ePortfolio

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ePortfolio an update

• Stephen Parsons
• Curriculum Consultant
• School of Applied Arts New Media
• NSCC
• February 2006

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ePortfolio

• What is ePortfolio?
• Depends a great deal on who you ask
• LIFIA
• One digital record of learning for life
• SAKAI
• A set of tools for collaboration on portfolio and
  portfolio research
• National Coalition on ePortfolio Research
• Digital portfolios that foster established and
  newly recognized forms of learning

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ePortfolio

• What is ePortfolio?
• Depends a great deal on who you ask
• TaskStream
• Customizable multimedia tools for organizing and
  presenting professional and academic achievements
• ePortfolio.org
• An electronic collection of work that can be used
  to engage in new models of learning, guide career
  development, and support advisement and
  assessment

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ePortfolio

• What is ePortfolio?
• Depends a great deal on who you ask
• IMS Global Consortium
• A collection of digital artifacts, evidence and
  resources organized and presented within a
  framework that supports standards for
  interoperability and portability
• OSPortfolio
• An organized collection of one or more portfolio
  pages which are intended to be published and
  shared with others

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ePortfolio

• History
• Collection of artifacts digitized for storage and
  portability (FlopFolio)
• Interactive multimedia presentation of learning
  (FolioDVD)
• Interactive repository of digital documents
  (WebFolio)
• Dynamic Learning Experience for Reflection and
  Assessment (ePortfolio Communities)

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ePortfolio

• Contemporary Directions
• Audience Diversity
• PLA, Registrars, HRSDC, HR professionals,
  consultants, software developers
• Convergence
• HRMS, ERP, LMS/LCMS, eLearning
• Product Development standards!
• Open Source vs Proprietary
• ePortfolio Environments vs Digital Portfolios
• ePortfolio Communities

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ePortfolio

• Examples
• Angela Byron (Webfolio)
• www.webchick.net
• Helen Barrett (MultiFolio)
• www.taskstream.com/ts/barrett5/portfolio.html
• Stephen Parsons (Dynamic Webfolios)
• http/www.innovait.ca/eportfolio

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ePortfolio

• Players
• Institutions
• University of Minnesota Duluth
• University of Delaware
• CSU Monterey Bay
• Virginia Tech
• University of Indiana
• University of Michigan
• Stanford University

• MIT
• George Mason University
• University of Washington
• DePaul University
• Syracuse University
• Portland State University
• University of Amsterdam

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ePortfolio

• Players
• OSPortfolio.org
• Open Source Community for ePortfolio
• The Sakai Project
• Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE)
• rSmart Group
• Carnegie Mellon Foundation
• IMS Global
• Fostering Standards for Interoperability and
  Portability
• Learning Innovations Forum pour lInnovation
  dApprentissage (LIFIA)
• Eurofolio, Pan-Am conferences and MOUs

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OSPortfolio

• OSPortfolio.org
• A community of interest and practice in
  ePortfolio tools based on open source (OS)
  standards
• An open source product and process being
  developed by a growing OS community supporting
  portfolio activities by providing an environment
  to collect and reflect on work, and to design and
  publish portfolio presentations

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OSPortfolio (April 2003)

• CSU Monterey Bay
• Usability Customization
• Assessment Accreditation
• Integration Interfaces
• Scholarship of Teaching Learning
• Templates
• Portability

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OSPortfolio (Fall 2005)

• Learners
• Learning portfolio, articulation, individual
  creativity and ownership
• Institutions
• Authentic assessment, program evaluation,
  teaching, learning, collaboration best practices
• Community
• Collaboration, standards, interoperability,
  portability, employment, recruiting, and selection

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OSPortfolio (Fall 2005)
Usability Assessment Integration Scholarship T/L Templates Portability
Learner Learning Portfolio Creativity Ownership Learning Portfolio Individual Articulation Outcomes Creativity Outcomes Learning Portfolio Individual Articulation Outcomes Learning Portfolio Creativity Learning Portfolio Ownership
Institution Best Practice Outcomes Accreditation Learning Collaboration Outcomes Best Practice Portability Outcomes Accreditation Learning Teaching Collaboration Best Practice Accreditation Teaching Portability
Global Community Employment Employment Best Practice Portability Standards Interoperability Standards Best Practice Portability Standards Interoperable Employment
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ePortfolio _at_ NSCC

• Connection
• Canadas Portfolio College
• Drivers
• Portfolio College, IT/Applied Arts and Business
  Faculty, Schools, Technical Services
• Definitions
• Digitally representing oneself through web, CD
  and other digital presentation
• Converting the products of portfolio learning to
  an electronic form

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ePortfolio _at_ NSCC

• Examples
• Websites
• CDs
• Multimedia Presentations
• Activity
• Pan-Am MOU
• Conferences
• LIFIA Pan-Am (Vancouver, Montreal 2004)
• CAPLA
• Gateways
• Innovations
• P2P Contracting
• Data driven apps
• SharePoint My Site

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ePortfolio _at_ NSCC

• Grading the effort
• Ad-hoc electronic portfolio development
• Strategic focus on academic systems
• Resources capacity
• Technical awareness
• Presence
• Implementation

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ePortfolio _at_ NSCC

• Regaining the Position
• Get in the Game!
• Applied Research
• Pilot for OSPortfolio
• Use what you got
• Leverage LIFIA
• Portfolio Course/ AET
• Grow the Capacity
• Vancouver Pan-Am
• Promote Awareness
• Publish or perish?
• Academic Research

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ePortfolio _at_ NSCC

• References
• Stephen.Parsons_at_nscc.ca, 902/491-3506
• Dr. Helen Barrett www.electronicportfolios.org
• LIFIA www.lifia.ca
• CAPLA www.capla.ca
• OSPortfolio www.osportfolio.org
• IMS Global Learning Consortium www.imsglobal.org

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Thank You!

• Next Steps
• www.lifia.ca
• www.agilecurriculum.org
• ePortfolio Conference
• Vancouver, April 6-8, 2006
• Conference Proceedings on LIFIA