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For Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 courses, 25 faculty were approached with the opportunity to receive grant funding to implement ePortfolios into the classroom. I oversaw this grant at the beginning of my employment at the ePortfolio studio, pulling reports from Qualtrics, writing progress reports, and attending class room kickoffs or visit to assist faculty through this grant.
As apart of overseeing this grant, I created specialized tabling materials to make professors feel seen and appreciated for their work with this grant. This included:
Designing my own document on the fly
Multiple workshopped drafts
Working between platforms to solve problems (formatting with text)
This was done in one to two hours overall and presented at the School of Liberal Arts faculty meeting in Spring 2025. The purpose of this was to recognize the faculty's hard work and to promote future grants the ePortfolio Studio will host!
grant recipents big list take two REAL PRINT.pdf
Part of the benefits for students using ePortfolios is that it allows them to have more agency over their education and work. This should translate to their openness to new technology, allowing emerging professionals to feel more comfortable going into uncharted territory (learning new programs or new devices at their first job).
Longitudinal data, same set of students from before and after being enrolled and using ePortfolios
Small subset, 11% of entire data set between the Pre- and Post-Surveys (averaging about 245 responses at time of completion)
Students are already becoming more and more tech-savvy as years go on. The initial digital fluency is already high, but ePortfolios are allowing people to build on this and become even more confident in their abilities.
0, refusal to try new technology
1, resistant to new technology dye to an overload of ever-changing technology expectations
2, ambivalent to new technologies and can roll with whatever I need to learn
3, open to new tech opportunities related to academic/personal interests
4, seeking opportunities to learn/use new technology
This data was pulled across academic schools (School of Liberal Arts, University College, School of Health and Human Sciences, Luddy School of Informatics).
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