7th AMICAL Conference June 9-12, 2010 Budapest, Hungary ePortfolio in AUCA: first steps and first results

7th AMICAL ConferenceJune 9-12, 2010

Budapest, Hungary

ePortfolio in AUCA:

first steps and first results

7th AMICAL Conference9-12 June, 2010

Budapest, Hungary

Why e-portfolio?• to assemble, present, and share information online for

documenting academic growth, career evaluation, and course preparation.

• to maintain a dynamic resume of your experiences in life, work, study, and at play

• to store examples of the personal achievements (documents, research results, articles, photos, graphics, spreadsheets, web pages)

Showcase of the personal accomplishments

Mahara (http://mahara.org) – Open Source ePortfolio Software

‘Mahara’means 'think' or 'thought' in Te Reo Māori

Why Mahara?• Free Open Source • The same team who

developed Moodle• Moodle/Mahara

integration (Mahara 1.1 will accept content from Moodle 2.0 using the Portfolio API)

http://mahara.org/

How to attract faculty to use the ePortfolio System: ‘Clear and Easy to Do’ idea


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eProtfolio can help:

• to present yourself effectively, properly, creatively, professionally, up-to-date

• to make the information visible

• to update your profile the information regularly

• to control and operate the ePortfolio content access

• to store and to show of the personal achievements


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AUCA Personal professional information – the way to start

Start to create your ePortfolio:

http://eportfolio.auca.kg


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How it may look like now: the area of your creativity

AUCA ePortfolio “Easy to make” template

• “Key points” of the academic career

• Basic Knowledge For the Beginners

• To make the process easier and faster

• Background for future development of the personal e-Portfolio – be creative!


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What is the student’s interest on ePortfolio?

• Career development? - a big interest by words but low presence in the system in fact

• AUCA ePortfolio as alumni social network – the place where you can meet - it works!


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AUCA Alumni Network: Always Stay Connected

“Having an ePortfolio would be amazing for the alumni association.

It would provide the alumni with a special online space through which they can start their networking or simply share their academic or professional achievements.

…ePortfolio can also help to build a solid alumni database for the future.

(Aigul K. Kasymova, Director of the Annual Fund and Alumni Relations (AUCA)

From idea to implementation – a short history of ePortfolio in AUCA


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• October – December 2009 – studying the ePortfolio software (Mahara Open Source)

• December 2009 – ePortfolio Working Group has been created• December 2009 - January 2010 – University workshops of the ePortfolio

system introduction for AUCA faculty and students• February 2010 – Faculty and staff workshop “ePortfolio system – what is a

benefit?”• March 2010 –AUCA ePortfolio faculty and students template created• April 2010 – University workshop “Innovation Practice and Technology: E-

portfolio in the University” • April 2010 - “Star” newspaper publication

May 2010 - 80 registered members, 16 active and well designed profiles

June 2010 – AUCA Faculty Summer Workshop

AUCA Faculty Summer 2010 Workshop

“Using WEB technology to supplement face-to-face courses and enhance classroom activity” -

certificated 5 day workshop for professional development (2 hours every day with 1 coffee break)

The Workshops Objectives• Understand and exploit the potential of the e-Course System;• Create online activities for students to collaborate, discuss and reflect;• Manage students access to a course;• Understand and use e-Portfolio as a personal digital collection of

information describing and illustrating a person's learning, career, experience and achievements.

• Learn and practice to use online assessment tools• Study and use electronic databases for articles/books and effectively

use information retrieval tools.


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AUCA Faculty Summer 2009 Workshop


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After the Workshop: what is our E-portfolio plan?

• Attract more people to use AUCA ePortfolio System: students, faculty and staff – who can advice how to it better?

• Study ways of integration Mahara and Moodle Systems (which allow Mahara users to submit their Mahara Views to a Moodle course for assessment)

• Try to integrate and share with the experience • Consult and train – individually and in groups

(Maya, IT team and the Work group)

Thank you!


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7th AMICAL Conference June 9-12, 2010 Budapest, Hungary ePortfolio in AUCA: first steps and first results