Next PARE 19 June & AI & Portfolios webinar 22 June (+ so much more)

Next Plan, Act, Reflect & Eportfolio (PARE) – 19 June

The next PARE session will be on 19 June – 2.00-3.30 pm (SYD time) and facilitated by Terrie Paterson, James Cook University PhD candidate will facilitate this session.

We have had a number of attendees who have found these sessions invaluable to establishing/maintaining their eportfolio practices to achieve their career and professional goals, as well as, expanding their eportfolio networks.

Also, put a placeholder in your calendar for these other 2023 PARE sessions:

• 25 July – 4.00-5.30 pm (SYD time)
• 7 September – 7.00-8.30 pm (SYD time)
• 15 November 10.30 am-12 noon (SYD time)

If you have colleagues or people in your network who would benefit from launching their eportfolio practice, then please share this information with them.

REGISTER NOW for the 19 June PARE: https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/

AI & Portfolios webinar – 22 June: Global perspectives on artificial intelligence and portfolios

Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken centre stage in education with the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. Many conversations in education revolve around exploring the benefits and challenges of this text-generating AI and other AI applications which impact how learning and assessment may continue. This in turn impacts ePortfolio practice.

This has led AAEEBL, ePortfolios Australia, and Eportfolio Ireland to partner in an AI & Portfolios webinar series, with the first webinar discussing: ‘Artificial intelligence and portfolios’ to foster discussions within our global communities’.

This webinar will ask:

• What is the influence of AI on portfolios?
• What are the implications for using AI in portfolio practice?

Join the panelists on:

• 22 June 2023 – 10:00 am Aus EST  (SYD time)
• 21 June 5.00 pm PT / 8.00 pm EDT

REGISTER NOW for the Global perspectives on artificial intelligence and portfolios webinar: https://events.humanitix.com/ai-portfolios-webinar-1

ePortfolio Pedagogies webinar – 8 June: Ethical engagement and empowered student feedback

UNSW’s Scientia Education Academy are hosting Associate Professor, Christine Slade and Learning Designer, Shari Bowker from the University of Queensland for an online lecture of AAEEBL’s Task Force Digital Ethics in ePortfolios topic of: Ethical engagement and empowered student feedback on 8 June 12.00-1.00 pm Aus EST (SYD time).

This lecture will explore the importance of ethical ePortfolio practices and the shift towards empowering students in their feedback processes and utilising ePortfolios for assessment and learning.

Via Christine Slade


Registrations to open soon: 2023 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery) 

The Call for proposals for 2023 Eportfolio Forum in Darwin/Larrakia Land on 11-12 October at Charles Darwin University have now closed – but preparations for opening registrations are next on the agenda.

This year’s Forum’s theme is: Emerging, Connecting, Sustaining

2023 Eportfolio Forum is again dual delivery, so people can present/facilitate either live in Darwin/Larrakia Land, online via webinar or via a recording.

This year’s Forum will be highly interactive, with all sessions involving some type of audience participation – so please watch this space for the opening of registration.  

For more information, please contact:

• (+61) 0400 732 270
• eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com

Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:

The latest edition of AePR – A Time for Reflection is now available – Articles include:

• Blending Research and ePortfolio: Two HIPS in One, by Karen Agustin Paz, Marissa Greisen, James Heilman, Sylvia Rodriguez Zacarias, & Sonja Taylor
• 21st Century Skills: Facilitating Practice and Assessing ePortfolios, by Julie McCarroll & Peggy Hartwick
• You Thought You Knew Yourself, and Then, You Retired, by Carra Leah Hood
• AI Corner: AI-Originated Definitions and Concepts of ePortfolio,by Russel Stolins

Via Candyce Reynolds



AAEEBL’s Annual Meeting – July 2023 – AAEEBL’s 2023 Annual Meeting will be held at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and online, on various dates in July.

This year’s meeting will focus on ePortfolio Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Fostering Authentic Assessment Through Inclusive Pedagogies and Design Justice.  



You can access the resources from the Peralta Online Equity Conference held in April by ‘registering’ on their website

Via Kevin Kelly

Stay connected all year round – share any eportfolio news or ask questions via the
Eportfolio Community of Practice Facebook Group

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Call for Proposals closes 22 May – 2023 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery) + other great eportfolio information

The Call for proposals for 2023 Eportfolio Forum in Darwin/Larrakia Land on 11-12 October at Charles Darwin University closes on 22 May 2023 – just under 2 weeks away.

This year’s Forum’s theme is: Emerging, Connecting, Sustaining

2023 Eportfolio Forum is again dual delivery, so people can present/facilitate either live in Darwin/Larrakia Land, online via webinar or via a recording.

There are a range of presentation/facilitation options – Shortened Peer Reviewed Papers, 20×20 sessions, Digital Posters, Facilitated Conversations, Indepth & Intensive Workshops (also in dual delivery mode)

Submission close on 22 May – https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/forums/2023-eportfolio-forum-home-page/2023-eportfolio-forum-call-for-proposals/ 

The Organising Committee want this year’s Forum to be highly interactive, with all sessions involving some type of audience participation – so please consider presenting at this year’s Forum.  

If you are interested in facilitating a session or if you would like more information, please contact:

• (+61) 0400 732 270
• eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com

Next Plan, Act, Reflect & Eportfolio (PARE) – 19 June

PARE sessions allow you to spend time planning and developing your OWN career / professional / other goals by working on your OWN eportfolio.  If you are new to having your own eportfolio – then these sessions also allow you to get guidance about how to start.

Register now for the PARE session on 19 June – 2.00-3.30 pm (SYD time) – Terrie Paterson, James Cook University PhD candidate will facilitate this session.

Also, put a placeholder in your calendar for these other 2023 sessions:

• July – date & time TBC
• 7 September – 7.00-8.30 pm (SYD time)
• 15 November 10.30 am-12 noon (SYD time)

We have had a number of attendees who have found these sessions invaluable to establishing/maintaining their eportfolio practices, as well as, expand their eportfolio networks.

If you have colleagues or people in your network who would benefit from launching their eportfolio practice, then please share this information with them.

REGISTER NOW for the 19 June PARE: https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/

AAEEBL’s Annual Meeting – July 2023

AAEEBL’s 2023 Annual Meeting will be held at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and online, on various dates in July.

ePortfolio Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Fostering Authentic Assessment Through Inclusive Pedagogies and Design Justice.  

Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:

At the April PARE, Kate Mitchell shared some great resources:

• Bozarth, J. (2014). Show your work : the payoffs and how-to’s of working out loud (First Edition.). Wiley. Brief summary: https://www.getabstract.com/en/summary/show-your-work/22826
• Reflection toolkit – https://www.ed.ac.uk/reflection 
• Eportfolio examples and templates – https://unimelb.padlet.org/mitchellkm/eportfolio-examples-and-templates-5zoiqpx7mwh7qwqb
• Link to Kate’s eportfolio – https://www.ed.ac.uk/reflection

Plus: Students comment on PebblePad eportfolio in General Education – ” Ohio State’s new general education curriculum has accerlerated the development of student portfolios through the use of a new ePortfolio system” – PebblePad – Find out more here: https://www.thelantern.com/2023/04/students-comment-on-use-of-pebblepad-in-new-ge-launch-courses/

Stay connected all year round – share any eportfolio news or ask questions via the
Eportfolio Community of Practice Facebook Group

Last chance to register: Plan, Act, Reflect & Eportfolio (PARE) – 13 April 2023

PARE sessions allow you to spend time planning and developing your OWN career / professional / other goals by working on your OWN eportfolio.

Register now for the PARE session on 13 April – 12.30-2.00 pm (SYD time) – Kate Mitchell, University of Melbourne will faciltate this session.

Also, put a placeholder in your calendar for these other 2023 sessions:

• 19 June – 2.00-3.30 pm (SYD time)
• July – date & time TBC
• 7 September – 7.00-8.30 pm (SYD time)
• 15 November 10.30 am-12 noon (SYD time)

These sessions are also good for anyone new to starting their own eportfolio as you will network and get support from more experienced eportfolio practitioners.  There is also a chance to speak 1:1 with someone about getting started with eportfolios.

If you have colleagues or people in your network who would benefit from launching their eportfolio practice, then please share this information with them.

REGISTER NOW for the 13 April PARE: https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/

If you can facilitate a PARE session in July 2023, please contact: eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com.

Call for proposals: 2023 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery) now open

The ePortfolio Australia Organising Committee are pleased to announce that the Call for proposals for 2023 Eportfolio Forum in Darwin on 11-12 October at Charles Darwin University are now open.

This year’s Forum’s theme is: Emerging, Connecting, Sustaining, and will be run in the Dual Delivery format.  This means sessions can be run from Charles Darwin University or online.

The Organising Committee want this year’s Forum to be highly interactive, with all sessions involving some type of audience participation – so please consider presenting at this year’s Forum.  

Submissions close on 22 May 2023

If you are interested in facilitating a session or if you would like more information, please contact:

• (+61) 0400 732 270
• eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com

May Webinar – Infusing Narrative Futures in ePortfolio Practice

The ePortfolio Australia Organising Committee are pleased to announce the next webinar: Infusing Narrative Futures in ePortfolio Practice.
 

This webinar will be a event (part PARE session experience, part workshop practice, part webinar case study) by exploring the narrative futures methods that can bring the process of eportfolio practice to life

This webinar will be facilitated by:

• Beverley Miles, OpenLearning
• Yi Fei Wang, Mount Royal University.

REGISTER NOW for this free event on 17 May 2023, 9.30-10.45 am AEST/Sydney time. 

Other up coming eportfolios events and activities

• Peralta Equity in Online Learning Conference – 26-28 April – Registration & Call for Proposals – You are invited to join the Peralta Community College District’s Online Equity Team, for our third Equity in Online LearningConference that will take place virtually. They welcome equity-minded students, educators, staff and leaders who represent colleges, universities, non-profit organisations and vendors from all around the world
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics Workshop: Promote Awareness – 27 April – this session will introduce you to the ‘Promote Awareness’ principle and help you identify the impacts technology choices can have on data security, privacy, and intellectual property. You will learn strategies for supporting a critical literacy for technology use, e.g. Chat GPT, ePortfolio platforms, data use and storage.
• AAEEBL Annual Meeting at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and online, on various dates in July – Call for proposals close 24 April. ePortfolio Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Fostering Authentic Assessment Through Inclusive Pedagogies and Design Justice. 

Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:

University of Melbourne is looking for Learning Designer (ePortfolio) – Full-time; Fixed-term until the end of December 2023 – Please share with your networks.

How to Create an Online Portfolio (Even When You Don’t Have Work Experience) – “You don’t need professional work experience to have a great online portfolio. If you’ve written articles for the school newspaper, conducted research for a class, developed a video game in an extracurricular, or did some graphic design on your own time, these are all things you can — and should — include in an online portfolio.”

ePortfolio Student Support Site – John Jay College of Criminal Justice – has a range of examples students’ professional and personal eportfolios. 

Stay connected all year round – share any eportfolio news or ask questions via the
Eportfolio Community of Practice Facebook Group

Call for Proposals – 2023 Eportfolio Forum (Dual delivery) now open (+ other eportfolio news)

The ePortfolio Australia Organising Committee are pleased to announce that the Call for proposals for 2023 Eportfolio Forum in Darwin on 11-12 October at Charles Darwin University are now open.

This year’s Forum’s theme is: Emerging, Connecting, Sustaining, and will be run in the Dual Delivery format.  This means sessions can be run from Charles Darwin University or online.

The Organising Committee want this year’s Forum to be highly interactive, with all sessions involving some type of audience participation – so please consider presenting at this year’s Forum.  

Submissions close on 22 May 2023

If you are interested in facilitating a session or if you would like more information, please contact:

• (+61) 0400 732 270
• eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com

Next PARE (Plan, act, reflect & eportfolio) session = 13 April – Register now

PARE sessions allow you to spend time planning and developing your OWN career / professional / other goals by working on your OWN eportfolio.

The next PARE session will be 13 April – 12.30-2.00 pm (SYD time) – Kate Mitchell, University of Melbourne will faciltate this session.

Also, put a placeholder in your calendar for these other 2023 sessions:

• 19 June – 2.00-3.30 pm (SYD time)
• July – date & time TBC
• 7 September – 7.00-8.30 pm (SYD time)
• 15 November 10.30 am-12 noon (SYD time)

These sessions are also good for anyone new to starting their own eportfolio as you will network and get support from more experienced eportfolio practitioners.  There is also a chance to speak 1:1 with someone about getting started with eportfolios.

If you have colleagues or people in your network who would benefit from launching their eportfolio practice, then please share this information with them.

REGISTER NOW for the 13 April PARE: https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/

If you can facilitate a PARE session in July 2023, please contact: eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com.

May Webinar – Infusing Narrative Futures in ePortfolio Practice

The ePortfolio Australia Organising Committee are pleased to announce the next webinar: Infusing Narrative Futures in ePortfolio Practice.
 

This webinar will be a event (part PARE session experience, part workshop practice, part webinar case study) by exploring the narrative futures methods that can bring the process of eportfolio practice to life

This webinar will be facilitated by:

• Beverley Miles, OpenLearning
• Yi Fei Wang, Mount Royal University.

REGISTER NOW for this free event on 17 May 2023, 9.30-10.45 am AEST/Sydney time. 

AI and portfolios webinar series: Expressions of interest to facilitate

Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), in particular generative AI that will have an enormous impact on education, beg the question: How does AI impact portfolios?

AAEEBL, ePortfolios Australia, and Eportfolio Ireland are partnering to offer a webinar series in which we want to provide a place for sense making, conversations, trials, and also show and tell for those that have already started using AI in their portfolio work.

We want to share ideas, approaches, and work together to learn.

Complete this form as a call for expressions of interest for those that want to help facilitate session on AI and portfolios and already have experience in the field.

Other up coming eportfolios events and activities

• Rock Your Profile Workshop – 31 March – 10 am SYD time – Do you keep hearing you need to be on LinkedIn, but you aren’t sure where to start? Maybe you already have a LinkedIn profile and are wondering how to use it effectively as part of your professional digital presence? – Join this session to find out more from Dr Sheetal J Patel is Senior Product Marketing Manager at LinkedIn and co-founder, lecturer, and researcher at Stanford University’s Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab.
• Peralta Equity in Online Learning Conference – 26-28 April – Registration & Call for Proposals – You are invited to join the Peralta Community College District’s Online Equity Team, for our third Equity in Online LearningConference that will take place virtually. They welcome equity-minded students, educators, staff and leaders who represent colleges, universities, non-profit organisations and vendors from all around the world
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics Workshop: Promote Awareness – 27 April – this session will introduce you to the ‘Promote Awareness’ principle and help you identify the impacts technology choices can have on data security, privacy, and intellectual property. You will learn strategies for supporting a critical literacy for technology use, e.g. Chat GPT, ePortfolio platforms, data use and storage.
• AAEEBL Annual Meeting at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and online, on various dates in July – Call for proposals close 24 April. ePortfolio Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence:
  Fostering Authentic Assessment Through Inclusive Pedagogies and Design Justice. 

Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:

ePortfolios: what employers think – “Kim Watty and Jade McKay explain the benefits – for both employers and business graduates – of ePortfolios, and what employers think of them.”  

Resources from the AAEEBL Digital Ethics workshop Respect author rights and reuse permissions workshop facilitated by Kristina Hoeppner and Christine Slade are now available.

More amazing podcasts by Mahara about eportfolio practice on Create. Share. Engage:

• Christine Dülfer: Supporting industry internships
• Christine Slade and Kevin Kelly: Digital ethics principle DEIBD
• Kate Mitchell: Deliberate and programmatic design

Stay connected all year round – share any eportfolio news or ask questions via the
Eportfolio Community of Practice Facebook Group

Last chance to register: 9 March Webinar – Digital Ethics: Respect Author Rights and Re-use Permissions (+ other eportfolio stuff)

Register now for this workshop where you will explore the Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principle ‘Respect Author Rights and Re-use Permissions’ to understand best practices for re-use and representation of other people’s work in their portfolios. Copyright, attribution of work, plagiarism, and confidentiality of private information are recurring important topics to address.

Your workshop facilitators, Christine Slade and Kristina Hoeppner, will guide you on strategies for applying this principle successfully in your portfolio work supporting learners and engaging you in a conversation around good practice and challenges that you have encountered.

This webinar is being run by AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force and the ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee.

Since mid-2019, the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) has investigated digital ethics and ePortfolios via a specially created task force. The work resulted in principles promoting ethical ePortfolio practices to educators, staff, students, and platform providers.

REGISTER NOW for this free event on 9 March 2023, 12.00 – 1.30pm AEDT. 

Save these dates: 2023 PARE (Plan, act, reflect & eportfolio) sessions

The ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee are pleased to announce the following dates for the remaining 2023 Plan, act, reflect & eportfolio session (PARE) for 2023, so put a placeholder in your calendar for these sessions:

• 13 April – 12.30-2.00 pm (SYD time)
• 19 June – 2.00-3.30 pm (SYD time)
• July – date & time TBC
• 7 September – 7.00-8.30 pm (SYD time)
• 15 November 10.30 am-12 noon (SYD time)

PARE sessions allow you to spend time planning and developing your OWN career / professional / other goals by working on your OWN eportfolio.

This session is also good for anyone new to starting their own eportfolio as you will network and get support from more experienced eportfolio practitioners.  There is also a chance to speak 1:1 with someone about getting started with eportfolios.

If you have colleagues or people in your network who would benefit from launching their eportfolio practice, then please share this information with them.

Registrations for the April PARE will open soon, but for more information about these PARE sessions go to: https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/

If you can facilitate a PARE session in July 2023, please contact: eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com.

Prior notice: Call for proposals for 2023 Eportfolio Forum to be released soon

The ePortfolio Australia Organising Committee will be releasing the Calling for submissions for 2023 Eportfolio Forum in Darwin on 11-12 October shortly.

This year’s Forum’s theme is: Emerging, Connecting, Sustaining, and will be run in the Dual Delivery format.

The Organising Committee want this year’s Forum to be highly interactive, with all sessions involving some type of audience participation – so please consider presenting at this year’s Forum

If you are interested in facilitating a session or if you would like more information, please contact:

• (+61) 0400 732 270
• eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com

Your feedback is important: Are these WIL & Employability resources useful?

A sub-group of the ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee decided that they would work on finding a way to change that.  We call this project ‘Translating ePortfolios Australia’s CoP assets into a searchable and usable format’ or TEASUF.

The TEASUF group is pleased to advise that the first lot of resources to be released as part of this project is on the theme of ‘WIL and Employability’. As part of the process of ensuring that the ePortfolios Australia community’s assets are actually searchable and usable, the group is seeking feedback from the eportfolio community about the usability and design of the WIL and Employability resources in their current format, either by:

• commenting on this blog post
• contacting eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com 
• completing a short feedback form

When providing feedback, please consider this question: 

• Is the information on this page presented in a way that makes it easy for you to determine if the resources will be useful to you?

The group would also like to invite anyone interested in helping with this important work to contact eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com.  The group meets online about every 4-6 weeks for one hour, plus some ‘between meeting’ tasks to curate the assets. 

Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:

Fulbright College Team Outlines ePortfolio Initiative – “Together with the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), a team from the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is leading an exploration of ePortfolios — a professional, digital-first way for students to showcase their skills, coursework, projects and experiences. Their goals include building a robust ePortfolio infrastructure”

The Difference Between A “Profile” & A “Portfolio” (And, Why You Need Both) – Author, JT O’Donnell states “I’ve written here before about the impact LinkedIn has had on my career and company. But, it isn’t the only thing I use. I also have a portfolio. In my opinion, every good professional needs BOTH.”
via Marlene Diacopoulos 

Mahara and other portfolio news from Catalyst IT, March 2023 – “This newsletter from Catalyst IT on Mahara and all things portfolios is curated by Kristina Hoeppner, project lead of the open source platform Mahara, to share news and resources from the portfolio community and our team at Catalyst IT with you.”
via Kristina Hoeppner

Stay connected all year round – share any eportfolio news or ask questions via the
Eportfolio Community of Practice Facebook Group

First ‘Plan, act, reflect & eportfolio’ [PARE] session for 2023 (+ other great eportfolio activities)

Be the Change you want to be … Join the first Plan, act, reflect & eportfolio session (PARE) for 2023 and spend some time planning and developing your OWN career / professional / other goals by working on your OWN eportfolio:

• Tuesday 21 February – 5.00-6.30 pm (Aust EDT)

Marie (Bernie) Fisher, Australian Catholic University will facilitate the February PARE session. 

This session is also good for anyone new to starting their own eportfolio as you will network and get support from more experienced eportfolio practitioners.

If you have colleagues or people in your network who would benefit from launching their eportfolio practice, then please share this information with them.

For more information and to register for 21 February PARE session go to: https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/

If you can facilitate a PARE session in 2023, please contact: eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com.

Online Workshop: 9 March – Digital Ethics: Respect Author Rights and Re-use Permissions

The AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force and the ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee are pleased to announce this workshop.

Since mid-2019, the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) has investigated digital ethics and ePortfolios via a specially created task force. The work resulted in principles promoting ethical ePortfolio practices to educators, staff, students, and platform providers.

n this workshop, you will explore the Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principle ‘Respect Author Rights and Re-use Permissions’ to understand best practices for re-use and representation of other people’s work in their portfolios. Copyright, attribution of work, plagiarism, and confidentiality of private information are recurring important topics to address.

Your workshop facilitators Christine Slade and Kristina Hoeppner will guide you on strategies for applying this principle successfully in your portfolio work supporting learners and engaging you in a conversation around good practice and challenges that you have encountered.

We look forward to sharing work done by the Task Force with you and learning from you to expand the knowledge base that we as a portfolio community share on this topic.

Facilitators:

• Dr Christine Slade, University of Queensland
• Kristina Hoeppner, MA, Catalyst IT

You are invited to participate in this free event on 9 March 2023, 12.00 – 1.30pm AEDT. By registering, you will receive access to the webinar details.

We want you: Calling for Expressions of Interest for ePortfolios Australia 2023 Community Events

The ePortfolio Australia Organising Committee invite contributions for community events in 2023

If you are interested in facilitating a workshop, webinar, or PARE session this year, please submit your EOI ASAP or for more information go to: https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/2023/01/30/calling-for-expressions-of-interest-eportfolios-australia-2023-community-events/

Or contact:

• (+61) 0400 732 270
• eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com

Your feedback is important: Are these WIL & Employability resources useful?

A sub-group of the ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee decided that they would work on finding a way to change that.  We call this project ‘Translating ePortfolios Australia’s CoP assets into a searchable and usable format’ or TEASUF.

The TEASUF group is pleased to advise that the first lot of resources to be released as part of this project is on the theme of ‘WIL and Employability’. As part of the process of ensuring that the ePortfolios Australia community’s assets are actually searchable and usable, the group is seeking feedback from the eportfolio community about the usability and design of the WIL and Employability resources in their current format, either by:

• commenting on this blog post
• contacting eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com 
• completing a short feedback form

When providing feedback, please consider this question: 

• Is the information on this page presented in a way that makes it easy for you to determine if the resources will be useful to you?

The group would also like to invite anyone interested in helping with this important work to contact eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com.  The group meets online about every 4-6 weeks for one hour, plus some ‘between meeting’ tasks to curate the assets. 

Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:

AAEEBL ePortfolio Review – Current Issue: A Changed World for ePortfolios v6n1 (Fall/Winter 2022)
The AAEEBL ePortfolio Review (AePR) is the magazine of the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning. Our mission is to serve the needs of the global eportfolio community and promote portfolio learning as a way to transform higher education. 

via @AAEEBLconnect

Show off students’ employability with e-portfolios
Why and how to make e-portfolios a central part of university courses, helping students identify and exhibit skills that will appeal to employers, by Lourdes Guàrdia and Marcelo Maina

ePortfolio Assessments as Academic Activism in Archaeology: Design Justice through Disruption, Diversity, and Student Self-Determination
This resource is part of the AAEEBL ePortfolio Review (AePR) 2022 Special Edition: Design Justice.

via Beverley Miles

Podcast: Why create ePortfolios for your learner community: A conversation with Kristina Hoeppner
Kristina Hoeppner, Portfolio Project Lead for the Mahara project, an open-source ePortfolio system, talks about the importance of ePortfolios to empower learners to be creative in representing their credentials by leveraging a platform that allows more authentic assessments. 

Stay connected all year round – share any eportfolio news or ask questions via the
Eportfolio Community of Practice Facebook Group

Calling for Expressions of Interest: ePortfolios Australia 2023 Community Events

Workshops

Webinars

PARE Sessions

The ePortfolio Australia Organising Committee invite contributions for community events in 2023

If you are interested in facilitating a workshop, webinar, or PARE session this year, please submit your EOI ASAP or for more information:

Call: (+61) 0400 732 270

Email: eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com

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Workshop

Addressing JEDI (Justice, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion) in ePortfolio practice – the AAEEBL Taskforce Focus

Description: A blended workshop for the ePortfolios Australia and AAEEBL community

Duration: 120 mins

Format: Blended – Online; Physical TBC

Previous Examples: see Past Workshop Events

Submit your Workshop EOI: 

• Workshop title 
• Brief description (50-150 words) 
• Brief workshop plan (outline)
• Brief bio/s 
• Facilitator/s headshot

2023 Availability: Aug*

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Webinar

Showcasing current and emerging ePortfolio practice

Description: Sharing research-enriched practical insights and takeaways

Duration: 60 mins.

Example Format: Online

• 10 mins intro (ePortfolios Australia)
• 2x 20 mins presenter (12-15 mins presentation – 5-8 min Q&A)
• 10 min brainstorm, update etc

Previous Examples: see Past Webinar Events

Submit your Webinar EOI: 

• Presentation title 
• Brief description (50-150 words) 
• Brief bio 
• Presenter headshot
• Preferred month / time

Availability: May / July / Sept / Nov*

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PARE Session

Encouraging ePortfolio advocates as ePortfolio practitioners

Description: These sessions are designed to give you time to plan and develop your OWN career / professional / other goals by working on your OWN ePortfolio.

Duration: 90 mins.

Example Format: Online

1. Welcome and overview
2. Discussion / Catch up
3. Throw ideas around about what you would like to achieve during this session
4. Set time to Plan, act, reflect & ePortfolio (PARE) (with intermittent times to touch base)
5. Group sharing 
6. Moving forward – Setting goals before next time
7. Identifying next session’s lead (if one has not been nominated)

Submit your PARE Session EOI: 

• Brief bio 
• Presenter headshot
• Preferred month / time

Availability: Feb/Mar / Apr / Jun / Sept / Nov*

*Subject to change

Resources: WIL, Employability & Eportfolios, 2022 Eportfolio Forum (+ other eportfolio activity)

A sub-group of the ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee decided that they would work on finding a way to change that.  We call this project ‘Translating ePortfolios Australia’s CoP assets into a searchable and usable format’ or TEASUF.

The TEASUF group is pleased to advise that the first lot of resources to be released as part of this project is on the theme of ‘WIL and Employability’.

As part of the process of ensuring that the ePortfolios Australia community’s assets are actually searchable and usable, the group is seeking feedback from the eportfolio community about the usability and design of the WIL and Employability resources in their current format, either by:

• commenting on this blog post
• contacting eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com 
• completing a short feedback form

When providing feedback, please consider this question: 

• Is the information on this page presented in a way that makes it easy for you to determine if the resources will be useful to you?

The group would also like to invite anyone interested in helping with this important work to contact eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com.  The group meets online about every 4-6 weeks for one hour, plus some ‘between meeting’ tasks to curate the assets. 

Resources: 2022 Eportfolio Forum Recordings, Slides and Support Resources

You can now access the following resources:

• Program with presenter slides and resources/links to presentations session recordings
• eBook of Shortened Peer Reviewed papers
• Book of Abstracts

Please share these resources with your networks.

The ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee would like to thank: 

• All of the presenters for making this two day event so enriching by sharing their practice and experiences
• University of Melbourne for their generous support of this year’s Forum
• Our other major sponsor for their ongoing support: Digital Capability 

Save the date: 2023 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery) – 11-12 October – Charles Darwin University – Darwin / Larrakia Land 

We are very excited to share with you that the 2023 Eportfolio Forum will be held 11-12 October – Charles Darwin University‘s Waterfront Campus – Darwin / Larrakia Land.

Stay tuned for more information.

Register now: Plan, Act, Reflect & Eportfolio (PARE) session – 21 February 

The ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee are pleased to announce that the first of a series of Plan, Act, Reflect & Eportfolio (PARE) sessions in 2023 will be on Tuesday 21 February from 5.00-6.30 pm. 

PARE is a time for you to work on / commence your eportfolio practice to help you:

• plan/work on your career/professional and/or personal goals
• identify and collate evidence of your experiences for accreditation, certification, promotion or applying for positions and/or demonstrating currency
• consider what you would like to achieve (and how you will achieve it)

These sessions aim for you to have 60 mins dedicated to work on your eportfolio practice + 3 x 10 mins where the group shares the plans, concerns and achievements.

People new to eportfolios are strongly encouraged to attend, as 1:1 support is available to help you get started with your eportfolio practice.

Our first PARE session will be facilitated by Marie (Bernie) Fisher, Australian Catholic University.   More 2023 dates and facilitators TBA for April, June, July, September and November.

Register now to attend the first PARE of 2023.

For more information contact eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com

Online Workshop – Digital Ethics: Respect Author Rights and Re-use Permissions 

The AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force and the ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee are pleased to announce this workshop.

Since mid-2019, the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) has investigated digital ethics and ePortfolios via a specially created task force. The work resulted in principles promoting ethical ePortfolio practices to educators, staff, students, and platform providers.

In this workshop, you will explore the Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principle ‘Respect Author Rights and Re-use Permissions’ to understand best practices for re-use and representation of other people’s work in their portfolios. Copyright, attribution of work, plagiarism, and confidentiality of private information are recurring important topics to address.

Your workshop facilitators Christine Slade and Kristina Hoeppner will guide you on strategies for applying this principle successfully in your portfolio work supporting learners and engaging you in a conversation around good practice and challenges that you have encountered.

We look forward to sharing work done by the Task Force with you and learning from you to expand the knowledge base that we as a portfolio community share on this topic.

Facilitators:

• Dr Christine Slade, University of Queensland
• Kristina Hoeppner, MA, Catalyst IT

You are invited to participate in this free event on 9 March 2023, 12pm – 1:30pm AEDT. By registering, you will receive access to the webinar details.

Other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:

• Latest ‘Create, Share, Engage’ podcast presenters and topics:

1. Misty Kirby: Supporting eProfessionalism through portfolios
2. Teresa MacKinnon: Professional portfolios, values and transferable skills
3. Sam Taylor: Stories from a 14-year portfolio evangelist
4. Christine Dulfer: Supporting industry internships
5. Mandia Mentis & Mendy Holley-Boen: Bringing the personal to the professional
6. Bas Bakker: Learning design and portfolios
7. Maia Miller: Web accessibility

Via Mahara Project

• Doctoral request:

Hi everyone… I am Muhammad Ali from Indonesia. I have just joined this community. I am writing my Doctoral Degree Dissertation proposal. I am interested in developing an evaluation model for e-portfolio-based learning. As part of the novelty of my research, I want to confirm whether there has been an evaluation model of e-portfolio-based learning or not. I will be very grateful if any of you tell or share any articles, documents, or information about this with me by email address: raden.ali@pbi.uad.ac.id. Thank you. Rgds, Ali.

Via Eportfolios Community of Practice Facebook Group

• Current issue of the International Journal of ePortfolios is now available online at
  http://www.theijep.com/current.cfm – Volume 12, Number 1 topics include:

1. A Reflection Upon Capstone ePortfolio Projects and Their Alignment With Learning Theories
2. A Report from the Field: How ePortfolios Can Improve Student Transition from Secondary to Post-Secondary Education in Alaska
3. Enhancing Emotional Intelligence Through ePortfolio Self-Initiated Strategies
4. School Administrators’ Perceptions of Electronic Portfolios and the Hiring of K-12 Teachers
5. “A Sort of Roadmap to Success…”: A Model for Piloting ePortfolios and Lessons Learned From a Rehabilitation Sciences Curriculum

Via Eddy Watson

Stay connected all year round – share any eportfolio news or ask questions via the
Eportfolio Community of Practice Facebook Group

Improving the searchability and usability of ePortfolios Australia community of practice resources

ePortfolios Australia has been a national community of practice (CoP) since 2010.  

In this time, the ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee has facilitated a lot of activities, which in turn has created A LOT of resources by our CoP members and invited guests. However, these resources are distributed and not easily found.  

In 2021, a sub-group of the ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee decided that they would work on finding a way to change that.  We call this project ‘Translating ePortfolios Australia’s CoP assets into a searchable and usable format’ or TEASUF.

The TEASUF group is pleased to advise that the first lot of resources to be released as part of this project is on the theme of ‘WIL and Employability’.  

As part of the process of ensuring that the ePortfolios Australia community’s assets are actually searchable and usable, the group is seeking feedback from the eportfolio community about the usability and design of the WIL and Employability resources in their current format, either by:

• commenting on this blog post
• contacting eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com
• completing a short feedback form

When providing feedback, please consider this question: 

• Is the information on this page presented in a way that makes it easy for you to determine if the resources will be useful to you?

Following this consultation, the TEASUF group will produce a final ‘template’ page which will be used to further curate as many of the other ePortfolios Australia assets into themes so that the eportfolio community can easily access and use them.

The group would also like to invite anyone interested in helping with this important work to contact eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com.  The group meets online about every 4-6 weeks for one hour, plus some ‘between meeting’ tasks to curate the assets. 

Current TEASUF group members are:

• Allison Miller, ePortfolios Australia & Digital Capability
• Leanne Ngo, La Trobe University
• Marie (Bernie) Fisher, Australian Catholic University
• Marlène Daicopoulos, Griffith University
• Shari Bowker, University of Queensland

While not currently a TEASUF group member, Christine Slade from the University of Queensland was a founding member of this group.

Last ‘Plan, act, reflect & eportfolio’ session for 2022 (+ other great eportfolio stuff)

The only person who controls your future is YOU … Start 2023 with clear goals by joining the last Plan, act, reflect & eportfolio session (PARE) for 2022 and spend some time planning and developing your OWN career / professional / other goals by working on your OWN eportfolio:

• Thursday 24 November – 2.00-3.30 pm (Aust EST)

Marie (Bernie) Fisher, Australian Catholic University will facilitate the November PARE session. 

This session is also good for anyone new to starting their own eportfolio as you will network and get support from more experienced eportfolio practitioners.

If you have colleagues or people in your network who would benefit from launching their eportfolio practice, then please share this information with them.

For more information and to register for 24 November PARE session go to: https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/

If you can facilitate a PARE session in 2023, please contact: eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com.

Save the date: 2023 Eportfolio Forum – Charles Darwin University: Darwin – 11-12 October

The ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee are pleased to announce that the 2023 Eportfolio Forum will be held on 11-12 October 2023 – Charles Darwin University – Darwin / Larrakia Land.

Save these dates into your diary, and stay tuned for more information in 2023.

Eportfolio Mapping Project in USA & Canada Higher Education – share your work

The Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning’s (AAEEBL) Digital Ethics Taskforce advocates for acknowledging and valuing ePortfolio labor. Putting this principle into practice requires capturing what is often ephemeral or undervalued. As such, the Digital Ethics Task Force aims to better understand and map the field of ePortfolio work within higher education in the US and Canada.

You are invited to participate if you conduct work on ePortfolios in some aspect of your role with the USA or Canada. This survey is anonymous and will take about 20 minutes to complete: https://odu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42weZP2bwkltHx4

Similar projects will be conducted internationally to generate a comprehensive view of the field.

Via @AAEEBLconnect

Job opportunity: Using eportfolios to drive student learning and skill development

Are you an education researcher passionate about the potential for using ePortfolios to drive student learning and skill development?
 
The School of Biosciences at the University of Melbourne is looking for an educational researcher/designer interested in adopting and evaluating the use of ePortfolios to support student development of evidence-based data analysis, reasoning and critical thinking skills. The project will also involve supporting discipline experts to map their curriculum and design a suite of assessments that scaffold student skill development across biology-based undergraduate courses.
 
The position is a full-time Research Fellow grade 1 for 12 months.
 
Apply for the role here: https://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/910716/education-research-fellow-in-assessment-reform

For more information please send a brief summary that expresses your interest in this role and your relevant qualifications and experience to:

• Dr Hayley Bugeja, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne (h.bugeja@unimelb.edu.au), or
• Dr Elisa Bone, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne (elisa.bone@unimelb.edu.au).

Exemplary student eportfolios at Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE)

Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE) students have been creating excellent ePortfolio work in PebblePad for the past two years. So, in 2022, MGSE and Learning Environments ran a contest to show off their work as a demonstration of how potent eportfolio-based learning can be.

The prompt was “Personal change and political change”.

We were seeking portfolios that demonstrated reflective practice, particularly with regard to Indigenous knowledge and truth-telling, as they have been central themes in the students’ coursework. We asked students to create portfolios that showed how they have changed as educators, particularly regarding Indigenous knowledge, and how they plan to become change-makers.

These students’ entries surpassed our expectations: https://le.unimelb.edu.au/showcase/exemplary-student-eportfolios

via Kate Mitchell

Workshop: The Power of Portfolios: Evidence-based Assessment Design for Lifelong and Life-wide Learning

As part of the OpenLearning Forums 2022, you are invited to the upcoming free workshop with Beverley Miles, Senior Learning Designer, OpenLearning from 12:45 pm -2:00 pm (AEDT) on Friday, 2 December 2022.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kduurqzMvE9SDi_ny5IndFjYGqkmlQPaC

Should you have any further questions, please reach out to us: conference@openlearning.com

via Michelle Charlton

Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:

• SEAMEO-AUS EduLink Webinar Series: Webinar 4 ePortfolios for professional development
• A Critical Evaluation of The Integration of a Universal Design for Learning Approach into a Module Using An ePortfolio: A Student Perspective – via Ian Whitehouse
• ePortfolios: An asset for career development – via @PebblePad 

Stay connected all year round – share any eportfolio news or ask questions via the
Eportfolio Community of Practice Facebook Group