Beyond the e-portfolio: personalised and collaborative learning

Lilian Austin and Lyn Doolan La Trobe University

This presentation will demonstrate the power of extending and expanding the e-portfolio concept …….showing how it can incorporate teaching, learning and assessment strategies which will ‘add a substantial, lively, personally transformative dimension to lifelong learning’ (Kift et al 2007) and give cohesion and purpose to course design.

 

 

Beyond the e-portfolio: personalised and collaborative

learning

Educational Designers in the Faculty of Education at La Trobe University

We work with academic staff across 5 campuses Design learning and assessment experiences based around

the students’ Personalised Learning Space, PebblePad. Activities are multi-modal, multilayered and encourage pre-

service teachers to make meaning of their own learning and experiences through socially constructivist learning activities (Jonassen 2000).

Students guided through a process of active reflection modified from the 5 Rs, (Bain 2002),

Context

Total accounts in database: 6,725 Total number of active users: 4,214

Collaboration Number of user comments: 23,677 Number of Gateways: 1,238 Assets published to Gateways: 32,942

PebblePad Use at La Trobe

Silos

Core Module 1

Core Module 2

Core Module 3

Core Module 4

English

Drama

Maths

TESOL

Science

History

Physics

Media

LOTE

The personal learning space

Image Source: Adapted from Sutherland, Brotchie, Chesney, Pebblegogy Ideas and activities to inspire and engage learners. (2011)

Our first steps

Graduate Diploma in Education

‘How I learn’ - Reflective task using a PebblePad form.

Core Module 1

Record and reflect on Microteaching using a PebblePad Experience asset with embedded links to video (hosted on Vimeo)

Core Module 2

A Webfolio preparing for professional registration

Core Module 3

Identifying goals and planning for future professional role as teacher -Webfolio with embedded Action plans addressing each goal

Core Module 4

• Video/text Blog for practicum using a PebblePad Blog.• Creating a Unit of Work for Year 7 to 8 English students in a

PebblePad Webfolio.English

• Collection of drama stimulus materials in PebblePad blog.• Collaborative feedback from peers.

Drama

• A unit of work in a PebblePad Webfolio• A geometry task created in a PebblePad Activity asset• A reflection on Maths 300 in a PebblePad Thought

Maths

• Evidencing and reflecting on extra curricula development of professional skills and knowledge in PebblePad Experience asset

• A collaborative presentation on TESOL theme using a WebfolioTESOL

Graduate Diploma – Teaching Methods English, Drama ,TESOL, Humanities, LOTE, Maths, Media, Physics, Science, Chemistry

Is this any more integrated?

Integrated?

ME – the emerging teacher

Classroom management

My educational philosophy

Planning lessons

Working with colleagues

Practicum in schools

Accessing and Developing resources

ICT across the curriculum

Teaching practice

Professional development

Reflective practice

Content knowledge

ME – the emerging teacher

Classroom management

My educational philosophy

Planning lessons

Working with colleagues

Practicum in schools

Accessing and Developing resources

ICT across the curriculum

Teaching practice

Professional development

Reflective practice

Content knowledge

Reflection on How I learn Thought

ME – the emerging teacher

Classroom management

My educational philosophy

Planning lessons

Working with colleagues

Practicum in schools

Accessing and Developing resources

ICT across the curriculum

Teaching practice

Professional development

Reflective practice

Content knowledge

Micro teaching

Experience

ME – the emerging teacher

Classroom management

My educational philosophy

Planning lessons

Working with colleagues

Practicum in schools

Accessing and Developing resources

ICT across the curriculum

Teaching practice

Professional development

Reflective practice

Content knowledge

EnglishVideo Blog

ME – the emerging teacher

Classroom management

My educational philosophy

Planning lessons

Working with colleagues

Practicum in schools

Accessing and Developing resources

ICT across the curriculum

Teaching practice

Professional development

Reflective practice

Content knowledge

Units of Work for teaching method

Webfolio

ME – the emerging teacher

Classroom management

My educational philosophy

Planning lessons

Working with colleagues

Practicum in schools

Accessing and Developing resources

ICT across the curriculum

Teaching practice

Professional development

Reflective practice

Content knowledge

Micro teaching

Experience

English Video Blog

Reflection on How I learn Thought

Unit of Work for teaching

methods Webfolio

Revisiting capstone tasks

Building the culture Careful learning design - support materials

activities, workshops. Introducing PebblePad by stealth (

PebblePad form) Promote reflective practice Range of feedback rubrics E-mentors Administrative

Deliberative design

For the student Under control of the student PebblePad is a powerful study tool Users create enduring and iterative assets of learning Allows for creativity, adaptability, individuality opportunities for the student to revisit and reappraise the

learning journey Students work on a variety of learning tasks, both

individually and in groups Created multimedia artefacts of their learning journey which

goes beyond the mere requirements of the assessment process.

The outcome for the students is enhanced opportunities for deep reflection and higher level meta-cognition.

Final words

For the teacher Takes emphasis away from teacher

directed content Provides opportunities to encourage and

scaffold reflective practice Provides opportunities for ongoing

formative feedback Far richer and engaging evidence of

learning

Final words