Wrapup of Wednesday afternoon at Educause
I attended a couple of sessions, Electronic Portfolios in Higher Education: Where Are We and Where Are We Going? and At the End of the Day We Will Have Given It All Away: The Convergence of Open-Source CMS and Open Courseware. All in all I was impressed with the homegrown ePortfolio system from the University of Denver, though it may start to suffer from feature creep as they’ve added some assessment tools, and faculty are even using it in place of Blackboard. Other items they’ve included are a discussion board, public, private, and group/community views, and a really nice-looking design :). Oh yeah, and no quotas. DU Portfolio Community.
The last session was an interesting peek at an inititative to share courses across a community college system. The process for evaluating and selecting “approved” content was interesting. So far 10 courses are shared. Hmmm, interesting. I’m still not sure how it works if I’m a student at College A and I want to take a course offered by College B.
March 15th, 2005 - 11:52 pm
Hi there. I’m on the DU Portfolio Community development team. Just a minor correction; program assessment was always part of the specification. Our product will never suffer from “feature creep” as all of our enhancements are based on user requests and not done for the sake of expansion alone. Just wanted to clarify these points. Thanks much.