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ePortfolio Webinar: Educating the Whole Student: What's Our Evidence?
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Registration is now open for the first-ever NERCOMP/CTDLC ePortfolio Webinar, titled “Educating the Whole Student: What’s Our Evidence?” This event is sponsored and hosted online by WIMBA, Inc.
Are you up for an adventure? Join us for a pilot effort to offer high quality professional development to NERCOMP and CTDLC constituents online. Because this is the first time we have offered an event in this format, registration costs are set at an extremely affordable rate.
Event Topic and Focus: ePortfolios make it possible for students to make connections across a range of experiences, from formal learning to the learning that takes place informally in day-to-day life. Students are asked to upload “artifacts” that provide “evidence” of learning into their ePortfolios.
But what do we mean by “evidence,” and how does a student’s understanding of evidence compare with that of the faculty? What can we learn by listening to students tell us about their firsthand experiences as ePortfolio creators?
In this two hour webinar, you will consider these questions from a range of perspectives. The keynote presenters, noted ePortfolio authorities, will present the findings of their recent research, including a typology of evidence. Following the keynote, students who use ePortfolios will have a chance to speak for themselves. A panel of students will present their ePortfolios and discuss the experience from their perspective. Faculty who work with these students will be on hand to provide background information on the scope and role that ePortfolios play within their institutions.
Registration closes April 1st.
Workshop Organizer/Host: WIMBA, Inc.
Date/Time:
Friday, April 03, 2009
9:30am - 11:30am
Registration begins at 9:30am
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Special instructions:
This event takes place online, using Wimba’s live classroom software as a platform. To attend this event, all you need is an Internet connection and a sound-enabled computer. Several days prior to the event, registrants will receive an email message with access information and instructions on how to login to the webinar.
Pricing:
Registration Price: $25
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Registration is closed for this event.
Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 2 days prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
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Additional Information
Event Schedule:
9:30-10:30 “Supporting and Assessing Lifewide Learning: Rethinking Evidence for Integration”
Keynote Presentation by Darren Cambridge and Kimberly Eby, George Mason University
A key feature of the ePortfolio is its ability to help students integrate their learning from the classroom with their learning from the world beyond it. Building on the concept of educating the whole student and Kathleen Yancey’s idea of three curricula – the delivered, experienced, and lived – we will explore how ePortfolios are helping faculty, students, and student affairs educators make connections between curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular learning. We will share examples from our own campus and other members of the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research.
Research on how people use social software and the results of our own three-year research project suggest that understanding the more complex picture of learning that integrative portfolios offer requires rethinking the concept of evidence. The typology for analyzing use of evidence in ePortfolios we have developed can help guide teaching, learning, and assessment. It also suggests that stronger collaboration across roles and units in the university may be necessary to support the multiple kinds of learning we value.
10:30-11:30 “Electronic Portfolios: The Faculty, Student, and Employer Perspective”
Panelists: Cindy Stevens and Michael Burke, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Gail Matthews-DeNatale, Moderator
What does it feel like to create an electronic portfolio of your work? What is the value of the experience? What are the challenges? During this panel discussion, a faculty member and one of her students will share their perspectives on electronic portfolio as process. In preparation for a promotion, Dr. Cindy Stevens (Wentworth Institute of Technology) decided to create an online portfolio of her work. She recounts that the experience challenged her to “spend some time thinking about how I wanted to represent myself.” Today, Stevens involves her students in the creation of online portfolios, and she also has conducted research with over 100 co-op employers to find out what they want to see in a portfolio website. Student Michael Burke created an electronic portfolio and then went on to become a peer tutor in the portfolio development process. Stevens and Burke will share their electronic portfolios, discuss the insights that they gained from the experience, and report lessons learned from research with employers.
Note: Both Stevens and Burke’s electronic portfolios stand-alone websites, not developed using ePortfolio software. This session will focus on ePortfolio development as a process for self representation, not on the technicalities of implementation.
Speaker:
Cindy Stevens
Cindy Stevens received her Ph.D. in Technology Management-Digital Communication Systems, at Indiana State University. She is an Associate Professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT), where she teaches courses related to management and technology and also serves on the Distance Learning Sub-Committee. In addition to teaching face-to-face, Stevens also teaches online through WIT’s Division of Professional and Continuing Studies and with Wayne Community College in North Carolina. Stevens has experience as a Technical Writer for Prentice Hall, planning, writing and editing technical manuals. She has authored several technical publications and is a member of the Society for Technical Communications and the Air Force Library Computing Services Advisory Panel.
Speaker:
Darren Cambridge
Darren Cambridge is assistant professor in New Century College, which offers integrative studies, experiential learning, and first year experience programs, and is affiliated with the Higher Education Program at George Mason University. Previously, he was a director at the American Association for Higher Education and a fellow with National Learning Infrastructure Initiative. He co-leads the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research, heads the IMS/GLC ePortfolios group and led development of the Learning Record Online. His work appears in journals such as Computers & Education and the Journal of General Education, and he is co-editor of Electronic Portfolios 2.0.
Speaker:
Gail Matthews-DeNatale
Gail Matthews-DeNatale is Associate Director of Academic Technology at Simmons College, where she also teaches oral history and instructional design courses as an adjunct faculty member with the School of Library and Information Science. Her recent work includes publications and presentations for the The Academic Commons, the Educause Learning Initiative, and Sloan-C. Previously, she was a faculty member at George Mason University's Institute for Educational Transformation, Projects Manager for Northeastern University's EdTech Center, and Learning and Technology Specialist for an online Masters in Science Education degree program developed in collaboration by TERC and Lesley University. Her interests include culturally-responsive teaching, intercultural learning, qualitative research, and formative assessment (assessment for learning).
Speaker:
Kimberly Eby
Kimberly Eby is associate provost for faculty development and director, Center for Teaching Excellence, at George Mason University. She is a community psychologist with interests in issues related to violence and gender and collaboration and community building in a variety of contexts, especially in interdisciplinary teaching and learning. Also on the Women's Studies faculty and an affiliate of the Psychology Department, she has taught primarily in New Century College, an integrated studies program. She has been a University Life Faculty Fellow, awarded to explore the use of electronic portfolios for integrating students’ curricular and co-curricular learning around the topic of leadership; a National Learning Communities Project consultant; and campus leader for a Ford Foundation grant, "The Engaged Campus for a Diverse Democracy."
Speaker:
Michael Burke
Michael Burke is a senior in the Management program at Wentworth Institute of Technology, and will be graduating in August with a Bachelor of Science in Management degree. Along with general Management courses, Mike is in the Technology Management concentration, studying how to bridge the gap between the business and the IT department. In addition to developing his on Electronic Portfolio, Mike currently tutors other students at Wentworth in the development of their online portfolios.
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http://wiki.nercomp.org/NERCOMP-CTDLC.m4v
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