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2-week seminar at SCoPE "An ePortfolio is an online collection of your work that you choose to represent your skills and interests to diverse audiences." University of British Columbia During this 2-week seminar Catherine and Roselynn will introduce us to UBC's Portfolio Community of Practice. They have invited members of the CoP to share their teaching and course eportfolios and encourage all seminar participants to discuss their experiences with portfolio projects. This seminar will be of interest to those involved in or curious about portfolio projects, as well as to those interested in building and facilitating faculty communities of practice.

Amazing example of an inquiry based project "How does the Renaissance provide ideas for improving Calgary today?"

"ePEARL was designed with the help of sound pedagogical research, input from LEARN and English language arts consultants, and practical advice from teachers in the field. ePEARL is designed to scaffold the self-regulation process for students as well as to support the teachers guiding them." (The Software, ¶1, 2010.06.09)

Stage 1 "findings revealed that there was a high level of interest in the use of ePortfolios in the context of higher education, particularly in terms of the potential to help students become reflective learners who are conscious of their personal and professional strengths and weaknesses, as well as to make their existing and developing skills more explicit."

Thanks to Meg for pointing this out on her Kwantlen Mahara Pilot page

"The [OECD's OER] project analyses and maps the scale and scope of initiatives regarding "open educational resources" (OER) in terms of their purpose, content, and funding" (Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) - Open Educational Resources, ¶2).

The purpose of this seminar is to share, learn, and discuss strategies and current projects in the area of automating the instructional design process. With the explosion of web 2.0, rapid e-learning design, online simulations, and other modes of training, it seems the time is right to pull together a tool that can aid the instructional designer in fitting the right type of training for the given purpose of the instruction. Is an electronic performance support system (EPSS) for designers desirable, possible? What should be included as the focus of any automated tool to instructional design?

Holger mentioned three kinds of trust: 1) affect-based - "influenced by the first visual expression we have, plus the additional information we get from our other senses" (¶2); 2) cognition-based - derived from analysis of personal info. and behavior (¶3); and 3) swift - derived from observation of "team members' behavior while working on joint projects" (¶4).

This project has developed a background and actionable strategies paper for bilateral and multilateral institutions to contribute to global OER activities. These efforts are aimed at helping to promote institutional collaboration in future OER endeavors.

extensive review by Adam C. Engst

"The European Commission is seeking input on the promotion and validation of non-formal and informal learning. The implications of an EU-policy on this issue would be far-reaching, especially if it were to devise an accreditation initiative or  framework evaluating informal learning experiences (e.g., through those gained via open courses such as the ones offered by George Siemens, Alec Couros, Jim Groom, Stephen Downes, David Wiley, & Dave Cormier)." It will be interesting to follow this as a possible model for informal learning at SCoPE and other PD opportunities. Related to the "Evaluation Practices for Informal/Self-Paced Adult Learning" seminar: http://scope.bccampus.ca/mod/forum/view.php?id=1691