Digital Multimodal Texts

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About

This resource site supports the learning and teaching of digital multimodal text (DMT) creation as non-traditional alternative assessment – including portfolio-based assessment.

Reflection Guide
Find the Exemplar
DMT Creation Guides
ePortfolio Practice

Team

Beverley Miles

Senior Learning Designer / Sessional Academic

Department of History & Archaeology, Macquarie University

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Ronika Power

Professor of Archaeology, Department of History & Archaeology, Macquarie University

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Research

Miles et al. (2022). ePortfolio Assessments as Academic Activism in Archaeology: Design Justice through Disruption, Diversity, and Student Self-Determination. Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL) ePortfolio Review 6.1.

PDF | Multimodal Paper

Miles & Power (2017). Learners Without Borders: Tales from the Trails of Navigating Transitions from Student Partners to Staff Partners – While Retaining Students as Partners. Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education 21.

Workshops

Portfolio Design Decisions for Social Learning

2022 ePortfolio Forum

Thursday 27 October 2022

Facilitators: Beverley Miles & Nicola Choon

In this 90-min. Portfolio Design Decisions for Social Learning workshop we will explore opportunities for what might be: portfolio for assessment through evaluation; portfolio for personal / professional development through reflection and documentation of learning; portfolio for employability through showcasing; and portfolios for social learning. We unveil a process to develop a design and implement Portfolio activities and assessment within a course or across a program. Examples from multiple disciplines will be briefly showcased while participants are facilitated through a Portfolio design making flow using a Google Slide workshop template. The workshop will use rapid design to kickstart the Portfolio design and iteration process. Participants will be encouraged to make the most of multimodal design inspired by learner-generated digital media – the Portfolio artefact outputs from the showcased examples. Feedback for feedforward will be delivered by the facilitators during and after the workshop in the Google Slide workshop template that participants complete.

The Power of Portfolios

2022 OpenLearning Forum

Friday 2nd December 2022

Facilitator: Beverley Miles

In this 75-min. interactive workshop, participants will take inspiration from their own learning experiences, coupled with direction from current research, to rapidly design assessment strategies for micro-credentials and short courses. Implementable in any platform, the assessment design aims to nurture learners to produce, and reflect on, evidence of their learning through authentic problem solving and feedback opportunities. Participants will take a Portfolio Assessment Design Decisions checklist that they can customise and apply in any context.

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