Using E-Portfolio to Enhance Assess and Showcase Student Learning

E-Portfolio Enhances, Assesses, and Showcases Student Learning!

          It is a requirement for all students of the University of Maryland University College (UMUC) Master's of Distance Education and E-Learning (MDE), Foundations of Distance Education & E-learning (OMDE 610 9040) course to create an E-Portfolio.The goal of this project is for students to enhance, assess, and showcase student learning outcomes during their MDE program. During the implementation of this project instructors collaborate with students towards assessing, and showcasing student learning from their significant assignments and reflection on those assignments. Students also have an opportunity to choose an E-Portfolio platform that is appropriate to design and use it for recording learning reflections, work samples (assignments), resources (articles, artifacts, links), and to document their goals and extra-curricular activities as well as to post their resumes. This is indeed an awesome way for students to share their general education learning experience with family, friends, and scholarship committees. In addition, faculty can also see the E-Portfolio before they write a letter of recommendation. This assignment began in Week 1 of the course and continues as students post learning reflections at specific points throughout the course (UMUC, 2016).