AAEEBL Indy Program & Keynotes

Driving?

Park in North Street Parking Garage. Parking passes available at registration.

Hine Hall is connected to the North Street Garage by a sunbaked skywalk which goes over a two-lane side road, Blake Street.

Walking? 

Fastest option: Walk in through the Blake Street, side entrance, into Hine Hall, up the stairs to the second floor: turn left, through the glass doors. The ePortfolio Studio is on your left.

Avoid stairs: Use the North Street Parking Garage elevator -or- the North Street covered entrance [enter, turn left, walk through the glass doors, by the Post Office, to the elevator. On the second floor, exit left, take the first left, and walk straight [100 yards] to the Institute for Engaged Learning.

Get Matched for a Free Consultation with Somone Who Shares Your ePortfolio Passion [Limit 10]

More to come. The goal is to provide you with pre-conference access to talk about the challenges you are facing with ePortfolio initiatives. You pitch your challenge in the CPF. We will work to match you with someone who shares your interest who will listen and help you talk through possibilities. 

This is also a time for you to meet with industry partners [in person or on Zoom] to talk through platform and technical opportunities. 

Consultants

Pablo Avila, Emily Thompson, Debbie Oesch-Minor

Industry Consultations

TBA

Debbie Oesch-Minor

WIX website Templates can be a vital tool for easy integration of ePortfolio in a curriculum or course setting. However, learning how to design, build, and share them are often the very barriers that prevent faculty and students from getting started. Recent innovations in template creation have allowed ePortfolio experts from IU Indianapolis, Tara Callahan and Olivia Cannon,  to address this challenge by leveraging Wix Studio to create customizable, professional-quality templates for free.

This workshop will guide participants through the full template process, from conceptualizing a structure, to building a design, and converting that template into a shareable template for faculty and students to use immediately. This session will also cover practical coaching strategies for helping instructors and students adopt templates effectively using  best practices and metacognition.

This is accessible for faculty at any level, to build any sort of ePortfolio to support ePortfolio efforts on your campus. This tool is an easy way to build your repertoire and toolkit on your campus, regardless of the amount of ePortfolio programming you currently have.

TBA

Dr. Megan Mize is the Director of ePortfolios and Digital Initiatives in the Center for Undergraduate Education at Old Dominion University, where she has led institution-wide efforts advancing reflective, integrative, and high-impact learning practices since 2015. Her work focuses on ePortfolio pedagogy, multimodal composition, digital literacies, reflective learning, and the institutional infrastructures that support meaningful implementation at scale.

At ODU, Dr. Mize has contributed to major initiatives including the University’s Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), General Education reform, and the Mellon-funded Monarch Humanities Internship Academy (MHIA). She regularly collaborates across academic and administrative units to support faculty development, experiential learning, assessment, and student-centered digital learning practices.

Her scholarship explores ePortfolio labor, digital resilience, reflective pedagogy, and multimodal composing practices. Her work has appeared in The AAEEBL ePortfolio Review (AePR), Peitho, and Field Guide, and she is co-author of the recently published North American ePortfolio Labor Mapping Phase 1 Report.

How do you move from a digital scrapbook to a transformative capstone? For years, our Honors College lacked a common curriculum, leaving student experiences fragmented. Within 24 months, we successfully implemented a required Senior ePortfolio for every honors student. This presentation focuses on the process and strategies used to transform ePortfolios into high-value assets.

A key shift was moving away from linear tracking. We found that requiring semesterly updates felt like a chore, so we pivoted to a retrospective model in which seniors reexamine their freshman personal statements and journey maps, curate signature experiences, and showcase emerging expertise through artifacts connecting classroom learning and professional competencies.

The Honors College carves out time for seniors to revisit, finalize, and polish their ePortfolios in a 0/1 credit-hour course. An asynchronous Canvas course provides structure for three showcases that challenge students to reflect on who they were, who they are, and who they are becoming. Each showcase includes at least one artifact and a reflection connecting that experience to their professional goals.

To sustain this at scale, we implemented a Near-Peer Feedback Model. By hiring students/alumni as TAs, we provided relatable guidance that helped students move beyond surface-level descriptions and helped faculty manage workload. We reframed the ePortfolio as a tool for students to show their professional identity rather than just telling their story.

The undergraduate Health Administration Senior Capstone at IU Indianapolis required a final reflective paper summarizing students’ achievement of program competencies. The intention was in alignment with Donald Schön’s claim that “reflection-in-action” is central to professional learning, and the statement attributed to John Dewey, “We do not learn from experience; we learn from reflecting on experience.” However, students’ reflective papers yielded uneven, often superficial work, as students had little prior experience with structured reflection and struggled to recall earlier learning.

To address this, faculty replaced the paper with an ePortfolio, introducing ePortfolio work in a 200-level course, so students could curate artifacts and reflections throughout the program. Through a collaboration with the ePortfolio Studio, program faculty worked with a Studio staff member to develop a program-wide template using open source platform Wix, aligning student and faculty needs with effective ePortfolio design.

The template now scaffolds reflection across core courses and key experiences, enabling students to document and demonstrate competencies over time, a concept promoted by Kathleen Blake Yancey’s observations that reflection is the connective tissue of learning. Our new ePortfolio anchored reflective approach promotes deeper engagement, supports early identification of career skills, and makes learning outcomes more visible.

Initial integration began in 2023, with the template launched in summer 2025. Ongoing collaboration focuses on refining the ePortfolio experience to better support targeted learning outcomes and real-world application.

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Panel Moderator: Michael Peck, IU Bloomington, MS, Public Health/ Epidemiology doctoral student

John Salata, IU Indianapolis, Infomatics alumni: GitHub

Salsabil Qaddoura, IU Indianapolis, Law in Liberal Arts major: Wordpress

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