Implementing ePortfolio: Challenges and Opportunities

John Gosney and Lynn Ward Indiana University

• Founded 1969 with a strong local mission

• Blended campus

• Metropolitan research university

• 20+ schools (15 with professional/pre-professional foci)

• Commuter campus, ~30,000 students (~20,000 undergraduates)

IUPUI: Institutional Profile

IUPUI’s ePortfolio Timeline• 1998 – Campus adopts a competency or ability-

based model• 2000 – Work begins on developing a portfolio• 2002 – Commitment to portfolio as evidence for

next accreditation visit• 2003 – Early development work scrapped; IU

joins OSP• 2012 – Next accreditation visit; will we be ready?

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Assessment Needs

• Document and demonstrate the effectiveness of IUPUI’s approach to general education (HLCNCA and ICHE)

• Document student achievement in programs subject to specialized accreditation (Education, Engineering, Visual Communications, etc.)

• Standard reports that aggregate and summarize assessment data across courses and programs

• Filter and group on demographic and academic criteria

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Feature: Blind Evaluation

• How hard can it be???

• Evaluators can see names of students

• Evaluators can see names of other evaluators

• Students can see names of evaluators

Impact on Other Tools

Impact on Other Tools

Opportunity for Change

• Review of technical implementation

• Review of organizational methods and processes

• Review of curriculum structure in a single department and across institution

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Local vs. Community Needs

• Specific needs of each institution – “I need what I need and I need it now!”

• Merging different methods/ideas of teaching and learning

• The good – but complex – community development process

Local Enhancement Process

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OSP Community Enhancement Template

• Procedure for proposing new feature requests/enhancementshttp://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/OQG

• Sample requesthttp://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/M4CVAQ

QUESTIONS???

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