Join the Office of Teaching Advancement, the Teaching Assistants’ Training Program and the Resource Centre for Academic Technology for this web conference opportunity.
“Assessment of Learning using ePortfolios Web Conferenceâ€
May 22, 2009 from 1pm-2:30pm
Location: Bahen Centre, Room 1240
Speakers:
Helen L. Chen, Research Scientist, Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning, Stanford University
Tracy Penny Light, Assistant Professor, St. Jerome’s University
“Student learning ePortfolios’ are personalized, web-based collections of selected coursework, artifacts or co-curricular activities, and (ideally) students’ written reflective commentary.†Source: DiBiase, D., with contributions by ten others. (2002) Using e-Portfolios at Penn State to Enhance Student Learning: Status, Prospects, and Strategies. e-Education Institute, The Pennsylvania State University (http://www.e-education.psu.edu/portfolios/e-port_report.shtml)
Electronic portfolios (ePortfolios) have become a popular and powerful way to document, demonstrate, and reflect upon what students know and can do. They have developed beyond simply serving as web-based repositories for documents into tools for building and tracking student learning. In ePortfolios designed for learning, students create and store a variety of artifacts which they can organize into categories or analyze according to course objectives. Students also prepare written reflections on the artifacts they collect, helping them to track the progress of their own learning and set learning goals. One challenge associated with ePortfolios is how to assess them – how does an instructor track the development of student learning as the ePortfolio takes shape? Also, faculty and administrators face unique challenges using ePortfolios. Faculty must learn new skills and adapt to new technology, and they must also promote and nurture new ways of thinking about what their students are learning. Administrators must learn how to use ePortfolios to document student learning for both accreditation purposes and institutional improvement. In this session participants will learn about ePortfolios in the context of:
•   Alignment of learning outcomes in course and program design
•   Assessment OF vs. Assessment FOR learning
•   Rubric-based Assessment
•   Collecting evidence of educational effectiveness : Tracking students’ progress toward course, department, program, and/or institutional learning goals
•   Case studies of ePortfolios for assessment of learning
Participants will leave the webcast with a framework for thinking about and implementing ePortfolios for learning and assessment on their campuses. In this session, related case studies and examples of actual ePortfolios will be provided.
Registration is available at http://www.ota-tatp.utoronto.ca/eportfolios.htm
Speakers:
Helen L. Chen, Research Scientist, Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning, Stanford University
Helen is a Research Scientist at the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning in the Human-Sciences Technologies Advanced Research Institute at Stanford University. Through collaborations with national and international portfolio researchers, she co-led the development of Folio Thinking, a reflective practice that situates and guides the effective use of learning portfolios. Helen is a founding member and co-facilitator of EPAC, a community of practice focusing on pedagogical and technological issues related to ePortfolios. She is also a member of the national advisory board for the Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) project led by the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Her current research interests focus on the application of ePortfolio pedagogy, tools, and practices to facilitate teaching, learning, and assessment and their implications for the design and evaluation of innovative learning spaces.
Tracy Penny Light, Assistant Professor, St. Jerome’s University
Tracy managed strategic learning projects for the VP, Learning Resources and Innovation, at the University of Waterloo. That work included introducing electronic portfolios to the campus in a number of programs including Accounting and Financial Management, History, Co-operative Education and Residence Life. Tracy’s ongoing research focuses on ePortfolio implementation and the ability for reflection in ePortfolios to transform the student experience. In addition to her teaching and research, she leads the University of Waterloo team who are members of Cohort III of the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research, is a member of St. Jerome’s CASTL Institutional Leadership team, and was founding Co-Editor of the MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT).
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