exploring freeform portfolios for postgraduate teaching
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Exploring freeform portfolios for postgraduate teaching
David Horwitz & Cheryl Hodgkinson-WilliamsLearning Technologies Programmer & Associate Professor
Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town15 June 2010
Masters programme in Information Communication Technology (ICT) in
Education at UCT
Online Learning Design Course
Key elements of the course
Types of e-portfolio
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Self-awarenessSelf-efficacyMotivation
Drive
Engage with formative feedbackReview academic
progression
Use to promote career opportunities
Online Learning Design course
Adapted from http://www.eportfoliopractice.qut.edu.au/docs/AeP_presentations_web/AeP_Ward_7Feb08.pdf
Online learning design teaching
Online Learning Design e-portfolio
Online Learning Design e-portfolio
E-Portfolio: Workflow
Create a project site
Create an introductory page with links to each of the sections
Create a page for each section
Write the content for each section & add hyperlinks to class documents, external papers or self generated documents
Make site available to peers
(optional)
Make site available to lecturers for draft formative assessment
Lecturers provide comments in Rubric 1
Edit e-portfolio in light of comments
Make site available to lecturers for final formative assessment
Lecturers provide comments in Rubric 2
Edit e-portfolio in light of comments
Lecturers create meta-site linking all e-portfolios to one site with Rubric 3
Lecturers grade e-portfolio in Rubric 3
Moderator grades e-portfolio in Rubric 3
Key challenges for students
• Understanding the concept of an e-portfolio being displayed as a group of linked pages with internal hyperlinks – needed a mind map
• Renaming pages and losing links • Devising suitable navigation techniques
between pages• Swapping between preview and editing mode• Identifying which media were not accepted for
embedding in the wiki, eg. Video
Navigation strategies in the wiki
Key challenges for lecturers
• Making in-text comments• Following the navigation strategies adopted
by each student• Having no easy way to link to a rubric for
assessment• Making the each e-portfolio available to the
external moderator entailed the creation of a new meta-site to link them all
Rubric – separate document
Key challenges for external moderator
• Understanding the conceptual map of each student’s site
• Following the navigation strategies adopted by each student
• Having no easy way to link to a rubric for assessment
External moderation meta-site
Lecturers
Easy set up and tracking of set of spaces based on group membership
Different views for co-ordinators, examiners and students
Version tracking not individual pages but the complete space +
comments and annotations Ability to lock portfolios at submission time
Students
Mostly covered by content authoring ideas However
Linking must be intuitive and easy but flexible Orphaned and renamed pages will always be
an issue View versions of specific snapshot versions of
the whole space
Examiner
Overview of portfolios Ability to sort gradebook by grades Access to all versioned spaces from
different lifecycle points
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Prepared by
David [email protected]
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams