As traditional calendar schools and institutions begin their school years, educators might be supporting students to embark on evidence collection for their ePortfolios. This blog is especially for those who have used ePortfolios or ePortfolio-adjacent structures. The Association for Authentic,…

Many students and parents are employment-focused, and depending on the country you teach in, at a public institution, your government may require you to show job market applicability. I teach in a professional program (communications), and we talk a lot…

This post offers a brief look at how ePortfolios became a High-Impact Practice, highlights key frameworks and resources that have shaped the field, and points to where practitioners can explore current thinking. We’re going to trace ten years in a…

I don’t know where the phrase came from, but as a long-time data person, I’ve heard it roughly one million times: “data speaks for itself.” Perhaps I’m assigning my current beliefs onto my past self, but I’ve never really understood…

Back during the pandemic, instructors were all sent home to teach online. Many had no training or experience with this modality. As I realized I needed to accommodate students who had spread to multiple time zones and home responsibilities, asynchronous…

The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education chapter on implementing ePortfolios in teacher education provides an overview on the why and how of ePortfolio usage in teacher education (Gulzar and Barrett 2019). As a teacher educator, it was a…

Since beginning at Elon University in 2017, I have been actively involved in the implementation and support of a teacher education assessment process called the edTPA. The edTPA is a three-part portfolio assessment required by law in North Carolina for…

This blog post shares our transcription project’s ethics statement and how we developed it by working with students as partners. The statement integrates the frameworks of digital slavery studies, library and information science and archives, as well as the ethics of work-integrated learning.  About…

If I were to introduce myself through the work of an ePortfolio, it might have artifacts from three big buckets, all shaping who I am as an educator and as an Elon University Center for Engaged Learning (CEL) scholar:  What Is…

Undergraduate research is credited with helping students develop cognitive abilities along with an understanding of the way that research happens, among other benefits, when done well. Some characteristics of high-quality undergraduate research include working on unsolved research problems (Bhattacharyya, Chan, and Waraczynski 2018) working closely with faculty  having some autonomy in the research decisions (Gilmore et…