[DG: Teaching & Learning] portfolios, OAE, and a new verb: curate?

[Bruce D'Arcus]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Zaldivar, Marc <mzaldiva at vt.edu> wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> I agree with your idea.  In fact, the "ePortfolio as museum" metaphor was one I've heard come up at several conferences in the past year.  I don't know if it's worked its way into the design lenses, but I agree that its a concept that should.  And, I support your notion that we shouldn't create an artificial split between the needs of OAE and portfolio processes: many of these overlap.  To add other use cases on to yours, I have engineering departments who would like students to bring in answers from specific department-wide tests into their portfolios.  I have faculty that want to collect artifacts from across many students' portfolios and present them in either another portfolio or another tool within Scholar, e.g. a Discussion Board or Wiki.

Yeah, good point. I could imagine wanting to have a course portfolio
of sorts, that collects example work done across many semesters of a
course.

> It's easy enough to do with copy/pasting, but I'd like to see the tools suggesting all of these potential interactions between the content users store on the system, how they want to discuss/annotate it, and with whom they'd like to share it.

Exactly!

Bruce

> Marc
>
> On Mar 31, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>
>> I don't really have experience working with ePortfolios, but am
>> wondering about something that might have bearing on how they fit in
>> OAE:
>>
>> Could we not say that much of what happens in a portfolio comes down
>> to curating content?
>>
>> Consider two different use cases:
>>
>> 1) an art history professor is teaching a course and would like to
>> setup a gallery of images for her student. She selects them from her
>> content repository, but then wants to add course-specific captions.
>>
>> 2) student wants to pull in a blog post from a course for their
>> portfolio, and needs to add a reflective description of the context of
>> that choice.
>>
>> My question: don't these two cases have more-or-less the same
>> requirements: the ability to curate content with
>> context/audience-specific annotation/captioning?
>>
>> I haven't seen a notion of curation in existing documentation (say the
>> design lenses); just wondering if it's useful.
>>
>> I also worry a bit about thinking about portfolios as too distinct
>> from the core needs of OAE or both may suffer.
>>
>> Bruce
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