e-portfolios for international competence: introducing evidence-based learning e-portfolios for...

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EPIC at EPIC!

“E-Portfolios for International Competence:

Introducing Evidence-Based Learning E-portfolios for Healthcare

Students on International Elective Placements”

Kirstie Coolin, Mary Brown, Richard Windle, Chris Booth, Helen Parsons

Kirstie Coolin – E-Learning and Media Manager

Helen Parsons – Portfolio Support Coordinator

Health E-Learning and Media Team (HELM)

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6000+ Students per year

200 Members of academic staff

100 Administrators

9000 Practice mentors

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Gainsborough

Worksop

Louth

Skegness

Sleaford

Newark

Belper

Ashbourne

Grantham

BourneSpalding

Lincoln

Nottingham

Mansfield

Derby

Boston

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HELM Health E-Learning and Media Team

The Victory, Portsmouth CC-BY-NC-SA Kirstie Coolin 2012

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200+ free to use high

quality, interactive peer-

reviewed learning and

teaching resources

www.nottingham.ac.uk/helmopen

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Elective Placements in the Graduate Nursing

Curriculum

450 students on course take ‘elective placement’

Global healthcare - Internationalisation/cultural competence

4 week placement arranged by the student or 12 week ERASMUS+

placement

Emphasis on personal choice

The 2014 placement is the first to use e-portfolio

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Why use e-portfolio for the Elective

Placement?

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Institutional Change

Technology to promote change in teaching/learning

Broaden e-portfolio use within the School of Health Sciences

Increase awareness of e-portfolio functions for learning and

assessment

Extend e-portfolio roll-out

Demonstrate portfolio-ownership alongside institutional and

administrative benefits.

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LearningFamiliarising students with portfolio working and self-directed learning

Developing extra professional skills in evidence selection, curation and

presentation of skills

Synthesising theory and practice learning

Enabling student collaboration at a distance on a student-set group learning

outcome to enrich and share learning experiences

Introducing e-portfolio as a tool for employability.

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Assessment, Feedback and Evaluation 1

Assessed

Pre-placement planning activities within the e-portfolio (Risk

Assessment and Elective Plan)

Assessed showcase e-portfolio including reflection on

learning outcomes

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Assessment, Feedback and Evaluation 2Learning about the types of evidence collected by students; how these are

assembled and synthesised; what evidence of reflective learning/high-level

cognition emerges from this group

Assessing the students’ learning journey and demonstration of learning

processes

Facilitating feedback from tutors, mentors and peers throughout.

EVALUATION – added pedagogical value, change in practice?, are e-pfs

encouraging more reflective/creativity?

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What did we do?

Nicola Townsend, Mary Brown and Eman Ghallab

Risk Assessment

Elective Plan

Learning Outcomes

Risk Assessment

Elective Plan

Learning Outcomes

Collect evidence

Share

Feedback

Collect evidence

Share

Feedback

Collaborate

Report

Showcase

Collaborate

Report

Showcase

Group portfolios/shared learning objectives

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Group-

Web folio

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Training and support15 X 2 hour workshopsDedicated staff supporting e-portfolioDrop-in sessionsOne-2-one support

Training and support15 X 2 hour workshopsDedicated staff supporting e-portfolioDrop-in sessionsOne-2-one support

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What they collected (media)

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Issues?

Assessment tension: creative student-centred portfolio and objective marking.

Technical constraints e.g. image manipulation, opening documents, lay out

Consent for images/videos – healthcare-specific

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What went well?

Sense of ownership

Students able to display evidence in lots of different forms

More informal (pros and cons?)More of a personal feel

Students take their learning into their own hands

Some students loved the creativity

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Images – 3 C’s

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Examples of student’s work

(removed for confidentiality)

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Thank You!

Kirstie Coolin kirstie.coolin@nottingham.ac.uk

Helen Parsons Helen.Parsons@nottingham.ac.uk

Acknowledgements:

Students who’s work was shared:Katherine HumphreySamantha NewtonChrysalin HurbodaRobert Gorton

Health E-Learning and Media Team (HELM)

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