e-Portfolios @ UBC – Archive of Projects

Thanks to Lynne Potter-Lord, AGSC Instructor for the e-Portfolio project (Year 1), for providing us her testimonial for the project:

“The most rewarding experience I’ve ever had as an instructor.”

Thanks to Olivia Hui, a student participated in the Agricultural Sciences project, for providing us a testimonial:

“The ability to reflect upon the past and the ability to learn from past mistakes leads to exceptional growth. I learned how to reflect better through repeated writings of journal entries and feedback from my instructors.”

“One of the things I liked about e-portfolios best is that we can actually go back and look over everything. I did notice a lot of growth in myself from my first to last journal.”

This diagram illustrates the variety of contexts being investigated by the individual pilots projects.

BIOL 321 is both a lecture and learner-centred lab. The proposed e-Portfolio project proposed facilitates reflection and integration of material in the lecture and laboratory components of the course and across other courses. This type of reflection encourages on-going dialogue and individual, instructor, course, and potentially program reflection.

Objectives:

• To create a reflective individual and peer-to-peer learning environment through the use of personal reflective paragraphs.
• To assess students’ conceptual understanding of the course concepts, the extent to which key concepts are related to other courses, students’ reflection of their own learning, and responsibility for learning.
• To provide a reflective space for graduate students in the Life Sciences so they can assess their growth and development as teachers.

Evaluation:

The project evaluation, both formative and summative in nature, will be based on student surveys and focus groups and the instructor’s evaluation of the process and project product.

Big thanks to Martha Kinnear, a student from both the first and second year of the Pharmaceutical Sciences e-Portfolio Project, for providing us testimonial and feedback:

In terms of the eportfolio project, I would say it has been a great opportunity to learn the importance of reflection. I am better able to learn from my
mistakes through reflection, and I feel confident in the area of goal setting. The writing exercices were somewhat tedious, however all in all, this experience has been a positive one.

Thanks to Kalinda for sharing her reflection as an example to the community.

Thanks to Megan for sharing her reflection as an example to the community.

We adopted the student presentation tool in WebCT CE as an e-Portfolio solution for this year’s Pharmacy project. We created a simple index.html as a template so students will have a page to start with. Students were free to change anything on the page. Here is a short report on technical lessons learned from the Pharmacy Project this year (2005).

The program will begin with a review of what Electronic Portfolios are and how they are used by students, faculty members, and career focused individuals. An overview of innovative approaches of Electronic Portfolios being used for lifelong and lifewide learning will also be included. National and international college and university experts will share how they are building research into their ongoing electronic portfolio plans.

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