Catalyst in Action Bret Eynon, Laura M. Gambino / Bret Eynon, Laura M. Gambino
2018, 2023-07-03, 2018-10-31
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Published in association with In 2017, Bret Eynon and Laura M. Gambino released High-Impact ePortfolio Practice, which drew broad acclaim from faculty and educational leaders. "An instant classic," ...wrote one reviewer. "The book I've been waiting for!" exclaimed another. With compelling evidence of the impact of ePortfolio "done well," and a practical framework for educators to follow, this research study quickly led to the formal recognition of ePortfolio as a validated High Impact Practice.Now, with Catalyst in Action: Case Studies of High-Impact ePortfolio Practice, Eynon and Gambino have taken the next step. The book offers 20 powerful case studies, drawn from campuses ranging from Bronx Community College to Yale University, from the University of South Carolina, to Dublin University and Arizona State. In High Impact ePortfolio Practice, Eynon and Gambino outlined the Catalyst Framework, spotlighting the strategies needed to launch, build and sustain a "high-impact" ePortfolio practice. Linking integrative social pedagogy to technology, assessment and professional development, the Catalyst Framework offers guiding principles and classroom-based ePortfolio practices that improve student success, deepen the student learning experience, and catalyze learning-centered institutional change. In Catalyst in Action, teams of faculty and college leaders detail their experiences exploring and testing the Framework on their campuses. Working with diverse groups of students in a broad range of disciplines and settings, the case study authors put Eynon and Gambino's integrative strategies into practice. Catalyst in Action shares their findings and their insights. As higher education enters a challenging new era, it must find new ways adapt and change, to support and demonstrate student growth and development. Catalyst in Action is a powerful combination of intensive research and practical experiencing. Offering exciting new evidence and fresh new insights, Catalyst in Action
Published in association with At a moment when over half of US colleges are employing ePortfolios, the time is ripe to develop their full potential to advance integrative learning and broad ...institutional change. The authors outline how to deploy the ePortfolio as a high-impact practice and describe widely-applicable models of effective ePortfolio pedagogy and implementation that demonstrably improve student learning across multiple settings.Drawing on the campus ePortfolio projects developed by a constellation of institutions that participated in the Connect to Learning network, Eynon and Gambino present a wealth of data and revealing case studies. Their broad-based evidence demonstrates that, implemented with a purposeful framework, ePortfolios correlate strongly with increased retention and graduation rates, broadened student engagement in deep learning processes, and advanced faculty and institutional learning. The core of the book presents a comprehensive research-based framework, along with practical examples and strategies for implementation, and identifies the key considerations that need to be addressed in the areas of Pedagogy, Professional Development, Outcomes Assessment, Technology and Scaling Up. The authors identify how the ePortfolio experience enhances other high-impact practices (HIPs) by creating unique opportunities for connection and synthesis across courses, semesters and co-curricular experiences. Using ePortfolio to integrate learning across multiple HIPs enables students reflect and construct a cohesive signature learning experience.This is an invaluable resource for classroom faculty and educational leaders interested in transformative education for 21st century learners.
Published by Stylus in association with AAC&U, this publication provides expert guidance on deploying the ePortfolio as a high-impact practice. The authors present a comprehensive research-based ...framework, along with practical examples and strategies for implementation. They also identify key considerations to be addressed in the areas of pedagogy, professional development, outcomes assessment, technology, and scaling up.
Eportfolio technology is simple to learn, but integrative eportfolio pedagogy takes time and support to master. Since eportfolio practice is most effective when students use it to connect learning ...across courses, disciplines, and semesters, eportfolio projects must move beyond "early adopters," engaging a broader group of faculty and staff to construct shared purpose and coordinated design. Effective work in those sectors is guided by the design principles of inquiry, reflection, and integration (see fig- 1)DRAWING ON THE LITERATURE High-impact eportfolio-focused professional development shares many characteristics with other types of professional development. Since the professional development literature is rich, we will touch on three threads that proved helpful to C2L teams.
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7: Connect to Learning Eynon, Bret; Török, Judit; Gambino, Laura M.
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development,
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Connect to Learning (C2L) is a FIPSE-funded project coordinated by LaGuardia Community College (CUNY) that links ePortfolio teams from 24 campuses nationwide into a supportive community of practice. ...Launched in 2011, C2L focused on exploring and documenting ePortfolio strategies to advance student, faculty, and institutional learning. Working together, the C2L community has developed a rich resource website, Catalyst for Learning: ePortfolio Resources and Research (http://c2l.mcnrc.org), that offers data, strategies, and expertise from C2L campuses. Our work has addressed two overarching questions: (1) "What difference can ePortfolio make?" and (2) "What does it take for ePortfolio to make a difference?" Focused on the first question, this article examines C2L findings through three propositions: (1) ePortfolio initiatives advance student success; (2) making student learning visible, ePortfolio initiatives support reflection, social pedagogy, and deep learning; and (3) ePortfolio initiatives catalyze learning-centered institutional change. Based on an array of evidence from campus practices and narratives--along with the C2L Core Survey, administered on campuses across our network--C2L findings advance our collective understanding of the power of integrative ePortfolio practice and its potential to support student, faculty, and institutional learning. Moreover, these findings offer multiple avenues for further research, analysis and theory-building. We believe the future of ePortfolio depends in part on our collective ability to gather, analyze, and share evidence of the difference ePortfolio initiatives can make and, therefore, offer these preliminary findings for broad consideration, testing, refinement and improvement.
7: CONNECT TO LEARNING Eynon, Bret; Török, Judit; Gambino, Laura M.
To improve the academy,
June 2013, Letnik:
32, Številka:
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Based at LaGuardia Community College, the Connect to Learning (C2L) project has developed an innovative hybrid professional development model using e‐portfolios, online conversations, and ...face‐to‐face meetings to support campus leadership teams as they strengthen e‐portfolio initiatives on twenty‐five diverse campuses nationwide. The C2L model adapts a conceptual framework of inquiry, reflection, and integration to a hybrid context and addresses the challenge of local professional development leadership for classroom and institutional change.
C2L campuses, each of which sustains its own campus e-portfolio initiative, represent a diverse cross-section of higher education, from Boston University to San Francisco State University, Salt Lake ...Community College, and CUNY's newest campus, Stella and Charles Guttman Community College. An e-portfolio initiative's capacity to highlight holistic learning, support educational planning and identity development, and link curricular and cocurricular experiences can help create bridges between academic and student affairs.
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Done well, guided by integrative pedagogy and sustained professional development, ePortfolio practice can deepen student learning. But ePortfolio practice can also advance faculty and institutional ...learning, helping colleges engage in iterative cycles of improvement. This chapter examines the ways highimpact ePortfolio practice supports authentic assessment and helps build what we will call "learning colleges."
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