Alison Eckert

DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS:WHY OUR ED DESIGN & TECH

PROGRAMSHOULD ADOPT LIVETEXT

FOR HOSTING DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS

digital portfoliosNEED

Who needed digital portfolios? Education Business

What could digital portfolios do better than hard-copy portfolios? Electronic submission Immediate sharing

IDENTIFYING THE NEED

digital portfoliosRESEARCH

Who first marketed digital portfolios?When did LiveText join the conversation?

Company history Marketed towards:

RESEARCH

digital portfoliosDEVELOPMENT

Who first marketed digital portfolios? Who were the intended customers?

When did LiveText join the conversation? Company history Marketed towards:

DEVELOPMENT

digital portfoliosCOMMERCIALIZATION

Product in the beginning Cost Access Features

Current product Cost Access Features

How does LiveText compare with other products?

COMMERCIALIZATION

digital portfolios

WHERE ARE WE NOW?

Current: Students are required to maintain an online portfolio

Assessed at three points in the program Require a minimum of 36 artifacts, charted into six program

goals, and gauged according to three levels of masteryFuture:

Students could focus on what is included in their portfolios, instead of how to construct one, if a template or universal format could be shared.

At a glance feedback and progress monitoring would help advisors stay on top of student progress

Consistent format would allow for easier and more objective assessments of portfolios.

EDUCATIONAL DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

Current: Students are required to maintain an online portfolio in

LiveText Assessed at three points in the program

Templates are provided for each program Allows for easy monitoring of student progress

OTHER GRADUATE EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Rate of AdoptionS-CURVE

Originated in 1997Adopted by several CUW Graduate Education

programs in 2008.Additional programs (all except one, including all new

programs) have added LiveText as a program requirement by 2012.

GRAPHS: LIVETEXT

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# of new adopters (rate of diffusion)total # of adopters (s-curve)

Innovators=Counseling and Educational Administration (2008)

Early Adopters=Family Life, Curriculum and Instruction, Reading (2010)

Late Adopters=Special Education and Graduate Certification (2012)

Laggards=Educational Design and Technology (not [yet] adopted)

LIVETEXT ADOPTIONS

I have contacted the company and am waiting to hear more about their growth, which will show the number of institutions who are using LiveText

Updates to come… If I do not hear back from LiveText, I can explore data

regarding the use of digital portfolios. My concern is that this data is usually reflective of digital portfolio adoption as an assessment strategy rather than the adoption of a technology. (I have contacted Dr. Green for advice on this matter.)

LIVETEXT: ADOPTION OUTSIDE OF CUW

Leaders through Adoption Process

KEY CHANGE AGENTS

Our Director of the Educational Design and Technology (EDT) Master’s program will need to conclude that using LiveText is the best option for students in his program. He will issue the mandate for purchase and use of LiveText.

Students within the EDT program will need to embrace the use of LiveText. They will need to be successful with the presentation of all

required portfolio components. If students complain about the technology too much, the

adoption could be delayed or stopped entirely, so having the buy-in of the students will be very important.

KEY CHANGE AGENTS

Many of our students are already giving through service to others. By

SEVEN ROLES

Who would you expect to be (or who are) the innovators and early adopters in your field of work for the innovation you are exploring? What strategies are the most persuasive in convincing them to adopt the innovation?

KEY CHANGE AGENTS

Who do you think would be (or who are) the laggards in terms of rejecting the innovation? What strategies would be best to help move them toward adoption? 

KEY CHANGE AGENTS

Which combination of perceived attributes would be best for helping your innovation meet critical mass in your industry? 

Do you believe a centralized or decentralized approach would work best for the adoption of the innovation you are proposing to the Board of Directors? 

Has the innovation you are proposing to the Board already met critical mass in society? If it has not met critical mass, which of the four strategies for achieving critical mass do you recommend to the Board for your innovation?