My innovation plan involves providing access to ePortfolios to undergraduate students at Baylor University. One of the ways that I’ll be doing this is by helping faculty incorporate the use of ePortfolios into their courses. Specifically, I want to see faculty in Baylor’s New Student Experience (NSE) program use ePortfolios with the incoming freshmen or transfer students who are taking one of the NSE courses. When I look back at 4DX and the Influencer model, my wildly important goal was stated as “All students in five New Student Experience (NSE) course sections will create academic ePortfolios by the end of their first semester.”
In support of this goal, the topic of my action research plan is the use of ePortfolios by undergraduate students enrolled in New Student Experience (NSE) courses at Baylor University. The purpose of this study is to determine if the use of ePortfolios in NSE courses helps students take ownership of their own learning while building digital fluency skills, reflecting on what they have learned, and showcasing work from other courses. My action research plan will investigate to what extent students who use an ePortfolio as part of an NSE course continue using their ePortfolio beyond NSE course assignments. To help justify this plan, I have written the following Literature Review analyzing the benefits, trends, and ownership of ePortfolios.
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