“Psalms,” The Gutenberg Bible Volume 1 Folio 298r

(vellum)

The British Library

Richard Lanham

The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts

“What happens when text moves from page to

screen?

“First, the digital text becomes unfixed and

interactive. The reader can change it, become writer.”

“Does a technology’s ideology determine, or at least influence, a culture?”

Siva Vaidhyanathan

The Anarchist in the Library

Evolving Digital Vocabularies

Making it Real: Learning with

ePortfolio

in a Digital Age

Bret Eynon & J. Elizabeth Clark

LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

AAC&U’s Project VALUE ePAC: ePortfolio Action & Communication Inter/National Coalition for ePortfolio Research AAEEBL International Conference, July 2010 A Global Reach: Europe, Oceania, Latin America

Current ePortfolio Typologies

Career & Credential ePortfolios

Assessment ePortfolios

Course ePortfolios

Learning ePortfolios

Integrative ePortfolios

ePortfolio as Social PedagogyCollaborative

Integrative

Interactive

RecursiveEmbodied

Adaptive

30 campus teams: 15 CUNY,15 non-CUNY, 10 Community College, 20 BA and Graduate programs

FIPSE-funded Mini-Grant & Seminar ProgramSustained prof’l learning community: campus teams plan and implement ePortfolio

• CUNY 2 Yr College• 15,000 credit students (+ 35,000 non-credit)• Dizzying diversity: 70% non-native born, from 160 nations, 119 primary languages

• Majority female, low income, first generation college-goers

City of the World

• 2/3 non-native English speakers • 80-90% must take developmental skills

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370 1868 5024 6339 8249 9325

2003-4 2004-5 2005-6 2006-7 2007-8 2008-9

9,325 Students Enrolled in ePortfolio Classes, 2008/9

A Learning Faculty

• Outcomes Assessment via Periodic Program Reviews• Nuanced assessment Real student work and faculty-developed rubrics• Measure growth over time, across disciplines

Close the Loop• Mini grants help programs address key needs identified by assessment• Shared examination of student learning builds shared responsibility for student success A Learning College

From:Beyond Crossroads Live

LaGuardia’s Integrative StrategyEnrich Student Learning:• Student engagement: reflective, motivated learners• Integrative Pedagogy• Link across semesters• Connect classroom & lived experienceeResume for CareerAssessment: College-wide focus on learning. Faculty-led, using authentic classroom work

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68%

70%

72%

74%

76%

78%

Comparison 72.6% 70.2%

ePortfolio 77.7% 77.9%

FALL 2007 (ePortfolio n= 2525)

SPRING 2008 (ePortfolio n = 2330)

Course High Pass Rates

ePortfolio @ LaGuardia

•Rigorous faculty development

•Pervasive element of classroom pedagogy

•Built into General Education and disciplinary curricula

•Visible linkages between teaching and assessment

•Technology support from IT staff and student mentors

•College-wide leadership

A Whole College Project

The Challenge of Integration

“Fostering students' abilities to integrate learning--over time, across courses, and between academic, personal, and community life--is one of the most important goals and challenges of higher education.

“The undergraduate experience is often a fragmented landscape of general education, concentration, electives, co-curricular activities, and, for many students "the real world" beyond campus. An emphasis on integrative learning can help undergraduates find ways to put the pieces together and develop habits of mind that will prepare them to make informed judgments in the conduct of personal, professional, and civic life.”

ePortfolio & Integrative Learning

Helps students to: •Examine links across courses, disciplines & semesters

•Consider growth and change over time

ePortfolio & Integrative Learning

•Link academic & lived experiences

•Develop new sense of self as learners & emerging professionals

•Prepare to present to employers and 4 year schools

Connecting through ePortfolio

Student

Student

Faculty External Audiences

Across Disciplines

Across Semesters

Academic Curriculum

Lived Curriculum

The Evolution of Student ePortfolios

Mature, capstone ePortfolios that contextualize learning in a major, connect courses and personal interests, and integrate learning across the curriculum.

Limited course-focused ePortfolios in a single set of courses in learning communities that set a context for basic skills learning or for initial, college-level work.

A Digital Archive Becomes an

ePortfolio

A First Course Experience: Becomes

a Basic ePortfolio

Becomes a Multi-Semester Record of Student Learning, Artifacts &

Reflections

“What we ask students to do is who we ask students to be.” ~ Kathleen Blake Yancey

Becomes A Capstone ePortfolio

Raju Maharjan’s Capstone ePortfolio

Learning From Others

Making Connections:

“The characteristic of artistic design is the intimacy of relations that hold the parts together.”

John Dewey: Art and Experience

Student Learning Spaces: Cornerstone Integrative Learning Projects

“Songs of our Fathers”Illustrative Outcome by a Freshman

Composition Student

“Memories of My Mother”Illustrative Outcome by a Freshman Composition

Student

Interdisciplinary Wiki

Acting-Student’s Collaboration with AFreshman-Composition Student’s Essay

“Ghetto Home World”

Student Reflection: Actively Making Connections

Integrative Pedagogy: Guiding & Prompting Reflection

Intentional Curricular Design

IntegrativeInstitutionalStructures

Connected

Learning

Lessons Learned• Integrative Approaches: enrich ePortfolio’s value

• Value the Visual: build ownership & engagement by crafting digital identity

• Collaboration & Exchange: make ePortfolio a site for reflective conversation

• Assessment: as a faculty learning & research effort

• Support Learning: persistent & creative search for resources, structures & new technologies

•Whole College Strategies: mobilize students, faculty & staff to build integrated learning structures

Questions and Answers

We will be available during the round table discussions today, and later, from 5-6:00 p.m. at the hotel bar for small group discussions about our work. Looking forward to talking with you!