Enabling Deep Learning with ePortfolios:

2013 EPAC-AAEEBL Webinar Series

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These sessions are offered on Wednesdays as noted below.  All webinar sessions start on time at 10 a.m. PST/1 p.m. EDT. 

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About the 2013 ePortfolio Webinar Series

Registration is required for all attendees -- Watch your email that provides a link for the session on the morning of the session.  Please make sure that AAEEBL <admin@aaeebl.org> is in your contacts so it doesn't go to your spam filter.  Thanks!

We apologize for the problems this Web platform has caused in sending out URLs for the sessions in a timely manner. From now on, we will post the URL on the AAEEBL home page and also below on the day of the session, but remember that registration is required, so please register first. (3/27/13) 

2013 Webinar Schedule

• January 30 -- Pathbrite
• February 13 -- SchoolChapters for Higher Ed
• February 27 -- Bedford/St.Martin's
• March 13 -- NobleHour
• March 27 -- LiveText
  
• April 10 -- ConnectEDU (formerly Epsilen)
• April 24 -- eLumen Collaborative
• May 1 -- PebblePad
• May 8 -- Foliotek

Links for Web resources for each Corporate Affiliate will be live after their webinar session.

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Presenter: Heather Hiles, Pathbrite CEO
Facilitator: Trent Batson, AAEEBL
Session description: Pathbrite addresses a key challenge for educators – holistic assessment of student cognition, understanding, comprehension and knowledge. Traditional learning "tools" have not kept up with the rapidly changing pace of  technology to support how we assess students’ mastery of academic subjects, improve their learning outcomes, showcase job readiness and collect evidence for institutional accreditation. Pathbrite’s eportfolio platform offers an easy-to-use and intuitive way for teachers and students to go beyond the bubble test and gain on two fronts.  First, they gain a more effective way to evaluate individual student learning performance.  Next, they gain institutional metrics to further demonstrate evidence of student learning, but on a larger scale. Heather Hiles will present improved learning outcomes. 

Presenters: Linda Novak, Fayetteville Technical Community College and Cathy Hutchings, SchoolChapters
Facilitator: Trent Batson, AAEEBL
Session description: At Fayetteville Technical Community College (FTCC), a series of events created a need to prove learning based on national standards in a cohesive format. After evaluating its options, the college saw a need for an electronic portfolio for its Education program that could provide evidence of standards based on learning and house data on a semester-by-semester basis for accreditation.  Join Linda Novak, Instructor at FTCC, as she shares her journey with electronic portfolios and takes you step-by-step through the process of evaluating, implementing, and managing an electronic portfolio within her program. She will also provide a demonstration of the ePortfolio she created using SchoolChapters.

Presenters: Melanie MacFarlane, Senior New Media Editor and David Mogolov, Director of Market Development, Bedford/St. Martin's
Facilitator: Helen L. Chen, Stanford University and AAEEBL
Session description:  This session will introduce the Bedford e-Portfolio, where students can present the story of their unique learning experience, and instructors can easily create and save rubrics, measure learning outcomes, and filter student performance data. Integrated showcase and assessment features combine the presentation space students want with the robust, customizable performance metrics and data that instructors and institutions need. The Bedford e-Portfolio also features expert guidance from the Nedra Reynolds e-books, Portfolio Keeping and Portfolio Teaching.
(The Bedford e-Portfolio is currently in beta release and being class tested in Spring 2013, for sale in the Fall.)

Presenters: Kristin E. Joos, University of Florida and Pia Simeoni, NobleHour
Facilitator: Helen L. Chen, Stanford University and AAEEBL
Session description: This workshop will encourage interactive discussion about effective implementation and management of service learning projects to teach entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and leadership to high school and college students. We will share our experience working with the Young Entrepreneurs for Leadership & Sustainability Summer Program for high school students as well as teaching undergraduate courses on social entrepreneurship using the NobleHour platform to manage and measure their outcomes.
Presenter: Katie Kalmus, Director, Client and Product  Development, LiveText and Penny Finley, Ed.D.,
Instructor and ePortfolio Manager at Florida Gulf Coast University, College of Education
Facilitator: Trent Batson, AAEEBL
Session description:  What and how a student learns depends on access to resources, quality of curriculum and instruction, and the process of reflection and progress. This session will demonstrate the ways in which LiveText facilitates the learning process in several ways: helping institutions improve instructor-student communication; facilitating student engagement in collaborative interaction with peers, faculty and people outside the LiveText platform; and assisting students post-graduation with job searching. During this session, attendees will learn how students develop e-Portfolios, how instructors assess them, and how assessment can be enacted.  You will see samples from:  nursing; the faculty tenure process; strategic planning; education; and  business. Finally, you will hear from Dr. Finley on how her college is successfully implementing e-Portfolio requirements, the college's best-practice process for implementing e-Portfolios, and the broader perspectives on how e-Portfolios are being used by students and faculty to facilitate academic and professional growth.

Presenters: John McLaughlin, Senior Director of Business Development, ConnectEDU; Mekelle Douglas, Senior Business Development Director, ConnectEDU; Dan Kulmala, Professor and Department Chair of Global English, Teagle Foundation Teaching and Learning Scholar, Fort Hays State University
Facilitator: Gary Brown, Portland State University
Session description:  Fort Hays State had encountered the following: a dissatisfaction with the classroom and the traditional methods of teaching were not reaching the student; and a real need for digitizing the classroom and engaging students of their generation – they wanted to be more interactive and creative with the course material.  This webinar will demonstrate ways this university uses ConnectEDU ePortfolios to  transform academic work into meaningful performance-based, flipped learning experiences.   Dan will illustrate how implementing the ePortfolio has allowed deeper collaboration with student projects outside the classroom, especially with the use of the Social Learning component.  The ePortfolio benefits  both faculty and students on a global scale; the system allows for these reflective, meaningful experiences to be uploaded, assessed and discussed among community members across continental borders.  These collaborations can illustrate ways to expand experiential learning opportunities  with campuses world-wide and lay the ground work for new landscapes beyond the classroom. The session will provide institutions with examples of how universities can use flipped classroom experiences and connect learners world-wiFort Hays State will demonstrate how it uses ConnectEDU's ePortfolio and Social Learning approaches to change the Teaching and Learning experience for students. Dan Kulmala has worked with Mekelle Douglas and John McLaughlin from ConnectEDU to facilitate ePortfolio and Social Learning Technology at Fort Hays State University. Dan will cite examples of how ePortfolios and course delivery have been utilized in a variety of courses, including Global English  and writing across the curriculum.  Located in Hays, Kansas, Fort Hays State University is a leading forward-thinking, entrepreneurial university of the Midwest. The university has an enrollment of more than 13,000 students and offers hundreds of certificate and degree programs at the associate's, bachelor's and master's levels through 28 academic departments.

Presenter: David Shupe, eLumen Collaborative
Facilitator: Gary Brown, Portland State University
Session description:  Assessing student work in ePortfolios with an eLumen “instant assessing” app essentially indexes student ePortfolios by faculty-defined and student-demonstrated learning outcomes.  This resolves the longstanding institutional dilemma of choosing either to attend to individual student development or to generate aggregated assessment data.  Do the first systematically, and the second occurs automatically.

Presenter: Shane Sutherland, PebblePad
Facilitator: Trent Batson, AAEEBL
Session description:   In institutions using PebblePad we would identify two broad kinds of portfolio: ‘Me-Portfolios’ that tell a story about their author, and ‘Task-Portfolios’ that use the same technology and approaches but tell a story about something significant the author has done such as an experiment, some research or an internship. This webinar introduces ‘workbooks’ as a major development of task-portfolios designed to significantly deepen the learning derived from experience.


Presenter: Geoff Leigh, Foliotek Director of Marketing; Becki Williams, Dallas County Community College
Facilitator: Trent Batson, AAEEBL
Session description: Over three years ago, Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) focused their attention on rebuilding their core curriculum.  At the foundation of this retooling was an emphasis on teaching students how to become lifelong learners.  This decision drove DCCCD to pursue a curriculum change that involved using electronic portfolios as the medium for driving deep learning.  Through DCCCD’s partnership with Foliotek, both organizations have worked to reshape the learning experience through reflection on experiential based evidence for over 20,000 students. This webinar will discuss how DCCCD implemented these strategies and showcase aspects of their partnership with Foliotek as the eportfolio solution provider.
Webinar URL for 5/8: http://aaeebl.adobeconnect.com/r5cvebbmz3e/ (Please register before signing in to the webinar!)