MCC will host the Educause online seminar entitled Electronic Portfolios: Why Now? on Wednesday, February 11 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. in the Board Lounge. If you would like to register to attend, please contact Carol Wilkinson at Ext. 3019 or cwilkinson@monroecc.edu.
The presenter is Barbara Cambridge, vice president for fields of inquiry and action at AAHE, director of the Carnegie Academy Campus Program, and AAHE director of the Building Engagement and Access of Minority Students project. Cambridge is an executive editor of Change magazine and editor of the Journal of Teaching Writing.
Brief Synopsis: Multiple factors drive the mushrooming practice of electronic portfolios. Diverse students coming to college with job-related goals, moving among institutions on the way to degrees, and requiring lifelong learning learn from portfolios about self-assessment, their own learning processes, and representing competencies rather than course credits. Faculty members in all disciplines examine their pedagogies in light of student learning, design inquiries open for peer review and use, and use portfolios to document their learning over time. Colleges and universities address many publics who have different questions about how and what students learn at their institutions. Portfolios can connect student, faculty, and institutional learning in innovative ways.
Jeffrey Bartkovich
Educational Technology Services
02/05/2004 |