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Educause Live Webcast "The Current State of E-Portfolios in Higher Education"


MCC will host the Educause Live Web cast entitled "The Current State of E-Portfolios in Higher Education" scheduled for Thursday, July 7 from 1:00-2:00 pm in the Board Lounge. According to Casey Green’s 2004 Campus Computing Survey, the number of institutions offering e-portfolios doubled from the previous year to include nearly one-third of U.S. institutions, and growth is as rapid in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and Canada. This presentation will map the national e-portfolio sector and offer recommendations for campus e-portfolio strategies, from the viewpoint of campus IT.

Presenter Trent Batson is a former English professor who joined the IT ranks 20 years ago. An EDUCAUSE award winner in 1989, he has moved from directing award-winning funded projects involving technology and learning to acting as campus IT administrator, focusing in particular on e-portfolios over the past four years. Batson has taught at seven universities and has served as an IT administrator at three. He also spent a year working for WebTV. Batson has researched and taught courses on the history of technology and culture and authored a book on technology innovation published by Cambridge University Press. He is a co leader of the New England ePortfolio Project, a 22-institution consortium, and a board member of the Open Source Portfolio (OSP), a Mellon-funded project involving Indiana University and the r*smart group, working with the Sakai project. His article on e-portfolios is the most widely quoted seminal article on the topic.

To make a reservation, contact Carol Wilkinson via email or at ext. 3019.

Carol Wilkinson
Educational Technology Services
07/01/2005