Great news!
SF State has learned that we will be a part of a new cohort with the
"Connect to Learning: ePortfolio, Engagement, and Student Success," project. Funded by FIPSE, the US Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, Connect to Learning will bring together ePortfolio leadership teams from campuses nationwide to explore and strengthen best practices in ePortfolio pedagogy.
Here is our Connect to Learning ePortfolio tracking our work on this project:
https://c2l.digication.com/sfsu_project_portfolio/profile//We are excited to be joining with 21 other campuses:
Boston University
U. of Delaware
Hunter College, CUNY
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Johnson & Wales University
LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Lehman College, CUNY
Long Island University
Manhattanville College
Northwest Connecticut Community College
Norwalk Community College
Pace University
Queensborough Community College, CUNY
Rutgers University
Salt Lake Community College
San Francisco State University
School of Professional Studies, CUNY
St. John’s University
SUNY Empire State
Three Rivers Community College
Tunxis Community College
Virginia Tech
Building a nationwide network that links community colleges, private
colleges and research universities, the Connect to Learning project will
kick off at a January national ePortfolio Forum, held in San Francisco
and sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
Over the next three years, participating campuses will use a structured
matrix model of ePortfolio development to plan and implement
campus-based innovations and evaluate the impact of ePortfolio
implementation on student learning. Over the course of the three year
project, Connect to Learning will advance the practice of hundreds of
faculty, benefit 20-25,000 students, and generate evidence-based
national models of ePortfolio implementation.
1 comment:
Great!
This looks like having the width of experience and academic leadership that an initiative like this needs.
However, from my understanding I would ask that you bear in mind the whole issue of Longevity. - When does an ePortfolio start and when does it end? Quite simply my conviction is that the ePortfolio must last 'from cradle to grave'.
In which case, students in Primary- and Middle-schools will already have some valuable experience upon which your faculty will need to build. Parents, too, will have some expectations, including their input, to their youngsters' ePortfolios. One particular aspect of mainstream education ePortfolios is that of e-secure collaboration and peer-review. Another will be their previous experiences of formative assessment prior to entering higher education. Increasingly, these will be matters of which faculty will need to be aware.
At the other extreme, graduates will want to maintain their ePortfolios right on through several career moves, between jobs and on to retirement, Communities of Practice and even reflective journalism as they enter Retirement Homes!
Thus, as you may gather, my concern is that the 'Electronic Portfolio Adventure' does not take on the silo mentality of only looking to how the ePortfolio can serve the short-term needs of higher education.
Best Wishes to you all,
Ray T
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