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Page 1: Applying e-portfolios to design education

Applying E‐portfolios for Supporting Reflective Behaviors in Design Education – the case of metalwork design

Yung‐Ping Chou, Shih‐Fang Huang, Ming‐Ying YangDepartment of Industrial Design, 

National United University, Miaoli, 360, Taiwan 

Motivation

1. Reflection is essential for designers. But it is implicit and hard to identify in a learning process.

2. Design education needs apprenticeship, which cannot be sufficiently provided in many design institutions nowadays (in Taiwan). 

Information tools may help?

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Course: Introduction to Metalwork DesignElective, 14 sophomores, 18 weeks

ConceptualizationVisualization

Implantation

Ornament design has a simplified design process that still captures the main elements.

the outcome

Concept of a designer’s e‐portfolio

Designers have the tradition of keeping their portfolios through their career.

Opportunity

Designer’s port.time

Course 1Course 2

Course 3

Looking for jobs

peer interaction

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Student Port.

Album 2Album 2Album 2

Course Port. Album 1

Designer’s e‐portfolio

Student Port.Student Port.

Student Port.Student Port.

The System

Generally regarded functions of reflective e‐portfolios:

1. storage for multimedia artifacts, 

2. UI for writing and reviewing, 

3. teacher‐student and peer interactions, 

4. group communicationtool,

5. course management, and 6. multi‐level access control.

Without the availability of a platform, we combine some online services to form a minimalist system.

Flickr

a forum

YouTube

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Fast reviewing for reflection, assessment & apprenticing 

annotation

discussion

back

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Research Methods

1. Qualitative: coding, interviewing & observation

2. Quantitative: questionnaire

Kember et al., 2000

reflect.reports

opencoding

axialcoding

selectivecoding

reflections

contentprocesspremise

Results

1. In order of importance, key functions of an e‐portfolio system for design education are: (1) review and reflection; (2) interactions with privacy; (3) social interactions, in a competitivesense(?)

What we have learned

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2. The e‐portfolio system did help learning in each phase of the process. The teacher was capable of sensing learning difficulties timely and provided accurate guidance. 

What we have learned

curves surfacetexture

3D objects

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Idea

expression

sketching

student

teacher

subject

3. The teacher may evaluate students based on their design ideation, other than their final works. In design education, seeing through the whole design processes carried out by students is important but rather difficult. 

What we have learned

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A final work showing good expression skills

back

A final work with not so good skills but excelling in design concept

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Designers are thinkersmore than crafts persons. 

4. Questionnaire survey indicates that the students recognize the importance of reflection in design more after the course. 

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Problems and Challenges:

1. Implanting e‐portfolios for a single course adds loads on the students. Nowadays students are slow in writing, whereas reflections should be written up. 

2. Keeping an e‐portfolio is a lifelong business. Design students should form such a habit. However, promoting e‐portfolio to teachers and courses needs a smart institutional strategy.

E‐portfolio is lifelongtime

Course 1Course 2

Course 3

Conclusions‐ e‐portfolio & reflection

1. E‐portfolio makes assessing process, other than outcome, possible.

2. E‐portfolio enhances student‐teacher interactions, facilitating more exploratory  courses.

3. E‐portfolio also enhances social interactions between the students.

All these add up to enhancing reflection.

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Thank you!Any Questions? 

Possible Topics for the Future:1. Gender difference in reflective education2. In more complex courses of product 

design, how does reflection help students in every stages of the design process?

3. Is the social interaction among design students different from other students?

4. Interface design for an e‐portfolio system for designers

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2 Student portfolios, with permissions from:芷宣—http://www.flickr.com/photos/25152775@N02/sets/佩璇—http://www.flickr.com/photos/blest1224

Movies of drawing skill demonstrations are published at: http://tw.youtube.com/user/sifan626

The Course Portfolio:http://groups.google.com.tw/group/sifan‐metalwork?hl=zh‐TW


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