Browsing by Subject "ePortfolio"

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    2023 IUPUI ePortfolio Report
    (2024-02-12) Carrison, Sophie; Oesch-Minor, Deborah; Swinford, Rachel
    The ePortfolio Studio at IUPUI has been supporting students as they build, update, and publish their ePortfolios since the Studio opened in the summer of 2021. This support comes in the form of student consultations, either in-person, online, or asynchronous where students submit their ePortfolio links and the ePortfolio Studio consultants will provide skilled feedback on how to include best practices in their ePortfolios. The purpose of this report is to reflect on how many student consultations and kickoffs the ePortfolio Studio had between Fall 2022 and Fall 2023 semesters, as well as the ways that the Studio has supported faculty in the past year.
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    ePortfolios as Vital Tools for Grassroots Leadership Training Initiatives
    (AAEEBL, 2021) Oesch-Minor, Deborah J.; English, School of Liberal Arts
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    IUPUI's HIP Taxonomy for ePortfolio: A Tool for Development, Implementation, and Scaling
    (National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2021-11) Kahn, Susan; Freeman, Tyrone; Powell, Amy A.
    So-called High-Impact Practices (HIPs) are high-impact only when planned and executed thoughtfully, with attention to the relevant literature and the wisdom of experienced practitioners. After decades of experience with most HIPs, and national recognition for several, in 2016, IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) undertook to create a series of HIP taxonomies describing the features needed to ensure that a given HIP experience will be truly high-impact. In 2018-2019, a committee of IUPUI HIPs and ePortfolio practitioners and experts convened to develop a similar taxonomy for ePortfolio, the most recently recognized HIP and one with which IUPUI already had nearly two decades of experience. In this Occasional Paper, we discuss the history of ePortfolio at IUPUI and what we came to understand about effective ePortfolio practice; the purposes of the taxonomies and of the ePortfolio taxonomy in particular; the development process for the taxonomy; our use of the ePortfolio taxonomy for professional development; and the attributes of high-impact ePortfolio practice that we identified, based on the growing literature on ePortfolio and on our campus and individual experiences. In the taxonomy and this paper, we emphasize the need for ePortfolio to be central to curricular design; embedded in pedagogies that support integrative learning and identity development; developed in concert with explicit instruction on “ePortfolio making”; and assessed holistically and in alignment with desired learning outcomes and experiences. The paper concludes with a case study from IUPUI’s Philanthropic Studies B.A. program, which discovered through its own ePortfolio work many of the same principles and practices reflected in the taxonomy and the literature.
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    Using Electronic Portfolios to Measure Student Gains from Mentored Research
    (Council on Undergraduate Research, 2009-03) Wilson, Kathryn; Crowe, Mary; Singh, Jacqueline; Stamatoplos, Anthony; Rubens, Elizabeth; Gosney, John; Dimaculangan, Dwight; Levy, Foster; Zrull, Mark; Pyles, Rebecca
    This article reports on the development and implementation of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Electronic Portfolio (ePortfolio) Project. The goal of the NSF ePortfolio Project was to develop an objective, evidence-based approach to measuring student learning as the result participating in a mentored research experience. The project developed an undergraduate research assessment instrument, the NSF Electronic Rubric, to examine student research products before and after a research experience. That tool is embedded in a learning portfolio, which was constructed to gather evidence of student skills as measured against a set of learning outcomes. The article discusses the rationale for the ePortfolio project and development of the rubric and evaluation tool.
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    Using ePortfolios to Facilitate Transfer Student Success
    (ASEE, 2020-06) Cooney, Elaine M.; Freije, Elizabeth; Zhao, Mengyuan (Alice); Engineering Technology, School of Engineering and Technology
    Using ePortfolios to Facilitate Transfer Student Success Abstract This paper describes the use of an ePortolio to facilitate success as students transfer from a community college system to baccalaureate engineering technology programs as juniors. The ePortfolio is created as part of a transfer seminar course that meets just before and during their first semester at university. The course has three purposes: 1. Orient to the university 2. Synthesize learning from Associate of Science (AS) 3. Identify and complete any prerequisite knowledge for junior level courses. Some material may be included in the university freshman and sophomore course, but not included in associate of science courses at community college. The creation of an ePortfolio during the transfer seminar assists with the synthesis of previous learning and filling in any gaps in knowledge needed for rest of the BS plan of study. To guide the artifact selection for the ePortfolio, university faculty reviewed the state-wide core competencies and compared them to the pre-requisite knowledge required for junior level courses. The most important competencies were targeted for use in the ePortfolio. During the seminar class, students identify artifacts from their AS classes that demonstrate the competency, upload an electronic representation of the work, and write a reflection about how the artifact demonstrates their competence. The reflections are assessed by the faculty using rubrics published in the course management system. The ePortfolio tool is part of the CourseNetworking (CN) platform. CN has many advantages as an ePortfolio for this application, but the most important is that CN lets individual users own their ePortfolio for their lifetime; the site is not owned by the college or the university. Even after graduation or transferring to a new school, users may continue to access and maintain their CN ePortfolio, free of charge. This enables community college students to begin their artifact collection while taking their associate degree classes, and then complete their reflections after they transfer to the university. The use of ePortfolios and reflection on learning is an effective way to give students confidence as they begin a new program and to bridge any gaps in prerequisite knowledge.