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ePortfolios by DesignWhat’s the big idea?
Some definitionsKey terms and differences
ePortfolio in academia means:
PebblePad Blog
Portfolio in design land means:
A portfolio A website
PDP: International research
Australian e-Portfolio ProjectInstitution: Queensland University of TechnologyPublished: 2008Conditions for summative portfolio assessement in medical educationInstitution: Utrecht UniversityPublished: 2006e-Portfolio, Life Long Promises for Learning?!Institution: Windesheim UniversityMaking Student Learning VisibleInstitution: Penn State UniversityPublished: 2006
PDP and e-portfolio: UK
University of Hull Dissertation Direct: a PebblePad learning space for finalist students
University of Central Lancashire“we aim to produce easy-to-use guides for academic staff, focussing on the embedding of reflection in the formal curriculum, and for personal advisers, focussing on helping students with personal reflection, self-awareness, skills analysis, and career planning.”
Buckinghamshire New University Effective implementation of PDP and ePortfolio across curricula with a professional, employment and academic focus.
The Centre for Recording Achievement UK
e-portfolios can be used for:• Integration of formal, informal and work-based
learning into a coherent whole.• Accessibility – learning can be demonstrated
in the way most appropriate to an individual’s situation.
• Personal Development Plan• Academic Tutorial• Monitor and support• Portability and ownership of personal learning.• Behavioral management • save students’ time in assembling and
presenting work¨
Benefits for the teaching team:• make students’ work accessible from
anywhere• easy to check on progress for
individual students for three years• improve the monitoring of progress
(struggling students can be identified more quickly)• Assist team communication and
speedy responses.
Student use of ePortfolios
ePortfolios are supposed to be a processScrapbook / Ideas / Collaboration
Submitted pieces
Final selections (CV)
And there are different audiences for each stage
Scrapbook / Ideas
Submitted pieces
Final selections
And the tools they may useBlog > PebblePad > Website/Email
Scrapbook / Ideas
Submitted pieces
Final selections
Case studies show that…• Good use of web media empahsises the use of
interaction and commenting and can break down the top down aspect of teaching
• Referencing & research is far better in those students that use blogs vs paper based (Simply as it is so easy)
• Students are much more into this technology than we realise (caveat is more mature students get left behind)
• We should embrace the mashup principle of the web 2.0 – the essence of research
Design students simply use different media
The real world equivalent at Worcester Digital Arts
Learning Journal (sketchbook)
Assessed artwork (eg. Poster) and or text (Learning report)
Portfolio for big wide world
And the tools they may usePrivate Blog > Blog > ePortfolio
Scrapbook / Ideas
Submitted pieces
Final selections
Which is also what happens in industry
Moodboard / Research - Pinterest Final Piece
Why are we not using such a system?• Students (such as me) find their own tools if the
provided ones are not good enough• If the provided tools aren’t intuitive• If they serve different purposes to what is being
asked• If technology has moved on
• If the teaching of such tools is not in the cirriculum some students will not explore the possibilities
• Tutors generally use blogs as do some students• Should embrace the fact that they use different
systems
So Why are these needs not served?
Are designers that different?• As far as we can tell there is no one product that
design students use.• We think the reasons are:• The stepped process of learning• Web ‘things’ move much too fast
• Tools out there, such as blogger, tumblr, flickr, deviantArt do one thing and do it very well
• Plus there is a new cool thing every year
The solution?The Question mark is important
Wordpress• Has reached a mature state and become many
things to different people• IS the industry standard and looks like being for at
least a couple of years• Has the ability to be a blogging collaboration tool
as well as a portfolio, and can switch by the flick of a theme
The big idea
Design led blogging
tool
Portfolio of pieces
The real world equivalent at Worcester Digital Arts
Learning Journal (sketchbook)
Assessed artwork (eg. A Book cover) and or text (Learning report)
Portfolio for big wide world
An ecosystem of sites
Class of ’14
portfolio
Student 1
Student 4
Student 5
Tutor 1
Tutor 2
Student 3
Student 2
Worcesterdegreeshows.co.ukThe first, simple, prototype portfolio site
Worcesterdegreeshows.co.ukThe first, simple, prototype portfolio site
FolioPress.meBranding and name
A couple of examplesHow will this thing work
“LAURA”Example of a less techy, more arty student
Laura3434.worcdigital.co.uk• Gets a blog setup for her on the above address,
with pre-made module categories, links to tutor blogs and fellow students
• First week, first module, she is shown in class how to.
• She is given some tasks• Find an example graphic piece, write 100 words and
post article.• Find a fellow student’s blog, write a comment
Laura also gets a sketchbook decides that this blogging stuff is not for her. She continues to use paper for the rest of her time. Her blog remains waiting for her.
“DAVID”Example of a digital learner
David3434.worcdigital.co.uk• Gets the same blog and is given same tasks.• Continues to use the blog as a learning tool, and
expands the use to other modules throughout his three years at Uni.
• During his second year he needs to show his portfolio to the wider world. He uses this tool to do so and sends the link around to employers.
• He updates the look an content of his outward portfolio throughout.
• He buys his own domain and uses the same blog.• After university he gets a job but continues to use
his own webspace, domain and blog for his needs.
So what do we want from this?And who is we?
Learning• Students well versed in digital with confidence• Better referencing and research (Mashups)• Different way of working more like industry and
social• Central took for their studies rather than modular• Help with PDP for each student • as the things they do are all in one place – a current
problem with the modular system
Tools
Scrapbook / Ideas
Submitted pieces
Portfolio
Marketing
Class of ’13
portfolio
Student 1
Student 3
Student 2
Longevity• Keep track of work, have digital copies – a
university portfolio• URLs matter for Search, as does cross linking of
content• These will build up over time and be used again and
again• Students do some of the marketing for us, including
a network of Alumni.
The whatOur big plan
When is all this happening• Degree show site was a prototype – May ‘13• Trial with students September ’13 – built into new
module map• Iron out problems, create report and larger
release Jan ’14
• Productise and package with industry partnerships?
What will a student get?• Webspace• FTP access to their blog folder
• Domain name• With instructions on how to mask their URL
• Wordpress blog with some default settings • Categories for module codes• Portfolio led themes• Privacy settings• Blogroll to fellow students and tutors• Useful plugins already installed
• Some documentation
URLS = longevity
Studentname.worcesterarts.ac.ukStudentcrazyname.com
Maintenence• We see this as a multisite wordpress system• http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Beltranrubo/
BitNami_Multisite• Tutors and IT will have superadmin rights
Privacy – a big issue• Posts should be marked as private, unpublished or
public• Private posts can be seen by select folk including
tutors
• This is not only because of privacy but also copyright
• Portfolios should be the public facing area
Legals• Blogs need to be the responsibility of individual
users and not attributed to the University• Flags should be put up for copyright etc.• In the same way as Social sites
Official vs unofficial• The joy of Facebook is that it is deemed to be
“uncontrolled”• A university publication has the air of officialdom
and of top down that school kids are used to• FB groups that evolve organically are more useful
to students in “Getting stuff done on time” and can be academically useful.
• If we demand they do a blog and interact with peers and tutors, will they lose this?
• In order to succeed our tools must engage and use their existing ones – for example posting to FB wall and Twitter
Thank YouSam Collett / Ree HanReferences and files can be found:stage.phenotype.net/samcollett