UOW ePortfolio Symposium‘Round-table’

2007 & 2008 cohorts13 May 2008

MARK270 Services Marketing (300)MARK270 Services Marketing (300)

• Aim: To extend learning outcomes of existing assignment to include awareness of industry specific professional skills.

• Tools– Vista quiz tool for skills check assessment– Word doc template for group project report– Blackboard Portfolio tool offered but not taken

up by most

MECH311 Mechanical Engineering Design (80)MECH311 Mechanical Engineering Design (80)

• Aim: To extend existing assessment task to include awareness of industry specific professional skills via ePortfolio.

• Tools– Group report Word document– Blackboard Portfolio for Vista

ENVI391/491 Environmental Science and Systems (15)ENVI391/491 Environmental Science and Systems (15)

• Aim: To extend learning outcomes of existing assignment to include awareness of industry specific professional skills, and to reflect on where and how these were developed over the course of study at UoW.

• Tools– Blackboard Portfolio for Vista– Word document for project report

MACS337 Hollywood in Context (108)MACS337 Hollywood in Context (108)

• Aim: To discuss professional skills and career development for students who are undertaking a broad degree with many possible career pathways.

• Tools– Blackboard Portfolio for Vista

MACS219 Cinema in Australia (174)

• Aim: To discuss professional skills and career development for students who are undertaking a broad degree with many possible career pathways.

• Tools– Blackboard Portfolio for Vista

ARTS301 Arts Internship (25)ARTS301 Arts Internship (25)

• Aim: Bring together and integrate numerous career development tasks and outputs relating to work-placement project via ePortfolio.

• Tools– Blackboard Portfolio and Word options offered

GHMB950 Reflective Practice (20)

• Aim: As a requirement of ongoing professional development health professionals need to provide portfolio evidence. The aim of including the ePortfolio tool in GHMB 950 was to assist the health professional students in the organisation and management of their professional portfolio resources. It was also anticipated that the ePortfolio would assist the students by providing innovative options for developing reflective resources.

• Tools– Blackboard Portfolio for Vista

Practical Legal Training (60)Practical Legal Training (60)

• Aim: To develop and assess students’ file management skills.

• Tools– Blackboard Portfolio for Vista

GSM Graduate School of Medicine (80)GSM Graduate School of Medicine (80)

• Aim: Bring together and integrate numerous skill development tasks and outputs for the purposes of monitoring student progress and accreditation.

• Tools– Clinical Log tool– Journal tool in Blackboard Portfolio for Vista

Careers Service Programs Careers Service Programs (300)(300)• Aim: Students opt in to the program on

top of their course of study, to gain more experience on the CV, get a (better!) job

• Tools– Files on memory stick– Structured Word documents– Blackboard Portfolio for Vista, esp journal

Black Opal Leadership Program

Faculty of Education (400)

• Aim: Bring together and integrate numerous skill development tasks and assignments for the purposes of students monitoring and reflecting on their progress, gathering evidence towards professional accreditation by New South Wales Institute of Teachers (NSWIT) upon graduation.

• Tools– In-house built specialist ePortfolio tool

Staff ePortfolio (10)

• Aim: Provide staff with opportunities to develop a career portfolio, gathering evidence and reflecting on the full spectrum of academic work (teaching, research, governance, professional activity) for personal career goals and academic development

• Tools– Excel spreadsheet– iWebfolio

Certificate in Global Workplace Practice

• 2008, Careers Service new program

• 250 students opted in– International students, priority areas

• ePortfolio helps to prepare for major tasks– Prepare skills-based job application– Mock job interview (videoed for feedback)

• Tools– Structured Word document template

Legal Practicum

• New eLearning Space to support program– Information for all undergraduates– Application forms specific to each cohort– New practicum contracts– Sample/advice on preparing better CVs– ePortfolio template based on Careers CGWP

to replace paper-based practicum journal• Hard to mark “unstructured ramblings”• Students submit to co-ordinator via email after

prac, could be any time

Plans for 2008

• Review, further evaluations, report to FEC

• Extend to more subjects/courses– Work in with Graduate Qualities mapping– Map/plan ePortfolio tasks across course

• Trial Pebblepad (specialist tool)

• Establish working party of eLTS to continue work

• More ‘show and tells’?

What do you want to happen?

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