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July 3, 2025
Electronic Portfolios: Emerging Practices in Student, Faculty, and Institutional Learning
- Author
- Cambridge, Barbara L., ed.
- Publisher
- American Association for Higher Education, Washington, D.C.
- ISBN
- 9781563770500
- Table of Contents
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Foreword (Yolanda T. Moses)
Preface
ch. 1 Electronic Portfolios as Knowledge Builders (Barbara L. Cambridge)
ch. 2 Student Portfolios
Introduction: Digitized Student Portfolios (Kathleen Blake Yancey)
Reflective Webfolios in a Humanities Course (Donna Reiss)
Composing the Intranet-Based Electronic Portfolio Using ``Common'' Tools (Rich Rice)
Electronic Portfolios in a Management Major Curriculum (Katrina A. Zalatan)
A Major Redesign of the Kalamazoo Portfolio (Emily Springfield)
Using On-Line Portfolios to Assess English Majors at Utah State University (Christine Hult)
Development of Electronic Portfolios for Nursing Students (Peggy Jenkins)
Comparing Electronic and Paper Portfolios (Emily Springfield)
Conclusion: General Patterns and the Future (Kathleen Blake Yancey)
ch. 3 Faculty Portfolios
Introduction: Ambassadors With Portfolios: Electronic Portfolios and the Improvement of Teaching (Daniel P. Tompkins)
Teaching Great Books on the Web (Marc Stier)
Electronic Portfolios = Multimedia Development + Portfolio Development: The Electronic Portfolio Development Process (Helen Barrett)
From Bach to Tupac: Using an Electronic Course Portfolio to Analyze a Curricular Transformation (Elizabeth F. Barkley)
Wired for Trouble? Creating a Hypermedia Course Portfolio (T. Mills Kelly)
Conclusion: Ambassadors With Portfolios: Recommendations (Daniel P. Tompkins)
ch. 4 Institutional Portfolios
Linking Learning, Improvement, and Accountability: An Introduction to Electronic Institutional Portfolios (Susan Kahn)
Snake Pit in Cyberspace: The 1UPU1 Institutional Portfolio (Sharon J. Hamilton)
Portland State University's Electronic Institutional Portfolio: Strategy, Planning, and Assessment (Kathi A. Ketcheson)
The Role of Institutional Research and Data in Institutional Portfolios (Victor M.H. Borden)
Electronic Department Portfolios: A New Tool for Departmental Learning and Improvement (Dean S. Dorn)
The Role of Institutional Portfolios in the Revised WASC Accreditation Process (Judie Gaffin Wexler)
Conclusion: Recommendations (Susan Kahn)
Index
The portfolio is a powerful tool for learning and assessment. Introducing the electronic into the mix increases its power, especially through the key feature of interactive hyperlinks and the potential to promote continuous reflection on, and updating of, learning. This introduction examines the potential of electronic portfolios by addressing: rationales for creating an electronic portfolio; possible features of the portfolio; examples of current practice; cautions; and recommendations. Chapters by nineteen portfolio practitioners from a range of disciplines and institutions describe the construction and use of electronic portfolios. They describe the uses:
* By students to display and reflect on work for a specific course or program
* By faculty to document and reflect on their classroom practice and allow comment by colleagues or others
* By institutions to demonstrate accountability to their stakeholders and as a vehicle for institution-wide reflection, learning, and improvement. The section on institutional portfolios includes chapters on the incorporation of institutional research and data, and the potential role for such portfolios in accreditation. (From the Publisher)
* By students to display and reflect on work for a specific course or program
* By faculty to document and reflect on their classroom practice and allow comment by colleagues or others
* By institutions to demonstrate accountability to their stakeholders and as a vehicle for institution-wide reflection, learning, and improvement. The section on institutional portfolios includes chapters on the incorporation of institutional research and data, and the potential role for such portfolios in accreditation. (From the Publisher)