Faculty Development Course

This page is the home base for the fall 2022 E-Portfolio Faculty Development Course.

Course Outline

Our E-portfolio explorations will be four weeks long and live in this wordpress site. Your facilitator is Karen McMurray who is a faculty member in the business administration program and current student in the Masters of Learning and Technology at Royal Roads University.

As a registered participant in this learning journey you will be one of the co-authors of this site and given editor access. It is also the space where your course resources will reside and where you will complete some of your assessments. We will also utilize Mattermost, an open source chat application as an informal back channel for our learning, your invitation to Mattermost was sent to you upon registration. Please make sure you introduce yourself in the channel. It’s open and regularly monitored in case questions arise that need answering in real time.
Mattermost will be monitored for up to one month following the completion of our course.

Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes for this course are for students to:

Navigate wordpress and the openetc resources.
Identify the ways E-Portfolios can align with experiential place based learning and programming.
Recognize the types of e-portfolios and their purpose in learning environments.
Identify next steps for considering e-portfolios in program areas.
Imagine how e-portfolios can be woven into programming at CMTN.

Course Schedule

Topic	Dates
Week 1 Navigating WordPress & OpenETC Resources	Oct 3-9
Week 2 E-Portfolios & EPBL	Oct 10 – 16
Week 3 Using E-Portfolios for learning reflection	Oct 17 – 23
Week 4 Programming at CMTN & E-portfolios	Oct 24 – 30

Each Wednesday throughout October there will be live lunch hour sessions to attend. You can attend in person or via bluejeans. The calendar invitations with details have been sent to your email with your registration confirmation.

Assignments

This course has weekly activities including readings, discussions and live sessions to contribute to as part of the learning community. Additionally, there are two assignments that will contribute to your completion mark in this course.

Assignment 1 – Contribute to the E-portfolio site

This assignment is done in two parts.
For part one you will consider how the site we are using (this site) could be built to be a resource for faculty and students in their E-Portfolio course work. You will post your proposed resource in the Learning Community Reflections page. Some ideas for this assignment are to create a how to for navigating an aspect of the wordpress technology, how to use E-portfolios for different purposes, creating E-portfolio assessments or creating a guide for meaningful reflective practice. You will post your proposed resource by October 18th-ish.

For part two you will, in pairs or individually create the resource you proposed. Due October 25th-ish.

Your resource will be shared in this site as an ongoing resource for the CMTN community.

Assignment 2 – Envision E-portfolios in your program

This assignment is also done in two parts. Part one is the chinwag. You will set up a coffee date with a colleague you have identified who may help you understand the contact of E-portfolios within a program area at CMTN. You will have a conversation about the potential of E-portfolios to align with program outcomes and through the conversation start to understand how to navigate the incorporation into programming. The chinwag is meant to give you insight into the big picture of changes in programming (either your own or another program area) at CMTN. You can have this with a colleague in this course, your coordinator, a coordinator of another program you are curious about our a member of the management team.

Part two is where you will contribute a one to two page submission that outlines a vision for E-portfolios at CMTN. Your vision can be grandiose or program specific.

It should include the following:

A proposal for E-portfolio adoption in an area of CMTN and what you see as the path forward for E-portfolios at CMTN and justification for the path forward.

What barriers you see on the path and suggestions about how to demolish, go around or persuade the barriers to move to adopt E-portfolios.

What you think the results of E-portfolio integration can be for faculty and students in the way you have proposed.

You will submit your final paper via email to your instructor with one of the following statements in the body of the email.

“I give permission for my instructor to share my final project with the Centre of Learning Transformation”.