About e-Portfolios at UBC
An e-Portfolio is…
An e-Portfolio is an online collection of your work that you choose to represent your skills and interests to diverse audiences. Highly customizable, e-Portfolios allow the user to assemble subsets of their work to present to instructors, potential employers, and others via login.
Portfolios have shown great potential to document individual learning and growth for UBC students and faculty. Through the UBC Campus-Wide Online Environment for E-Portfolios: Deepening Community and Expanding Use we’ll study the use of e-Portfolios in order to find out more about the challenges and benefits of this human-centered approach.
What we’re doing with them
UBC launched a campus-wide e-Portfolio pilot project, Campus-Wide Online Environment for e-Portfolios: Community Building and Pilot Projects, in September 2003. Five projects launched in Year One of this project. They were: Agricultural Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Science, TAG, and Teacher Education. Four new pilots will launch in the fall of 2004: Enrolment Services, Interprofessional Rural Program, Learning Technology Professional Staff, and Master’s of Education. Short descriptions of each pilot and a contact are available under the e-Portfolio section of the e-Learning website.
Our Mission
To build knowledge of eportfolio use within UBC and its broader community, through collaboration, experimentation, and sharing.
The Campus-Wide Online Environment for e-Portfolios: Deepening Community and Expanding Use, Year 2 brings together academic staff, and administrative stakeholders to understand the requirements of implementing a university-wide e-Portfolio systems. The individual pilot projects and aligned work of the Community of Practice will enable the campus to investigate the spectrum of uses for e-Portfolios, from preparing to enter university through to ongoing professional practice. This project will benefit a wide variety of students, including traditional undergraduate students, non-traditional students and graduate students. Indirect benefits to UBC’s learning environment will be seen through the cultivation of more reflective teachers, practitioners, and students, and the development of a diversity of ways to conduct learner-centered practice.
People
e-Portfolios at UBC is a result of the collaborative efforts of many individuals and organizations across campus, largely coordinated by the Office of Learning Technology (OLT).