What’s New With ePortfolio?ePortfolios for Learning & Integration:LaGuardia’s Emerging Leadership Role

Bret Eynon & J. Elizabeth ClarkLaGuardia Community College Instructional Staff Meeting

30 March 2011

Key Trends1. New ePortfolio Platform –

Easier, More Interactive

2. Faculty Innovation with high impact ePortfolio Pedagogy

3. Integration across the Major - Customization & Ownership

4. Effective use for Assessment

5. New Transfer Audiences

6. LaGuardia’s Growing National Leadership Role

percentages by sector reporting ePortfolio services on the campus Web site, 2003-2010

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The Campus Computing Project

A Global Reach

• EuroPortfolio http://www.epforum.eu/

• Univ of Wolverhampton (UK) http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=16960

• Queensland University of Technology (AU)http://www.studentportfolio.qut.edu.au/

• City Univ. of Hong Konghttp://www.cityu.edu.hk/edo/eportfolio

Queensland University of Technology Visits LaGuardia

Resources for an Emerging Field• National Coalition for ePortfolio Research http://ncepr.org/

• AAC&U’s Project VALUE http://www.aacu.org/value/index.cfm

• World ePortfolio Summit, July 2011 http://www.aaeebl.org/

• International Journal of ePortfolio Research

30 campus teams, from Rutgers, Queens, BMCC, St. John’s, Brooklyn, etc.

15 CUNY, 15 non-CUNY, 10 Community College, 20 BA and Graduate programs

2007-2010: FIPSE-funded mini-grant & seminar program. Sustained prof’l learning community. Campus teams plan and implement ePortfolio.

http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/connections/

• Title V-funded 5-year partnership w/ Queens College, Lehman College, Bronx & Queensboro CCs • Use ePortfolio to support successful transfer and transition from community college to BA degree

2010-2015: Making Connections National Resource Center awarded $4.4 million in funding to deepen & expand its service through 2 new programs

http://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/connections/

• FIPSE-funded national collaboration, 20 colleges.• Generate evidence-based national developmental models of ePortfolio practice as tool for reflection, integrative learning• Research team led by Helen Chen (Stanford) and Randy Bass (Georgetown)

Current ePortfolio Typologies

Career & Credential ePortfolios

Assessment ePortfolios

Learning ePortfolios

Current ePortfolio Typologies

Integrative ePortfolios

Career & Credential ePortfolios

Assessment ePortfolios

Learning ePortfolios

LaGuardia’s Integrative StrategyEnrich Student Learning• Build Student Engagement • Reflection & Metacognition

to deepen learning process• Advance Student Outcomes

Assessment• Faculty and staff deepen understanding of who students are and how they learn• Re-think outcomes assessment, use authentic classroom work

eResume• Students showcase achievements for career & transfer

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9,325 Students Enrolled in ePortfolio Classes, 2008/9

Where Do Students Do ePortfolio? • More than 175 faculty integrate

ePortfolio into their classrooms• Broad Range of Courses: ESL, New

Student Seminar, History, Business, Mathematics, English, New Media, Nursing, Chemistry, Fine Arts, Human Communication, etc.

• Selected Courses attach an “ePortfolio Studio Hour:” One hour/week, in the Studio, with a special ePortfolio tutor

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Intentional Integrated Learning Design throughout the curricular experience:

ReflectionIntegration

InquiryEngagement

Life-long LearningTransition

Why “e” in ePortfolio?

ePortfolio as an

Integrative Social PedagogyStudent

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Faculty& Staff

External Audiences

Across Disciplines

Across Semesters

Academic Curriculum

Lived Curriculum

STUDENT AS LEARNER

A First Course

Experience:

Becomes a First

ePortfolio

A First Course

Experience:

Becomes a First

ePortfolio

Becomes a Multi-Semester Record of Student Learning, Artifacts & ReflectionsBecomes a Multi-Semester Record of Student Learning, Artifacts & Reflections

Becomes a Capstone ePortfolioBecomes a Capstone ePortfolio

““...it was ...it was time to time to

reinvent reinvent myself and myself and

find find another another avenue”avenue”

““I was unsure I was unsure of my writing of my writing abilities and abilities and

that was what that was what scared me the scared me the

most.”most.”““...the one ...the one

thing I do know thing I do know is that I’m now is that I’m now

mentally mentally prepared to prepared to

venture off into venture off into anything that I anything that I want to do...”want to do...”

How do we know

ePortfolio is having an impact?

ePortfolio & Outcomes Assessment

• 28,000+ artifacts in Assessment area; 30,000 more in 2010-11• New platform eases faculty work on deposits, Program Reviews, Middle States• New Benchmark Reading Process

Closing the Loop• Mini grants help programs address key needs identified by assessment• Shared examination of student learning builds shared responsibility for student success A Learning College

From: Beyond Crossroads Live

Engagement & Critical Thinking

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National LaGuardia

Engagement & Critical Thinking: How much has your coursework emphasized synthesizing & organizing ideas, information, or experiences in new ways? % of students responding Quite a Bit or Very Much. n=1,506

Engagement & Critical Thinking

Engagement & Critical Thinking

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National LaGuardia ePortfolio

Engagement & Critical Thinking: How much has your coursework emphasized synthesizing & organizing ideas, information, or experiences in new ways? % of students responding Quite a Bit or Very Much. n=1,506

Engagement & Critical Thinking

Comparison 49.4%

ePortfolio 58.3%

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ComparisonCourses(n=8,565)

ePortfolioCourses(n=4,369)

High Pass Rates

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Non-ePort

ePort

Non-ePort 70.7

ePort 75.1

2005-8 Collegewide

Next Semester Retention RatesePortfolio vs. Comparison Courses

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Non-ePort 70.7 72.5

ePort 75.1 78.3

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Next Semester Retention RatesePortfolio vs. Comparison Courses

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Non-ePort 70.7 72.5 70.4

ePort 75.1 78.3 82.1

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Seminars

Next Semester Retention RatesePortfolio vs. Comparison Courses

Get Involved, Learn MoreFaculty Seminars Connected Learning: Interaction & Integration Re-Thinking the Capstone Experience Hybrid & On-Line Learning Art of Advisement

ePortfolio & Assessment Mini-Grants

Center Websitehttp://www.lagcc.cuny.edu/ctl/

Thank You