ubc campus-wide e-portfolios: community building and pilot projects
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UBC Campus-Wide E-Portfolios: Community Building and Pilot Projects. Power of EPortfolios as Enterprise Systems and Community Builders. Karen Belfer, ePortfolio Coordinator, Office of Learning Technologies (OLT) Maureen Kent, Director of the Learning Centre, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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UBC Campus-Wide E-Portfolios: Community Building and Pilot Projects
Power of EPortfolios as Enterprise Systems and Community Builders.
Karen Belfer, ePortfolio Coordinator, Office of Learning Technologies (OLT)Maureen Kent, Director of the Learning Centre, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
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Project Description
Provide UBC students, faculty and staff with a persistent, online, integrated framework where they store digital artifacts, add reflections, demonstrate their competency with particular subject material and transferable skills, invite commentary and assessment, and selectively publish components online.
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Pilot Projects: Context
High School
Grad School
FacultyPosition
CoursesCoursesCourses Courses
Degree Program
ProfessionalDegree
Program
Science AGSC
PharmacyTAG
Education
Professional Career**
Student Services
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Pilot Projects: Science
• Context: Course• Creator: Student• Purpose/Development: Self-assessment,
Building the curriculum• Purpose/Evaluation: Demonstrating achievement
of learning outcomes• Purpose/Presentation: Showcasing achievement
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Pilot Projects: AGSC
• Context: Course• Creator: Student• Purpose/Development: Self-assessment,
Advising, Documenting professional development, Building the curriculum
• Purpose/Evaluation:Demonstrating achievement of learning outcomes
• Purpose/Presentation:Showcasing achievement
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Pilot Projects: Education
• Context: 1 yr Program• Creator: Student Teachers• Purpose/Development: Self-assessment, Documenting
learning over time, Documenting professional development, Building the curriculum.
• Purpose/Evaluation: Demonstrating achievement of learning outcomes
• Purpose/Presentation: Showcasing achievement
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Pilot Projects: Pharmacy
• Context: 4 yr Program• Creator: Student• Purpose/Development: Self-assessment,
Advising, Documenting learning over time, Documenting professional development, Building the curriculum
• Purpose/Evaluation: Demonstrating achievement of learning outcomes
• Purpose/Presentation: Showcasing achievement
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Pilot Projects: TAG
• Context: Independent• Creator: Faculty• Purpose/Development: Self-assessment, Documenting
learning over time, Documenting professional development, Building the curriculum, Adding to the knowledge base of the disciplines (scholarship of teaching and learning).
• Purpose/Evaluation: Promotion and tenure, Work performance review
• Purpose/Presentation: Showcasing achievement
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Project Goals
To support the educational goals of five e-Portfolio pilot projects undertaken in Agricultural Sciences, Education, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Science, and TAG.
To develop the process workflow and online environment for creating e-Portfolios.
To create a UBC e-Portfolio Community of Practice that provides an avenue for needs analysis, scholarly dialogue, information exchange, and peer support related to e-portfolio design and use.
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Pedagogy
Facilitating Institutional GoalsBenefits of “folio thinking”Instructional DesignLearning TheoriesAuthentic AssessmentProject Evaluation
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Pedagogy: Institutional Goals
UBC’s Trek 2000 learning environment strategies – Develop learner-centred undergraduate curricula– Provide co-op, internship, work placement and mentoring
programs. – Fully integrate information technology with instruction in all areas. – Ensure that faculty members and staff are appropriately prepared
to function effectively in a learner-centred environment. – Lifelong learning:
• Develop alternative ways of delivering credit and non-credit programs to students
• Create new programs that address the life-long learning needs• Expand our continuing higher education programs at the graduate level and
in professional upgrading
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Pedagogy: Folio Thinking
Used with Permission
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Planning
InstructionalProblems
InstructionalProblems
LearnerCharacteristics
LearnerCharacteristics
InstructionalObjectives
InstructionalObjectives
ContentSequencing
ContentSequencing
Development of Instruction
Development of Instruction
InstructionalStrategies
InstructionalStrategies
Designing theMessage
Designing theMessage
Task Analysis
Task AnalysisEvaluation
InstrumentsEvaluationInstruments
Revision
Formative evaluation
Project Management
Supp
ort S
ervic
es
Conf
irmat
ive E
valu
atio
n Summ
ative Evaluation
Implem
entation
(Morrison, Kemp & Ross 2003)
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Pedagogy: Learning Theories
Social ConstructionMotivation theories: Task Expectancy Value
Model (Eccles, et al, 2002). – Utility Value– Intrinsic value– Attainment Value– Cost
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Pedagogy: Authentic Assessment
Fenwick & Parson, 2001:– Ongoing– Communicated– Variety of methods– Comprehensive– Valid Reliable
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Pedagogy: Project Evaluation
FormativeSummative
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Technology
We were looking for a product that allowed us to…– store different type of artifacts (multimedia capability).– add reflections – provide selective access to individuals or the public– invite feedback– give control to the user– integrate with UBC systems– security
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Community of Practice
To build knowledge of e-portfolio use within UBC and its broader community, through collaboration, experimentation, and sharing. – Community website– Workshops- training- conferences– Share resources– Share knowledge
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Pilot Project: AGSC
“It was the commitment of the faculty members and students that made this project a big success.” Karen Belfer
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Pilot Project: AGSC
Career Development Internship Course
Supervised technical work experience
Workshops on soft skills• communication• team building• professional ethics
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Pilot Project: AGSC
Faculty “New Learning Ecosystems”
Interdisciplinary, PBL
Includes “learning for life” components:• Life and career skills• Mentoring and tri-mentoring• Experiential learning• E-portfolios
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Pilot Project: AGSC
Goals of E-Portfolio Adoption
To better facilitate students’ reflection and self-direction
To make evident interdisciplinary knowledge, life skills and behavioral competencies
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Pilot Project: AGSC
E-Portfolio Application in the Course
Two portfolios:
1. Reflective journal entries and reports
2. Final reflective essay on theirlearning with supporting artifacts
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Pilot Project: AGSC
Instructor Feedback
Supportive and enthusiastic Powerful tool Will continue to use
“The most rewarding experience I’ve ever had as an instructor”
Lynne Potter-Lord
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Pilot Project: AGSC
Student Feedback Strongly agree
Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly disagree
Enjoyed participating 7 4
Found e-portfolio a good tool 6 4 1
Useful in integrating coursework with experience 1 4 6
Will keep updating my e-portfolio 3 8
Found iWebfolio software easy to use 7 4
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Pilot Project: AGSC
Student Feedback“The journal reflection really helps you understand who you are as a
person and, for me, I think one of the more beneficial things of this course in large part is reflection.”
“One of the things I liked about e-portfolios best, is that we can actually go back and look over everything see our growth. I did notice a lot of growth in myself from my first to my last journal.”
“I like how you can categorize the different portfolios for the different audiences, having the journal, the one page reports, images and other things… that can be easily categorized.”
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Pilot Project: AGSC
Lessons Learned
It takes a lot of time to plan and get going
Lots of training and support are needed initially
Need customizing guidelines
Need to overcome some data management issues
Need to carefully integrate implementation with a CMS
Development of appropriate assessment rubrics critical
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Pilot Project: AGSC
Future goals
Implement e-portfolio use Faculty-wide, starting in the introductory Faculty course, fall 2004. Need:
To apply lessons learned from this pilot and others
Clear goals and expectations for students and faculty
Excellent communication and support for buy-in
On-going evaluation and refinement.
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Lessons Learned
Importance of a Sound Pedagogical Approach– Cohesive development- delivery– Increase interest in e-portfolios– Document growth over time– Increase awareness
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Lessons Learned
Importance of Good Instructional Technology– Application supports pedagogical values
• Collection-reflection-evaluation-selection-presentation• Owner control• Ease of use• Feedback- social construction
– Application not mature– More training– More integration with WebCT
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Lessons Learned
WORKSHOP 1
WORKPLACE ASSIGNMENT
FINAL REPORTPRESENTATION
Individual activityClass activtiyInstructor-led activity
Online activityFace-to-face activity
WORKING EXPERIENCE
ONE PAGE REPORT
MONTH 1
MONTH 2
MONTH 3
MONTH 4
DAILY JOURNAL ENTRIES PEER FEEDBACK
WORKSHOP 2
WORKING EXPERIENCE
ONE PAGE REPORT
DAILY JOURNAL ENTRIES PEER FEEDBACK
WORKSHOP 3
WORKING EXPERIENCE
ONE PAGE REPORT
DAILY JOURNAL ENTRIES PEER FEEDBACK
INSTRUCTOR FEEDBACK
INSTRUCTOR FEEDBACK
INSTRUCTOR FEEDBACK
Connect: work experience with the curriculum
WORKSHOP 1
WORKPLACE ASSIGNMENT
FINAL PORTFOLIO REPORT
PRESENTATION
WORKING EXPERIENCE
ONE PAGE REPORT
MONTH 1
MONTH 2
MONTH 3
MONTH 4
WEEKLY JOURNAL ENTRIES PEER FEEDBACK
WORKSHOP 2
WORKING EXPERIENCE
ONE PAGE REPORT
WORKSHOP 3
WORKING EXPERIENCE
ONE PAGE REPORT
INSTRUCTOR FEEDBACK
Connect: work experience with the curriculum
Reflection on learning process
WEEKLY JOURNAL ENTRIES PEER FEEDBACK
INSTRUCTOR FEEDBACK
WEEKLY JOURNAL ENTRIES PEER FEEDBACK
INSTRUCTOR FEEDBACK
Course Design represented using E2ML (Botturi, 2003)
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Lessons Learned
“I like having the journals together with the feedback; being able to look at the journals, look at the feedback, and add the reflections that you want based on that.” AGSC student.
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Lessons Learned
Community– Commitment– Interest– Motivated– … beginning stages
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Future Plans
High School
Grad School
FacultyPosition
CoursesCoursesCourses Courses
Degree Program
ProfessionalDegree
Program
Science AGSC
Pharmacy
TAGEducation
Professional Career**
Student Services
MET
Staff
Career Services
Health Sciences
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References
Read more about the project..• e-Strategy news letter/ August & Januaryhttp://www.estrategy.ubc.ca/news/
update0308/030813-eportfolio.html• E-Learning sitehttps://www.elearning.ubc.ca/home/
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Contact Information
Karen Belfer, ePortfolio Coordinator, Office of Learning Technologies (OLT), University of British Columbia
[email protected] Kent, Director, Learning Centre, Faculty of
Agricultural Sciences, University of British Columbia [email protected] Williams, Clinical Assistant Professor, University
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