1. Scaling Up:
Documenting
ePortfolio Progress
Linda Anstendig
Samantha Egan
Beth Gordon Klingner
Thomas Hull
Jim Stenerson
Andrew Wier
AAEEBL Conference
August 1, 2013

2. Teaching Circles
Tenure &
Promotion
Digital
Commons
LinkedIn &
ePs
Assessment
Pilots
Reporting
KPIs
eTerns Department
Initiatives
Teaching Circles
Student
Development
Career Services
Research
Making Connections
Grant
MUG
Contest
Winners
Connect to
Learn Grant

3. Weaving
ePortfolios
in the Pace
Culture
Teaching
& Learning
Assessment
CareerStudent
Development
Tenure
& Promotion

4. Departmental Approach: Biology
• Tenure and promotion
• Biology pilot
– Independent Research
• Lab notebook
– Introductory Microbiology
• Semester projects on Bacterial Phyla
• Review paper, news articles, images, videos, peer
feedback
• Material from ePortfolios included in course
final exam

5. Microbiology Student ePortfolios

6. Quantitative Data: Reporting
• Custom usage reports for Mahara
• KPI development
– Generating KPI data

7. Mahara Custom Report Sample

8. KPI Sample

9. Qualitative Data: Student-Faculty Research
Project
• Conducted a series of
interviews with
students on their
perceptions of the
benefits ePortfolio

10. Qualitative Data: Spring Contest Entries

11. Tenure and Promotion
• ePortfolios Used for Developing
Electronic Dossiers
• Workshops
• Reviewers’ buy-in
• Positive Feedback
• Year 3 – Institutionalized

12. Scaling Up Projects: Assessment Project
• Goal – To study the relationship between
strong ePortfolio usage over time and grades
and overall student engagement as shown in
NSSE results.
• We will work with our programmers to define a
new group of “super users” to track
• We will identify their first log-in date and their
University ID so we can compare to other reports

13. “The ePortfolio showed me so much.
When I went back and read the
introduction to myself, I honestly felt so
proud of myself. I didn’t think that
whatever I was thinking to myself or
what was wandering in my brain would
be well written in the introduction. But I
was impressed, by what I wrote…This
ePortfolio showed a great part of me, I
even saw it when I attached the
resume, I didn’t realize all my
accomplishments I have done in high
school. This actually made me reflect
back on how well I have done these
past few years, and I hope that at Pace
I will reach for everything I am set to
achieve!”
-Kenya V., Pace Prep
student
Scaling Up Projects: Pace Prep 2013

14. • ePortfolio webpage:
www.pace.edu/eportfolio
• ePortfolio Blog:
http://eportfolio.blogs.pace.edu
• Mahara User Group Facebook Group:
Search “Mahara User Group” on FB
• Contact us: eportfolio@pace.edu
Links/ Resources