Thinking beyond Me-portfolios!Embedding task portfolios in the curriculum

Shane SutherlandDesigner and CEO, PebblePad

with

David EddyRadiotherapy, Oncology & Supportive Care Teaching Fellow (DL) AHP ODL

Sheffield Hallam University

What do all these portfolios have in common?

Shane Sutherland’s Professional Portfolio

They’re all about me!

…because (amongst other reasons) the technology used to create portfolio presentations is too

powerful and useful to be constrained by a single use

…and that’s a problem

(Presentational) Portfolios fall into two main categories and (at least) eight sub-categories:

Me-Portfolios Personal Professional Promotional

T-Portfolios (task portfolios) Process Project Placement Production Pedagogical.

Tend… to focus on the author

Tend… to focus on an activity

How do task-portfolios benefit me-portfolios?

Some example task-portfolios…

there is a limitation with an approach like this…

What you need is a new kind of portfolio framework…

• Where the structure is enabling, not constraining…

• Where users receive support on how to complete the tasks…

• Where context frames content and users demonstrate their learning guided by this…

• Where tasks can be incremental and timely (and mistakes are rectifiable)

‘owned’ by the designer

‘owned’ by the designer

‘owned’ by the student

Add new pages over time

Add new content over time

So, what are we actually talking about?• ePortfolios as infinitely personalisable,

task-based, micro learning packages…• * Developed over time• Enhanced by evidence, thoughts, ideas,

responses and reflections from the user…• * Enhanced over time• Enriched by comments, feedback,

contributions and ideas from others…• * Enriched over time• Takeaway-able, re-useable, and the

richest possible evidence for my me-portfolio(s)

Me-portfolios Task-portfolios

v

Extra curricular Core curriculumv

Product focused Concerned with Product & Process

v

Summatively assessed

Formatively and summatively assessed

v

Individual assessor Multiple assessment agents

v

Stand alone Developmental, linked

v

A possible, maybe, kind of, tentative dichotomy…

This part if the talk is given by David Eddy of SHU

Time for questions…

Shane Sutherlandshane@pebblepad.com

David Eddyd.eddy@shu.ac.uk