Planning ePortfolios on Your Campus Processes, Pitfalls,

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Planning ePortfolios on Your CampusProcesses
, Pitfalls, Benefits

• Una Daly, e-Portfolio Pilot Coordinator
• Phyllis Spragge, Director Dental Hygiene Program
• Dr. Judy Baker, Dean Foothill Global Access

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Student ePortfolio Defined (NW Evaluation
Association Educators, 1990)

• A purposeful collection of
• student work that documents
• a students efforts, progress,
• or achievement of an intended outcome.
• Students participation in the selection of
  content and criteria of merit is essential to
  their ownership and reflection on their learning.
  

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Student ePortfolio Purposes

• Developmental portfolios to
• make connections and clarify
• academic focus.
• Assessment portfolios to demonstrate mastery of
  competencies and knowledge.
• Presentation/Career portfolios to demonstrate
  skills, evidence of prior work, and enhance
  resume.

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ePortfolio Culture
Select, Reflect, Share, Evaluate,

• Student
• Faculty
• Institution

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The Pilot Process

• Funding
• Goals Activities
• Tool Selection
• Training Support
• Student Feedback
• Evaluation

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Funding for Pilot

• College Innovation Grant
• FIPSE
• Workforce Education
• Accreditation
• Student Recruitment

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Faculty Goals

• Assessment of Learning
• Reflection Revision
• Career Development
• Program Improvement
• Digital Literacy
• Student Showcase
• Feedback from Peers Mentors

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Identifying Activities

• Student evidence of mastery
• Program Evaluation
• Authentic assessors of student work
• Student integrates experiential learning
• Share good practices among faculty

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Tool Features

• Ease of Use
• Student control
• Adequate storage
• Privacy/Security
• Track usage
• Export capability
• Customize Look Feel

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Campus Deployment

• Licensing cost
• Training Resources
• Help Desk Support
• Hosting/Network infrastructure
• Interoperability with other Academic Technology

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Student Perceived Benefits

• Why are we doing it?
• Control over visuals organization
• Value motivation of feedback
• Learning from other students work
• Utilize for future job or educational pursuits

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Foothill-DeAnza Internship Program

• Year-long internship program
• Work 20 hours per week onsite
• Guided Job Search
• Quarterly projects

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Quarterly Projects

• Dream Job
• Informational Interviewing
• Resume Cover Letters
• Job Search

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Feature Requirements

• Easy to post and comment
• Instructor Feedback
• Peer Feedback
• Reflection on Job Search Process

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EduBlogs Tool

• Social networking features
• - Blogs and commenting built-in
• - Forum for topic discussions
• Customizable with gt 100 themes
• Branded domain portfolios.foothill.edu

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Student Feedback

• Easy to Use
• Helps to organize job search
• Peer feedback is useful interesting for sharing
  job search information.
• Want more Interns to participate

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Foothill DeAnza InternshipVideo
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Foothill College Dental Hygiene Portfolios

• Competency Based Education

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Feature Requirements

• Feedback from instructors
• Demonstration of Competencies for graduation.
• Employment tool
• Easy to use

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Minnesota State eFolio

• Scalable, gt100,000 accounts since 2002
• Used extensively for state licensing programs
• SFSU Masters Public Health 2004-09
• Curricular templating of sites
• Student Controlled access

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Competency-Based Dental Hygiene Education

• Mandated by Commission on Dental Accreditation
• Our response
• Wrote program competencies
• Integrated competencies with curriculum
• Decided to implement portfolios as part of the
  evaluation of student competency capstone
  project

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Dental Hygiene Competency Domains Evaluating
Outcomes

• Academic
• Tests, exams, projects, research, portfolios
• National Board Exams
• Clinic
• Clinic evaluations, mock board exams, test cases,
  patient competencies, portfolios
• Professional evaluations
• State Board Exams

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Portfolio Process

• ADEA meeting 2000
• Faculty retreat 2000
• Drafted program competencies 2000
• Began paper-based portfolio 2001
• First graduating class, 2002
• E-portfolio pilot 2008

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e-Portfolio guidelines

• Section for the four program competencies
• Dental Hygiene Process of Care
• Health education strategies
• Infection hazard control
• Ethical legal Principles

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Portfolio guidelines

• Each competency section includes a reflection and
  introduction to the projects in that area to
  orient the reader/evaluator

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Portfolio requirements

• One project reflection each quarter
• Specified in course outline
• All work submitted must be their own
• Group projects are acceptable, must describe
  their contribution
• References must be complete, show evidence based
  decision making span the curriculum NLM
  citation

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Evaluation of portfolios

• Quarterly
• Reviewed by lead instructor for 1st or 2nd year
• At the end of the two years
• Reviewed by two to three faculty
• Rubrics quarterly final
• Patient competencies
• Clinic competencies evaluated
• Research paper reviewed by two faculty

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Faculty buy-in

• Faculty meetings calibration
• Is this important? If so, what are our goals?
• Discussion of evaluation, rubrics
• Follow up discussion what we want to see in the
  future (add, delete, clarify)
• Training for e-portfolios

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Examples of portfolio submissions

• Research papers, case studies,presentations,
  abstracts, videos, interviews, special projects
• Patient competencies
• Periodontal case studies, child, adolescent,
  geriatric medically complex, periodontal
  patients
• Health education
• Nutritional counseling, smoking cessation,
  product comparisons
• Ethical legal scenarios problem solving
• Resume Philosophy of Practice Statement

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What we have learned

• Considerations
• Establish clear guidelines for students
• Faculty must buy in to the idea
• Projects or assignments that are appropriate
• Discuss evaluation criteria with other faculty
• Teaching the student what is professional vs.
  social
• What technology skills students faculty have

• Pros
• Students have used the portfolio at job
  interviews with very positive results
• Articulation agreement for bachelors degrees,
  advance placement
• Students like to see the progress they have had
  made in one document
• Additional measure of the DH program
  effectiveness in learning

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Student thoughts on portfolios

• For me, reflections portfolios are a few of
  the best tools I ever had for achieving focus
  strength. They are useful
• As a portrait of a professional
• As a historical document
• As a form of release
• As a tool for analysis
• As a student profile

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Student e-PortfolioFeedback

• Biggest advantage is Ease of Sharing Work.
• Biggest disadvantage is Extra time to
  Complete Work.
• Hard to customize look feel.
• Want more feedback.

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Foothill Dental HygieneVideo
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Program Evaluationadapted from TLT guidelines,
2007

• Measure Key Activities
• Discover and fix primary frustrators
• Look at other institutions implementation
• Increase incentive to join

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Table Topics

• Planning on your campus
• What activities might be enhanced by use of
  e-Portfolios?
• Table Groups
• Share results at end

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Q AThank you for joining us!