1. E-Portfolios: The Way to Engage, Empower, and Connect Students
E-portfolios – truly the way to engage, empower and connect students
How do you compete for your students’ time? Learn how our students became engaged and empowered with a willingness to share and critique their learning and reflections with online e-portfolios.
Eileen DeCourcy, Lenore Duquette and Denise Gardner
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Denise Gardner

2. Engage, empower and connect

6. Do our assessments and instructional strategies inspire our students?

8. E-portfolio beginnings
STLHE 2010
University of Waterloo
Co-op Program

9. E-Portfolios definition
An ePortfolio is a purposeful collection of information and digital artifacts that demonstrates development or evidences learning outcomes, skills or competencies.
Cotterill SJ. What is an ePortfolio? ePortfolios 2007, Maastricht.

10. Teaching portfolio
Is a collection of materials aimed at describing your teaching accomplishments and documenting your teaching effectiveness.
Your portfolio should be focused on reflection and analysis of your teaching performance and you students’ learning.

12. Ideas for content in student portfolios
Course work
Research
Internship experiences
Co-curricular activities
Student reflection of academic & professional goals
Reese and Levy, (2009) Assessing the Future: Eportfolio Trends, Uses and Options in Higher Education

13. What to include in your portfolio?
Faculty CV
Statement of your Teaching Approach and Philosophy ( could be text, pictures or a video)
Professional Development Plans

14. E-Portfolios definition
The process of producing an ePortfolio (writing, typing, recording etc.) requires the:
synthesis of ideas,
reflection on achievements,
self-awareness and forward planning;
with the potential for educational, developmental or other benefits.
Cotterill SJ. What is an ePortfolio? ePortfolios 2007, Maastricht.

15. Explosive adoption
Winter 2011
110 students
1 program

16. Expansive adoption
Spring 2012
778 students
9 programs

17. HRT Programs using e-portfolios
Exercise Science Post Grad 30
Massage Therapy
Culinary Skills and Culinary Management 400
Kinesiology Degree
Food and Nutrition Management
Hospitality Management, Tourism Management and Business Applications, 60

18. Student samples
Alex
Jennifer
Christopher

19. How they began their journey at humber

20. Reflections during challenging times

21. Personal motivations

23. Reflection via pictures

24. 3rd attempt… “Getting tighter on presentation”

25. Strengths quest

26. Faculty portfolios
Paul McCabe
Amanda Baskwill
Mary Lendway

27. Anne Cramer, Business Faculty
Anne CramerProfessor, Fashion Arts – Home
Done with Weebly.com
Also google sites, wix.com

28. Benefits to faculty of having students make a portfolio
Supports assessment and critical thinking development in students.
Assists in writing recommendation letters.
Facilitates student advising.
Supports internal and external departmental review.
Reese and Levy, (2009) Assessing the Future: Eportfolio Trends, Uses and Options in Higher Education

29. Benefits to student learning:
Increases critical thinking in terms of abilities and personal growth.
Connects theory and practice.
Increases opportunities for scholarly writing.
Showcase for employers when they graduate.
Provide ongoing experience with reflective practice.

33. E-portfolios are a fantastic tool to us understand "where we are in our teaching, where they need to go and how best to get there" (Barrett, 2005)