E-Portfolio Resources

Introduction

E-portfolios are digital archives of student learning, with learning artifacts, student reflections and peer or teacher feedback organized around learning outcomes. 

E-portfolios enhance learning, assess learning and showcase learning. 

E-portfolios enhance learning through student reflection on learning outcomes, helping students connect academic and personal experience.  E-portfolios provide specific examples of student learning connected to learning outcomes, thereby serving program and institution assessment needs.  Finally, and often of most importance to students, e-portfolios can be shared to demonstrate learning, acting as a 21st century resume. 

Examples:

Clemson University. E-Portfolio Gallery.  Student Example.

Laguardia Community College.  E-portfolio Gallery.  Basic. Intermediate.  Advanced.  Capstone.  Showcase.    

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, CI 335 Content Areas Applications of Educational Technology.  Examples of Students’ ePortfolios. 

Task Stream Demo from Northeastern University, and, Northeastern University’s e-portfolio pilot project. 

 

Outcomes and Rubrics to Assess E-Portfolios

Patton, Judy, Candyce Reynolds and Wende Morgaine, 2008.  Eportfolios: Can we have it all?  Balancing assessment needs with student learning.  Portland State University.  [includes links to a variety of Portland State e-portfolio resources].

Vandervelde, J. (2008). E-portfolio rubric. Accessed June 20, 2010, from http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/eportfoliorubric.html 

 

Technology:

Barrett, Helen C., 2007. E-portfolio mash up with Google Apps.  GoogleApps for Education E-Portfolio Workflow.  

Task Stream Demo from Northeastern University.

 

Rationale and University Experiences:

Chen, Helen L. and Tracy Penny Light, 2010.  Electronic Portfolios and Student Success: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Learning. AACU Report.  ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-911696-69-1.

Clark, J. Elizabeth, Bret Eynon, Hector Graciano and Nancy Gross, 2006.  ePortfolio@LaGuardia: A Learning Project.  In Transit.  1(2).

Easterling, Cal, Mark R. Hall and Gweth Holzmann, 2006.  University-Wide ePortfolio: Infrastructure for a Culture of Evidence.  [AAC&U Meeting Notes].  http://www.aacu.org/meetings/technology_learning/tech06/documents/ORU.pdf

Lorenzo, George and John Ittelson, 2005. An overview of e-portfolios.  ELI Paper 1: 2005. Educause Learning Initiative. July.   http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3001.pdf

Miller. Ross and Wende Morgaine, 2009.  The benefits of e-portfolios for students and faculty in their own words.  Peer Review.  Winter 2009, 11 (1).  http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-wi09/pr-wi09_benefits.cfm

Northeastern University’s e-portfolio pilot project. 

 

Bibliography

Extensive bibliography from LaGuardia Community College:  http://www.eportfolio.lagcc.cuny.edu/bibliography.html

Bergman, K., V.L. Porter; L. Poklop, S. Aman, S. Noyes, and J. F. Woolfson.  Curriculum Improvement in Practice-Based Biology Programs Using Student E-Portfolios: A Progress Report. In: Proceedings of the National STEM Assessment Conference: Washington, DC, October 19-21 2006. Chief editors: Donald Deeds and Bruce Callen. Drury University 2007.

Clark, J. Elizabeth, 2009.  E-portfolios at 2.0--Surveying the Field.  Peer Review.  Winter 2009, 11 (1).  http://www.aacu.org/peerreview/pr-wi09/pr-wi09_eportfolios.cfm

Rodriguez, Max, 2007.  My ePortfolio journey: Reflections on Praxis.  In Transit.  2(1).