Tuesday, October 29, 2019

ePortfolio Tip Sheet for Students

I love using the e-portfolio as a final project in my courses, regardless of what I teach. Each module is intended to build a piece of that final deliverable that mimics authentically the challenges a student might face in their professional roles after graduation.

As students submit module assignments and incorporate feedback over the semester, they aggregate their feedback-applied final products into a linear or montage collection of samples of real work. Because I stress its value to them in applying for scholarships, programs, degrees, and jobs, they put a bit more time and energy into getting it right. And because I provide the rubric at the beginning of the semester by which the final product will be graded—and timely incremental feedback through the building stages—the final product is almost invariably A-quality.

Cartoon illustration of two women building content on large screen

5 Design Principles for Building Your First Portfolio is a tip sheet for e-portfolio construction that might help you help your students. We will be adding it to the broader Student Learning Guide to Multimedia Production that is available to any instructor to insert into their course who wants to provide it as instruction and support with assignments that involve multimedia production. We welcome comments (and questions via comments) on the document itself or by emailing OnlineLearning@uah.edu!

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