The document provides an overview of ePortfolios in 2012 from a global perspective. It discusses trends in social software, digital identity, portfolios for learning, and open education. Major events from 2012 like Mahara UK 2012 and AAEEBL 2012 are summarized. Survey results from AAEEBL show the most popular platforms and reasons for ePortfolio adoption. The document concludes by discussing possibilities for ePortfolios in areas like K-12 education, lifelong learning, skills recognition, and higher education.
3. ePortfolio 2012:
“What I did on my holidays”
• Mahara UK 2012
• Learning Forum London 2012
• AAEEBL 2012
4. ePortfolio 2012:
Chirps & tweets from my PLN
(PLN = Personal Learning Network)
• Twitter, Slideshare, YouTube, Facebook
• UK, US, New Zealand, Australia,
Germany…
• Open Education 2012
5. General impressions
Issues and Developments
• Social software, Web 2.0 and mobile
– Linkedin, YouTube, (Facebook)
– MaharaDroid, PortfolioUp
• Digital identity
– Wordpress, Google Sites, Weebly…
• Portfolios for learning
– K-12, Apprenticeship, Vocational, Undergraduate
– Post Grad, Continuing Professional Development
– Personal Learning Environments, Personal Learning Networks
• Organizational ePortfolios
– Academic program accreditation
• Open education
– Open Education Resources (OERs), MOOCs, Open Badges, open source…
8. LinkedIn statistics: Jan 2012
• Started 2003
• Currently 175m+
• 2 new members per second
• 5m+ in Canada (+39.5% 2011->2012)
• 2m+ companies have LinkedIn pages
• Includes executives from 100% of Fortune 500
• 85% of Fortune 100 use its hiring solutions
• Acquired Slideshare in May 2012
10. Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012
Learning, Teaching – Formal AND Informal
↑↓ rank Tool Notes Pers Edu Ent
= 1 Twitter Social network & micro-blogging service ✔ ✔
= 2 YouTube Video-sharing site ✔ ✔
= 3 Google Office suite and data storage service
✔ ✔ (✔)
Docs/Drive
↑ 11 4 Google Search Web search engine ✔
= 5 WordPress Blogging/website tool ✔ ✔ ✔
= 6 Dropbox File synchronization ✔ ✔ ✔
↓3 7 Skype Text and voice chat tool ✔ ✔ (✔)
↑ 11 8 PowerPoint Presentation software ✔ ✔ ✔
↑5 9 Facebook Social network ✔ ✔
↑1 10 Wikipedia Collaborative encyclopaedia ✔ (✔)
See all 100 at the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies: http://c4lpt.co.uk/top-100-tools-2012/
11. ePortfolios for learning
AAEEBL
• Association for Authentic, Experiential and
Evidence-Based Learning
• “a non-profit, professional organization for the
world eportfolio community”
• 106 Institutional Members in 5 countries
• Harvard, Notre Dame, Columbia, Purdue,
Washington, Stanford, Tufts…
• Publish International Journal of ePortfolio
• Annual conference, regional conferences
12. AAEEBL Member Survey 2011
Platforms
http://www.aaeebl.org/Resources/Documents/TAL/TAL_v3n3_2013_06.pdf
15. ePortfolio Trends in Education
2007 to 2012 (Batson)
THEN (2007) NOW (2012)
Institution-centred Institution and learner
Assessment-centred Learning and assessment
School-time limited Lifelong, lifewide
Reinforcing status quo Supporting new learning and assessment
designs
Based in academic institutions Individual accounts, growing interest in
corporate HR
Higher education pilots Expansion into K-12, ambitious
implementations at community colleges
A Survey of the Electronic Portfolio Market Sector:
Analysis and Surprising Trends
By Trent Batson 10/12/11
17. ePortfolios for K-12
MyPortfolio, New Zealand
• 1,125 schools, 40,465 active accounts, 7,525 groups
• Built on Mahara
In Canada: ePEARL
18. The Open Badges Initiative
Accessibility and transparency
Richard Wyles, Totara LMS at MaharaUK12
http://maharauk.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=117
19. Capturing the learning path
• Illustrates the learning path rather than
aggregated assessments
• Badges can be more granular, aligned to a
specific achievement
• Portable, alternative certification model
Wyles, 2012
20. Visual recognition of achievement
With links to validation
• Perceived value will differ based on the “use
case”, or community. A wide variety of badge
systems will emerge;
Formal education
Professional bodies
Peer to peer recognition
Corporate, workplace learning
• Infrastructure to support diversity of contexts
with better robustness and connection to Issuer.
Wyles, 2012
21. Embedded information
• Who was the Issuer?
• Issue date
• Brief description of how badge was earned
• Links to artefacts, testimonials etc.
– i.e. the e-portfolio
• Web service for verification.
– “Did the Issuer issue the badge?”
– “Is it still valid?”
Wyles, 2012
22. Open Badges: Risks and Benefits
• Infrastructure for alternative credentialing
– Modern society demands new and dynamic skills and
literacies. Requires innovation and flexibility in
learning environments
• Anyone can issue accreditations about anything?
Won’t this lead to badge “bling” and therefore
badges become meaningless?
– Badges need credibility but it’s within context
– Only some will gain credibility
Wyles, 2012
23. http://neilhammond.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/op
What might happen afterwards?
en-badges-visual-design-and-semantic.html
•
Evolve, affect formal education
Employers & learners may prefer it to standard CV structures
Wyles, 2012
26. PESC: student data mobility
Post-secondary Electronic Standards Council
• National US standards
• Vision/models: ATM/credit card networks,
electronic toll booths
• Educational and private sector consortium
– Co-opetition: no competition on data transport
• Take-up in Canada: 2011
• Draft schema for Academic e-Portfolio
– Embody “folio thinking” for reflective learning
– Link to PESC stds, Leap2A, HR-XML & Europass CV
– Available for comment Fall 2012
www.pesc.org
27. Open Education
OERs, MOOCs and more
• Open Educational Resources (OERs)
– MIT first, many following
– Open text books: easy to understand
• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
– Large scale, open access, no embedded credit
– Began 2007; in 2011, >160,000 take MOOC on AI
– 2 types:
• Connectivist: peer-review, group collaboration
• Broadcast: automated feedback
– Coursera (>Stanford), edX (MIT+), Udacity, Khan
Academy
Wikipedia
28. Don Presant Linda Maxwell
Career Portfolio
Manitoba
Essential Skills ePortfolio
for Employability
29. Sponsors: WEM & WPLAR
Workplace Education Manitoba, Workplace PLAR
• Nonprofit partnerships of
Government, Business and Labour
• WEM: workplace education in Essential
Skills
• WPLAR: workplace Recognition of Prior
Learning
wem.mb.ca
wplar.ca
30. Essential Skills ePortfolio
Program overview
• For Adults in Transition
• Leverage the “e” factor
• Accessible and authentic ICT
– Free software
– Accessible multimedia hardware
• Provide ongoing learning support
– Gap training / PD for SMART goals using Moodle
31. Featured elements
• Portfolio building course
– Video tutorials, support
• Templates
– Pages (soon collections)
• Job Match Summary
• Fictional exemplar
• Extensive use of Web 2.0
– YouTube, Screenr, LinkedIn…
– Embed.ly as the glue
33. Vision for Career Portfolio Manitoba
Lifelong development
• All Manitobans
• Learner owned
• Private and public
• Lifewide: home, community, school, work...
• Based on (not restricted to) Essential Skills
• Built through partnerships of stakeholders, with
WEM and WPLAR as “anchor tenants”
• Globally aware, locally relevant
34. Future options
Next steps and over the horizon
• Self-directed online course
• Google Apps
• Mobile
– MaharaDroid, PortfolioUp
• Self assessment tools
• Recursive learning
– Mahoodle
• Open Badges
• Skills marketplace
35. ePortfolios and RPL
Emerging answers to “too much work!”
• Process -> Product -> Process
– Portfolios FOR learning -> Portfolios OF learning
– Personal Learning Environment -> Achievement Showcase
– Learning Assignments -> Evidence of competency
– Learning stream -> Learning trail
– Learning network -> Validation network
• Mix -> Remix
– School -> Work -> School
• Gap learning, open learning
– Summative -> Formative
– Match -> Rematch
– Facilitated -> Self directed
36. Personal Planning and Learning
Online Locker, Interactive Workbook
• Online archive
– Personal & downloaded documents, links
• Resources for self-directed learning
– Webinars, videos, self-assessment surveys
• Learning plans and tracking tools
– Set goals and track progress to them (Learning Plans)
– Keep records of learning activities over time (CPD)
• Personal journal
– Reflect on goals and alternative futures
– Keep ad hoc “notes to self”, prepare agendas, etc.
• Ongoing Personal Learning Environment (PLE)
– “Continuous Learning Environment”
37. Employment & related purposes
Demonstrate, assess & improve Human Capital
• Qualification Recognition
– Initial, formative, summative assessment
• Academic recognition
– PLAR/RPL for courses and programs
• Career Development
– Gap analysis, exploration of alternatives, building pathways
• Employment (Web CV)
– Hiring, career advancement, team building tool for employers
• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
– Tracking ongoing learning activities and reflection on practice
– Recertification
38. ePortfolios & Higher Education
Points of Convergence
• Institution/Program admission
– RPL for admission & course challenge
– Gap learning
• Undergraduate learning
– First year general studies
– Course specific/program wide
– Work experience, internships
• Capstone
– Graduate Attributes
– Employability (“School to work”)
• Continuing Education/ Professional Development
– Including course/program/credential challenge
• Personal Learning Environment
41. Success Factors
Student perspective
• Watch the frame of reference
– Emphasize “internal” (personal values & interests) over “external”
(expectations of employers & recruiters)
• Focus on learning, not just assessment
– PLE, lifelong companion, personal narrative
– Private, shared and public space
• Start early and monitor progress
• Emphasize content over technology
• Provide opportunities for peer interaction
– Peer review, brainstorming, portfolio buddies, presenting portfolios
• Take small steps with lots of scaffolding
– Simple tasks to begin, provide examples
– Provide technical and content support and feedback
• Eat your own dog food (i.e. build your own eportfolio)
42. Benefits
• Supports undergraduate learning
– Embedded learning activities
• Holistic view of the graduate
– Diverse evidence aligned to graduate outcomes
– Interdisciplinary, lifewide
• Supports professional identity development
– Scaffolded reflection
• Ongoing professional development tool
– Personal Learning Environment
43. My developing understanding
“It doesn’t exist until I understand it”
• Walk the walk: “the living portfolio”
– Seeking RPL opportunities
– PLE and performance support
• Success factor: start early, build over time
– Remix and revisit
– Enjoy the journey
• Stay open
– Mahara and beyond
• Same template using different tools
• Open source and open standards
• Distributed eportfolio
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