Overview OMDE 601
E-Portfolio Enhances, Assesses, and Showcases Student Learning!
Electronic (E)-Portfolio Summary
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 601 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, 2015).
Categories of E-Portfolio Tools (CETs)
Various CETs are used to conduct the research for this E-Portfolio Project. Therefore, this project incorporated individual and institutional authorizing tools that supports static (web 1.0) and interactive (web 2.0) web services (Barrett, 2011). Based on this information I choose the structure and organization platform which demonstrates that E-Portfolio enhances, assesses, and showcases student learning.
Structure and Organization (Best Practices)
According to Lorenzo and Ittelson (2005), "the concept E-Portfolio has emerged through the technological development from the (learning) portfolio concept that was commenced since the late 1920s." Lorenzo and Ittelson (2005), also stated that, "with the rapid advancement of technology in the education arena the E- Portfolio can be used for teaching, learning, and course portfolios for general education learning."
However, based on the best practices’ approach in the realm of education it is critical to highlight that my “E-portfolio will be a valuable learning and assessment tool because it will be considered as a digital archive for student learning, with learning artifacts that enhance learning through student reflections, peer and teacher feedback which would be organized around learning outcomes (University of Alaska Anchorage, 2011). As a result, this E-portfolio consist of a collection of artifacts, resources, and accomplishments that represent individual, group, and institution information that comprised of text-based, graphic, and multimedia elements archived on Web site and other electronic media. Based on this scenario I have considered Yola to create my E-Portfolio with http://www.yola.com/ for structuring and organizing my 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. I have also considered to choose Yola to create my E-Portfolio platform, because I have created and published several E-portfolios with http://www.yola.com/ .
It is therefore important to emphasize that Yola is fast, flexible, and has powerful user friendly tools that make a website professional and appealing. You can have access to upload 1GB of total storage per site, and be able to get five free web sites. These additional benefits include a limit of 15 MB files to upload, with several templates to choose from. You will also be able to incorporate widgets for Flickr, Youtube, google, face, tweeter, among other widgets. There are no advertisements on your site, but for interactive web service you can add a blog (Tal.ki Forum) page that allows dialogue and feedback in the portfolio, either through comments or collaborative editing. My E-portfolio URL was submitted on October 5, 2015 in my UMUC OMDE 601 Workbook/ Assignment Folder. In addition I explored for examples from other websites that allow me to become more innovative and interactive towards using E-Portfolio to enhance, assess, and showcase student learning at http://www.yola.com/ .
References
Barrett, H. C. (2011). Categories of eportfolio tools. Retrieved from http://electronicportfolios.org/categories.html
Edutech Wiki. (2007). Electronic Portfolio. Retrieved from http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Electronic_portfolio
Lorenzo, G., & Ittelson, J. (2005). An overview of e-portfolios, Educause learning initiative. Retrieved from
http://www.educause.edu/ELI/AnOverviewofEPortfolios/156761
Salt Lake Community College. (2011). Electronic Portfolios at SLCC. Retrieved from
http://www.slcc.edu/gened/eportfolio/docs/EPortfolioManual.pdf
University of Alaska Anchorage. (2011). E-portfolio resources. Retrieved
from http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/amss/ep.cfm
University of Maryland University College. (2012). Electronic (E)-Portfolio. Retrieved from Foundations of Distance
Education & E-Learning (OMDE 601 9041) Learning Experience Online (LEO) classroom.
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