e-Portfolios @ UBC – Archive of Projects

• “The most rewarding experience I’ve ever had as an instructor.” Land & Food Systems instructor

• “e-Portfolio is another learning tool that promotes a learner-centred approach through reflection. This is the leading technique in learning research right now. We need to embrace these activities, especially if UBC wants to be the ‘leading university’ of North America and the world. It fits into UBC’s Trek strategic goals.” Pathology instructor

• “The e-portfolios in the course helped broaden the scope of understanding around group learning. The students began to work together and approach learning in a team way.” Science instructor

• “We’ve used portfolios in Education for a long time. e-Portfolios are more robust. They give us a chance to do so many more things that we couldn’t do on paper. And, the level of professionalism is elevated.” Education instructor

• “Our students had too many other things to do already and saw the e-portfolio as just another assignment. They didn’t buy into it even though we changed the process in 2nd year. When students question meaning we, as instructors, will too.” Pharmacy instructor

• “We didn’t force students into an e-portfolio box or template. We really focused on folio thinking and let the process shape the e-portfolio, not the tool.” Science instructor

• “Any success in this pilot was tied directly to the work of the instructional support staff.” Land & Food Systems instructor

• “The teaching environment improved 1000% with the addition of the e-portfolio. Previously, I felt like a marker…There was no discussion and no interaction in the course. I felt disconnected.” English instructor

• “You can’t disentangle the e-portfolio from the technology at this point and the problems with the technology crushed the benefits to students.” Land & Food Systems instructor

• “A value of e-portfolios is that you can take them beyond the course. Our portfolios were bound by the technology within the course structure. The technology is a challenge as there is no campus-wide technology implementation at this time.” English instructor

• “We need to go farther to improve ways of encouraging students to be accountable for their own learning and how to integrate this with using the e-portfolio when workloads are already very heavy and neither students nor faculty have a lot of time.” Pathology student