Electronic Portfolios 2.0

Emergent Research on Implementation and Impact

Kathleen Blake Yancey editor Darren Cambridge editor Barbara Cambridge editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc

Published:16th Mar '09

Should be back in stock very soon

Electronic Portfolios 2.0 cover

Higher education institutions of all kinds—across the United States and around the world—have rapidly expanded the use of electronic portfolios in a broad range of applications including general education, the major, personal planning, freshman learning communities, advising, assessing, and career planning.Widespread use creates an urgent need to evaluate the implementation and impact of eportfolios. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, the contributors to this book—all of whom have been engaged with the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research—have undertaken research on how eportfolios influence learning and the learning environment for students, faculty members, and institutions.This book features emergent results of studies from 20 institutions that have examined effects on student reflection, integrative learning, establishing identity, organizational learning, and designs for learning supported by technology. It also describes how institutions have responded to multiple challenges in eportfolio development, from engaging faculty to going to scale. These studies exemplify how eportfolios can spark disciplinary identity, increase retention, address accountability, improve writing, and contribute to accreditation. The chapters demonstrate the applications of eportfolios at community colleges, small private colleges, comprehensive universities, research universities, and a state system.

"The book contains a wealth of data from schools that have been pioneers in the use of electronic portfolios. The authors identify emerging new critical questions, challenges, and opportunities for further development of this genre. A school seeking to integrate this pedagogiecal strategy will find this to be a helpful reference volume."

Jennifer R. Ayres, McCormick Theological Seminary

Teaching Theology and Religion

ISBN: 9781579223212

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 612g

218 pages