The ePortfolio team has been supporting faculty and students throughout the entire remote learning and working experience and were particularly adept at helping less digitally prepared members of our community from day one.
With courses being a hybrid of online and in-person, digital tools such as Digication ePortfolio have proven particularly useful. Over 200 courses have used ePortfolio to document and assess students’ learning per academic year. The students in these courses created ePortfolios to upload their assignments, reflect on their work, and showcase their achievements. Through creative use of ePortfolio, students expand their digital footprint and can improve their online presence—a crucial skill in the current virtual environment. Expanding beyond classroom learning, our cohort programs utilize ePortfolio with as their program information site as well as a tool for student showcase, which documents to funders, students’ success outside of the classroom through experiential learning opportunities, such as internships and service-learning experiences. These cohort programs are ACE, CUSP, APPLE Corps, CEEDS, LEAP, the John Jay Honors Program, the Macaulay Honors Program at John Jay, the Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK Program.
ePortfolio is a tool for all John Jay students. We serve a large majority of incoming freshman through their ENG 101 and 201 courses, among other courses. We anticipate increasing our current level of ePortfolio used in previous academic years.
The Digital Creation Lab - 334HH
As noted above in the Overview and Rationale, the benefits of ePortfolio for students are well documented in the literature and supported by AAC&U as a high-impact practice. We have honed our training sessions for students, faculty and staff and created numerous ePortfolio support web sites, in particular our NEW Student Support Site (https://johnjay.digication.com/student-support/home), which hosts step-by-step tutorials in print and video formats, exemplar student ePortfolios, and features.
The Digital Creation Lab is under Bryce Tolbert, the Director of Academic Support and Learning Technologies. As noted above, we have an ePortfolio Program Manager who is the primary manages of the ePortfolio Program.
Girard Tecson, DCL & ePortfolio Program Manager, and he supervise the eTerns.
This proposal speaks directly to goals : Student Success
Objective: “Guide and support students as they master foundational intellectual skills, discover and construct knowledge for themselves, attain degrees and certificates, and develop themselves personally and shape their relationships to others, both locally and globally.”
and Research and Scholarship
Objective: “Establish the infrastructure needed to support high quality research, scholarship and creative work.” by providing students with a platform to showcase their work, academically, personally, and career related entities.