Learning with ePortfoliosIt Takes a Campus … It Takes A Village

Documenting Learning … Documenting Self …Stony Brook University

ePortfolios @ Stony Brook

• Anyone at Stony Brook can create and own an eportfolio

• Student Driven• Student Owned• Available for Alumni

Learning and Professional Community of Interest

ePortfolios facilitate integrative learning and promote lifelong learning

(Peet, 2011)

Enhance Inquiry and Evidenced-Based Reflective Practice

(Justice, Rice, Warry, Inglis, Miller, Sammon, 2007)

Authentic Learning…Authentic Assessment

Assessment FOR Learningas opposed to

Assessment OF Learning

Welcome to my ePortfolioI am a bassoon enthusiast, excited by music and inspired by the people in my life!

Course and Program ePortfolio Growth

Fall Semester 2010

Fall Semester2014

Created ePortfolios 300 17,000 +

Colleges and Programs 4 35

Courses 6 276

CurricularCo-curricular

Extra-curricular

Research

Service

Awards & Achievements

Internships & Job

Resume

Personal Interests

Professional Development

Lifelong LearningProfile

Nancy Wozniak 2015

It’s not the tool…It’s the process

It’s not the tool…It’s the process

Reflect

Reflect

Reflect

Reflect

Reflect

Present

If an ePortfolio is created solely for the purpose of institutional or program accreditation and owned by the institution or department, it’s considered an assignment and a worthless, added activity by the student

Benefits to Students

1. Establish and control professional online identity

2. Organize content (artifacts) for evidence of professional skills and abilities

3. Map academic and career paths

4. Demonstrate technology and design skills

5. Feedback from peers, faculty, and industry experts

Benefits to Faculty

1. Organized means for tracking the timely completion of assignments.

2. Leverage student motivation through online feedback

3. Peer review and feedback that can continue after the course is completed.

4. Visible evidence of student achieved learning outcomes.

5. Strategic advising and ability to target at risk students.

Stony Brook SuccessStudents, Faculty, Advisors, Staff, Administration, Industry

Peer Support

ePortfolio Consultants and ePortfolio Student Advisory Board

Teaching, Learning, and Technology

Dr. Patricia Aceves, Director, Faculty Center, and Nancy Wozniak, Learning Architect and ePortfolio Program ManagerTreasa Mathias, Administrative Assistant

System Provider Support

Kelly Driscoll, Co-Founder and President, Digication, presents Stony Brook students and Wolfie certificates of excellence for their model integrative learning eportfolios

Digication

Wolfie has an ePortfolio … DO YOU?

AdministrationDr. Charles Robbins, Vice Provost Undergraduate for Education Undergraduate

Library StaffInformation and Media Literacy

(Lion, 2008)

All owners create and embed Creative Commons licenses on pages of the ePortfolios

Career Center

Business & Industry Advisory Board

ePortfolio SuccessIt takes a campus … It takes a Village

Peet, M., Lonn, S., Gurin, P., Boyer, K.P., Matney, M., Marra, M., Taylor, S. H., and Daley, A. (2011). Fostering integrative knowledge through eportfolios. International Journal of ePortfolio, 1(1), Retrieved from http://www.theijep.com ISSN 2157-622X

Justice, C., Rice, J., Warry W., Inglis, S., Miller, S,. Sammon, S. (2007). Inquiry in higher education: Reflections and directions on course design and teaching methods.Innovative Higher Education, 31(4), 201-214. doi: DOI 10.1007/s10755-006-9021-9

Nancy Wozniak, Learning Architect & ePortfolio Program Manager, Stony Brook University

Lion, Will (2008). Getting information off the Internet is like drinking water from a fire hydrant, Retrieved May, 2013, from http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/2595497078

Photographs and images by Nancy Wozniak, 2013