ePortfolio+Framework

=**ePortfolio Framework **=

= ePortfolio Implementation Framework: =

//** Critical Issues for ePortfolios and Student Success **//

 * == The Framework: Steps and Guiding Questions == ||
 * ===//**"The focus of the learning ePortfolio is to document the development of an intellectual identity, not a social identity"**//=== ||
 * **Defining Learning Outcomes:** Learning Outcomes Wall Wisher
 * What are the learning outcomes for your ePortfolio initiative?
 * What types of learning do you want captured and documented ||
 * **Understanding Learners and Identifying Stakeholders:** Learner, Stakeholder and Benefits Wall Wisher
 * Who are your stakeholders, especially your learners (the people who will be creating and using the ePortfolio)?
 * How can they benefit from ePortfolios (i.e. what are their needs)?
 * What can they contribute to and how can they support an ePortfolio effort? ||
 * **Designing Learning Activities:** Learning Activities Wall Wisher
 * Given your outcomes, what activities can you design to best guide the ways that learners use the ePortfolio to document their learning?
 * How will their learning be captured and documented in the ePortfolio?
 * How can the artifacts and evidence that are captured be organized, connected, and shared in meaningful and integrated ways? ||
 * **Using Rubrics to Evaluate ePortfolios -- Anticipating External Uses of Evidence (Informing Assessment of Learning)**
 * How do the ePortfolios and their artifacts inform assessment of student learning?
 * What evidence results from how learners document their achievements and competencies?
 * How can rubrics be used to support ePortfolio assessment? ||
 * **Including Multiple Forms of Evidence -- Using ePortfolio Tools and Technologies**
 * Which ePortfolio tools and technologies will allow you to collect the types of evidence that will allow learners to document and demonstrate their learning?
 * What additional resources are needed in order for your ePortfolio initiative to succeed? ||
 * **Evaluating the Impact of your ePortfolio Initiative**
 * What kinds of evidence would validate the investment of time and resources to ePortfolios to all stakeholders?
 * How might the documentation of learning collected in ePortfolios be used by other stakeholders on your campus?
 * How will you evaluate whether or not your ePortfolio initiative was a success? ||