EPortfolios at Wayne State University

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E-Portfolios at Wayne State University

• Documenting Accomplishment
• AECT ConferenceOctober 21 2004

Mary Waker Deborah Armstrong Rita C. Richey
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e-Portfolios

• An electronic portfolio is
• a collection of authentic and diverse evidence
• drawn from a larger archive representing what a
  person or organization has learned over time
• on which the person or organization has
  reflected, and
• designed for presentation to one or more
  audiences for a particular rhetorical purpose

Definition established by the National Learning
Infrastructure Initiative (NLII, 2003)
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Types of e-Portfolios

• Professional portfolio
• working portfolio
• presentation portfolio
• Teaching portfolio
• specific to the field of teaching

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WSU

• Background
• 2001 U.S. Dept. of Education grant
• Preparing Tomorrows Teachers to use Technology
  (PT3)
• Teacher Education programs
• Faculty professional development
• Technology integrated curriculum
• Graduating teachers able to successfully
  integrate technology in their classrooms

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Grant Components

• Laptop program for teacher education students
• Professional development opportunities for
  faculty and students
• Technology teams
• faculty, students (technology-skilled), ETC staff
• Student e-Portfolios

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WSU TED e-Portfolios

• Fall 2002
• 1 of 10 pre-service student teacher classes
• first field experience
• initial portfolio
• based on required certification portfolio
• Web authoring tool
• Netscape
• used computer lab or personal computer
• training
• assessment

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WSU TED e-Portfolios

• Winter 2003
• 2 of 10 pre-service student teacher classes
• initial portfolio
• Web authoring tool
• Adobe GoLive
• student laptops
• training
• assessment

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WSU TED e-Portfolios

• Fall 2003
• 3 of 10 pre-service student teacher classes
• 2 faculty with high level of technology skills
• 1 faculty with low level of technology skills
• initial portfolio
• laptops with Adobe GoLive
• training
• assessment

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WSU COE e-Portfolios

• Winter 2004
• Teacher Education classes
• 4 of 10 pre-service classes
• additional classes
• Engineering/TE, IT (2), TE masters project
  (Livetext)
• initial portfolio
• laptops
• e-Portfolio tools
• Adobe GoLive (1)
• LiveText (7)

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e-Portfolio Creation Tools

• Productivity Applications
• Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat
• HTML Editors
• Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Netscape Composer
• Adobe GoLive
• Templates
• iWebFolio
• College LiveText

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HTML Editor

• Increased flexibility
• Supports creativity and individuality
• Can be difficult to learn
• An example Adobe GoLive

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Template-Based E-Portfolio

• Easier to learn
• Can restrict creativity
• Lacks flexibility
• http//www.college.livetext.com

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e-Portfolios at Wayne State

• Physician Assistant Studies
• College of Engineering
• College of Education
• Teacher Education
• Instructional Technology

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Physician Assistant Studies

• Purpose document commitment to learning
• Functions
• record-keeping for students
• professional document once graduated
• program assessment

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PA Studies e-Portfolio Sections
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PA Studies Rubric

• Purpose evaluate students commitment to
  learning
• Administered 3 times
• Performance standards
• needs improvement
• acceptable
• target

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Objectives After Admission

• Identify problems (14)
• Formulate appropriate questions (14)
• Show evidence of preparation prior to class (14)
• Participate in small groups (14)
• Attend class consistently (14)
• Show attentiveness (14)
• Demonstrate a positive attitude toward learning
  (14)

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Objectives After Year 1

• Awareness of or providing additional material
  outside of class structure (14)
• Enthusiasm about new ideas (14)
• Reconcile differences in opinions or information
  (14)
• Show confidence in present material (14)
• Set personal and professional goals (14)
• Seek new learning opportunities (14)
• Seek out professional literature (14)

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Objectives at Program Completion

• Apply new information and reevaluate performance
  (20)
• Read articles critically and understand limits of
  application to professional practice (20)
• Research and study areas where knowledge base is
  lacking (20)
• Accept that there may be more than one answer to
  a problem (20)
• Research areas where knowledge is lacking (20)

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College of Engineering

• Enabling Technology course
• Assignment analyze the usability and
  accessibility of the LiveText e-Portfolio system
• usability
• accessibility
• programming
• user

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Enabling Technology Conclusions

• An e-Portfolio creation tool should
• be easy to use
• allow for creativity
• have minimal to no programming accessibility
  errors
• have no user-inaccessible items and minimal
  user-accessibility difficulties

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Teacher Education

• Survey data gathered from all e-Portfolio
  students
• Data analyzed by PT3 evaluators from WSU Center
  for Urban Studies
• Pre-service teachers required to create an
  e-Portfolio
• documentation of 12 competencies
• philosophy of education statement
• classroom management plan

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Teacher Education

• Survey data from 3 classes
• one instructor had minimal technology skills
• two instructors had strong technology skills
• Winter 03
• n41
• html editor GoLive
• Winter 04
• n38
• template-based College LiveText

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I feel competent creating an e-Portfolio
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My e-Portfolio will be beneficial in applying for
teaching positions
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Which version of the teaching portfolio do you
prefer?
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Do you plan to continue with the e-Portfolio
format after this course?
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Reasons for abandoning the e-Portfolio format

• I will no longer have access to the laptop to
  update the e-portfolio

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Reasons for abandoning the e-Portfolio format

• I will no longer have access to the software I
  need to continue with it

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Reasons for abandoning the e-Portfolio format

• It is too difficult/time consuming

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Reasons for abandoning the e-Portfolio format

• I prefer the paper format

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Reasons for abandoning the e-Portfolio format

• I did not gain enough skills in this course to
  continue with it

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Reasons for abandoning the e-Portfolio format

• I dont think it is useful

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What Happened?

• W04 students less enthusiastic aboute-Portfolios
• LiveText too easy?
• LiveText too restrictive?
• LiveText failed so undependable?

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Evaluators Recommendations

• Provide significant technology training and
  support
• Begin technology training process early in
  program
• Begin creating e-Portfolios early in the program

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Instructional Technology Application

• Off-campus Masters program cohort
• teachers, technology coordinators, intermediate
  school personnel
• 2 year program culminating in Masters Degree in
  Instructional Technology with an Emphasis in K-12
  Technology Integration
• State of Michigan Educational Technology
  Endorsement
• variety of WSU faculty

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Purpose of e-Portfolio Tool

• To document growing Instructional Technology
  skills and knowledge
• To relate knowledge and skills to pre-specified
  competencies, especially those required for
  Endorsement Program
• To provide a coordinating link for the various
  faculty working with the cohort

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Portfolio Implementation Process

• General format established in Introductory
  Graduate Seminar in IT
• student profiles, professional goals
  philosophies described
• competencies clustered by the five domains of the
  field Professional Foundations
• Other faculty worked within this framework

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A Sample Portfolio Foundations

• Introduction
• Biosketch (with photo)
• Professional goals
• Philosophy Beliefs
• Professional History
• Resume
• Plan of Work
• Terminal Masters Project
• Professional Activities

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Core Competencies, Related Performance
Artifacts

• General Professional
• E.g. communication, research theory, ethical
  standards
• Design
• Development
• Utilization
• Management
• Evaluation

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Advantages

• Competency data base
• Ability to add to this data base with other
  competencies
• Tool for documenting program growth as well as
  course growth

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Disadvantages

• Some program limitations
• inability to alter basic template during program
• awkward process for reviewing and commenting on
  documents

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Flexibility of LiveText

• Issue Focus on K-12 Education applications
  rather than performance improvement business
  applications
• Source of other competencies
• Ibspti.org (Instructional Designer, Instructor,
  Training Manager)
• ISPI
• ASTD

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Future of e-Portfolios

• Could become a stable part of IT curricula in
  higher education
• market demand from K-12 sector
• may grow within business sector, although there
  are constraints here
• Issue What platform (if any) should be used?
• program-specific, sector-specific, or commercial?
  

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WSU Next Steps

• Early adopters
• Education, Engineering, Physician Assistant
  Studies, Fine Performing Arts
• Community building
• TLTR committee
• campus-wide representation
• demonstrations/hands-on experience
• brown bag discussions
• University systems
• integrated vs. non-integrated

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Vendors for e-Portfolio Systems

• FolioTek from Lanit Consulting
• http//www.foliotek.com
• My Classroom Helper (K-12 market)
• http//www.myclassroomhelper.com/
• E-Portfolio by www.opeus.com (an e-portfolio in
  the U.K.)
• http//www.opeus.com
• eNVQ - an online management system for the
  assessment and verification of vocational
  qualifications (U.K.)
• http//www.envq.com/
• Managed Assessment Portfolio System (MAPS) - an
  online system structured around the UK National
  Curriculum
• http//www.maps-ict.com/index.shtml
• Pupil Pages
• http//www.pupilpages.com/
• Portfolio Resume.net
• http//www.portfolioresume.net/
• FolioMaker by Folios International
• http//www.foliosinternational.com/index1.htm
• MyPortfolio by Myinternet, Limited, an Australian
  company - focused on K-12 schools
• http//www.myinternet.com.au/products/myportfolio.
  html
• PaperFree Systems

• Chalk Wire
• http//www.chalkandwire.com
• LiveText
• http//www.livetext.com
• TaskStream
• http//www.taskstream.com
• LearningQuest
• http//www.lotilounge.com/ep_demo_1/
• Aurbach__Associates
• http//www.aurbach.com/
• McGraw-Hill
• Folio Live website
• Foliolive demo
• ProfPort
• http//portfolio.ilstu.edu/profport/
• http//www.folioworld.com/
• folio by eportaro
• http//www.eportaro.com
• Concord (a digital content server for Blackboard
  systems)

From Dr. Helen Barrett, http//helenbarrett.com
/portfolios/bookmarks.htmlteach
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Contact Information

• Presentation available at
• http//www.coe.wayne.edu/pt3/aect/
• Rita Richey (rrichey_at_wayne.edu)
• Mary Waker (m.waker_at_wayne.edu)
• Deborah Armstrong (darmstrong_at_wayne.edu)

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Your Questions