The Promise and Practicalities of e-Portfolios: Getting Blackboard to Deliver
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The promise and practicalities of e-portfolios: Getting Blackboard to deliverGuy Pursey & Nicola Langton8 January 2009
Outline
• Setting the scene
• ‘Adapting’ Blackboard
• Early evaluation
• Where next?
• Discussion: Adopt or adapt?
Setting the scene
• Blackboard since 2000
• Academic Suite in 2006
• Currently on Version 8
Setting the scene
PDP
PAR
Personal Tutor Meetings
PDPBlackboard
iLearn
• 2007/8• 4 pilots• Approx. 700 students• All using portfolios• All need training in Freshers’ Week…• …and support throughout the year!
Setting the scene
Issues with Blackboard’s Basic Portfolios…
• Technical
• Pedagogical
• Aesthetic
Setting the scene
Solutions…
• Other systems
• “Personal Portfolios”
• Improving help guides
• Adapting what we have…?
iLearn in Blackboard
Individual Learner Profile
Initial changes
• Step-by-step pop-up help
• Files stored in the Content System
• Link direct to tools from course
Adapting Blackboard
• Sticking with Blackboard
• Want closer integration between tool and course
• Something to ease training and support
addPageToPortfolio.jsp
Enter stage-left…
New entry point
Your first portfolio…
Preview
Enhancements
• Step-by-step help
• Preview buttons
• Some automated fields
• Built-in questionnaire
Individual Learner Profile
Evaluation
• 3 surveys• 4 focus groups
First Year Responses• 135 out of around 3000 (4.5%)
Staff Reponses• 50 out of 700 (7.1%)
Success…?
• Very little training
• Workshops easier
• Minimal queries
Issues
• Some technical issues
• Some confusion
• Staff engagement
• Future-proof?
What and where next?
• Basic improvements (more colour, etc)
• Web 2.0?
• Staff-student collaboration?
Adopt or adapt?
… or, of course, any other questions.