From optional to mandatory to
assessed
Updating models of University
student ePortfolio use
Authors
• Ms Linda Corrin, [email protected]
• Careers Service
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Ms Sarah Lambert, [email protected]
Project Manager
Student ePortfolio Project
University of Wollongong, Australia
Collection
Selection
Reflection and
Presentation of
Students’ best
work…
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ePortfolio - a vision
• In the future, “everybody would have a
personal online space where they would store
their ‘life’s work’ and make presentations of it
in different formats for… friends and family,
school and higher education, workmates, and
job interviews. It would be a repository of all
their accomplishments, their hopes and their
reflections. It would stay with them for life and
be a constant updatable companion: a diary,
CV, a record, a forward planner”
• Stephani, Mason and Peglar, 2007
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UoW and ePortfolios
• strategically exploring electronic
portfolios since 2002
• Home-grown database product in
2002/03
• Recommendations to further explore
build/buy options in 2004
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2002/02 product
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Many drivers
• Commitment to Graduate Attributes
• Employment trends
• Rise in Professional Skills, course
accreditation
• Interest in ePortfolios to facilitate
reflection on learning and the university
experience
• AUQA
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AUQA
• Australian University Quality Audit
recommended pursuing ePortfolio to
allow UoW to
– “embed the Graduate Attributes into the
curriculum and into teaching and
assessment practices” as well as draw on
the individual’s whole of life experiences
outside the curriculum.”
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UoW approach
• Academic integration for quality uptake
• Focus on embedding in programs
– Academic and Careers Service
• Focus on urgent discipline needs with
external accreditation pressures
– Discipline specific Professional Skills
• Look into offering an optional ‘open to
any student’ ePortfolio later
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Customised Goals
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First take-up model
• Academic integration
• Prompted
• Self-managed
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Helpful… however
• New cases came to light
• Overlaps especially regarding
assessment
– --> new model focussing on assessment
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Latest research: model of
student ePortfolio use
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Assessment issues
• Assessment and feedback crucial for
academic integration strategy
– How will it be used?
– Will it be optional, assessed?
– How will it be integrated into teaching?
– How will it be assessed?
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2007 cohorts
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Evaluation with staff
• Video interviews about integration into
classes, teaching, assessment
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Dr Kate Bowles, Arts
• “There is a broader middle ground of
students who are not saying I don’t want
this, they are saying that unless it is
compulsory, I don’t have time to figure
out if it is useful. If we think that it is
useful for them, we have to find ways of
making time for them to do it. The only
time we can give them is class time or
assessment time…”
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Postgraduate students
• Different experience, nursing/midwifery
• Annual registration requirement provides
external ‘lever’ or motivator for ePortfolio
• Assessment not as important
• Academic sees assessment as ‘big
brother’ looking through personal
material
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Careers Service Trials
High achieving student self-nominate into
extra programs with Careers Service
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Priorities for 2008
• Look to Carrick research for sector
directions
– Import/export for student mobility?
– QUT Forum 14/2/08
• Offer staff & students a choice of tools
– Word, PPT, Keynote, Bb Vista
• Trial new open-source and web 2.0
solutions
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