Interactive Colloquia

Description: Virginia Tech's ePortfolio system is a web-based, interactive tool designed to help students create, organize, reflect on, and share evidence of their educational accomplishments, both in courses and extracurricular activities. ePortfolio is also seen as a tool to assist programs and departments with self-studies, assessment, and accreditation. This short course will explore these and other applications of ePortfolio. The pros and cons of traditional applications of portfolios will be outlined, as will a generalized model of the portfolio process. The changes enabled by ePortfolio will be highlighted and ePortfolio's evolution at Virginia Tech will be discussed. The ePortfolio is quite flexible; however, faculty wishing to use it must make a number of decisions as they design how they would like the system to work. An overview of this designing process will be provided along with documentation and other resources that will aid faculty as they move toward an adoption of ePortfolio. An in-depth, hands-on exploration of the latest version of this software will follow the conceptual discussion.

Special Note: co-sponsored by FYE, FDI, VT ePortfolio Initiative, and the Office of Academic Assessment