From optional to mandatory to assessedUpdating models of University student ePortfolio use

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AuthorsMs Linda Corrin, lcorrin@uow.edu.auCareers Service

Ms Sarah Lambert, slambert@uow.edu.auProject ManagerStudent ePortfolio ProjectUniversity of Wollongong, Australia

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CollectionSelectionReflection and Presentation ofStudents best work

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ePortfolio - a visionIn the future, everybody would have a personal online space where they would store their lifes work and make presentations of it in different formats for friends and family, school and higher education, workmates, and job interviews. It would be a repository of all their accomplishments, their hopes and their reflections. It would stay with them for life and be a constant updatable companion: a diary, CV, a record, a forward plannerStephani, Mason and Peglar, 2007

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UoW and ePortfoliosstrategically exploring electronic portfolios since 2002Home-grown database product in 2002/03Recommendations to further explore build/buy options in 2004

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2002/02 product

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Many driversCommitment to Graduate AttributesEmployment trendsRise in Professional Skills, course accreditationInterest in ePortfolios to facilitate reflection on learning and the university experienceAUQA

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AUQAAustralian University Quality Audit recommended pursuing ePortfolio to allow UoW toembed the Graduate Attributes into the curriculum and into teaching and assessment practices as well as draw on the individuals whole of life experiences outside the curriculum.

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UoW approachAcademic integration for quality uptakeFocus on embedding in programsAcademic and Careers ServiceFocus on urgent discipline needs with external accreditation pressuresDiscipline specific Professional SkillsLook into offering an optional open to any student ePortfolio later

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Customised Goals

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First take-up modelAcademic integrationPromptedSelf-managed

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Helpful howeverNew cases came to light Overlaps especially regarding assessment--> new model focussing on assessment

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Latest research: model of student ePortfolio use

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Assessment issuesAssessment and feedback crucial for academic integration strategyHow will it be used?Will it be optional, assessed?How will it be integrated into teaching?How will it be assessed?

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2007 cohorts

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Evaluation with staffVideo interviews about integration into classes, teaching, assessment

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Dr Kate Bowles, ArtsThere is a broader middle ground of students who are not saying I dont want this, they are saying that unless it is compulsory, I dont have time to figure out if it is useful. If we think that it is useful for them, we have to find ways of making time for them to do it. The only time we can give them is class time or assessment time

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Postgraduate studentsDifferent experience, nursing/midwiferyAnnual registration requirement provides external lever or motivator for ePortfolioAssessment not as importantAcademic sees assessment as big brother looking through personal material

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Careers Service TrialsHigh achieving student self-nominate into extra programs with Careers Service

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Priorities for 2008Look to Carrick research for sector directionsImport/export for student mobility?QUT Forum 14/2/08Offer staff & students a choice of toolsWord, PPT, Keynote, Bb VistaTrial new open-source and web 2.0 solutions