eportfolios as flexible learning spaces
DESCRIPTION
Eportfolios allow people to manage the evidence of their formal and informal learning experiences by enabling them to gather and present their information in one place. Through a flexible, student-centred approach, teachers/trainers can regularly provide ongoing feedback and advice to their students through their eportfolio. As part of a structured and scaffolded program, students are empowered to showcase themselves in a variety of ways, utilising the mobile devices which they carry around with them, and as they collect their evidence anytime, anywhere. The skills students develop in creating their eportfolio are those necessary to effectively present and manage themselves online, a key skill for the 21st century. Students then have the opportunity to use their eportfolio to apply for a job, get a promotion or gain recognition of prior learning. This session will demonstrate how eportfolios are being used as flexible, online learning and assessment spaces, and how teachers/trainers can get started in implementing eportfolios with their students.TRANSCRIPT
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Eportfolios as flexible learning spaces
Putting it Together
Allison Miller29 March 2012
What is an e-portfolio? Why would you use one for learning &
assessment?
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How can learners collect evidence?
New ways of capturing and assessing learning
Digital stories about me
(Movie Maker / Photostory)
Conversations (mp3/smart
pens)
Narrative / Reflective Journals
(blogs)
Live evidence
(POV, video, photos)
Workshops (digital
certificates)
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Why is it important for students to manage
their own information?
Approximately 70% of learning occurs in the workplace and in the
community as informal learning
Center for Workforce Development. The Teaching Firm:
Where Productive Work and Learning Converge. Newton, MA, 1998.
We should be preparing
people for a life of
learning
(both formal & informal)
sites.google.com/site/coachcaroleeportfolio/
mahara.e-skills.com.au/view/view.php?t=Vgogyi0H3zxjixhT7z2Q
How can we support lifelong learning?
Student centred-learningbased on the Assessment for Learning framework
Picture of Competence
Clarify and share learning intentions and criteria for success
Questioning Engineer effective discussion, questions, and learning tasks
Feedback Move learners forward with feedback
Self Assessment Activate learners as the owners of their own learning
Peer Assessment Activate learners as instructional resources for one another
Modified from: Rob Stowell, Learning Australia, Quality of Assessment Practices, 2010 DFEEST Quality Forum, SA – slide 14
Student centred-learningbased on the Assessment for Learning framework
Picture of Competence
How are you/can you sharing this picture of competence with your learners?
Questioning How are you engineering effective discussion, questioning, and learning tasks for your learners?
Feedback How are you moving your learners forward with feedback?
Self Assessment How are you supporting your learners to be owners of their own learning?
Peer Assessment How you are enabling your learners to be instructional resources for one another?
Modified from: Rob Stowell, Learning Australia, Quality of Assessment Practices, 2010 DFEEST Quality Forum, SA – slide 14
Student Centred learning & assessment strategies Incorporating eportfolios
• Sharing learning expectations through picture of competence eg examples, templates
• Determine the purpose and audience for the eportfolio
• Help the students understand what evidence to collect through questioning
• Collect student work first
• Provide feedback (and feed-forward) on the selected evidence
• Select key pieces as evidence and build the eportfolio
• Provide self-assessment opportunities • Reflect or ‘self assess’ the learning process and selection of work
• Encourage mentor, expert and/or peer assessment
• Connect and share with others
Student centred-learningbased on the Assessment for Learning framework
What’s in it for me/them?
Reuse - Repurpose
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How can ‘tags’ or ‘key words’ help
reuse/repurpose and showcase my
evidence?
Holistic Assessment
Use unit codes to aggregate resources per
unit of competencyDemonstrating my key
employability Skills
Highlighting my strengths/interest areas
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What skills & knowledge do you
develop when creating an e-portfolio?
Digital literacy- uploading, file
compression, presenting yourself online, formatting,
multimedia ……
Managing your digital identity
Digital privacy- Appropriate information, sharing protocols, privacy setting, data mining ……Digital
ownerships- copyright, intellectual property, moral rights, creative commons……
Digital literacy- uploading, file
compression, presenting yourself online, formatting,
multimedia ……
Digital privacy- Appropriate information, sharing protocols, privacy setting, data mining ……Digital
ownerships- copyright, intellectual property, moral rights, creative commons……
IMPORTANT 21ST CENTURY SKILLS
Managing your digital identity
Where can you get started with
e-portfolios and e-assessment?
Available from: flexiblelearning.net.au/content/e-portfolios-resources
Career development, professional associations, employees, employers
EpCop Website - Information, resources and events:epcop.net.au
Eportfolio Conversations - discussion forum: conversations.epcop.net.au
Vision:
• Provide assistance in embedding eportfolios• Disseminate information about the process of building eportfolios• Mentor new users in the use of eportfolios
Resources at: sites.google.com/site/epcoplearnspace
#epcop
EpCop MOOC resources about eportfolios to
create your own eportfolio and
EpCop MOOC is part of the VET E-portfolios Community of Practice (EpCop) and is funded by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework
Create your own eportfolioat:
digitalcapability.com.au
Eportfolios ProgramStart in SYDNEY - 30 & 31 August 2012
Workshop One: ePortfolios as personal online learning spaces
Workshop Two: ePortfolios for eAssessment
More information at:
bit.ly/ePFSyd2012
Meeting expectations – achieving goals
Australian Catholic University, Sydney
27-28 September 2012
follow ePortfolios Australia:
• Twitter: twitter.com/eportfoliosaust• Facebook: facebook.com/eportfoliosaust
• Slideshare: slideshare.net/eportfoliosaustralia
eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/conference/conference-eac2012/
Meeting expectations – achieving goals
Australian Catholic University, Sydney
27-28 September 2012
following ePortfolios Australia:
• Twitter: twitter.com/eportfoliosaust• Facebook: facebook.com/eportfoliosaust
• Slideshare: slideshare.net/eportfoliosaustralia
eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/conference/conference-eac2012/
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