1. Buy, Build, or Adapt an ePortfolio System? The Benefits of Multi-University Collaboration John Harwood, Pennsylvania State University Ali Jafari, IUPUI James Lowe & Brian Grunsven, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Milton Hakel, Bowling Green State University EDUCAUSE 2003 National Conference Nov. 5, 2003, Anaheim, Ca

2. About Electronic Portfolios Consortium (ePortConsortium)  The ePortConsortium is the collaboration of higher education and IT institutions working to define, design, and develop ePortfolio solution and environment. From a conceptual perspective, developing members are working to invent the new electronic portfolio application environment to address various ePortfolios needs. From the technical perspective, the ePortConsortium desires to encourage collaboration among IT institutions to define and adopt interoperability and transportability measures and standards while building prototypes to test potential scenarios and conceptual environments. www.eportconsortium.org

3. The Benefits of Multi-University Collaboration Multi-University collaboration allows comprehensive: Development of Knowledge Development of Tools

4. Development of Knowledge Approach: Multiple educational and corporate institutions participated in the development of a comprehensive Electronic Portfolios White Paper. Collaborating institutions: Blackboard, Bowling Green State University, Carnegie Foundation, California State University - Monterey Bay, Community of Science, eCollege, EDUCAUSE, AAHE, ePortaro, IUPUI, Ja-SIG, New York University, Northwestern University, Nuventive, Penn State University, SCT, University of Denver, and University of Washington

5. Development of Knowledge, cont. Deliverable: Electronic Portfolios White Paper, Version 1.0, release date of November 3, 2003. Free download from: http://ePortConsortium.org

6. Development of Knowledge, cont. Next Deliverable: Electronic Portfolios White Paper, final version anticipated to be released Fall 2004. Additional contributors invited. Contact: Ali Jafari, jafari@iupui.edu, IUPUI orjafari@iupui.edu Gary Greenberg, gary-greenberg@northwestern.edu, Northwestern Universitygary-greenberg@northwestern.edu.

7. Development of Software Approach: Educational institutions develop and refine ePortfolio software through: Joint investment Owning/sharing IP Open source code

8. Development of Software, cont. Deliverable: Epsilen Portfolios TM Management System Comprehensive enterprise portfolio management system Version 1.42 released October 21, 2003 Early Adopters Program offered to educational institutions at http://epsilen.com http://epsilen.com

9. Epsilen TM Navigation and Management Model: How Does it Work?

10. Account creation and maintenance Epsilen may dynamically create an ePortfolio account for every member of an institution based on the DPP model *. Email address: eric@ucla.edu Portfolio address: eric.with.ucla.edu * DPP is a patent pending model and process owned by Indiana University

11. 1. Visit your dynamically created ePortfolio account …

12. 2. Sign in using your campus computing account …

13. 3. Enter information about you; contact, bio, academic goals, etc. …

14. Done, within ten minutes!

15. Epsilon Management Environment and Tools

16. Two campus wide Testing and Implementation:  University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire James Lowe, Acting VP and CIO Brian Grunsven, Lead Software Developer  Bowling Green State University Milton Hakel, Professor