Professor Shelley Kinash to keynote 2017 Eportfolio Forum (+ more)

Professor Shelley Kinash to keynote 2017 Eportfolio Forum  

The ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee are pleased to annouce that Professor Shelley Kinash will keynote the 2017 Eportfolio Forum (#eportforum).

Eportforum will be held on 20-21 September at Monash College and University, Melbourne.

Shelley will share “What we know about Employability, Student Experience & Student Evaluation of Teaching from National Research and How ePortfolios can have Impact”

Registrations are now opened.

Click here for more information

Please contact Allison for more information or any questions – 0400 732 270 or eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com

2017 May Eportfolio Webinar Resources – Evidence based practice / reflection against outcomes eg professional standards

Resources for the first webinar on Evidence based practice / reflection against outcomes eg professional standards held on Tuesday 30 May 2017 are now available.

This webinar showcased how eportfolios can be used to evidence outcomes such as professional standards.

Presenters:

• John Kertesz, University of Tasmanis
• Terry Young & Kate Mitchell, La Trobe University

Click here to access these resources

Latest PebblePad webinar: Getting portfolio-based learning at scale: top-down and bottom-up approaches 

Thursday 22 June – 16:00 BST (London time) – Register here.

Presenters:

• Joy Robbins, Lecturer in Academic Development (PDP), Centre for Educational Development, University of Bradford
• Technology & Innovation (ASTI), Plymouth UniversityEmma Purnell, Senior Learning Technologist, Academic Support,

Emma will talk about the initial implementation of a university-wide project, the Plymouth Compass Portfolio (including reflections on HEAR extra-curricular activities), which aims to give every student the opportunity to engage in portfolio-based learning. She will present initial evidence outlining the extent to which this approach can push change in learning culture from the bottom up by encouraging the students to drive engagement.

Joy will talk about the creation and ongoing implementation of a faculty-wide policy on PebblePad use which aims to get every undergraduate programme to start or enhance their use of portfolio-based learning. She will present initial evidence on how this creates change from the top down by supporting and pushing staff to engage.

This webinar will encourage participants to broaden their focus from portfolios at a module or programme level to thinking about the larger landscape of the university, ideally incorporating a combination of these two approaches.

Some great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this great eportfolio news and resources:

• Latest issue (May 2017) of the International Journal of ePortfolio is now available, featuring Jennifer Munday, Charles Sturt University, Jennifer Rowley, University of Sydney and Patsie Polly, University of New South Wales
• Take part in a live discussion 29th June on e-Portfolios & share good practices – Open Education EU
• The recording of the May PebblePad webinar ‘Authentic Learning by Design‘, presented
  by Robert Fleisig from McMaster University, is now available

Please share any eportfolio news or ask questions via the Eportfolio Community of Practice Facebook page.

2017 Eportfolio Forum – Call for proposal closes 22 May 2017 (+ more)

2017 Eportfolio Forum – Call for proposal closes 22 May 2017  

The call for proposals for the 2017 Eportfolio Forum on 20-21 September at Monash College and University, Melbourne closes on 22 May

This year’s theme is “Owning, supporting and sharing the journey”

Get your submission in for:

• Posters
• Short (peer reviewed paper) presentations
• 20×20 presentations
• Short workshops
• Facilitate a professional conversations
• Long workshops

Click here for more information and to submit a proposal.

Please contact Allison for more information or any questions – 0400 732 270 or eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com

2017 May Eportfolio Webinar – Evidence based practice / reflection against outcomes eg professional standards

Registrations are still being accepted for the first webinar on Evidence based practice / reflection against outcomes eg professional standards on Tuesday 30 May 2017 – 4.30-5.30 pm AEST

This webinar will showcase how eportfolios can be used to evidence outcomes such as professional standards.

Presenters:

• John Kertesz, University of Tasmanis
• Terry Young & Kate Mitchell, La Trobe University

Click here for more information and to register for this free webinar (or receive the recording of the webinar)

Your input is being sought by Mahara: Assignment submission via LTI 

In Mahara 17.04 you can connect to your LMS via LTI for single sign-on purposes. However, at the moment you can’t submit assignments via LTI.

Kristina Hoeppner from Mahara is seeking input into the requirements for the assignment submission functionality before Mahara looks into how to achieve it technically. Mahara would like to get the student and teacher requirements right first.

So, have your say by checking out the dedicated wiki page. You can comment on the page, add your own scenarios to the page by logging in with your mahara.org username and password (or you can register for these).

Alternatively, you can contribute to the conversation on this topic in this discussion thread.

Mahara would like to get some more functionality into Mahara 17.10 so all feedback is required by the end of May.

 

Some great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this great eportfolio news and resources:

• Latest issue (April 2017) of the AAEEBL ePortfolio Review is now available.
• Recent eCampus News article about eportfolios entitled “The dark side of higher ed’s ePortfolios-what really happened“
• GP Online have been posting a series of articles about using eportfolios:
•   GP training: Writing a PDP in your e-portfolio
•   GP training: Writing up an audit for your e-portfolio

Please share any eportfolio news or ask questions via the Eportfolio Community of Practice Facebook page.

2017 Eportfolio Forum – Call for proposal now open (& more)

2017 Eportfolio Forum – Call for proposal now open  

The ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee are calling for proposals for the 2017 Eportfolio Forum on 20-21 September at Monash College and University, Melbourne.

This year’s theme is “Owning, supporting and sharing the journey”

Submissions are being called for:

• Posters
• Short (peer reviewed paper) presentations
• 20×20 presentations
• Short workshops
• Facilitate a professional conversations
• Long workshops

Call for proposal closes on 22 May 2017.

Click here for more information and to submit a proposal.

2017 Eportfolio Webinar – Evidence based practice / reflection against outcomes eg professional standards

Ensure you register for the first webinar on Evidence based practice / reflection against outcomes eg professional standards on Tuesday 30 May 2017 – 4.30-5.30 pm AEST

This webinar will showcase how eportfolios can be used to evidence outcomes such as professional standards.

Presenters:

• John Kertesz, University of Tasmania
• Terry Young & Kate Mitchell, La Trobe University

Click here to register for this free webinar (or receive the recording of the webinar)

Programmatic Assessment and Eportfolio

Panos Vlachopoulos (Associate Dean Quality & Standards, Faculty of Arts) and Sherrie Love, (Senior Learning Designer, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences) from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, presented an outline of the design, development and implementation process of a pedagogically sound and technologically workable and sustainable solution to programmatic assessment using an eportfolio tool across an entire Faculty recently.

For more information and to view this recording (and others) go to the PebblePad webinar page.

Some great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this great eportfolio news and resources:

• Christine Nicholas, GOTAFE, will be presenting about “Using Mahara to capture vocational competency” and EdVET in Melbourne on 28 April.
• International Journal of ePortfolio – Call for papers for next edition – submissions due 1 June 2017
• Reminder: Call for Articles: for an edited volume of High Impact ePortfolio Practice – CATALYST in ACTION: Case Studies of High-Impact ePortfolio Practice, to be published by Stylus Books in 2018. The deadline for manuscript submission is June 15, 2017.
• Resources from the New York/New England Regional ePortfolio Conference held on 2-3 March are now available.

2017 Eportfolio News – There’s Lots Going On

First 2017 Eportfolio Webinar – Evidence based practice reflection against outcomes eg professional standards

The ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee are pleased to announce that there will be two free annual webinar events in 2017. The first webinar will be Evidence based practice reflection against outcomes eg professional standards on Tuesday 30 May 2017 – 4.30-5.30 pm AEST

This webinar will showcase how eportfolios can be used to evidence outcomes such as professional standards.

Presenters:

• Terry Young & Kate Mitchell, La Trobe University
• TBC

Click here to register for this free webinar (or receive the recording of the webinar)

Other great 2017 Eportfolio Events happening soon

Get involved in some of these great eportfolio events:

• Recognising and Presenting Student Learning in the 21st Century: An International Webinar on Emerging Practice in Higher Education – 6 March
  Co-Sponsored by the Centre for Recording Achievement (CRA), EPAC ePortfolio Community of Practice, and the Association for Authentic, Experiential Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL)
• Pebblepad’s 2017 international webinar series – 16 March – Programmatic Assessment and ePortfolios to be presented by Panos Vlachopoulos, Associate Dean Quality & Standards, Faculty of Arts and Sherrie Love, Senior Learning Designer, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Macquarie University – Panos and Sherrie’s session at the 2016 Eportfolio Forum were very popular
• Mahara Hui NZ in Auckland on 5-7 April – Register now

 

2017 Eportfolio Forum will be about owning, supporting and sharing the journey

We hope you can join us at this year’s 6th Eportfolio Forum, as we will be focussing on owning, supporting and sharing the journey.  Just us at:

• 2017 Eportfolio Forum
• 20-21 September 2017
• Monash College/University, Melbourne

Call for proposals will open in the week beginning 27 March 2017.

Some great eportfolio publications

Check out these great eportfolio resources:

• Check out the first ever AAEEBL ePortfolio Review – Evidence-based learning – Designed to provide space for emerging thinking about ePortfolio research and practice, as well as a publication opportunity for those working in and with ePortfolio, the AePR focuses on timely, important topics written by leaders in the field.
• Latest International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP) is available here including an article from the University of Notre Dame Australia –  The Cart Before the Horse? Exploring the Potential of ePortfolios in a Western Australian Medical School by Frank Bate, Jean Macnish and Chris Skinner.
• Call for Articles: for an edited volume of High Impact ePortfolio Practice – CATALYST in ACTION: Case Studies of High-Impact ePortfolio Practice, to be published by Stylus Books in 2018.  The deadline for manuscript submission is June 15, 2017.

Joyce Seitzinger at 2016 Eportfolio Forum + more

Joyce Seitzinger at 2016 Eportfolio Forum 

Joyce Seitzinger, Director of Academic Tribe and a highly experienced educational technologist, learning designer and UX practitioner, will be at the 2016 Eportfolio Forum on 28-29 September at the .Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney.

Joyce will be doing a:

• Long workshop – LX Design: Mapping the badge (l)earner journey
• Ideas Exchange Lunch conversation – The role of experience design in eportfolios and education

The two day program also has the following Panel members discuss how collecting evidence and connecting it to criteria can demonstrate your professionalism / leadership:

• Leanne Ngo, Deakin University
• Nicole Jones, University of NSW
• Stiofán Mac Suibhne, Ara Institute New Zealand
• Jacob Gross and Hannah Alexander, University of Sydney students

Register now so you do not miss out on this great event and let your colleagues know about this event.

Supporting educators to use eportfolios – webinar resources now available

We are pleased to share with you the following resources from the “Supporting educators use eportfolios” webinar on 30 August:

• Webinar Recording
  • Login is required = Your name and email address (even if you didn’t attend or register for the webinar)
  • Click on the downloaded file
  • It may take a minute or two to load
  • Press the > arrow along the bottom left hand corner to play
• Presentation slides

Please feel free to share these resources with your networks and colleagues.

This webinar series will be run again in 2017, so please share your ideas for other webinar topics, as well as other eportfolio professional development and networking ideas via ePortfolios Australia, and/or please let us know if you would like to help with organising these events.

Transforming students through ePortfolio assessment webinar resources

Leanne Ngo (Deakin University) and Nicholas McGuigan (Monash University) presented the Transforming students through ePortfolio assessment webinar on 7 September as part of the Transforming Assessment program.

This session looked at how ePortfolios can provide students with a holistic, scaffolded, cohesive and integrated learning experience which represents a stronger preparation for their professional life, and in a form they can continue to access after graduation.

Click below to read more and view the webinar resources:

• Tarleton launches new ePortfolio network to help students get hired
• 7 September 2016: Transforming students through ePortfolio assessment (including link to webinar

2016 Eportfolio Forum Program now available + More

2016 Eportfolio Forum Program now available

The 2016 Eportfolio Forum (Eportforum) Program is now available.

Eportforum will be held on 28-29 September 2016 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music the University of Sydney with fantastic Keynote speakers:

• Day One Keynote Speaker: Professor Geoffrey Crisp, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) University of New South Wales – ePortfolios – one for all, all for one
• Day Two – Opening Speaker: Ryan Tracey, E-learning Manager at AMP – A proposal to improve the efficiency of compliance training in the corporate sector through open badges

The two day program aims to engage participants in conversations about Connecting learning to the future.  One highlight of this event will be the many opportunities to network with presenters and participants.

Register now so you do not miss out on this great event.

Supporting educators to use eportfolios – webinar on 30 August

Our second free annual webinar event will be on the topic of ‘Supporting educators to use eportfolios’.

Our presenters are highly experienced in supporting others use eportfolios in their teaching / professional lives:

Andrew Hill, Australian Catholic University (ACU)

Marie (Bernie) Fisher, ACU 

Lynn McAllister, QUT 

Click here to register for this free webinar.

Tarleton launches new ePortfolio network to help students get hired

Adapted from original article:
Tarleton State University in Texas has introduced an eportfolio network which will help users go beyond the limits of the traditional resume to create a digital portfolio.

All students will gain have access to their free eportfolio to create a digital portfolio of academic and professional accomplishments, including projects, presentations and papers.

According to the eportfolio developers, employers will have direct access to Tarleton students’ ePortfolios through a powerful search engine and matching algorithm that streamlines campus-recruiting efforts.

Click here to read more.

Keynotes: 2016 Eportfolio Forum + More

Keynotes: 2016 Eportfolio Forum 

The keynote speakers for the 2016 Eportfolio Forum (Eportforum) to be held on 28-29 September 2016 at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music at the University of Sydney are:

	Day One Keynote Speaker: Professor Geoffrey Crisp, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) University of New South Wales – ePortfolios – one for all, all for one
	Day Two – Opening Speaker: Ryan Tracey, E-learning Manager at AMP – A proposal to improve the efficiency of compliance training in the corporate sector through open badges

 The two day program of presentations, workshops, facilitated conversations and networking will be released shortly.  One highlight of this event will be the many opportunities to network with presenters and participants.

Please share this information with your colleagues and people in your networks and encourage them to register now.

2016 Webinar Series: Supporting educators to use eportfolios

The ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee are pleased to announce that the second of our two free annual webinar events in 2016. The second webinar will be one the topics of ‘Supporting educators to use eportfolios’.

Our presenters are highly experienced in supporting others use eportfolios in their teaching / professional lives:

	Andrew Hill, Australian Catholic University (ACU)
	Marie (Bernie) Fisher, ACU
	Lynn McAllister, QUT

Click here to register for this free webinar.

Recording: Health (PebblePad) User Group

The resources from the 22 June PebblePad in Health User Group are now available at http://bit.ly/OzHUG22June16.

Included are the full session recording, a link to the presentation, and a copy of the online chat from the session.

If you have suggestions for future User Group sessions (and these can include areas other than Health) please send them through to Alison Poot at alison@pebblepad.com.au.