Provide dedicated peer-led ePortfolio support focused on ePortfolio making skills, and scale professional development longitudinally with adoption¶

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Description¶

The article describes two implementable supports for scaling ePortfolio. First, as adoption grew, IUPUI created "a peer-led ePortfolio Studio ... as a dedicated campus space where students could work with a peer mentor on creating and refining their ePortfolios and getting feedback," focusing on making skills such as design, structure, aesthetics, audience awareness, cohesiveness, and multi-modal communication. Second, professional development is approached "with a longitudinal lens," iterating as buy-in shifts from a single faculty member to program-wide commitment, using consultations, workshops, Communities of Practice, grants, and conference funding.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• coordination and development of groups of faculty and staff working with intentionality over a period of time
• professional development needs change as ePortfolio activities expand across courses and programs

Constraints¶

• University College lacked resources to sustain intensive professional development at scale, and pilot-year student success gains were not consistently sustained

Target Learners¶

• undergraduate students
• faculty and staff implementing ePortfolio

Target Learning Goals¶

• ePortfolio making skills
• integrative learning
• reflection

Related Strategies¶

• Teacher-led workshops and freely downloadable materials to scale video analysis and modeling practice
• Sequence pathway development activities across three years: buy-in, SCRIPT assessment and summer institutes led by model-district teachers, then piloting with microcredentials
• Operationalize the faculty standards through structured professional learning pathways with modules, microcredentials, and peer review

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Kahn, S., Freeman, T., & Powell, A. A. (2021, November). IUPUI's HIP taxonomy for ePortfolio: A tool for development, implementation, and scaling (Occasional Paper No. 57). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois and Indiana University, National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED619086