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What’s New With ePortfolio?
ePortfolios for Learning & Integration:
LaGuardia’s Emerging Leadership Role
Bret Eynon & J. Elizabeth Clark
LaGuardia Community College Instructional Staff Meeting
30 March 2011
Key Trends
1. New ePortfolio Platform –
Easier, More Interactive
2. Faculty Innovation with high
impact ePortfolio Pedagogy
3. Integration across the Major Customization & Ownership
4. Effective use for Assessment
5. New Transfer Audiences
6. LaGuardia’s Growing
National Leadership Role
percentages by sector reporting ePortfolio services
on the campus Web site, 2003-2010
2003
2005
2007
2010
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Community College Public 4-year College
Private 4-year
College
Public Universities Private Universities
The Campus Computing Project
A Global Reach
• EuroPortfolio
http://www.epforum.eu/
• Univ of Wolverhampton (UK)
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=16960
• Queensland University of
Technology (AU)
http://www.studentportfolio.qut.edu.au/
• City Univ. of Hong Kong
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/edo/eportfolio
Queensland University of Technology
Visits LaGuardia
Resources for an Emerging Field
• National Coalition for ePortfolio Research http://ncepr.org/
• AAC&U’s Project VALUE http://www.aacu.org/value/index.cfm
• World ePortfolio Summit, July 2011 http://www.aaeebl.org/
• International Journal of ePortfolio Research
2007-2010:
FIPSE-funded mini-grant & seminar
program. Sustained prof’l learning community.
Campus teams plan and implement ePortfolio.
30 campus teams, from
Rutgers, Queens,
BMCC, St. John’s,
Brooklyn, etc.
15 CUNY, 15 nonCUNY, 10 Community
College, 20 BA and
Graduate programs
http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/connections/
2010-2015: Making Connections National
Resource Center awarded $4.4 million in funding to
deepen & expand its service through 2 new programs
• Title
V-funded 5-year
partnership w/ Queens
College, Lehman College,
Bronx & Queensboro CCs
• Use ePortfolio to support
successful transfer and
transition from community
college to BA degree
• FIPSE-funded national
collaboration, 20 colleges.
• Generate evidence-based
national developmental
models of ePortfolio practice
as tool for reflection,
integrative learning
• Research team led by
Helen Chen (Stanford) and
Randy Bass (Georgetown)
http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/connections/
Learning
ePortfolios
Career &
Credential
ePortfolios
Assessment
ePortfolios
Current ePortfolio Typologies
Learning
ePortfolios
Integrative ePortfolios
Career &
Credential
ePortfolios
Assessment
ePortfolios
Current ePortfolio Typologies
LaGuardia’s Integrative Strategy
Enrich Student Learning
• Build Student Engagement
• Reflection & Metacognition to
deepen learning process
• Advance Student Outcomes
Assessment
• Faculty and staff deepen
understanding of who students are
and how they learn
• Re-think outcomes assessment,
use authentic classroom work
eResume
• Students
showcase achievements for career & transfer
9,325 Students Enrolled in ePortfolio Classes, 2008/9
10000
9000
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7000
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0
2003-4 2004-5 2005-6 2006-7 2007-8 2008-9
370
1868
5024
6339
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9325
Where Do Students Do ePortfolio?
•
More than 175 faculty integrate ePortfolio into
their classrooms
• Broad Range of Courses: ESL, New Student
Seminar, History, Business, Mathematics,
English, New Media, Nursing, Chemistry, Fine
Arts, Human Communication, etc.
• Selected Courses attach an “ePortfolio Studio
Hour:” One hour/week, in the Studio, with a
special ePortfolio tutor
The New ePortfolio System
Intentional Integrated Learning
Design throughout the curricular
experience:
Reflection
Integration
Inquiry
Engagement
Life-long Learning
Transition
Why “e” in ePortfolio?
ePortfolio as an
Integrative Social Pedagogy
Academic
Curriculum
Faculty
& Staff
Student
Across
Semesters
STUDENT AS
LEARNER
Across
Disciplines
External
Audiences
Lived
Curriculum
Student
A First Course
Experience:
Becomes a
First ePortfolio
Becomes a Multi-Semester Record of Student Learning,
Artifacts & Reflections
Becomes a Capstone ePortfolio
“...it was time
to reinvent
myself and
find another
avenue”
“I was unsure of
my writing
abilities and that
was what scared
me the most.”
“...the one thing I
do know is that
I’m now mentally
prepared to
venture off into
anything that I
want to do...”
How do we know
ePortfolio is
having an
impact?
ePortfolio & Outcomes Assessment
• 28,000+ artifacts in
Assessment area;
30,000 more in 2010-11
• New platform eases
faculty work on deposits,
Program Reviews,
Middle States
• New Benchmark
Reading Process
Closing the Loop
• Mini grants help
programs address
key needs identified
by assessment
• Shared examination
of student learning
builds shared
responsibility for
student success
From: Beyond Crossroads Live
A Learning College
80%
Engagement
& Critical
Thinking
Engagement
&
75%
Critical Thinking
70%
65%
60%
55%
50%
45%
National
LaGuardia
57.7%
67.8%
Engagement & Critical Thinking: How much has your coursework
emphasized synthesizing & organizing ideas, information, or experiences
in new ways? % of students responding Quite a Bit or Very Much. n=1,506
80%
Engagement
& Critical
Thinking
Engagement
&
75%
Critical Thinking
70%
65%
60%
55%
50%
45%
National
LaGuardia
ePortfolio
57.7%
67.8%
78.9%
Engagement & Critical Thinking: How much has your coursework
emphasized synthesizing & organizing ideas, information, or experiences
in new ways? % of students responding Quite a Bit or Very Much. n=1,506
60
58
56
54
52
50
48
46
44
42
40
ePortfolio 58.3%
Comparison
49.4%
2009-10 Academic Year
High Pass
Rates
Comparison
Courses
(n=8,565)
ePortfolio
Courses
(n=4,369)
84
82
Next Semester Retention Rates
ePortfolio vs. Comparison Courses
80
78
76
74
72
70
68
66
64
2005-8 Collegewide
Non-ePort
70.7
ePort
75.1
84
Next Semester Retention Rates
82
ePortfolio vs. Comparison Courses
80
78
76
74
72
70
68
66
64
2005-8 Collegewide
2009 Collegewide
Non-ePort
70.7
72.5
ePort
75.1
78.3
84
82
Next Semester Retention Rates
ePortfolio vs. Comparison Courses
80
78
76
74
72
70
68
66
64
2005-8 Collegewide
2009 Collegewide
2009 Faculty in
Seminars
Non-ePort
70.7
72.5
70.4
ePort
75.1
78.3
82.1
Get Involved, Learn More
Faculty Seminars
 Connected Learning: Interaction & Integration
 Re-Thinking the Capstone Experience
 Hybrid & On-Line Learning
 Art of Advisement
 ePortfolio & Assessment
Mini-Grants
Center Website
http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/ctl/
Thank You