Business / CS ePortfolios

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ePortfolios - a representation of student work, collected to demonstrate progress, depth and breadth of accomplishment, for review and assessment

Business / CS programs and courses where ePortfolios would be appropriate

Individual courses - examples...

  • CIS2 Computers and the Internet in Society community service learning ePortfolios - compendium of weekly reflections, free hosting at Edublogs.org
  • Photoshop - demonstration of breadth and depth of incorporation of Photoshop features with artistic design in assignments

Certificates and Degree Programs - suggestions...

  • Business Administration
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Web Development
  • Network Administration
  • Computer Systems Security
  • Internet Literacy

Help and information

Hosting

  • eFolio - free for Minnesota residents, college can purchase campus-wide service and support
  • edublogs - includes some administration functionality for school use
  • WordPress.com - better response time, easy migration to premium service (which is still really cheap)
  • Flickr - pictures, other graphic formats
  • Moodle - blog, wiki - DeAnza resets courses every semester so program-long presence not possible at this time

Retention

  • semester / course
  • program completion
  • beyond graduation  ? years, indefinitely, download, notification prior to purging

Access

  • student and instructor
  • classmates
  • program instructors
  • selective access granted - prospective employers, admissions personnel, academic reviewers

Requirements

  • personalization
  • program-specific framework
  • text
  • images
  • audio / video