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Electronic Portfolios:
Implementation Strategies for Teaching and Learning
Description
Web-based portfolios have become a very popular and powerful way to describe, reflect, and demonstrate what individuals know and can do. Using web technologies, all students can take advantage of this opportunity to efficiently network and represent themselves regardless of program of study or campus location. The challenges of using e-portfolios to enhance teaching and learning do not lie in learning new skills and adapting to new technology, but in understanding how to promote and nurture new ways of thinking about what we are learning and why it is important. This is the case whether students are engaged in designing and developing web pages using common web publishing tools or working within web-based portfolio systems.
Join us for the e-Portfolios: Implementation Strategies for Teaching and Learning web conference as we review the issues and challenges related to e-portfolio activity. The discussion will range from including assignments involving web publishing in the courses you teach to developing an e-portfolio that can be used to help market oneself to prospective employers. Participants will review examples and walk through implementation strategies.
Driving questions to be addressed include:
- What is an e-portfolio?
- What do student e-portfolios look like?
- Why create e-portfolios?
- Who can create an e-portfolio?
- How do you develop an e-portfolio?
- What are the support requirements for learners?
- What kinds of e-portfolios are there?
- What are the benefits to teaching and learning?
- How can I begin to include e-portfolio related activities in the courses or the program where I teach?
Who Should Attend:
- Faculty, instructional designers, academic leaders, and information technology professionals will benefit from this discussion of implementation strategies, challenges, and insights to adopting e-portfolios.
- Faculty who are thinking about incorporating e-portfolio activity into their courses will learn to help students make connections between learning experiences.
- Faculty who are interested in designing and sharing professional information related to their own research, service, and teaching in their own e-portfolio can better determine the time commitment and benefits related to this approach.
- Curriculum and department administrators and assessment and evaluation professionals who are looking for alternative ways to collect information about student learning for the purposes of evaluating their programs of study will begin to understand the implications of how e-portfolios might fit into their overall assessment plans.
- Information technology professionals who are interested in obtaining a bigger picture of what the e-portfolio phenomenon is about will come away with a better understanding of who is involved and the implications for technology resources and support.
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