The Portfolio Community of Practice

Upcoming E-Portfolio Conference

LaGuardia Community College, an internationally recognized leader in the fast-growing field of Electronic Student Portfolios, is pleased to announce a national conference, “Making Connections: ePortfolio, Integrative Learning, and Assessment,” to be held April 11-12, 2008, at LaGuardia’s bustling New York City campus. Making Connections will draw leaders in the field from across the country and provide a unique opportunity to hear directly from LaGuardia students and faculty. The Making Connections conference provides a unique opportunity to examine the transformative promise and practice of ePortfolio in higher education.

Electronic Student Portfolios are gaining wide popularity in as a way to document, assess and enhance learning and teaching. Hundreds of universities around the world have begun using ePortfolio to help students reflect and create digital portraits of their evolving identities as learners. And as the political debate over assessment heats up, educators have found new ways to use ePortfolio to analyze the impact of the learning/teaching process.

LaGuardia has emerged an ePortfolio leader, with a large and successful ePortfolio initiative that helps students to engage more deeply with their learning. While many colleges are piloting ePortfolio, LaGuardia has achieved broad implementation. Working with thousands of poor, immigrant, and minority students, LaGuardia’s data shows improved learning outcomes, from writing and critical thinking to pass rates and retention.

At the Making Connections conference, you’ll meet faculty and students who do groundbreaking work with this new educational tool. Addressing issues of teaching, learning, and assessment, as well as ways to link ePortfolio to the new possibilities of Web 2.0, the conference will combine voices of the LaGuardia experience with presentations from international leaders in the field, such as Helen Barrett and Trent Batson. Presentations will spotlight ePortfolio projects from schools ranging from Portland State University, the University of Michigan, and Virginia Tech to the University of Westminster in London and Kapi’olani Community College in Honolulu.

For more information, see http://www.eportfolio.lagcc.cuny.edu/conference . Or contact Susan Lambert, slambert@lagcc.cuny.edu or 718-482-5404.