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Program Focus
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Honors (Gen Ed), Digital Arts, Education
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Participating Members
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Co-Directors:
Dr. Howard Wach, Director of Instructional Technology; Department of History
Dr. Jordi Getman-Eraso, Co-Director, Honors Program; Department of History
Faculty and Administrative Participants:
Dr. Stephen Powers, Department of Education and Reading
Prof. Jeanine Kelley-Williams, Department of Art and Music
Prof. Lisa Amowitz, Department of Art and Music
Dr. Nancy Ritze, Associate Dean, Office of Institutional Research
Dr. Giulia Guarnieri, Department of Modern Languages
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Project Description
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We are entering our third semester of e-portfolio practice with approximately 800 student users. Our focus remains largely in the areas indicated above, but we also have promising initiatives underway with the Office of Student Life, which should bring the benefits of e-portfolios to student clubs and the Student Government Association. We are also working with the General Education Committee to organize an assessment initiative, utilizing e-portfolios, that will make academic sense as well as satisfy accreditors. Our biggest challenges now are keeping up with the demand for support that a growing program generates, whether that means student tutors, IT procedures, or faculty assistance. We are also puzzling through possible strategies to keep students who have created portfolios, but who may not currently have instructors who use them, engaged with the program. It's all a moving target, and so we keep moving...
Our second faculty cohort is just beginning its first semester of work, and we are eager to bring representatives from Cohort 1 into the mix to "learn them their experience" (Y. Berra).
Program or administrative concerns are one thing. Student learning is another. We continue to see examples of great portfolios which show how aspiration, identity, and reflection can merge into academic work. We fully expect that among the 300-plus new portfolio users whose accounts we just activated, we will see more of the same.
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Platform
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Digication
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Student ePortfolio Link
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http://bcc-cuny.digication.com/portfolio/directory.digi
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Publications & Presentations
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Wach and Getman-Eraso, "A New Path to Online Learning: E-Portfolios at Bronx Community College," 15th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning, Orlando, Florida, October 30, 2009. See the resource area for a pdf file of this presentation.
Wach, Powers, and Kelley-Williams, "The Degree Program Model: Reflection and Assessment in Bronx Community College ePortfolios," 1st Annual AAEEBL Conference, Boston, Mass., July 21, 2010.
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