MSU e-portfolio project – status report Jim Green Academic Computing and Network Services September 9, 2005
What it is: e-portfolio system supported centrally by LC&T still just a proposal pending analysis resources needed spec solutions available project status is imminent multi-year, multi-phase project possible related or spin-off projects
Who’s working on it ANGEL Advisory Group – Byron Brown, chair Instructional Technology Operations Group – Brendan Guenther, Jim Green, co-chairs Jim Green, ACNS – leading outreach and planning efforts Mike Buchanon, ACNS – technical lead
Drivers: availability of ANGEL e-portfolio module buzz in the higher ed community – Educause/ELI, CIC, etc. groundbreaking e-portfolio work in College of Education, other colleges/departments
What’s been done so far outreach ANGEL e-portfolio group discussion forums resources specification draft preliminary planning preliminary sandbox setup
Who’s in the ANGEL e- portfolio group faculty, administrators, support staff some departments that are represented: Graduate School English Education Libraries Enrollment Services Asst. Provost for Undergraduate Education Division of Science and Math Ed. …
e-portfolio broadly defined primary types: student, faculty, institutional other types: staff, teaching, lifelong, … related applications: CMS (ANGEL, LON-CAPA) institutional repository (dSpace, Fedora) web publishing (AFS) personal storage (AFS) online transcript online CV/resume “deanware”
Example e-portfolio functions personal repository artifacts – file + metadata user-defined access control ability to grant access to non-affiliates co-curricular – not linked to individual courses assessment – rubric support “certified” artifact – locked from editing system-wide searching/indexing reflective tools, e.g. blogs integration with CMS, other enterprise systems
Example e-portfolio policy issues storage – how much space, quotas, etc. e-portfolio lifecycle FERPA intellectual property – who owns e-portfolio elements? assessment -- validity institutional and departmental requirements – voluntary vs. compulsory how “official” are e-portfolios and related data?
The short list ANGEL e-portfolio module OSPI – Open Source Portfolio Initiative LON-CAPA ANGEL will be considered first
ANGEL e-port in a nutshell “My Info” -- personal data “Artifacts” – files or links + metadata “certified” artifacts “History” – resume-like “Blog” “Objectives” – assessment, req. or stds. “Publications” – for sharing
Timeline sandbox – pre-alpha-test research – Fall, 2005 limited pilot -- alpha test – Spring, 2006 production burn-in – beta test – Summer, 2006 phase 1 production release – Fall, 2006
Sandbox definition pre-alpha test research ANGEL will be first out-of-the box software get a rough idea of software capabilities not a production system, may change, go down, etc. no support structure materials will be destroyed at some point
Limited Pilot definition alpha test small number of testers simulate production use but not production load support structure – appropriate to test size changes limited to maintenance window still a test system
Volunteer Sandbox volunteers being recruited Agree to give us feedback Understand issues (no support structure, non- production system) and agree to participate in spite of them ANGEL e-portfolio group volunteers also being accepted request to
General Resources Educause Learning Initiative (formerly NLII), see “E- Portfolios” under “Learning Technologies.” IMS ePortfolio Specification,
Further information Jim Green, Coordinator, Academic Systems Academic Computing and Network Svcs.