myMAPP

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myMAPP
Cultural Shift from Teaching to Learning through
e-Portfolios
Steve Bullock Professor, Political Science
Director, Center for ePortfolio Based Assessment
(CeBA) University of Nebraska at Omaha Matt
Morton Manager of Web Development and Enterprise
Architecture University of Nebraska at Omaha

• Mapping Academic Performance through ePortfolios

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Overview

• An Introduction to the Tool
• History
• Institutional Culture Shift
• Institutional Framework
• Components
• Architecture Plan
• Progress
• Questions

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Tool
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myMAPP
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History at UNO

• Extensive use of portfolios in the College of
  Education
• Movement to create a student e-portfolio system
  across the university
• Charge by the CAO to digitize faculty Annual
  Review process
• Decision to create a faculty portfolio system in
  advance of the student system

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Institutional Culture Shift

• Shift to AQIP track in HLCmore data driven
• Faculty and administrators more focused on
  student learning
• Increase in assessment initiatives
• -Assessment coordinator and mentors
• -Assessment grants
• -Programs with professional accreditation

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Institutional Framework

• Strong strategic planning process
• The merging of Academic and Student Affairsall
  institutional activities revolve around student
  learning
• Support of upper administration as well as some
  enthusiastic faculty members and departments
• Participation in the International Coalition for
  Electronic Portfolio Research (INCEPR) and the
  Center for ePortfolio Based Assessment (CeBA)
• Reorganization of ITS to support processes

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myMAPP/faculty

• Implemented for 2006-2007 Annual Review
• Departments created master category lists
• Account of years activities shared by faculty
  with chairs?who shared with deans?who shared with
  Vice Chancellor
• Assessment of myMAPP/Faculty undertaken with
  valuable feedback

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myMAPP/student

• Focused on direct measures of student achievement
• Tied directly to student learning outcomes
• Will allow for assessment of assignments by
  faculty to be captured
• Expected to be minimally invasive for faculty
• Pilot to be run in spring of 2008 in two course
  sections

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myMAPP/enterprise

• contains data from the dept and college
  portfolios
• way to integrate data that is live and in the
  data warehouse (historical)
• consists of data warehouse reporting primarily

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myMAPP/enterprise
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myMAPP/college Report
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myMAPP/dept Report
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Current Architecture

• Design Heuristics
• reusability
• modular structure
• private and secure
• ease of use

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System Architecture
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Application Architecture
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Semantic Architecture

• Rich taxonomy
• Allows for deep and easy classification
• Flexibility - can be adapted to other
  organizations
• Can be difficult to put in data - cognitive load
• working on this

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Ontology
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Interoperability

• Semantic web services
• Developed portfolio XML standard
• PML - Portfolio Markup Language
• Description
• Why another standard?
• Differences with other standards

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e-Portfolio Interoperability Model
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XML Standard

• http//mymapp.unomaha.edu/standards/portfolio.xsd.
  html
• Open Standard
• Partners?

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Progress
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Lessons Learned

• Know academic processes (or at least begin to
  discover)
• assessment, program review, etc.
• Getting more input from faculty - UI
  improvements, taxonomy
• Managing faculty resistance
• Piloting with students - more cautious process
  (cognitive overload)

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Questions?