2024-2025 ePortfolio Grant: Integrating ePortfolios for Student and Faculty Success

The Institute for Engaged Learning ePortfolio Program awarded 24 ePortfolio Course Integration grants.

• $2500

• 8 IUI Schools

• 15 IUI Departments

• 24 Courses

• 25 Faculty Participants

• 900+ Students across 2 semesters

Faculty received the grant to integrate ePortfolios into a fall and/or spring course. The grant included funding to support participation in summer workshops, attend fall/spring Community of Practice Zooms, engaged students with pre/post surveys, and document their successes/challenges in concluding reports. 

Our IU Indy faculty are doing innovative work with ePortfolios as they modify pedagogical approaches to integrate portfolio development within their courses.  Some of this work includes implementing ePortfolios into Gateway/introductory courses, general education writing classes, project-based learning courses, internships, and capstones. 

An article written by Yessica Salgado Quintana on this successful grant shared the following, "[a]ccording to pre/post curriculum surveys conducted by the ePortfolio office, students feel that they have been given the opportunity to take control of their assignments, how they're relating to the assignments, resulting in students feel more ownership, support in career development, familiarity and comfort with technology, when they use ePortfolios throughout the semester." 

This article highlighted work by Jennifer Bute, Aaron Dusso, and Lynn Jettpace

83% of Students Saw ePortfolios as Adding Value to Course Learning and Success

49% of students participating in our faculty-grant cohort reported that ePortfolios added value to their learning in the course, and 34% affirmed that ePortfolios played somewhat of a role in their success in the course. 

8 in 10 Students Reported that ePortfolios Enhanced Their Technical Skills + ePortfolios Help Them Take Control of Their Work

Of 167 spring responses, 8 in 10 students verified that ePortfolios enhanced their technology skills; tech skill enrichment was the top benefit reported by respondents. In a close second and third, students responded that ePortfolios gave them more creativity and control of the way they documented and shared their learning.

+25% Shift in Attitudes Toward Technology: ePortfolios Support Openness to New Tech 

There was a statistically significant shift in students' self-reported attitudes toward new technology. After completing the ePortfolio course, students identified that they were more likely to seek opportunities to develop technology skills. In addition, there was a nearly 10% shift in students who were ambivalent or resistant to technology—this was a change from the Fall 2024 survey which showed <1% shift in students who reported ambivalence toward technology.