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AAEEBL Calendar

trentbatson — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:58:01 CST

AAEEBL Calendar; for more events and dates related to ePortfolios, see http://epaccop.blogspot.com/

July 19-22, 2010, AAEEBL Annual Conference, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, co-located with Campus Technology, as a separate conference. Co-hosted by The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and NERCOMP. Conference information and Call for Papers: http://www.aaeebl.org/page/AAEEBL+Annual+Conference
May 18, 2010, AAEEBL New England conference, Stonehill College, MA.
May 6, 2010, AAEEBL Midwest meeting, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland
January 20-23, 2010 – AAC&U Annual Meeting in Washington, DC; a pre-conference day on ePortfolios
January 19-21 -- EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative annual conference, Austin Texas.

November 3-6, 2009 EDUCAUSE; AAEEBL informal breakfast "AAEEBL Tables" Marriott City Center breakfast restaurant, 7-8:20 am Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

Director's Page

trentbatson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:08:26 CST

Here are some articles I've written for Campus Technology that relate to portfolios:

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2009/11/01/eportfolios.aspx?sc_lang=en
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2009/05/20/why-eportfolio-is-the-tool-of-the-time-and-who-is-enaaeebling-it.aspx?sc_lang=en
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/01/06/eportfolios-let-me-count-the-ways.aspx?sc_lang=en
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/02/03/as-we-may-learn-revisiting-bush.aspx?sc_lang=en
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/02/17/the-higher-education-hedgehog.aspx?sc_lang=en
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2010/03/03/jobs-for-graduates-in-the-knowledge-economy.aspx

And, here is the list of all of the articles I've written for Campus Technology over the years:

http://campustechnology.com/Forms/Search-Results.aspx?query=Trent%20Batson&collection=CT_Web&Page=7

A PowerPoint, March, 2010, "ePortfolio Briefing":

http://www.slideshare.net/trentbatson

AAEEBL Home

JaymeJacobson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:14:03 CST

Call for proposals, AAEEBL Annual Conference, July 19-22, now available

AAEEBL, established in 2009, is a global academic association of 86 educational institutions and 11 Corporate Affiliates working toward new designs in learning and assessment, increasing connections among the portfolio community, and building the new learning enterprise. AAEEBL has been created to help shepherd the ongoing evolution of ePortfolio technologies and uses. AAEEBL members collaborate on creating:

New designs in learning and assessment: Helping educators create learning and assessment designs appropriate for the new millennium: authentic and experiential learning, in all its varieties, validated and made visible by portfolio kinds of technologies.
A connected community: Providing bridges between K-12 and higher education, the United States and the rest of the world, and between educators and the corporate sector entities (proprietary and open source) providing technologies for learning and assessment.
The new learning enterprise: Helping to create a new worldwide learning enterprise, based on the newly dominant digital technologies, that recognizes life-long learning as the new norm.
http://groups.google.com/group/aaeebl-members?hl=en Members-only; To join.
http://groups.google.com/group/aaeebl-corporate-affiliates?hl=en&lnk= Corp Affiliates
http://groups.google.com/group/w2ep?hl=en&lnk= Public -- for news of AAEEBL
http://epac.pbworks.com -- For ePortfolio events calendar

AAEEBL Corporate Affiliates

First AAEEBL annual conference: Boston, July 19-22, 2010. Conference co-located with Campus Technology. Co-hosted by The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and by the Making Connections National Resource Center: "ePortfolios and the Emergent Learning Ecology"

The AAEEBL brochure is available for review.
The AY 2009-2010 AAEEBL Agenda is attached below.

Affiliates

trentbatson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:41:12 CST

Corporate Affiliates

Digication	TaskStream
CommonNeed	Longsight Group
Blackboard	Pearson
Adobe	PebblePad
eCollege	Three Canoes
Desire2Learn	Chalk and Wire
Epsilen	FolioTek

Educational Non-Profit Organizations:

Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)

IMS Global Learning Consortium

EPAC

www.electronicportfolios.org

Centre for Recording Achievement

EIfEL

LaGuardia Community College's Making Connections National Resource Center

Chalk and Wire

AAEEBL Annual Conference

trentbatson — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:00:13 CST

AAEEBL Annual Conference

ePortfolios & the Emergent Learning Ecology

Boston MA July 19-22, 2010
submit proposal

(Photos of Conference hotel)

The Association for Authentic and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) is hosting the very first international conference for the world ePortfolio community to be held on behalf of this community and to be in the United States. Many of the world’s prominent ePortfolio leaders, researchers, practitioners, implementers, and vendors will be under one roof for the first time.

We expect between 600 and 800 attendees to this four-day conference at the Seaport Hotel and Seaport World Trade Center, co-located with Campus Technology.

Co-hosted by the Association for American Colleges and Universities and LaGuardia Community College's Making Connections National Resource Center, this is the place to be: a true watershed event as the world ePortfolio movement gains momentum.

AAEEBL 2010, CT 2010, and Web Design World 2010, will fill the Hotel and Trade Center and share an exhibit hall where the hundreds of vendors in attendance will set up their booths. In total, we expect about 1,500 attendees, all with interests in educational technology. It will be a jubilee.

The call for proposals is below; proposals can be submitted at https://eventbrainz.com/event/aaeebl2010 and conference registration will be at the Campus Technology site in late February.

Monday Workshops: Half day, either morning or afternoon, 3 1/2 hours
Monday Workshops: Full day, 7 hours, lunch and break provided
Tues - Thurs Sessions:

Presentation: 50 minutes
Panel: 50 minutes
Workshop: 1 or 2 hours
Carousel: 5 minutes per speaker
Vendor: with academic partner; presentation, panel, or workshop
Featured speakers: pre-selected; 50 minutes
Poster: on Tuesday and Wednesday in Exhibit Hall near refreshments; 1 hour.

The first three registrants from an AAEEBL member institution will each receive a $100 discount on registration! To join AAEEBL, go to the membership page.

Conference Keynote and Tentative Featured Speakers will include:

Welcome address by President Jack Wilson, University of Massachusetts system and founder of Studio Physics.

Randy Bass, Georgetown University, Assistant Provost and Director, Visible Knowledge Project and the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship.
Helen Barrett, International ePortfolio Consultant and Speaker, electronicportfolios.org
Helen Chen, Research Scientist, Stanford University and EPAC
Darren Cambridge, George Mason University, Chair of the AAEEBL Board and Co-Director, Inter/National Center on Electronic Portfolio Research.
Bret Eynon, LaGuardia Community College, Making Connections National Resource Center
Allison Miller, TAFESA, Australia
Trent Batson, Executive Director, AAEEBL
Gary Brown, Co-Director, AAEEBL
Kathleen Yancey, Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Program in Rhetoric and Composition,Florida State University. Past president of the Natioinal Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
Terrel Rhodes, Vice President, AAC&U
Rob Ward, Director, Centre for Recording Achievement, U.K.
Serge Ravet, Founder and Director, EIfEL, European Institute for E-Learning
Peggy Maki, ePortfolio researcher and author of Assessing for Learning
Marij Veugelers, Community Manager, SURF NL Portfolio Expert Group, Netherland
Phil Long, Professor and Director, Center for Educational Innovation and Technology, University of Queensland; Research Scientist, MIT.

Conference Schedule

Monday, July 19
8:30 am - 12:00	Workshops (8)	Hotel
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch	WTC
1:30 - 5 pm	Workshops (4)	Hotel
1:30 - 5 pm	AAEEBL meetings (4)	Hotel

Tuesday, July 20
8:30 - 9:20	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
9:30 - 10:20	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
10:30 - 11:20	Opening Keynote	WTC
11:30 - 12:15	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
12:00 - 3:30	Exhibit Hall Open; Lunch 12:15	WTC
1:00 - 3:25	Technnology Classroom Demos in Exhibit Hall	WTC
2:00 - 3:00	Poster Sessions in Exhibit Hall	WTC
3:45 - 4:45	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
4:45 - 7:00	Exhibit Hall Reception	WTC
5:00 - 6:55	Technnology Classroom Demos in Exhibit Hall	WTC

Wed, July 21
8:30 - 9:20	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
9:30 - 10:20	Plenary Keynote	WTC
10:30 - 11:20	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
11:30 - 12:15	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
12:00 - 3:30	Exhibit Hall Open	WTC
12:15 - 1:15	Lunch in Exhibit Hall	WTC
1:00 - 2:55	Technology Classroom Demos in Exhibit Hall	WTC
2:00 - 3:00	Poster Sessions in Exhibit Hall	WTC
3:30 - 4:30	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel

Thursday, July 22
8:30 - 9:20	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
9:30 - 10:20	Plenary Keynote	WTC
10:30 - 11:45	AAEEBL Planning Meetings	Hotel

Submit a Proposal: We invite you to submit a proposal for a presentation, panel, a pre-conference full or half-day workshop, a workshop session, a poster session or a 5-minute Carousel “pitch.” Go to our proposal site -- https://eventbrainz.com/event/aaeebl2010 – and submit your proposal online. At the online site, you will be asked to write a short abstract and title for your proposal and a longer summary, and to identify co-presenters along with their contact information. We are accepting proposals from higher education around the world, from K-12 (primary and secondary), as well as proposals for sessions about workplace portfolios, technical and further education, and workforce development, including partnerships between companies and educational institutions.

The submissions will be reviewed by a program committee of your peers. Deadline for submitting a proposal is May 1, 2010, but we will begin reviewing proposals on April 1: for your best chance of being on the program, submit by April 1. You will be notified by May 25 if your proposal has been accepted. We may ask for a revision and we may ask to combine your sessions with others to form a panel. Consider the themes below for your proposal.

Conference Registration fees: The base registration fee is $699 USD. The first three registrants from an AAEEBL member institution receive a $100 USD discount; early bird discount is $100 USD. Pre-Conference workshops require a separate registration and fee. The registration site for AAEEBL will be open before the end of February at the Campus Technology conference site.

Accommodations: The Seaport Hotel is in the Boston Convention and Exposition Center (BCEC) hub. Hotels and restaurants are a few steps away. A block of rooms in four hotels has been set aside for AAEEBL and CT attendees. Hotel registration will be open soon.

Vendors and their academic partners will lead a number of sessions.

Conference location is within walking distance of downtown Boston and the new Greenway (made possible by “The Big Dig”).

Travel: Boston’s Logan Airport is a 5-minute cab ride away (but expensive; take the Silver line instead). Or, to take advantage of lower airfares to Providence, RI, book a flight into T. F. Green Airport, and travel to Boston via rental car (60 miles) or MBTA Commuter Rail from the Providence RR station to South Station, just a few blocks from the Seaport World Trade Center.

Boston is one of the most walkable cities in the world. The Patriot Trail starts in the North End, a mile from the convention site. A Boardwalk along Boston Harbor will lead you there. The Science Museum is just over on the Charles River. MIT is right on the Charles.

See Conference Call for Proposals at bottom of page in files.

Connect to AAEEBL Community

trentbatson — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:55:47 CST

AAEEBL "exists" online in two places:

This Web site -- click on left navigation bar to find information about AAEEBL
The AAEEBL Google Groups sites -- this is the dynamic, day-by-day conversation within the AAEEBL community.

Below are lists of other AAEEBL discussion lists and also of other ePortfolio lists.

DISCUSS! General Discussion: open to all. Join at:
http://groups.google.com/group/w2ep?hl=en

About joining AAEEBL as an institution: contact trentbatson@mac.com

All AAEEBL Google Group Sites:

AAEEBL -- larger community: /w2ep Discussion, dissemination. Open to all qualified participants. All the other groups are open to members only.
AAEEBL Members: /aaeebl-members Members only.
AAEEBL Chapters: /aaeebl-chapters Organizing chapter activities. Members only.
AAEEBL Conference: /aaeebl-conference Planning annual conference. Members only.
AAEEBL Board: /aaeebl-board For the Board of Directors
AAEEBL Corporate Affiliates: /aaeebl-corporate-affiliates
AAEEBL Research: coordinating research projects

Relevant Google Group Sites:

Researching Lifelong ePortfolios and Web 2.0 Helen Barrett's Group site
Value Partner Campuses AAC&Us Groups site
MLE Reference Group The New Zealand K-12 ePortfolio Groups site

EPAC: http://epac.pbworks.com

JOIN! Is your institution a member? List of Members
If not, find membership form here: Membership

Become a Corporate Affiliate: contact david.marble1@gmail.com

LEARN! Learn more about AAEEBL at: http://aaeebl.wordpress.com

Submit proposal for the AAEEBL annual conference, Boston, July 19-22

Join AAEEBL

trentbatson — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:35:45 CST

[see membership application form, bottom of this page under "attachments"] Joining AAEEBL: Institutions join AAEEBL, get discount on regional and annual conferences for first 3 registrants from member institution, receive reports from annual AAEEBL surveys, join AAEEBL committees, vote in the election for the Board of Directors, and be nominated for the Board, receive the bi-monthly AAEEBL newsletter and enjoy all the benefits of being part of the world ePortfolio community.

Annual institutional dues are for 12 months beginning July 1, of each year and ending on June 30. We must receive both your application form and your annual dues for your institution to become a member of AAEEBL. For more information, contact trentbatson@mac.com.
AAEEBL corporate sponsorships to become AAEEBL Corporate Affiliates are also available at six levels, Director's Circle members, Executive Sponsors, Partnering Sponsors, Founding Sponsors, Supporting Sponsors, and Contributing Sponsors. There are also opportunities to become Event Sponsors. See Corporate Role in AAEEBL and also Corporate Brochure attached at the bottom of this page to learn more.
The AAEEBL public discussion forums are open to all, and non-members can register for AAEEBL's annual and regional conferences at non-member rates. Members can participate in all the discussion forums.

Member Services

Join the global effort to build a guiding professional association for improving learning, assessment, and employability.
Be part of the association made up of the world's most prominent ePortfolio researchers and thinkers
Form a local or regional chapter of AAEEBL
Help define ePortfolio work as a profession.
Join working groups and funded initiatives
Participate in forums, local AAEEBL meetings, and other ways to interact with other members of AAEEBL
Attend AAEEBL annual conference at a discounted members-only rate: first one July 19-22, 2010, Boston, co-located with Campus Technology and co-hosted by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and by The Making Connections National Resource Center at LaGuardia Community College.
Receive AAEEBL executive briefings of AAEEBL studies about ePortfolios on campus, exclusively for members.
Participate in AAEEBL studies.
Have a professional identity.

AAEEBL Board of Directors and Administrative Staff

trentbatson — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:38:20 CST

	The AAEEBL Administrative Staff:
	Trent Batson AAEEBL Director	Gary Brown AAEEBL Co-Director Washington State University
	Helen Chen Stanford Director for Research	Helen Barrett Director for the Web2eportfolio Initiative
	Steve Ehrmann TLT Group Director for Institutional Research	David Marble Business and financial strategist

The AAEEBL Board of Directors: Following are the Members of the AAEEBL Board of Directors, 2009 The Board meets in person once a year at the annual AAEEBL Conference
	Darren Cambridge AAEEBL Board Chair George Mason University	Janet De Vry University of Delaware
	Peter Ewell National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS)	Paul Gandel Syracuse University
	Lisa Gray JISC (The Joint Information Systems Committee)	Gillian Hallam Queensland University of Technology
	Sheryl Hansen Ohio Learning Network	Craig Shepherd University of Wyoming
	Susan Kahn Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)	Phil Long University of Queensland and MIT
	Gail Matthews-DeNatale Simmons College	John O’Donoghue University of Central Lancashire
	David Porter University of Rhode Island	Terrel Rhodes Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
	Mark Schlesinger University of Massachusetts	Kathleen Blake-Yancey Florida State University
	John Whitmer California Virtual Campus

Corporate Role in AAEEBL

trentbatson — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:29:24 CST

[Special Offer for Corporate Affiliates in February, 2010; see under Attachments at bottom of page]

AAEEBL invites companies to both sponsor AAEEBL and to participate in these ways:

Join the AAEEBL Corporate Council
Participate in the annual conference

as exhibitors
as event sponsors
AND as co-presenters

Collaborate in developing common understandings about ePortfolio

standard global lexicon
standard understandings of learning, assessment and technology aspects of ePortfolio

Receive regular and exclusive executive briefings from the AAEEBL survey group
Participate in AAEEBL projects to match requirements and technology development

joining meetings with stakeholders to explore new instantiations of ePortfolio components
going beyond the API to actual shared technology components

Expand the impact of your Webinars turned into facilitated workshops on select AAEEBL campuses.
Take a seat at the AAEEBL table where the world's ePortfolio leaders sit.

AAEEBL is unique in defining itself by the learning that is best enabled by a technology, ePortfolios. The technology will continue to change rapidly, but the values of authentic, experiential and evidence-based learning are eternal. AAEEBL knows that our work depends absolutely on the technology working well. We also know that the technology is in its infancy and therefore we are fully engaged in efforts to influence how ePortfolio technology evolves.

For a sponsorship schedule see the attachment at the bottom of this page; for more information, contact trentbatson@mac.com, or 401-465-0439.

For a list of institutional paid members, see List of Members.

We are talking with all ePortfolio vendors, including corporations whose primary business is not ePortfolios, such as Blackboard, IBM, Microsoft, Adobe and others.
No other constituency is more targeted than AAEEBL for ePortfolio vendors.

List of Members

trentbatson — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:34:02 CST

Following are the schools, colleges, universities and organizations that have officially joined AAEEBL:

Ancilla College Boston University Brandeis University Bridgewater State College	Rhode Island College RINET, Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology
Bryant University	Roger Williams University
California University System Office of the Chancellor	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Cambridge University	Salve Regina University
Carlow University Case Western Reserve University Centre for Recording Achievement (UK)	Simmons College Singapore Management University SURF (Netherlands)
Champlain College	Stonehill College
Clemson University Community College of Rhode Island	Stanford University Three Rivers Community College
Columbia University Cornell University	Tufts University The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System
Cuyahoga Community College	University of Cincinnati
The Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium The CUNY System -- 23 campuses: Baruch	University of Delaware University of Masschusetts, President's Office University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Borough of Manhattan Bronx Brooklyn City Graduate Center Hostos Hunter Journalism John Jay Kingsborough LaGuardia Law Lehman Macaulay Medgar NYC College of Technology Queens Queensborough Staten Island York UFS Central	University of Michigan University of New Hampshire University of Northern Iowa University of Queensland University of Rhode Island University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wyoming Virginia Tech Wheaton College Wolverhampton University Washington State University
Curtin University (Perth)
Georgetown University
The Graham Group of Schools
IUPUI
Johnson & Wales University
MIT
NCHEMS
New England Institute of Technology
Northeastern University
Northwest Technical College
Penn State University
Providence College
Ohio Learning Network
Pace University
Plymouth State University
Portland State University
Queensland University of Technology

ePortfolio Resources

smkeesle — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:22:17 CST

Certain of our affiliated organizations maintain their own pages here at this site:

IMS Global Learning Consortium
www.electronicportfolios.org -- "Interactive Portfolios for Learning"

ePortflio Resources:

EPAC (Electronic Portfolio Action and Communication): http://epac.pbworks.com
Helen Barrett: www.elecronicportfolios.org
ePort Consortium: www.eportconsortium.org/
ePortfolio at LaGuardia: www.eportfolio.lagcc.cuny.edu
WSU CTLT: https://my.wsu.edu/portal/page?_pageid=177,1&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research: www.ncepr.org/
The EIfEL Community: http://www.eife-l.org/
Centre for Recording Achievement: http://www.recordingachievement.org/
Washington State University Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology:
https://my.wsu.edu/portal/page?_pageid=177,1&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
Gathering Case Studies in Australia: http://www.eportfolios.net.au
OpenEdPractices.org: http://openedpractices.org

Teaching and Learning Resources:

The TLT Group: www.tltgroup.org
Virginia Tech ppt slides about ePortfolios at VT: http://www.slideshare.net/teggin/eportfolio-overview

Assessment Resources:

The TLT Group

AAEEBL Regional Chapters

trentbatson — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:00:10 CDT

[In operation: New England Chapter, Midwest Chapter, Southeast Chapter, ANZ Chapter; In Discussion: Northwest, Rocky Mountain, U.K. and Northern Europe]

Southeast AAEEBL Regional Chapter: Conference at Clemson University, March 22-24, 2010
New England Regional Chapter: Conference at Stonehill College, May 18, 2010
Midwest Regional Chapter: Conference at Case Western Reserve University, May, 2010 (date not finalized yet).
ANZ Chapter: Conference or meeting in discussion

The Association for Authentic,
Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning

Guidelines and Accepted Practice for the
Operation of AAEBL Regional Chapters
Fiscal Year 2010, July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010

The following guidelines apply only to AAEEBL’s first year of operation. A revised version of the guidelines will be released in June, 2010.

AAEEBL is a local and regional, national, and international organization. The following guidelines apply only to the local and regional chapters of AAEEBL and only for the first year of operation.

Rationale

The reason for forming local or regional chapters is that the chapters can support regular periodic communication and meetings, providing continuity for shared initiatives and grant projects. AAEEBL will have just one national meeting each year, so much of the real work of AAEEBL will occur at the local and regional level.

The First Year is Different

During the year from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010, AAEEBL member institutions can lead the formation of local and regional chapters and include campuses or schools that are not yet members of AAEEBL. We hope that the other participating institutions will choose to join AAEEBL during this fiscal year but in AAEEBL’s second year, they must join to participate fully in the day-to-day activities of the chapter. If the chapter holds a chapter conference for its region, non-members can attend but will be charged at the non-member rate, to be determined.

Operations

Chapters will of course look for common needs and collaboration and all the usual things that regional organizations of a national association do.

1. AAEEBL provides a national agenda for the chapter: it's not about the technology, but about the learning; it's not just about one campus showcasing work (although that may well happen at your meetings) but about helping academia and the industry learn from your local experience.

2. AAEEBL is not looking for revenue from regional chapter meetings per-se, but from our business perspective of just increasing membership in AAEEBL, which of course does add to AAEEBL revenue. In other words, if you want to use the AAEEBL name and materials, get help from our regionals coordinator, and in other ways depend on AAEEBL to get up and running, there's no cost. If you want to charge for in-person meetings in the region just to cover expenses, then budget just for that.

3. Some of your meetings can perhaps be one-day meetings hosted by the campus in question. Providing box lunches only is not that pricey, especially if you have just 20 or 30 people. Others might be 2-day meetings to provide for travel time in larger regions, which is much more complicated, of course because it involves arranging for lodging. Although we do help with facilitating the regionals (marketing, communications, materials), we don't do logistics for meetings.

4. We found from our previous experience with the New England ePortfolio Project, 2004-2006, that it was very helpful to have 2 or 3 lead people. So, The University of Rhode Island partnered with Brown and UConn. That helped ease the workload for any one person. We three let the host campuses pretty much take on as much of the work of organizing, publicizing, agenda-setting, program-creation, and logistics as they were willing to do. We found that campuses were eager to put together programs. We had 6 meetings in 19 months.

5. At each of our meetings, a new campus would commit to doing the next one. Again, this reduced the central organizing burden. It is important to have a way to assure continuity.

6. We had one "big event" (100+ people) every year, which worked well. Our other meetings drew 25 to 35 attendees. 32 colleges and universities in New England participated.

7. AAEEBL central leadership must be consulted and must participate in the creation of a regional so that we can assure consistency across the various chapters.

Digital Identity; benwerd's page

benwerd — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:31:26 CDT

Web-based portfolios are establishing themselves as a way to present a student's learning and offer opportunities for reflection and dissemination. The web, meanwhile, is moving from a site based model to one that centers around digital identities: web-based representations of ourselves and our work.

This page is a work in progress that aims to introduce educators to some of the issues and resources relating to web-based identity.

The new web model

The web is evolving from a series of sites containing pages and documents into a multi-purpose platform that also serves as a collection of applications:

When the web was conceived, it consisted of documents and pages linked with hypertext: linked words and phrases that, when clicked, would load another, relevant document. Each page had its own Uniform Resource Locator, which allowed you to return to that specific page at any time. Each page could be a destination in itself, and although the sites (collections of pages) could be linked together through hypertext, each one had no need to know about your activities elsewhere on the web. Why would they? Documents don’t have memory; their role is simply to impart information.

Step forward to today, and the web is not entirely made of pages: applications now represent a large amount of the web. [...] The benefits are tangible: you can access an application’s functionality from any web-compatible device, anywhere in the world. You’re no longer bound to the software you happen to have installed on a particular machine, and you no longer need to worry about whether you’ve remembered to save a particular file onto a particular drive. Because of historic resource limitations, web applications tend to be easier to use, and entirely bypass the need for IT departments, which have unfortunately earned a reputation for being obstacles to productivity in many organizations.

Building the user-centered web

Necessarily, these applications need to save their data somewhere. Currently that means within the application itself, but that creates problems when you need these applications to interoperate, or to use the data from one application in another. It makes sense, therefore, for digital identities to be established, which serve as digital representations of a user, and as a store of that user's data from applications around the web. Such identities would be entirely under the control of their owners, from the visual look and feel to access over individual items of stored data.

Personas, portfolios and user control

Of course, our identities in the real world are fragmented: your professional and personal lives are often kept separate. In the digital identity realm these are refered to as personas, and may be entirely separately hosted. I would argue, however, that this is an aspect of user control over their identity: if the user wants their personas - or some of their personas - to be linked, then they should be.

Personas may serve a use in education as portfolios for assessment and/or learning. In turn, education may have an opportunity to contribute an important piece of functionality back to the wider web.

User control remains important, for the same reasons it's important in the wider web. Facebook revealed their discovery recently that:

When people can control who can see their content, they share more meaningfully.

This has clear implications for identity use in reflective learning.

Identity blogs and events

Kaliya Hamlin, aka Identity Woman, is one of the principal organizers of the identity movement in Silicon Valley. She is involved in the Internet Identity Workshop, the best event for discussing and learning about the cutting edge of identity technology.
As discussed in the link at the top of this page, identity and the social web are intrinsically tied. These social web blogs are all worth reading, and run the gamut from the social to the very technical.
My own blog, Benwerd, will continue to address these issues, including how they directly pertain to education.

ePortfolio Learning, Assessment & Employability

trentbatson — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:04:43 CDT

ePortfolio practices can be demonstrated to match almost perfectly with learning demands of a knowledge economy catalyzed by Web 2.0 technologies. A measure of appropriate institutional transformation can be how well an institution has adopted ePortfolio practices. Here is why we can make such a claim:

Life as we knew it meant growing up, taking some time out for formal learning, and then continuing to mature and living life. Life now is different, though still not deeply understood: learning is not episodic, but perpetual. In a way, this is how life always was, but the separation between life and time out for learning was much more distinct. With digital technologies becoming universal and ubiquitous, informal learning has taken on some attributes of formal learning.

How do ePortfolio practices fit into this new world?

Identifying yourself as a learner -- an ePortfolio outcome and necessary to life-long learning
Owning your own learning -- when the learner has access to her or his own ePortfolio that they keep for life
Being aware of your learning -- when the learner reflects on his or her own learning
Identifying the meaning of different learning experiences -- when viewed in the context of work over time, a new learning experience takes on new meanings
Reflecting on the social meaning of the work -- in the context of one's own learning and in the context of the knowledge community the learner is in at the moment
Learning in the real world -- ePortfolio is mobile and allows all learning experiences to be recorded in one way or another
Building your digital identity -- over time, tailoring your ePortfolio for different audiences and for yourself
Learning in a social context -- sharing with groups, doing collaborative projects, choosing who can comment on your work
Reflecting on who you are -- over time, seeing changes in yourself, learning lessons from your own experience

IMS Global Learning Consortium

LisaMattson — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:39:17 CDT

IMS Global Learning is a nonprofit member organization that strives to enable the growth and impact of learning technology in higher education, K-12, and corporate education worldwide. IMS GLC members are leading corporations, higher education institutions, school districts and government organizations who are enabling the future of education by developing interoperability and adoption practice standards for educational and learning technology. IMS GLC sponsors Learning Impact: a global program and conference that recognizes the impact of learning and educational technology on access, affordability, and quality – the world’s most significant educational challenges.

IMS GLC has approved and published some 20 standards that are the most widely used learning technology standards in the world. Widely-used IMS GLC standards include meta-data, content packaging, common cartridge, enterprise services, question & test, sequencing, competencies, access for all, ePortfolio, learner information, tools interoperability, resource list, sharable state persistence, vocabulary definition, and learning design. These standards have been used widely in higher education, K-12 education, and corporate training in regions around the globe. All IMS GLC standards are available free of charge via the IMS GLC web site and can be used without royalty.
For more information, including the world's most comprehensive set of learning technology interoperability standards, information on the annual Learning Impact conference and awards program, and free community resources for learning technology leaders, visit www.imsglobal.org.

Contact

trentbatson — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:13:37 CDT

Trent Batson, Executive Director, AAEEBL: trentbatson@mac.com

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