STLHE 2016 SAPES

The medium of the eportfolio allows students to select, reflect and assess experiences in order to shape, create and present their own story of learning using multimodal digital artifacts. Though students can thus be seen as producers, partners and co-creators of their own learning, there is currently little reflection and research on co-creating the curriculum with an eportfolio. This interactive workshop will use a case study of a new curriculum design in Intercultural Communication to explore theoretical and practical intersections between eportfolio usage and curriculum co-creation. During the workshop, participants will share motivations, examples and best practices of current usage, considering the pedagogical challenges and obstacles of the e-portfolio and of curriculum co-creation. The goal is to share insights and identify factors in curriculum design processes, so that in a subsequent large group discussion we can identify the opportunities and limitations associated with our program design choices. Discussion can focus on how the eportfolio can serve as a means for students to integrate the participatory culture of web 2.0 based in creating, sharing, collaborating and networking digitally with the high impact experiences of courses that incorporate largely autonomously chosen learning experiences found for example in community engaged learning, internships or study abroad experiences. Discussion can also center on how students and instructors can collaborate in partnership learning communities to create and choose curriculum content, agree on expectations for assignments and design rubrics and self- and peer-evaluations.