Day of Dialogue 2/25/09 San Francisco Session 4C: Couch, Hanley, Jafari, Willbanks

S.Couch – K – 20 Overarching Framework

G. Hanley – ePortfolios and Higher Ed

K. Willbanks – K-12 – CDE and SCOE

A. Jafari – Social networking, building a bridge through

constituencyePortfolio Day of Dialogue 2/25/09 San Francisco Session 4C: Couch, Hanley, Jafari, Willbanks

COLLABORATE • EDUCATE • INNOVATE • ADVOCATE

http://www.k20cetc.org/

Mission

A unique collaborative

Trustednetwork

Support for K20 innovators

“Home” for successful programs


Network Backbone• Mission - to facilitate collaboration in

education and research • Operate high-performance network• leading-edge services for large-

application users K-20 students, teachers, faculty, staff & research universities

• Currently 10,000,000 use network• Connected to similar Global Education

network backbones

Trusted high bandwidth connection to millions of students and educators

MS HS CCC4 Yr Colleges/Univ.

All Other Pathways

STEM Pathways - “Green” Careers - Medical Education and Health Sciences - Engineering

Career Exploration - The Real Game - Advanced Manufacturing

Foundational & Remedial Math & English Language Arts Support - CAHSEE

Research Oriented Communities of Interest/Practice

Advocacy, Functionality, New Media


Why ePortfolios Are Soooo Important for Higher Ed

February 25, 2009ePortfolio Day of Dialogue

San Francisco State University - Downtown

Nation’s largest, most diverse university system

450,000 students

1,800 degree programs

47,000 faculty and staff

23 campuses

Partners with the California Community Colleges: 2/3 of CSU students are CCC transfers

Welcome to the CSUHumboldtChicoSonomaMaritime AcademySacramentoEast Bay

SanFrancisco

San JoseStanislaus

FresnoBakersfield

NorthridgePomona

San Marcos

MontereyBay

San DiegoFullertonSan Bernardino

Long Beach

San LuisObispo

Channel Islands

Los Angeles

Dominguez HillsChancellor’s Office

CSU: Access To ExcellenceThe 8 strategic commitments/ plan-goals Reduce existing achievement gaps Plan for faculty turnover and invest in faculty experience Plan for staff and administrative succession planning and

professional growth Improve public accountability for learning results Expand student outreach Enhance student opportunities for “active learning” Enhance opportunities for global awareness Act on the CSU’s responsibilities to meet post baccalaureate

needs, including those of working professionals

Implementing Access to Excellence with ePortfolios

Implementation must produce institutional benefits– Improved outcomes (teaching, learning, administration)

– Improved efficiencies (teaching, learning, administration)

– Improved reliability (teaching, learning, administration)

How does the ePortfolio Strategy promise to produce these benefits?

– Effective management and support for sharing, reusing, and consolidating expertise, exemplary practices, products of education.

Connecting ePortfolios To Ac2Ex Plan for faculty turnover and invest in faculty experience

– Sharing and reusing teaching eportfolios enable academic adoption/adaptation of exemplary practices Saves faculty time, improves teaching experience, improves teaching

performance for tenure and promotion review & faculty retention

Improve public accountability for learning results– Making learning outcomes visible through learning eportfolios and

institutional eportfolios Authenticity of evidence for accountability in accreditation

Enhance student opportunities for “active learning”– The content of learning eportfolios is actively designed, created,

and produced multimedia by students in their learning. Learning by Doing and Doing by Learning

Connecting ePortfolios To Ac2Ex Enhance opportunities for global awareness

– The internet (and pervasive access to it) enables the sharing and reuse of resources from around the world. Teaching and learning eportfolios can bring the world into the local context of an institution’s academic program quickly, easily, and affordably.

MERLOT

Act on the CSU’s responsibilities to meet post baccalaureate needs, including those of working professionals

– Sharing and reusing teaching eportfolios enables the high investments in expertise and tools to be leveraged across a distributed specialized community

– Learning eportfolios transforms a transcript into more reliable evidence of a prospective and current employee’s capabilities

What is the CSU doing to accelerate the institutionalization of ePortfolios?

Stage 1: Awareness and Education – “Using ePortfolios in the CSU- Teaching Commons”

Shared/consolidated library of resources through MERLOT

Institutional context for planning, using, and sustaining the effective use of eportfolios

Make visible the community of ePortfolio experts and their projects

http://teachingcommons.cdl.edu/eportfolio

Issues To Resolve: Old Issues Needing New Solutions

Authentication of the ePortfolio Author– Is the evidence of learning in the ePortfolio, the

learning of a particular student? Trustworthy Interpretation Standards for Quality of

ePortfolio Content– How do I know that the content of the ePortfolio

reliably and accurately reflects the skills and knowledge I expect a student to have?

THANK YOU

Questions at the End of the Session


K – 12School Boards

Special EducationWorkforce Development



Transition Portfolios

Middle School

Students 6 pages Teacher Guide 62 pages

High School

Students 12 pages Teacher Guide 54 pages



“Addressing the future workforce development needs of Sonoma County through an emphasis on education would have the single greatest impact on our County's future economic vitality and quality of life.”


Workforce Stories


“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one”

Mark Twain


References:

California Department of Education – Diagnostic Center NorCal - http://www.dcn-cde.ca.gov/Sonoma County Office of Ed – Work Ready - http://www.scoe.org/pub/htdocs/work-ready.htmlSonoma County Innovations Council - http://www.sonoma-county.org/edb/innovation.htmSonoma County Economic Development Board - http://www.sonoma-county.org/edb/Sonoma County Board of Supervisors - http://www.sonoma-county.org/board/CalStateTEACH - http://www.calstateteach.net/San Francisco State University - http://www.sfsu.edu/eFolio Minnesota - http://www.efoliominnesota.com/

http://www.sonoma-county.org/edb/innovation.htm

http://www.sonoma-county.org/edb/

http://www.sonoma-county.org/board/

Networking via ePortfolio

Ali Jafari, Founder and Chief Architect OfficerEpsilen Environment (BehNeem LLC)

On Leave: Professor of Computer and Information Technology Director of CyberLab

Adjunct Professor of Informatics Purdue School of Engineering and Technology

Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

To learn more about me and to download this PowerPoint please visit my ePortfolio:

www.epsilen.com/jafari

References

Get This PowerPint

http://www.epsilen.com/jafari

http://www.epsilen.com/jafari

ePortfolio; Initial thinking and requirements (late 90s)

– Collection– Selection– Reflection– Presentation

ePortfolio; initial purposes and expected functionalities (late 90s)

• A system to measure students’ learning outcomes based on some schools’ predefined learning principles.

• A system to showcase student academic accomplishments for educational development and career services

ePortfolio initial system (late 1990s through mid 2000s)

• The creation of ePortfolio Management System or EPMS

• Conceptual and technical thinking of EPMS was the same as the CMS (Course Management System)

• The invention and creation of Learning Matrix

Early ePortfolio collaboration and system development

• Creation of the ePortConsortium.org– ePortfolio Whitepaper– ePortfolio system (Epsilen ePortfolio)

• Creation of EPAC

My sabbatical research and my wake up call

• Systematic research to understand the next generation of eLearning systems (2005)

• Wake-up call... The Facebook surprise and the Tom Friedman book.

• My proposed model: The Next Generation of eLearning should be based on ePortfolio, empowered by global networking, etc.

Created and proposed the “Jafari Model” (Epsilen Model) as a new conceptual framework and technical system for the Next Generation

of eLearning Environment published in EDUCAUSE Review.

Epsilen tools and network channels

Questions/comments:

www.epsilen.com/jafari

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Workforce / Professional Development Panel: View from the top: Workforce development, education, social networking, and ePortfolios Stephanie Couch Gerry