Whats It All About

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Whats It All About?
Instructional Technology Jeffrey B.
LarsonDecember, 2004
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What is an eFolio?

• Webfolio
• Electronic Portfolio
• ePortfolio
• eFolio
• An organized collection of work in digital form
  used for assessment, accreditation, reflection,
  student resumes, and career tracking.

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Why eFolios?

• Students
• Online resumes and career goals
• Captures employability artifacts
• Provides authentic assessment/evaluation for
  course work
• Self assessment of growth
• Faculty
• Captures artifacts for tenure/promotion
• Documents professional development growth
• Alternative assessment strategies for teaching
• Institutions
• Track faculty professional growth
• Campus-based project assessments
• Accreditation

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Types of eFolios

• Showcase eFolio
• Identifies specific examples of work
• Structured eFolio
• Predefined organization (assignment based,
  resume, etc)
• Learning eFolio
• Dynamic, work in progress, self and instructor
  reflections

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How does an eFolio Work?

• Efolio software system
• Hosted externally
• File space provided to each identified user
• Password protected
• Drag and drop or file uploads from computer
• Allows non-registered users to view by invitation

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Here are two examples

• The FSU Career Portfolio
• http//www.facts.org
• Free to any Florida resident
• Structured eFolio (primarily a career portfolio
  tool - resume, skills matrix, and limited storage
  of artifacts)
• LiveText
• http//college.livetext.com/college/
• Fee based
• Robust, multi-purpose eFolio tool
• Structured, Showcase, and Learning

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Questions?
Jeffrey B. Larson Instructional
Technology Broward Community College 954.201.6383
jlarson_at_broward.edu More resources on eFolios
found at http//www1.broward.edu/jlarson/efolios
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