myMAPP®

Mapping Academic Performance through ePortfolios

Cultural Shift from Teaching to Learning through e-PortfoliosSteve BullockProfessor, Political Science Director, Center for ePortfolio Based Assessment (CeBA)University of Nebraska at Omaha

Matt MortonManager of Web Development and Enterprise ArchitectureUniversity of Nebraska at Omaha

Overview

An Introduction to the Tool

History

Institutional Culture Shift

Institutional Framework

Components

Architecture Plan

Progress

Questions

Tool

myMAPP/enterprise

myMAPP/college

myMAPP/department

myMAPP/faculty

myMAPP/student

myMAPP/staff

IR Data

myMAPP

History at UNO

Extensive use of portfolios in the College of Education

Movement to create a student e-portfolio system across the university

Charge by the CAO to digitize faculty Annual Review process

Decision to create a faculty portfolio system in advance of the student system

Institutional Culture Shift

Shift to AQIP track in HLC—more data driven

Faculty and administrators more focused on student learning

Increase in assessment initiatives

-Assessment coordinator and mentors

-Assessment grants

-Programs with professional accreditation

Institutional FrameworkStrong strategic planning process

The merging of Academic and Student Affairs—all institutional activities revolve around student learning

Support of upper administration as well as some enthusiastic faculty members and departments

Participation in the International Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research (INCEPR) and the Center for ePortfolio Based Assessment (CeBA)

Reorganization of ITS to support processes

myMAPP/faculty

Implemented for 2006-2007 Annual Review

Departments created master category lists

Account of year’s activities shared by faculty with chairswho shared with deanswho shared with Vice Chancellor

Assessment of myMAPP/Faculty undertaken with valuable feedback

myMAPP/studentFocused on direct measures of student achievement

Tied directly to student learning outcomes

Will allow for assessment of assignments by faculty to be captured

Expected to be minimally invasive for faculty

Pilot to be run in spring of 2008 in two course sections

myMAPP/enterprisecontains data from the dept and college portfolios

way to integrate data that is live and in the data warehouse (historical)

consists of data warehouse reporting primarily

myMAPP/enterprise

myMAPP/college Report

myMAPP/dept Report

Current Architecture

Design Heuristics

reusability

modular structure

private and secure

ease of use

System Architecture

Application Architecture

Semantic Architecture

• Rich taxonomy

• Allows for deep and easy classification

• Flexibility - can be adapted to other organizations

• Can be difficult to put in data - cognitive load

• working on this

Ontology

InteroperabilitySemantic web services

Developed portfolio XML standard

• PML - Portfolio Markup Language

Description

Why another standard?

Differences with other standards

e-Portfolio Interoperability Model

XML Standard• http://mymapp.unomaha.edu/standards/

portfolio.xsd.html

• Open Standard• Partners?

Progress

Lessons LearnedKnow academic processes (or at least begin to discover)

assessment, program review, etc.

Getting more input from faculty - UI improvements, taxonomy

Managing faculty resistance

Piloting with students - more cautious process (cognitive overload)

Questions?