Vanuit het onderwijs is er behoefte naar vakoverstijgende begeleiding, feedback en reflectie mogelijkheden. Tegelijkertijd is er een structurele wens om de overstap naar de arbeidsmarkt voor studenten te ondersteunen en de aansluiting tussen academische studies en professionele carrières inzichtelijk te maken, i.e. “showcasing”. Hoe kan Canvas helpen bij het ondersteunen in vakoverstijgende initiatieven?
In dit project wordt het onderzoecht hoe en welk e-portfilio in combinatie met Canvas hiervoor gebruikt kan worden door meerdere faculteiten.
Deze projectaanvraag betreft een verkenning van mogelijkheden met een viertal platforms in combinatie met Canvas, en inhoeverre deze voldoen aan de wensen en de eisen vanuit het onderwijs.
De resultaten die wij verwachten te behalen zijn:
Project leader: Nynke Kruidering (FMG)
Projectteam: Robert van Wijk (FNWI), Natasa Brouwer (FNWI), Guusje Smit (FNWI/FMG), Gabriel Ramirez Acevedo (FMG)
Start project: Maart 2018
End project: Mei 2018
Funding: 2.500 euro
Downloads: projectvoorstel, Eindrapport
Advies van dit project: stapsgewijze implementatie binnen de drie voorgestelde pilots met de gebruikers die geidentificeerd zijn. Go / no go momenten voor opschaling.
The three pilots the project team recommend are:
Academic Skills and research methods – Assessment
The Academic skills courses are transcending courses throughout the bachelor programme. This makes them a perfect candidate for the pilot about assessment. As the needs assessment showed us, teachers of academic skills courses are in high demand of a good eportfolio tool that has a good assessment application. It would be ideal when the assignments are listed, graded and reviewed in the eportfolio, it can be used in transcending courses throughout the whole bachelor programme and students can keep track on their own development. The pilot could include one cohort of students in the bachelor programme in Computer Science and several courses that are coherent with each other. And also methods courses within the bachelor programme of the social sciences at the FMG.
Professionalisation
This project has a two-tiered strategy. Within the UvA we have teacher professionalisation programmes which each faculty designs differently. However in each programme there are elements of self reflection, peer feedback and many also have elements of ‘showcasing’. Many programmes miss coherent digital support strategies, using dropboxes, Blackboard Organisations or other workarounds to facilitate the process. Especially in the light of new initiatives within to UvA to set up Teaching and Learning Centers and giving extra focus to “Docent Professionalisering” (teacher professionalisation ), Pebbledpad could be applied very well to support the process of teacher professionalisation within the UvA. At the same time, when a teacher experiences a tool as a student, that can start to become familiar with it without having to have a highly developed vision of how portfolio teaching could possibly help them in their educational programmes. By first experiencing it as ‘students’ themselves, the adoption of the tool within the broader UvA teaching and learning could be a great benefit.
Post Graduation – Show-casing
For this pilot we recommend to select a master programme in which the students will use the portfolio tool to gather evidence to take with them after their graduation. The master programme has the choice to implement the portfolio in their education in one or more courses of their programme. The main objective is to support students in development to a professional career. We will do this in collaboration with the department student services.