MSU e-portfolio project

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MSU e-portfolio project status report

• Jim Green
• Academic Computing and Network Services
• September 9, 2005

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What it is

• e-portfolio system supported centrally by LCT
• still just a proposal pending analysis
• resources needed
• spec
• solutions available
• project status is imminent
• multi-year, multi-phase project
• possible related or spin-off projects

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Whos working on it

• ANGEL Advisory Group Byron Brown, chair
• Instructional Technology Operations Group
  Brendan Guenther, Jim Green, co-chairs
• Jim Green, ACNS leading outreach and planning
  efforts
• Mike Buchanon, ACNS technical lead

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Drivers

• availability of ANGEL e-portfolio module
• buzz in the higher ed community Educause/ELI,
  CIC, etc.
• groundbreaking e-portfolio work in College of
  Education, other colleges/departments

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Whats been done so far

• outreach
• ANGEL e-portfolio group
• discussion forums
• resources
• specification draft
• preliminary planning
• preliminary sandbox setup

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Whos in the ANGEL e-portfolio group

• faculty, administrators, support staff
• some departments that are represented
• Graduate School
• English
• Education
• Libraries
• Enrollment Services
• Asst. Provost for Undergraduate Education
• Division of Science and Math Ed.

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e-portfolio broadly defined

• primary types student, faculty, institutional
• other types staff, teaching, lifelong,
• related applications
• CMS (ANGEL, LON-CAPA)
• institutional repository (dSpace, Fedora)
• web publishing (AFS)
• personal storage (AFS)
• online transcript
• online CV/resume
• deanware

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Example e-portfolio functions

• personal repository
• artifacts file metadata
• user-defined access control
• ability to grant access to non-affiliates
• co-curricular not linked to individual courses
• assessment rubric support
• certified artifact locked from editing
• system-wide searching/indexing
• reflective tools, e.g. blogs
• integration with CMS, other enterprise systems

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Example e-portfolio policy issues

• storage how much space, quotas, etc.
• e-portfolio lifecycle
• FERPA
• intellectual property who owns e-portfolio
  elements?
• assessment -- validity
• institutional and departmental requirements
  voluntary vs. compulsory
• how official are e-portfolios and related data?

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The short list

• ANGEL e-portfolio module
• OSPI Open Source Portfolio Initiative
• LON-CAPA
• ANGEL will be considered first

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ANGEL e-port in a nutshell

• My Info -- personal data
• Artifacts files or links metadata
• certified artifacts
• History resume-like
• Blog
• Objectives assessment, req. or stds.
• Publications for sharing

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Timeline

• sandbox pre-alpha-test research Fall, 2005
• limited pilot -- alpha test Spring, 2006
• production burn-in beta test Summer, 2006
• phase 1 production release Fall, 2006

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Sandbox definition

• pre-alpha test research
• ANGEL will be first
• out-of-the box software
• get a rough idea of software capabilities
• not a production system, may change, go down,
  etc.
• no support structure
• materials will be destroyed at some point

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Limited Pilot definition

• alpha test
• small number of testers
• simulate production use but not production load
• support structure appropriate to test size
• changes limited to maintenance window
• still a test system

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Volunteer

• Sandbox volunteers being recruited
• Agree to give us feedback
• Understand issues (no support structure,
  non-production system) and agree to participate
  in spite of them
• ANGEL e-portfolio group volunteers also being
  accepted
• email request to jfgreen_at_msu.edu

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General Resources

• Educause Learning Initiative (formerly NLII),
  http//www.educause.edu/eli, see E-Portfolios
  under Learning Technologies.
• IMS ePortfolio Specification, http//imsglobal.org
  /ep/

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Further information

• Jim Green, Coordinator, Academic Systems
• Academic Computing and Network Svcs.
• jfgreen_at_msu.edu
• 432-7239