"Much time and energy has been devoted to the implementation of eportfolios, but the challenge for many institutions is to ensure sustainability resulting in the continuing and diverse use of eportfolios. At a large Australian School of Education, eportfolio use was mapped across the three Bachelor of Education courses, Early Childhood, Primary and Secondary. Course level planning was undertaken to determine how best to use the eportfolio to help student attain the required professional standards. This process included identifying the role of key drivers and institutional commitment, as well as recognising the variety of ways in which eportfolios could be used to develop students competence in the required standards: from 1st year communication units to capstone Work Place Integrated learning units, in supporting the development of ICT skills, to encouraging reflection and collaboration. This workshop provides an opportunity to explore this process and how it could be applied to different learning contexts. "

1. Edith Cowan University
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Across the depth and breadth:
The embedding of eportfolios in a School of
Education

2. Edith Cowan University
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Edith Cowan University
- 27000 students
- 400 courses
- three campus locations
SOE current enrolments 3895

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Climate for Change - Student Issues

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Climate for Change - Staff Issues

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Climate for Change - Increasing the Urgency
At the University Level
• Need for curriculum renewal within University
• Curriculum working party
• Eportfolio as part of documenting the learning journey from first
year experience to end of course experience
• Strategic Initiative from senior leader
• Created initial eportfolio working party
At the School level –
• New Programs
• Academic Initiative Funding for eportfolio implementation

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Climate for Change – Building the Guiding Team

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Climate for Change – Get the Right Vision
Eportfolios central part of curriculum renewal program
Student focussed, learning centred
Documenting the learning journey
Learning processes of Knowing, Doing, Being

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Your turn – think/pair/share
Think about Kotter and Cohen’s first three steps –
creating a climate for change
For your institution, if you haven’t yet implemented
eportfolios, then consider what you would do to:
(1) Increase urgency
(2) Building the guiding team
(3) Get the right vision
If you have implemented eportfolios, consider your answers
to what you did:

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Your context – Increasing Urgency
Would/have
Set deadlines
Benchmark
Compare to others
Create a cause
Make it a solution
Preparation/organisation
Focus
Meet Key stakeholders – students,
careers/ student
groups/employers
Champions at executive levels

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Your context – Building the Guiding Team
Would/Have
Put on the shoulder for key people
People of influence
Those that can make a decision
for other
People across campuses
IT people
Identifying discipline areas that
use eportofolio
Key students
Engage a luddite as part of the
team

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Your context – Get the Right Vision
Would/Have
Accreditation
Knowledge of system that is being
used in their sector i.e. eportfolio
system that is being used by
Education Department used with
pre-service teachers.
Ability to access from remote
areas with large chunks of
material (Internet connections?)

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Engaging and Enabling – Communicate for Buy-in
University Level
• Eportfolio newsletter
• University broadsheet
• Blackboard LMS Community Site
• Engage with each Teaching and Learning Associate Dean for
each Faculty
School Level
• Present to academics and professional staff at School Forum
• Follow up with course meetings

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Engaging and Enabling – Empower Action
1. Communicating with staff about the pedagogical
benefits of the eportfolio system
2. Training staff on the capabilities of eportfolios – What
and How
3. Time allocated for course coordinators and unit
coordinators to map the use of eportfolios into relevant
units
4. Training the student mentor team in the SOE to support
students (and staff??)

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Engaging and Enabling – Empower Action
Early Childhood
Primary
1st year Communication unit
1st year Oral Language unit
2nd year pedagogy unit
2nd year Visual Arts unit
3rd year Pedagogy unit
3rd year Diversity unit
3rd year Arts unit
4th year Capstone unit
4th year Practicum unit
1st year ICT unit
2nd year Social Science unit
2nd year Maths unit
2nd year Health and Phys Ed unit
2nd year Art unit
3rd year Art unit
3rd year Diversity unit
4th year Capstone unit
Secondary
Grad Dip (Primary)
1st year Communication unit Maths unit
2nd year Pedagogy unit
Capstone unit

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Engaging and Enabling – Empower Action
1st Year
2nd Year
Identifying Professional Standards Interactive workbooks
Storage of assets for portfolio
Reflection
Storage of assets for portfolio
Webfolios for content areas
3rd Year
4th Year
Mapping Professional Standards
Reflection
Storage of assets for portfolio
Developing assets using
templates
Webfolios for content areas
Interactive workbooks
Reflection
Professional portfolios

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Engaging and Enabling – Create Short Term Wins
• Workload acknowledgement for unit coordinators integrating
eportfolios in their units
• Catering at training sessions!
• Support person within the School
• Acknowledgement of work in presentation at annual teaching
and learning conference within University

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Your Turn – Think/Pair/Share
Think about Kotter’s second series of three steps –
engaging and enabling (the whole organization)
For your institution, if you haven’t yet implemented eportfolios,
then consider what you would do to:
(4) Communicate for Buy-in
(5) Empower Action
(6) Create Short-term Wins
If you have implemented eportfolios, consider your answers to
what you did:

20. Edith Cowan University
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Your context – Communicate for Buy-in
Would
Have

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Your context – Empower Action
Would
Have

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Your context – Create Short Term Wins
Would
• Action Learning Cycle
Have

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Implementing and Sustaining Change –
Don’t Let Up
• Continue to disseminate information on eporfolio use across
the university
• Volunteer Student Mentors to provide support for students
• Review use to date with unit coordinators
• Plan for use in 2014
• Support provided by Centre for Learning and Development
• In School support (?)

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Implementing and Sustaining Change –
Make it Stick
Keeping it at the forefront of discussions
• Grant applications
• Research possibilities
• Fully online units – use of Pebble identified as one of the
preferred support tools for online learning

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Your turn – Think/Pair/Share
Think about Kotter’s third series of two steps –
implementing and sustaining change
For your institution, if you haven’t yet implemented
eportfolios, then consider what you would do to:
(7) Don’t Let Up
(8) Make it Stick
If you have implemented eportfolios, consider your answers
to what you did:

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Your context – Don’t Let Up
Would
Have

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Your context – Make it Stick
Would
Have

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What next?
Professional Accreditation
Focus on learning design
Demonstration of course learning outcomes to
include standards and analytic reports, and
qualitative data (TEQSA)
Employability and authentic learning, including
postgraduate eportfolios
On-line delivery of group learning and peer
assessment

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Thank you for your attention!
Susan Main: s.main@ecu.edu.au