Article: Student role in assessment?

Where is the Student Voice in Assessment?
By Trent Batson
11/4/09
Campus Technology
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2009/11/04/where-is-the-student-voice-in-assessment.aspx

Many ePortfolio systems focus on institutional assessment data, putting student assessment--especially students' own reflections on their work--in second place. Batson advocates a voice for students in the assessment process.

Article: ePortfolios and Lifelong Learning

Here, There, & Everywhere
By Dian Schaffhauser
11/01/09
Campus Technology
http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2009/11/01/ePortfolios.aspx

Electronic portfolios can follow a student beyond graduation into careers and other life pursuits-- but not if the university can't guarantee access, or if the data won't transfer from one system to another. A look at how ePortfolios can be true repositories of lifelong learning.

Article: Course Requirement: Friend Your Professor on Facebook

From The Chronicle of Higher Education
November 12, 2009
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Course-Requirement-Friend/8827/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

Some professors don't let students see their Facebook pages. Peter Juvinall insists students "friend" him.

The Illinois State University instructor decided the best way to connect with a bunch of freshman business students in a short 8 a.m. class was to conduct much of the course where they are anyway—on Facebook.

So, as he explained during last week’s Educause conference and in a subsequent interview, he uses Facebook as a course-management system by instructing students to “friend” his personal page on the first day of class.

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Teaching on Facebook works with one of Mr. Juvinall's main messages: that students should think of their online presence as a digital resume. Employers have been known to ask alumni to check out the Facebook pages of job candidates, he points out, since some Facebook users allow anyone within their university's network to view their profiles.

Report: What Learning Will Be Like in 2015 from Herman Miller (2009)

From Herman Miller's Education Solutions E-newsletter
November 2009

New Interpretation of What Learning Will Be Like in 2015

Recently, Herman Miller convened a panel of experts to re-examine 12 predictions made in 2005 about learning in the year 2015. The latest panel agreed that many of the trends identified in 2005 had already become mainstream realities. What was required was a more nuanced and contemporary interpretation to recognize how the current financial environment had affected the original discussions. That interpretation is outlined in a new research summary entitled "The Outlook for Learning: Views on the Future."

http://www.hermanmiller.com/MarketFacingTech/hmc/research/research_summaries/assets/wp_Outlook_for_Learning.pdf

Article: Implementing Electronic Portfolios: Benefits, Challenges, and Suggestions (2008)

© 2008 Barbara Meyer and Nancy Latham.

EDUCAUSE Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 1 (January–March 2008), pp. 34–41

This research describes the lessons learned during initial implementation of e-folios at four teacher education programs

http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/ImplementingElectronicPortfoli/162514

Occasionally, we'll highlight ePortfolio-related articles that might be of interest to EPAC members. Some of these articles will be current but we may also revisit publications from the past that address issues that are still relevant today.

If you have an article to contribute, please let us know!

ELI Webinar: Using Electronic Course Portfolios to Support the Scholarship of Teaching (2009.11.09)

http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=473
If your institution is a member of the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI), you might be interested in signing up for this web seminar:

Bridgett Piernik-Yoder Assistant Professor University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Topic: Using Electronic Course Portfolios to Support the Scholarship of Teaching Date: November 9, 2009 Time: 1:00 p.m. EDT (12:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. MDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT) International participants: You may wish to visit this external time-conversion website to calculate the event's start time in your time zone. Duration: 1 hour

Malcolm Brown, director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, moderates this web seminar with Bridgett Piernik-Yoder. As discourse regarding the evaluation of teaching has evolved, an established definition of the standards of scholarship of teaching has emerged. In adhering to these standards, it becomes imperative to document teaching practices and investigate methods that support the examination and sharing of teaching practices. Whereas the concept of scholarship of teaching has been defined, little information is available regarding specific tools and processes to support scholarship of teaching.

The purpose of this presentation is to illustrate how course portfolios are one effective tool in documenting teaching practices to support reflective technique and invite peer review. The use of an electronic course portfolio as a flexible tool to support scholarship of teaching will be highlighted. Additionally, the challenges and benefits of developing electronic course portfolios will be presented, as well as suggestions to facilitate the development process.

This free seminar is an exclusive benefit for ELI member organizations—you and any others at your institution are invited to attend. Virtual seating is limited, however, and registration is required. REGISTER NOW.

AAEEBL Newsletter - 2009.10.28

For information on how to sign up to receive these newsletters, please join the The Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) Google Group here: http://groups.google.com/group/w2ep?hl=en.   You do not need to be a member of AAEEBL to join this list. 

We've sent updates to the entire AAEEBL community for the past 9 months as we grew from 30 individuals to 230 individuals in 7 countries and 80 member institutions.  Now, in recognition of our status as an established professional association, "updates" have become "newsletters," although not yet formatted as such.

**  The AAEEBL website, www.aaeebl.org, is a social site which supports discussions.  The site is updated almost daily so reflects the latest status and activities of AAEEBL.  It would help AAEEBL greatly if you could put a link from your own sites to http://www.aaeebl.org.

**  Four AAEEBL conferences in 2010 are already set:  1)  March 22-24, 2010, Clemson University, first conference for the AAEEBL Southeast Chapter, 2) May 18, 2010, Stonehill College, MA, first conference for the AAEEBL New England Chapter, 3) May, 2010 [date not finalized], Case Western Reserve University, first conference for the AAEEBL Midwest Chapter, 4) July 19-22, 2010, Boston, Seaport World Trade Center, first annual AAEEBL conference.  See www.aaeebl.org for more information.

** Other conferences under discussion:  1)  ANZ AAEEBL Chapter, 2) Northwest AAEEBL chapter, 3) Rocky Mountain AAEEBL chapter.

** AAEEBL has ten corporate affiliates who have provided financial support to AAEEBL:  Desire2Learn, Task Stream, FolioTek, Adobe, Epsilen, Digication, CommonNeed, eCollege (Pearson), Blackboard, The Longsight Group.  Logos are being installed on our home page.

** A listserv has been set up by EPAC which provides a discussion forum for the EPAC Community of Practice which each of you can join as well by going to:  https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/epaccoplist. The list is: epaccoplist@lists.stanford.edu.  EPAC retains its regular presence at http://epac.pbworks.com/ and at its new blog:  http://epaccop.blogspot.com/.

** A call for papers for AAEEBL 2010 in Boston will be sent out in December via this list and other lists you may be a member of.  AAEEBL 2010 is co-located with Campus Technology and co-hosted by AAC&U and by NERCOMP.

** The first AAEEBL survey and research project is being formed with a focus on student reflections.  You will be seeing more information about this survey and project in the next month.

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I'd like to include brief mentions of news from you in the next AAEEBL newsletter, so send me vignettes or brief write-ups to feature.

Best to you all
Trent Batson