Examples of Using ePortfolios in a Course: Basic Spanish
Introduction
This illustrative example of a course is one is a series of examples of using an ePortfolio approach in a course. The example is adapted from an existing course at UW Oshkosh. Each example in the series has three parts: 1) an overview of the course in question; 2) how to support sample learning activities in D2L and D2L ePortfolio; 3) an example of the finished ePortfolio presentation which might be created.
This overview of the course provides a possible course description, course requirements, and alignment with UW Oshkosh's essential learning outcomes as context for a discussion of the activities which follow in part 2.
Part 1: Course Overview
Course Description
The design of the course is suited to creating and using an ePortfolio within the course as it blends incremental activities, research, and reflection into a cumulative project.
Course Requirements
- Participation & Attendance: It is vital that students attend every class. We will cover a wide breadth of material throughout every class that cannot be made up. You must be responsible for your own education and actively participate in all classroom activities, discussions, etc.
- Homework: Weekly homework on grammar and vocabulary will be assigned weekly and should be completed before the start of the next class.
- Written assignments: Students will be required to short essays to the readings covered in this course. Papers will be graded by grammar, language usage and content.
- Class presentation: Students will be required sign up to present on a section of the book to teach to the rest of the class. Students have ten minutes to present and a discussion should follow the presentation. In short, every week a student will teach the class in Spanish and be a discussion leader.
Essential Learning Outcomes
- Knowledge of human cultures and the physical and natural world
- Identification and objective evaluation of theories and assumption
- Critical and creative thinking
- Written and oral communication
- Quantitative literacy
- Technology and information literacy
- Knowledge of sustainability and its applications
- Civic knowledge and engagement — local and global
- Intercultural knowledge and competence
Part 2: Alignment with Essential Learning Outcomes
Part 2 of this example will highlight different approaches to uses D2L and D2L ePortfolio to support the requirements of the course.
Learning Outcomes:
- Knowledge of human cultures and the physical and natural world
- Identification and objective evaluation of theories and assumption
- Critical and creative thinking
- Written and oral communication
- Quantitative literacy
- Technology and information literacy
Activities:
- Utilize D2L's Dropbox for paper submissions on written reading responses, and
- Utilize ePortfolio's share feature to have students do peer reviews on written essays:
- Create collection on written essays:
- Use D2L discussions to respond to questions relating to course literature:
- Utilize D2L Quizzes to assess grammar and vocabulary fluency, and reading comprehension.
Learning Outcomes:
- Knowledge of sustainability and its applications
- Civic knowledge and engagement — local and global
- Intercultural knowledge and competence
Activities:
- Make presentation in ePortfolio to reference written work, show video/ audio/ PowerPoint/ etc. (Research paper and/ or presentation on cultural aspect of course study): https://uwosh.courses.wisconsin.edu/d2l/eP/presentations/presentation_preview_popup.d2l?ou=93007&presId=124026&pageId=0&contextId=124026
