ace eportfolios!
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Liz GriggTRANSCRIPT
ACE ePortfolios!
With Liz Grigg and Lynne Gibb
Adult Community Education is ACE!
• 1,000 ACE organisations in Australia - only 730 McDonalds restaurants
• Over 200 ACE organisations in Victoria• Many ACE organisations are RTOs
Coonara Community House
• Located in the City of Knox – outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne – 154,000 people
• 50,000 hours of accredited training each year• 18,000 hours of Children’s Services• 90% of our Diploma of Children’s Services
students are working in the industry.• Coonara has been involved in flexible delivery
for 6 years
Who is using an ePortfolio?
• With students?• Personally?
ePortfolios is ACE
• Google Sites• Mahara• Wikispaces
Google Sites e-Portfolio
NavigationPane
Portfolio PageText area
Comments Section
Comments
Review
• Not designed as an ePortfolio tool, but could work as one.
• Customisable – presentation and design• Security questionable• All pages available to viewer of site• Not Portable• Support available on line.
Home Page
Navigation pane
Portfolio page
Review
• Not designed as an ePortfolio tool, but could work as one.
• Customisable – presentation and design• Security available with a paid for version• Can lock pages from viewer of site• Portable to another wikispace not to another
program that we are aware of.• Lots of support available on line.
This is my Mahara
My Profile
My friends on Mahara
My Skills
Relevant photos
Groups I belong to in Mahara
Different Views for different things
Resume view
For RPL – screen displayThis screen grab shows the total look of the screen.
In this example, each column refers to a different unit being RPL’d.
You can click on a unit heading to provide more detail.
RPL – for Course (several units)
RPL - Unit detail
Space for tutor feedback
Name is link to document
Description of artefact – I used key words and the element numbers
Date artefact loaded to Mahara
Assessor feedback
Review
• Is designed as an ePortfolio tool• Not Customisable –design, but layout is for
each view• Security – yes• You select blocks and documents for each
view• Portable to some other systems.• Support available on line.
ComparisonUser friendly Cost Flexibiity Security Portability
Google Sites
Free
And Freely available
Customisation?
Mahara
For those with ICT skills
Free product
Customisation?
Wikis
Free product
(has adds) If pay
Free – no privacy
Pay = privacy If pay
Why Mahara for trial?
• Heard about Mahara at EPF conference 2 in Brisbane
• Offered free hosting on VETSA server
Coonara’s Mahara trial
• Pre-training interviews conducted includes ICT skill evaluation
• RPL students with ICT skills offered to partake in trial
• 6 out of 16 students elected to participate in Mahara trial
• 10 students elected to complete RPL by paper based method
How did we do it?
• Developed a RPL website to assist all students• Students participated in 4 x 2 hour weekly
training sessions on Mahara prior to Diploma course commencement
• 2 trainers conducted Mahara sessions – industry trainer, and ICT/Mahara trainer
• During Mahara training introduced to RPL website for supporting information and documentation
Conclusion
• Explain RPL at start• 4 x 2 hour session of RPL training supports
students – but is it cost effective?• Level of ICT skills varies greatly regardless of
course of study• Intimidation by ICT very real• Our aim is to integrate ePortfolios into
Coonara across accredited delivery