ePort at IUPUI

Presentation to the Enrollment Management CommitteeNovember 19, 2004Sharon J. Hamilton

What this presentation will address

What is ePort?How does it help students?How much work will it be for faculty?How much work will it be for students?How do we know it’s worthwhile?How does it operate?What is the timeline?

What is ePort

ePort is a tool for students to collect, organize, and reflect on their work.

ePort is built into the Oncourse environment for ease of access and resource building.

The primary goal of ePort is to document and enhance student learning at IUPUI.

Current definition of ePort

A collection of purposefully organized artifacts that support retrospective and prospective reflection and which document, augment, and assess student learning over time.

ePort Goals

Empower students Access all learning resources anywhere, anyplace,

anytime Work smarter and more efficiently Discover and demonstrate logical pathways to academic

success Enable faculty

Partner in students’ progress Provide rich content w/ greater ease

Enrich learning experiences Through learning across courses and co-curricular

activities and meaningful connections in the community and work.

How does it help students?

It provides a continuously accessible repository for all completed student work.

It enables students to construct customized resumes and presentations of their learning achievements.

It enables students to document and deepen their learning over time.

How will students be introduced and supported?

OrientationFirst year learning communities/TLCsGateway coursesCourses required for programs and

professional schoolsDepartment curricular decisionsCapstonesTransfers

How will it influence faculty workload?

First year learning communities & TLCs. Introduce ePort; Explicitly reference PUL(s) in assignments; Help with reflection; Require completion of one cell.

Faculty teaching first year courses. Explicitly reference PUL(s) in assignments; Encourage students to upload completed

assignments; Require completion of one cell if appropriate

Faculty workload continued

Faculty teaching integrator courses: Explicitly reference PUL(s) in assignments; Encourage students to upload completed assignments; Require completion of one cell if appropriate

Faculty teaching capstones: Consider including ePort completion with reference to the major as

part of the capstone experience (likely a departmental decision)

All other faculty: Explicitly reference PUL(s) in assignments; Encourage students to upload completed assignments; Consider completion of one cell as part of course work (but only if

appropriate for your course)

How will it influence student workload?

First year Learning about ePort as part of Oncourse and as

major tool for documenting learning related to the PULs;

Learning the basics: how to upload and organize documents, and how to write a reflection;

Completion of introductory level Department and program level

This will be dependent upon faculty decisions in each department and will likely evolve with time to meet the needs of each major.

Who decides about ePort use

Your students: All students will have access to the ePort in the fall of 2005. First year students will have ePort use incorporated into their learning communities.

Your department: Each department will make its own decisions about ePort in relation to department learning goals.,

Who provides support?

For students? Online tutorials UITS classes HELP in Oncourse 274-HELP

For faculty? Online tutorials OPD: workshops; sessions; grant programs 274-HELP

Reflection in ePort

Our definition: Reflecting involves connecting evidence of learning to expectations for learning to discover and describe intellectual change.

Elements of reflection:EvidenceConnections Intellectual growth

What motivation is there for students to write and submit reflections?

Required for courseRequired for entry to chosen programInterest in feedback about learningDesire to improve understandingPossibility of using reviews in their

resumes and presentations

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* FMS = Financial Management System; SIS = Student Information System; HRMS = Human Resource Management System

Stand Alone Implementation JSR-168 Portal

OSP v2 Management Core Services CoreAccessRepositoryAdminProfile

PresentationScaffoldingTransactionReports

ePort Timeline

Fall 04 - limited beta to IUPUI TLC community

Spring 05 - limited release to select IU groups

Summer/Fall 05 - Full release of existing software

For more information, please visit http://eport.iu.edu