2023 Eportfolio Forum Call for Proposals

2023 Eportfolio Forum

(Dual delivery)

Emerging, Connecting, Sustaining

11-12 October 2023

Charles Darwin University – Darwin / Larrakia Land and Online

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The call for proposals for the 2023 Eportfolio Forum on 11-12 October 2023 at Charles Darwin University – Darwin / Larrakia Land and online are now closed.

For more information or to enquiry about presenting, please contact eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com or 0400 732 270

Guidelines for presenting / facilitating in a dual delivery / blended environment

Submissions were being accepted for:

  • 20×20 presentation – 6-7 mins presentation consisting of 20 timed slides which run for 20 secs each + 7-8 mins Q&A (12 October)
  • Digitally Interactive Poster – 6-7 mins electronic poster presentation which is showcased via a computer during a break-out session, and allows participants to interact with the information via a computer or mobile device for 7-8 mins (12 October) – Suggested applications to create your digitally interactive poster includes: H5P, Advanced PowerPoint or Google Slides, Infographic, Thinglink, Glogster, Canva, Piktochart – click here to review Larissa D’Angelo’s From Posters to e-Posters: The Evolution of a Genre
  • Intensive workshop – 60 mins hands-on session where participants are actively involved (11 October) – You must be an experienced online facilitator or have a co-facilitator with online facilitation experience.  You will also be asked to provide indicative activities you will undertake which are suitable for online attendees.
  • In-depth workshop – 90 mins hands-on session where participants are actively involved (12 October) – You must be an experienced online facilitator or have a co-facilitator with online facilitation experience.  You will also be asked to provide indicative activities you will undertake which are suitable for online attendees.
  • Facilitate a professional conversation – lead a 50 min group discussion around a topic (12 October) – no presentation slides permitted – must be suitable for online attendees
  • Shortened (peer reviewed paper) presentation – 15 min presentation + 5 min Q&A based on a 900-1200 word (+ abstract) published peer reviewed paper (11 October) – click here to download the Shortened (peer reviewed) presentation paper – Style Guide

Not sure about presenting / facilitating in a dual delivery environment? Consider:

  • Putting out a call to collaborate with others via the Eportfolios Community of Practice Facebook Group
  • ePortfolios Australia will provide:
    • online workshop / facilitation tips/tricks
    • planning templates 
    • training leading up to the Forum
    • an online moderator to assist with each session
  • Contacting Allison Miller to discuss your online submission idea – eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com or 0400 732 270

Call for proposal timeline:

  • 20 March 2023 – Open call for proposals
  • 22 May 2023 – Close call for proposals
  • Week beginning 5 June 2023 – Notify outcome of call for proposal submissions (including notification of invitation to submit a peer reviewed paper)
  • 31 July 2023 – Submission of peer reviewed papers using file naming convention: surname_paper_title
  • 28 August 2023 – Notify of acceptance of peer reviewed pending any required revisions
  • 18 September 2023 – Submission of updated peer reviewed papers
  • 3 October 2023 – Submission of presentation slides and handouts using file naming convention: surname_session_title
  • 11-12 October 2023 – 2023 Eportfolio Forum

Not sure about presenting / facilitating in a dual delivery environment or new to presenting?

Review previous Eportfolio Forum presentations

Proposal themes and sub-theme:

Proposals should fit into one or more of the following conference sub-themes. Those proposals not fitting into these themes should provide an explanation of how the proposal supports the overall event theme of “Emerging, Connecting, Sustaining”.

You will be asked to explain how your proposal meets the conference theme and selected sub-theme(s), and the learning outcomes for participants of your proposal as part of the submission process.

CONFERENCE SUB-THEMES:

Emerging eportfolio practice:

  • Using eportfolio pedagogies and practice in different contexts (vocational, teachers, learning designers, academics for use with students but also their own professional/career portfolio)  
  • Understanding: Why should I use an ePortfolio?  What have I tried to do so far?  What works?  How to start?
  • Non-traditional, non-linear portfolio practice

Connecting eportfolio practice:

  • Connecting with others to build networks and relationships
  • Embedding equality, diversity, and inclusion
  • Indigenising portfolio practice through First Nation’s people pedagogies
  • Agency through identity, identify formation
  • Pathways and transitions
  • Pedagogies of care, humanising, personalisiing

Sustaining eportfolio practice:

  • Sustaining practice through institutional buy-in, programmatic approach, digital ethics and literacy, collaborating, and when champions move on
  • Using different eportfolio platforms or tools within one institution
  • Authentic assessment and meta-cognition

Innovating and eportfolio practice:

  • Considering artificial Intelligence (AI) and assessment
  • Portfolio practice contributing to AI literacy
  • Building digital literacy
  • Managing eportfolio practice beyond the one institution
  • Futures oriented, futures science, futures practice 

Employability, careers and eportfolios:

  • Offering alternative educational programs – Micro-credentials / Short courses / Stackable Learning PD
  • Career portfolios as continuous, iterative, lifelong projects
  • Professional identification and recognition

Event hashtag: #eportforum

Major sponsors:

Charles Darwin University – Darwin campus

digitalcapability.com.au

drieam.com/en/solutions/portflow/

Also proudly brought to you by the in-kind support from: ePortfolios Australia, Australian Catholic University, Charles Sturt University, Digital Capability, Edith Cowan University, Griffith University, James Cook University, La Trobe University, Melbourne Graduate School of Education – University of Melbourne, Monash University, RMIT, St Mary’s College of Meycauayan, UNSW Sydney, University of Queensland 

Associate Eportfolio Organisation Support: Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) Eportfolio Ireland, and Europortfolio

For more information:

eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com or (+61) 0400 732 270 or subscribe to receive regular updates