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overview
"ePortfolio" is not just a tool, but
a process of engaging students in activities that allow them to
identify, reflect on and develop evidence of their developing Graduate
Qualities and Professional Skills and to justify and explain their
skills and qualities to others.
11 different student cohorts and a small group of staff engaged
in this process in 2007, supported by their Faculty's academic and
professional staff, who were in turn supported by the Project Manager
and broadly by their peers in the ePortfolio Reference Group.
A University of Wollongong ePortfolio Community was launched on
13th May 2008 via the Inaugural ePortfolio Symposium to celebrate
and share the diversity of approaches, activities and tools used
by the 2007 and 2008 cohorts. The Symposium and other ePortfolio
activities were all outcomes of the Teaching and Learning Fund Student
ePortfolio project, successfully completed 30th June 2008.
Future plans include working with the emerging National ePortfolio
Community (developed and developing by the Carrick ePortfolio project),
regular meetings of the UoW ePortfolio Community via CEDIR Academic
Staff development programs.
Teaching and Learning
Performance Fund Final Report
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Inaugural
UOW ePortfolio Symposium conducted
20/05/08
ePortfolio
and work-integrated learning are the latest buzz-words in
the university teaching landscape.
With
this in mind, UOW recently conducted its inaugural ePortfolio
symposium held in the Design Lab of Creative Arts.
ePortfolio
and work-integrated learning are beginning to receive significant
funding nationally via the Carrick Institute for Learning
and Teaching in Higher education.
The
inaugural symposium highlighted local innovations in educational
technology and assessment with ePortfolio.
The
symposium involved a ‘round table’ to share ePortfolio
activities by reference group members on behalf of their faculties
and units.
Guest
participants included the Dean of Science, Professor Rob Whelan,
who spoke about his faculty’s 2007 ePortfolio project
and plans for taking it forward via curriculum mapping in
2008; and Mr Marcus O’Donnell who spoke about his work
with student journalists as reflective practitioners and,
in particular, supporting those students to develop a “Philosophy
of Journalism Statement”.
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