Queensland University of Technology

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Overview Day1

Emma Crawford

eLearning Services

QUT

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Widening participation - engaging the learner

• Institutional benefits “making connections between formal and informal

learning”, ”making learning visible - a social pedagogy over time, across courses, & life”

Participation from diverse students

• Employer perspectives

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The Learner: ePortfolios for…• Emergency services - police,

ambulance, fire, surf life saving

• Radiographers, nurses, lawyers

• Bakers, hairdressers, musicians, engineers, teachers, fork lift drivers, auto mechanics, PhD students, indigenous writers….

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Interesting student eportfolios shown at the conference

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Both from Brisbane’s Metropolitan South Institute of TAFE (MSIT)

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From LaGuardia Community College: Layla Quinones

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From LaGuardia Community College: Mikhail Valentin

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It’s about you the teachers

• Quality, integration, discipline accreditations.• Design backwards for critical reflection and

higher order thinking• “Tips for success Pedagogy first then tech”• “Peer mentoring, Multiple media” • “eportfolios are a disruptive technology – it does

result in change”

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From Victor Callan’s Innovation Challenges and Solutions

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Lifelong and lifewide learning

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