Designing and implementing the e-portfolio

• ILP Plans
• The e-portfolio
• Other integrations
• Contingent faculty
• Imbalance of SINQs
• Imbalance of cluster courses

Structuring and implementing the e-portfolio

THE INFRASTRUCTURE

• At the beginning of the integrative learning project, first year students were already creating website-based e-portfolios.

• There was no system allowing students to continue their e-portfolios past that first, yearlong course.

* We would need an accessible system that can work over time and allow for the integration of transfer students.

• The system we chose to carry out the expansion pilot is the Open Source Portfolio (OSP). The university is currently also piloting Sakai, an open source course management platform, that is the base for OSP.

• PSU will be introducing a common portal for students that is also an open source platform, uPortal. It makes sense to us that all of the platforms the university employs be connected and able to use and transfer information among the kinds of data and material each houses.

THE IMPLEMENTATION

• Here is a view of the portfolio system (pdf).

• Spring 2005: OSP pilot in 8 courses—our evaluation of portfolio as integration-enhancement framework was hampered by technical difficulties with pre-release OSP software

• Summer 2005: OSP pilot with 2 courses—evaluation data for 25 portfolios (16 positive experiences; 9 negative)

• Fall 2005: OSP pilot was not completed due to lack of IT support

• Winter 2005: a decision is made to delay further pilot studies until Fall 2006, when OSP software will integrate with course management software (July 15, 2006)