BCC Sloan 2009

Howard Wach
Office of Instructional Technology

Jordi Getman-Eraso
Honors Program
15th Annual Sloan-C International
Conference on Online Learning
October 30, 2009
 For students, an online context for:
• Learning:
 Interdisciplinarity, “making connections” across
curricula
 Self-reflection, meta-cognition
• Ownership:
 Expressions of identity, aspiration, and achievement
 Understanding one’s online “audience”
• Community 2.0:
 Comments, tagging, categories
 Overcoming the commuter campus divide: Student
clubs, project work, online
 For faculty, an online context for:
• Interdisciplinarity, “making connections”
through faculty development activities
• Examination of instructional objectives and
goals through course design
• Technology-based innovations: podcasts,
embedded media, networked communication
 …ePortfolios
can provide the architecture
of assessment:
• An online archive of student work to be
evaluated across time
• An organizational setting for standards, rubrics,
articulated objectives for
 Externally accredited programs
 Internally measured programs
 Institution-wide curricula (General Education)
 Participation
in the LaGuardia ePortfolio
Seminar, 2007-2008
 Determining a curricular strategy:
• Honors Program (cross-disciplinary, Gen Ed)
• Education Department(assessment)
• Digital Arts (portfolio-based, strong technology skills)
 Selecting a Platform. Our Criteria:

• Ease of use
• Education focus
• Per student cost
• Support costs
• Our choice: Digication
 Selecting Faculty. Our criteria:
• Technology friendly
• Course integration
• 1 year commitment
• Release time
 Support Structure. Our criteria:

• Cost effectiveness
• Software compatibility
• Space efficiency – ePortfolio labs
• ePortfolio tutors
 IT integration. Our needs:
• Programming:
 Login procedure
 Student database
 BCC Website landing page
• IT help desk coordination
 Funding. Our reality:

• Slow track: Student technology fee
• Fast track: Title V grant
 Faculty Development
• Introductory meeting – late Fall 2008
 ePortfolio account activation
 Course development guidelines
• January 2009 coordination meeting
 Hands on software training
 Learning objectives and ePortfolio integration
 Assessment objectives – General Education, program
specific accreditation
 Course Scheduling Coordination

• Office of the Registrar
• Honors courses and the cancellation challenge
 Activating Student Accounts
• IT – Roster transfer activation
• ePortfolio Administrator control
• Tweaking technological/registration shortfalls
• Challenge of late registration
 Going live! February 1, 2009

 Student Training
• 1 hour introductory sessions
 Scheduling with faculty
 Lab scheduling coordinated with IT
 Sessions led by Howard and/or Jordi
• ePortfolio tutors available for in class sessions
 Course/technology specific training
 ePortfolio Lab
• Finding a space!
• Maximize tutor availability/minimize frustration
 Student Variations:
• The Transferrring Student (Clara Fernandez)
• The Job-seeking Student (Audrey Rodriguez)
• The Self-Reflective Student (Jerry Naeem)
 Faculty Variations:
• Course management (Graphic Design)
• Portfolio assignments (History Outside the
Textbook), and resources (E-Herodotus)
• Scholarship/Professional Identity
• Assessment
 ePortfolio Student Showcase
• Faculty, student and administration participation
• Best ePortfolio competition/prizes
 Student Focus Groups

• Themes: competition, aspiration, academic focus (the
Honors effect?)
• Lesson Learned – Remain student focused
 Survey said (n=51)…

• Platform use: 78% “very easy” or “fairly easy”
• Personal value themes: self-awareness, “audience”.
• Academic use: 51% said e-p was “often integrated”;
43% said it “helped me learn”.
 Expand Pilot Program
• Honors Program – Incorporate all program
faculty
• Education Department – NCATE Standards
• Art Department – Assessment
• New – ASAP Program, General Education
• Fast v. Slow expansion – benefits and drawbacks
 Expand Support Structure

• ePortfolio tutors – expanded schedule
• Online support – website, online tools
• Close collaboration with Digication
 Theimportance of integration: relationship
between the syllabus and the e-portfolio
 Sustaining continuity for students and

faculty
 Assessment puzzles: necessity vs. simplicity
 The 2.0 challenge
 Andfinally, keep the student at the center:

remember the power of aspiration

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Howard Wach

Office of Instructional Technology

 Selecting a Platform. Our Criteria:

 Support Structure. Our criteria:

 Funding. Our reality:

 Course Scheduling Coordination

 Going live! February 1, 2009

 Student Focus Groups

 Survey said (n=51)…

 Expand Support Structure

 Sustaining continuity for students and

 Assessment puzzles: necessity vs. simplicity

 The 2.0 challenge

 Andfinally, keep the student at the center:

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