Mellon Projects Meeting, February 2004, NY

ePortfolio Open Source Portfolio Release 2

Brad WheelerRob Lowden

Indiana University

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Within andacross courses

and schoolsK-12 Portfolio Software

Within andacross courses

and universities, colleges, trade schools, etc.

Higher Ed Portfolio Software

Within andacross companies, personal

pursuits, professional development,experiences, or additional degrees

Career Development Portfolio Software

Faculty and/or Course PortfoliosScholarship of Teaching & Learning

Within and across courses, disciplines, faculty, careers, and institutions

PersonalPortfolio

Data

OSP 2MellonProject

Four Domains of ePortfolio

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ePortfolio Objectives

• for Learners• Provide the tools for reflective assessment with

structure and purpose

• for Instructors• Assessment via demonstration of competencies• Within and across courses, educational

experiences

• for Institutions• Institutional assessment for accreditation,

measurement of progress

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Principles of Undergraduate Learning

• Core communication and quantitative skills

• Critical thinking

• Integration and application of knowledge

• Intellectual depth, breadth, and adaptiveness

• Understanding society and culture

• Values and ethicsExample: Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

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Complete Pending Ready Locked

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ePortfolio Challenges

• Learner-owned data, views, access• Inter-institutional authenticity, integrity of

artifacts• Scoping for now…thinking about tomorrow• Data standards, threads of ePort software

everywhere

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Within and across courses and universities, colleges, trade schools, etc.

Project Help for ePortfolio?

Grad SchoolView

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ePortfolio Connections?• Sakai TPP-based using JSR-168 portlets for

rendering/editing in uPortal, • connected to Sakai’s CMS (import assignments,

gradebooks, including AAM/Navigo’s assessments)• with rich authoring through TK4, VUE• views designed with VUE • stored in Fedora’s (?) digital repository• while using local replicas and P2P transport from

Lionshare• Messaging and local DR work in Westwood• and all wrapped in PKI security/authentication/signatures

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DRAFT 0.1!

Mellon Projects Meeting, February 2004, NY

ePortfolio Open Source Portfolio Release 2

Brad WheelerRob Lowden

Indiana University