Conference: ePortfolios Australia Conference 2010 (EAC2010)

ePortfolios Australia Conference 2010 (EAC2010) - widening participation by engaging the learner

Following on from the successes of the VET E-portfolios Showcase in 2009 and the ALTC Australian ePortfolio Symposia in 2008/2009, ePortfolios Australia Conference 2010 (EAC2010) will bring together national and international educators and thought leaders to showcase current e-portfolio practice and demonstrate the ways e-portfolios are serving as catalysts to support and engage adult learning from the:

* vocational education and training (VET) sector
* higher education (HE) sector, and
* adult and community education (ACE) sector

EAC2010 will be held on the 3-4 November 2010 at the Angliss Conference Centre in Melbourne, with a Vendors ePortfolios Showcase to be held on the evening of Wednesday 3 November.

Vendors and sponsors interested in participating in this event can register their interest by contacting Allison.Miller@flexiblelearning.net.au or phone: 08 8348 4075.

For more information:
http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/content/e-portfolios-australia
http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/files/eport_aust_dl_alt_A5_110210.pdf

Conference: AAEEBL Call for Proposals

Hello everyone: Please join us in Boston at the Seaport Hotel from July 19-22. The Call for Proposals is open. The site to submit a proposal to is https://eventbrainz.com/event/aaeebl2010 We expect 600 attendees. Campus Technology, right next door in the Seaport World Trade Center adds another 800 attendees. We share an exhibit hall, so in addition to a full conference on ePortfolios, you can visit hundreds of booths in the shared exhibit hall. ePortfolio-related booths will be tagged in an easily recognizable way.

The proposals submitted to us will be reviewed by our program committee; only some proposals will be accepted. This is a refereed academic conference.

Featured speakers: Randy Bass, Helen Barrett, Helen Chen, Darren Cambridge, Bret Eynon, Trent Batson, Gary Brown, Phil Long, Kathleen Yancey, Terrel Rhodes, Serge Ravet, Peggy Maki, Steve Ehrmann, Allison Miller, Rob Ward, Marij Veugelers. France, the U.K., Australia and the Netherlands are represented.

Proposals will begin to be reviewed April 1; final deadline is May 1. Submit early to give yourself the best chance to be on the program.

Article: As We May Learn: Revisiting Bush

As We May Learn: Revisiting Bush
By Trent Batson
02/03/10
Campus Technology

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/02/03/as-we-may-learn-revisiting-bush.aspx?sc_lang=en

Article: The Higher Education Hedgehog

The Higher Education Hedgehog
By Trent Batson
02/16/10
Campus Technology

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/02/17/the-higher-education-hedgehog.aspx?sc_lang=en

ePortfolio articles in Transformative Dialogues (2009)

Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal
http://kwantlen.ca/TD.html
Volume 3, Issue 2, November 2009
New Media and Ways that it Supports Scholarship

Curriculum Leadership Portfolios: Enhancing Scholarly Approaches to Undergraduate Program Reform - Harry Hubball & Marion L. Pearson, University of British Columbia
http://kwantlen.ca/TD/TD.3.2/TD.3.2_Hubball&Pearson_Curriculum_Leadership_Portfolios.pdf

Encouraging Integrative Learning through Current Events and Learning Portfolios - Marice E. Rose, Ph.D., Fairfield University
http://kwantlen.ca/TD/TD.3.2/TD.3.2_Rose_Encouraging_Integrative_Learning.pdf

Using Electronic Faculty Course Portfolios to Showcase Classroom Practices and Student Learning - Paul Savory and Amy Goodburn, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
http://kwantlen.ca/TD/TD.3.2/TD.3.2_Savory&Goodburn_Faculty_Portfolios.pdf

January 2010 EPAC/AAEEBL Virginia Tech webcast

If you'd like to join us and AAEEBL for tomorrow's webcast with Virginia Tech University on Telling the learning story: Students' authentic experiences used to assess learning, at 10-11 a.m. PT/12 p.m.-1 p.m. CT/1-2 p.m. ET, connection information is posted here: http://epac.pbworks.com/2010_01-Virginia-Tech-webcast

We still encourage you to register for the event since this will allow us to contact you directly once the archived recording and chat transcript are available. We also use the registration information to solicit feedback and suggestions for future webcasts and chat topics as well as to support networking among our members.

Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL)/EPAC Webcast with Virginia Tech University
Telling the learning story: Students' authentic experiences used to assess learning
Thursday, January 14, 2010
10-11 a.m. PT/12 p.m.-1 p.m. CT/1-2 p.m. ET.

Registration and event follow-up:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGQ4WjI1MFpPZklkX0hHcnltdWNNbUE6MA

NOTE: We ask that you to fill out the above form even if you attended the event but did not pre-register since this allows us to follow up with you directly once the recording of the event and chat transcript are available. It would also be helpful for us to inform of you of future events of interest.

Description: For the past several years, Virginia Tech has been engaged in a campus-wide effort to explore and adopt ePortfolio technology in appropriate places in its curriculum. From a handful of interested faculty in 2007, the ePortfolio Initiatives Office has grown to be working with more than 60 different projects across seven colleges. A large part of our success, we think, is not to focus too much on the technology for ePortfolio deployment, but to focus instead on using the technology to encourage student learning and assessment of that learning. Though we have a variety of ePortfolio projects, we find that our most successful and vibrant projects are those that engage with authentic activities that use the students' creative voices to analyze experiences from their perspectives. In this way, assessment of that learning, by the student, the instructor, and the institution, is enhanced by including qualitative, individual pictures of each student's different experiences with the curriculum. In this webcast, several examples of these projects will be reviewed, including our next big focus: our first-year experiences. As part of its regional reaccreditation efforts, Virginia Tech is planning to focus on first-year experiences in order to enhance overall institutional quality and effectiveness by improving student learning. In order to facilitate synthetic, reflective learning across a variety of experiences, ePortfolios will be one among other tools used. In this session, we will discuss how and why we chose to use ePortfolios, and how they will assist us in assessing the elements of the AAC&U VALUE Rubrics.

Our presenters will be Marc Zaldivar, Director of the ePortfolio Initiatives, an office of the Learning Technologies Department at Virginia Tech, and his Assistant Director, Teggin Summers, both of who will discuss some of the student-centered activities used in our ePortfolio projects. Also from Learning Technologies is C. Edward Watson, Director of Professional Development and Strategic Initiatives, who will provide information about the history and future potentials of the ePortfolio Initiatives. Finally, from the Office of Academic Assessment, Kate McConnell will talk about our adoption of the AAC&U VALUE Metarubrics and our plans for assessment of the First-Year Experiences.

Seeking ePortfolio examples for AAC&U Gallery of Writing

2009.12.21

In partnership with the National Council of Teachers of English, the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has created a Gallery of Writing within the much larger National Gallery of Writing project.

The AAC&U Gallery is looking for submissions of work that characterizes liberal education in the 21st century. The AAC&U page on the Gallery: http://www.aacu.org/gallery/index.cfm

The AAC&U Gallery itself: http://www.galleryofwriting.org/galleries/association_of_american_colleges_and_universities_gallery

We would be interested in e-portfolio examples or other innovative practices, reflections, examples. Address questions, please, to Susan Albertine: Albertine AT aacu.org

Thanks!

--Susan Albertine

Co-curator, AAC&U Gallery
Senior Director, LEAP States Initiative
AAC&U

January 2010 EPAC webcasts

After a rather quiet fall, EPAC will be kicking off 2010 with two co-sponsored webcasts scheduled for January and some opportunities to meet in person!

Webcast: Work-Based Folios in the UK and USA
Date and Time: Wednesday, January 13th at 8-9:30 a.m. PT/11-12:30 p.m. ET/4-5:30 p.m. GMT

This unique transatlantic webinar will feature presenters from both the UK and USA who will deliver 4 short presentations on the growing use of web based eportfolios for use in "work based learning.” JISC Regional Support Center East and West Midlands have teamed up with EPAC to exchange experiences of how eportfolios are being used in this growing area of higher education. Attendees will be given the opportunity to interact with presenters and networking with colleagues via the use of voting and chat features in this live session.

Dr. Jacqueline Goodwin, coordinator of the eFolio Pennyslvania effort -- http://www.efoliopa.com/ will be joining Jill Lumsden, Career Development Coordinator of the Florida State University Career Portfolio as our speakers on the U.S. side. Speakers from the UK are Simon Grant of JISC CETIS who will be discussing his new book, Electronic Portfolios: Personal Information, Personal Development and Personal Value (more about Simon can be found here: http://www.simongrant.org/home.html) and Michael Gilroy, E-Learning Manager Lincoln Academy Ltd t/a ISIS Training/ (http://www.isis-training.co.uk). Mick has had a pivotal role in developing and introducing organisation-wide use of technology including the embedded use of e-portfolio, for which the company won Becta Technology Exemplar status.

The webcast is free to attend and we encourage anyone who is interested to register at
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG9pVlRwcVpHV19XQjNYZHcweVJna0E6MA.

Webcast: Virginia Tech University
Date and Time: Thursday, January 14th at 10-11 a.m. PT/1-2 p.m. ET

Jointly sponsored with the Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL), this interactive webcast will feature the university-wide ePortfolio initiatives at Virgina Tech aimed at improving education, learning assessment, and student engagement by using collaborative online tools. Our presenters will include members of the Learning Technologies team who are leading this work.

EPAC webcasts are free to attend and are open to anyone interested in ePortfolios. Space may be limited for some of the events and pre-registration may be required. More information on where and how to join the webcasts will be posted shortly on our blog and wiki at http://epaccop.blogspot.com/ and http://epac.pbworks.com/.

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.

...

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

Report: Focus on Formative Feedback (March 2007)

An interesting report from ETS and a comprehensive literature review on feedback, particularly formative feedback on student learning:

Focus on Formative Feedback
By Valerie J. Shute
Available at www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/RR-07-11.pdf

From the POD listserv

Article: The Limitations of Portfolios (10/16/09)

October 16, 2009
Inside Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2009/10/16/shavelson

Electronic collections help show the range of students' work, but are not standardized or scalable enough to be used for broad assessment purposes, write Richard Shavelson, Stephen Klein and Roger Benjamin.

A provoking perspective...thoughts, comments, reactions? The comments to the article are also worth reading as are AAC&U President's Carol Schneider's response here: http://blog.aacu.org/index.php/2009/10/19/the-proof-is-in-the-portfolio/ and Dr. Helen Barrett's blog posting here: http://electronicportfolios.org/blog/2009/10/limitations-of-portfolios.html

A German Review of ePortfolio Platforms (2009)

Review of ePortfolio Platforms (2009/5/18)

From the Regional Support Centres "Midlands Eportfolio Group" listserv (10/09)

NOTE: This document is in German -- skip to the matrix (pg 25)

http://www.bildungstechnologie.net/blog/evaluation-von-e-portfolio-software-abschlussbericht

via Google Translate: http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bildungstechnologie.net%2Fblog%2Fevaluation-von-e-portfolio-software-abschlussbericht&sl=auto&tl=en&history_state0=auto

Call for Proposals: Ed-Media 2010, June 28-July 2, 2010

ED-MEDIA 2010: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications
June 28-July 2, 2010 * Toronto, Canada
The Westin Harbour Castle on Lake Ontario

Submissions Due: Dec. 18, 2009
http://aace.org/conf/edmedia/call.htm

TOPICS:
http://aace.org/conf/edmedia/topics.htm

The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following major topics as they relate to the educational and developmental aspects of multimedia/hypermedia and telecommunications:

1. Infrastructure: (in the large)
- Architectures for Educational Technology Systems
- Design of Distance Learning Systems
- Distributed Learning Environments
- Methodologies for system design
- Multimedia/Hypermedia Systems
- WWW-based course-support systems

2. Tools & Content-oriented Applications:
- Agents
- Authoring tools
- Evaluation of impact
- Interactive Learning Environments
- Groupware tools
- Multimedia/Hypermedia Applications
- Research perspectives
- Virtual Reality
- WWW-based course sites
- WWW-based learning resources
- WWW-based tools

3. New Roles of the Instructor & Learner:
- Constructivist perspectives
- Cooperative/collaborative learning
- Implementation experiences
- Improving Classroom Teaching
- Instructor networking
- Instructor training and support
- Pedagogical Issues
- Teaching/Learning Strategies

4. Human-computer Interaction (HCI/CHI):
- Computer-Mediated Communication
- Design principles
- Usability/user studies
- User interface design

5. Cases & Projects:
- Country-Specific Developments
- Exemplary projects
- Institution-specific cases
- Virtual universities

6. Special Strand: ** Universal Web Accessibility **

DEADLINES:
http://aace.org/conf/edmedia/deadlines.htm

Submissions Due: December 18, 2009
Authors Notified: February 9, 2010
Proceedings File Due: May 3, 2010
Early Registration: May 3, 2010
Hotel Reservations: May 27, 2010
Conference: June 28-July 2, 2010

Conference: ABET Symposium, April 15-17, 2010

Proposals are now being accepted for the April 15-17, 2010 ABET Symposium (formerly “Best Assessment Processes”). NEW format includes resource room to review examples of ABET self-studies and multiple program tracks. Proposals are now being accepted in the following tracks:

• Program Assessment Processes
• Writing your Self-Study
• Preparing for the Evaluation Visit

Proposals are encouraged for three hour workshops in any of the track areas to be offered on Thursday afternoon April 15. Submit your proposal at http://www.abet.org/symposium.shtml. All proposals will be peer reviewed.

Location is in Las Vegas at the non-casino, Alexis Park Las Vegas Resort Hotel with rates at $69 per night for suites.