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.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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.
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.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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/.
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/.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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
Monday, June 8, 2009
AAEEBL Meeting, June 17, 2009 in RI
We are meeting on June 17 at Bryant University in RI to discuss forming a New England chapter of AAEEBL. See www.oshean.org to register for the Member Forum. It's free and will, as always, be a
splendid event. Anyone nearby is welcome to join us for the AAEEBL session.
(From Trent Batson, The Association of Authentic, Experimental and Evidence-Based Learning, http://www.aaeebl.org/)
splendid event. Anyone nearby is welcome to join us for the AAEEBL session.
(From Trent Batson, The Association of Authentic, Experimental and Evidence-Based Learning, http://www.aaeebl.org/)
Save the Date: AAEEBL ePortfolio conference
Our first annual conference will take place in Boston, July 27-29, 2010. Co-hosted by The Association of American Colleges and Universities; co-located with Campus Technology. We expect over 600 attendees. For now, just save the date.
(From Trent Batson, The Association of Authentic, Experimental and Evidence-Based Learning, http://www.aaeebl.org/)
(From Trent Batson, The Association of Authentic, Experimental and Evidence-Based Learning, http://www.aaeebl.org/)
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