One of our education lecturers has had a bright idea. He says:
"I am raising with the education team the use of e-portfolios for our
students. The most effective way of utilising this type of development
and assessment is with Blackboard. That is each individual student would
have 'Course Builder' rights to a module * which would contain the
variety of their e-artefacts, assessments, and reflections etc. In this
sense the Blackboard module acts as the e-framework for their portfolio.
This would therefore require that we create a sequence of 'modules' for
each student, with one or more staff members as the instructor."
In a second email responding to my request for more information re
numbers and lifespan, he says:
"We have an intake of about 80 students per year on the BA , so for
this course it would be 240 by 2007. The module for each student would
remain live during the three years of their course, with perhaps a short
run-over at the end."
Now, in principle, this probably looks like a good-ish idea. But it
makes me uneasy. Yup, there'll be some extra work, but I can't really
say no on that basis. What have I missed?
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Regards
Mark
Mark Gamble
Head of Learning Technology Support Service, University of Luton
Tel 07720 068605 Fax 01582 489260 Int ext 2260 / 6360 (mobex)
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