What is an ePortfolio?
An ePortfolio is a digital record of academic and co-curricular work compiled by a student and accompanied by narrative reflection on their learning process. ePortfolios serve multiple uses and audiences simultaneously. They can be used by faculty and administrators for University assessment and by faculty for process-oriented pedagogy, formative, and summative assessment. For students, an ePortfolio functions as a personal website, a public-facing record of achievements that can be shared with instructors, classmates, advisors, community groups, employers, and graduate schools. ePortfolios enable students to synthesize their learning across courses and program requirements, create a record of their accomplishments, curate a transportable dossier of their work, and demonstrate career-readiness.
ePortfolios and CODES
Each CODE scholar has their own ePortfolio, a WordPress instance monitored by the IRIS Center where they will curate a working portfolio throughout the course of the program that can be used for grading in CODES courses as well as program assessment. Faculty in the IRIS Center support students in the initial set-up of their portfolios in CODE121 with a tutorial about design considerations, software support, guidance in writing for digital environments, and discussions about reflective practices and professionalism. Because learning outcomes often use institutional language, beginning in CODE121 and continuing throughout the program, students will work in groups to rewrite the outcomes in their own language with a consideration of their own goals.