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ePortfolio California Summit 2010 - SLO SESSION
1. ePortfolios for Student Learning Outcomes: Questions and Common Needs with Helen Chen & John Ittelson ePortfolio California Summit 2010 - October 11, 2010
2. Faculty Buy-In What strategies can be employed to address faculty buy-in? How do you get faculty to accept ePortfolios? What is the role of faculty in the ePortfolio process – promote learning objectives, mentoring, thread through academic life? How can ePortfolios be viewed as a teaching resource as well as an assessment resource?
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4. How can the ePortfolio facilitate “self-advising” (e.g., educational templates for students to select from, modify, & tailor)?
5. How can we get students invested and engaged in the ePortfolio (e.g., tell your story to another institution, employer, etc.)?
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7. How can the ePortfolio (through learning activities/assignments, a folio thinking culture, etc.) foster reflective thinking?
8. How do we develop assignments that create artifacts that can go into an ePortfolio?
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10. What is the impact of fee structures on how the ePortfolio is rolled out and how it is used, short term & long term?
14. Logistics How do we roll this out on campus (e.g., have departments opt in)? What are models of adoption for my institution? How do we facilitate communication among various stakeholders – students, faculty, advisors, external audiences?
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16. Who owns it? Who maintains it? Who pays for it? Who has access?
17. How do we define “appropriate use” expectations for students, faculty, institutions?
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19. Closing Questions 1. What are three or four things to make the ePortfolio work on your campus? 2. What are the three or four things to make the ePortfolio work at the state level?