Workforce / Professional Development Panel: View from the top: Workforce development, education, social networking, and ePortfolios Stephanie Couch Gerry Hanley Ali Jafari Kathleen Willbanks ePortfolio - Day of Dialogue February 25, :30 – 5:30 ePortfolio Day of Dialogue 2/25/09 San Francisco Session 4C: Couch, Hanley, Jafari, Willbanks

S.Couch – K – 20 Overarching Framework G. Hanley – ePortfolios and Higher Ed K. Willbanks – K-12 – CDE and SCOE A. Jafari – Social networking, building a bridge through constituency ePortfolio Day of Dialogue 2/25/09 San Francisco Session 4C: Couch, Hanley, Jafari, Willbanks

COLLABORATE EDUCATE INNOVATE ADVOCATE

Support highly effective, innovative, network enabled teaching and learning opportunities. Facilitate PartnershipsExchange of Information & Resources Identify Effective Online Teaching & Learning Methods & Promote Best Practices Advocate in Support of Policies & Programs that Advance Online Teaching/Learning Mission

A unique collaborative Trusted network Support for K20 innovators “Home” for successful programs

Network Backbone Mission - to facilitate collaboration in education and research Operate high-performance network leading-edge services for large- application users K-20 students, teachers, faculty, staff & research universities Currently 10,000,000 use network Connected to similar Global Education network backbones Trusted high bandwidth connection to millions of students and educators

MS HSCCC 4 Yr Colleges/Univ. All Other Pathways STEM Pathways - “Green” Careers - Medical Education and Health Sciences - Engineering Career Exploration - The Real Game - Advanced Manufacturing Foundational & Remedial Math & English Language Arts Support - CAHSEE Research Oriented Communities of Interest/Practice Advocacy, Functionality, New Media

Why ePortfolios Are Soooo Important for Higher Ed February 25, 2009 ePortfolio Day of Dialogue San Francisco State University - Downtown

Nation’s largest, most diverse university system 450,000 students 1,800 degree programs 47,000 faculty and staff 23 campuses Partners with the California Community Colleges: 2/3 of CSU students are CCC transfers Welcome to the CSU Humboldt Chico Sonoma Maritime Academy Sacramento East Bay San Francisco San Jose Stanislaus Fresno Bakersfield Northridge Pomona San Marcos Monterey Bay San Diego FullertonSan Bernardino Long Beach San Luis Obispo Channel Islands Los Angeles Dominguez Hills Chancellor’s Office

CSU: Access To Excellence The 8 strategic commitments/ plan-goals  Reduce existing achievement gaps  Plan for faculty turnover and invest in faculty experience  Plan for staff and administrative succession planning and professional growth  Improve public accountability for learning results  Expand student outreach  Enhance student opportunities for “active learning”  Enhance opportunities for global awareness  Act on the CSU’s responsibilities to meet post baccalaureate needs, including those of working professionals

Implementing Access to Excellence with ePortfolios  Implementation must produce institutional benefits –Improved outcomes (teaching, learning, administration) –Improved efficiencies (teaching, learning, administration) –Improved reliability (teaching, learning, administration)  How does the ePortfolio Strategy promise to produce these benefits? –Effective management and support for sharing, reusing, and consolidating expertise, exemplary practices, products of education.

Connecting ePortfolios To Ac2Ex  Plan for faculty turnover and invest in faculty experience –Sharing and reusing teaching eportfolios enable academic adoption/adaptation of exemplary practices  Saves faculty time, improves teaching experience, improves teaching performance for tenure and promotion review & faculty retention  Improve public accountability for learning results –Making learning outcomes visible through learning eportfolios and institutional eportfolios  Authenticity of evidence for accountability in accreditation  Enhance student opportunities for “active learning” –The content of learning eportfolios is actively designed, created, and produced multimedia by students in their learning.  Learning by Doing and Doing by Learning

Connecting ePortfolios To Ac2Ex  Enhance opportunities for global awareness –The internet (and pervasive access to it) enables the sharing and reuse of resources from around the world. Teaching and learning eportfolios can bring the world into the local context of an institution’s academic program quickly, easily, and affordably.  MERLOT  Act on the CSU’s responsibilities to meet post baccalaureate needs, including those of working professionals –Sharing and reusing teaching eportfolios enables the high investments in expertise and tools to be leveraged across a distributed specialized community –Learning eportfolios transforms a transcript into more reliable evidence of a prospective and current employee’s capabilities

What is the CSU doing to accelerate the institutionalization of ePortfolios?  Stage 1: Awareness and Education –“Using ePortfolios in the CSU- Teaching Commons”  Shared/consolidated library of resources through MERLOT  Institutional context for planning, using, and sustaining the effective use of eportfolios  Make visible the community of ePortfolio experts and their projects

Issues To Resolve: Old Issues Needing New Solutions  Authentication of the ePortfolio Author –Is the evidence of learning in the ePortfolio, the learning of a particular student?  Trustworthy Interpretation Standards for Quality of ePortfolio Content –How do I know that the content of the ePortfolio reliably and accurately reflects the skills and knowledge I expect a student to have?

THANK YOU Questions at the End of the Session

ePortfolio Day of Dialogue 2/25/09 San Francisco Session 4C: Couch, Hanley, Jafari, Willbanks K – 12 School Boards Special Education Workforce Development

ePortfolio Day of Dialogue 2/25/09 San Francisco Session 4C: Couch, Hanley, Jafari, Willbanks

Transition Portfolios Middle School Students 6 pages Teacher Guide 62 pages High School Students 12 pages Teacher Guide 54 pages

ePortfolio Day of Dialogue 2/25/09 San Francisco Session 4C: Couch, Hanley, Jafari, Willbanks

“Addressing the future workforce development needs of Sonoma County through an emphasis on education would have the single greatest impact on our County's future economic vitality and quality of life.”

ePortfolio Day of Dialogue 2/25/09 San Francisco Session 4C: Couch, Hanley, Jafari, Willbanks Workforce Stories

ePortfolio Day of Dialogue 2/25/09 San Francisco Session 4C: Couch, Hanley, Jafari, Willbanks “I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one” Mark Twain

ePortfolio Day of Dialogue 2/25/09 San Francisco Session 4C: Couch, Hanley, Jafari, Willbanks References: California Department of Education – Diagnostic Center NorCal - Sonoma County Office of Ed – Work Ready - Sonoma County Innovations Council - Sonoma County Economic Development Board - Sonoma County Board of Supervisors - CalStateTEACH - San Francisco State University - eFolio Minnesota -

Networking via ePortfolio Ali Jafari, Founder and Chief Architect Officer Epsilen Environment (BehNeem LLC) On Leave: Professor of Computer and Information Technology Director of CyberLab Adjunct Professor of Informatics Purdue School of Engineering and Technology Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

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ePortfolio; Initial thinking and requirements (late 90s) – Collection – Selection – Reflection – Presentation

ePortfolio; initial purposes and expected functionalities (late 90s) A system to measure students’ learning outcomes based on some schools’ predefined learning principles. A system to showcase student academic accomplishments for educational development and career services

ePortfolio initial system (late 1990s through mid 2000s) The creation of ePortfolio Management System or EPMS Conceptual and technical thinking of EPMS was the same as the CMS (Course Management System) The invention and creation of Learning Matrix

Early ePortfolio collaboration and system development Creation of the ePortConsortium.org – ePortfolio Whitepaper – ePortfolio system (Epsilen ePortfolio) Creation of EPAC

My sabbatical research and my wake up call Systematic research to understand the next generation of eLearning systems (2005) Wake-up call... The Facebook surprise and the Tom Friedman book. My proposed model: The Next Generation of eLearning should be based on ePortfolio, empowered by global networking, etc.

Created and proposed the “Jafari Model” (Epsilen Model) as a new conceptual framework and technical system for the Next Generation of eLearning Environment published in EDUCAUSE Review.

Epsilen tools and network channels

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