my MAPP Cultural Shift from Teaching to Learning

® my. MAPP Cultural Shift from Teaching to Learning through e. Portfolios Steve Bullock Professor, Political Science Director, Center for e. Portfolio Based Assessment (Ce. BA) University of Nebraska at Omaha Matt Morton Manager of Web Development and Enterprise Architecture University of Nebraska at Omaha Mapping Academic Performance through e. Portfolios

Overview An Introduction to the Tool History Institutional Culture Shift Institutional Framework Components Architecture Plan Progress Questions

Tool

my. MAPP/enterpris e IR Data my. MAPP/colleg e my. MAPP/departmen t my. MAPP/faculty my. MAPP/student my. MAPP/staff

History at UNO Extensive use of portfolios in the College of Education Movement to create a student e-portfolio system across the university Charge by the CAO to digitize faculty Annual Review process Decision to create a faculty portfolio system in advance of the student system

Institutional Culture Shift to AQIP track in HLC—more data driven Faculty and administrators more focused on student learning Increase in assessment initiatives -Assessment coordinator and mentors -Assessment grants -Programs with professional accreditation

Institutional Framework Strong strategic planning process The merging of Academic and Student Affairs—all institutional activities revolve around student learning Support of upper administration as well as some enthusiastic faculty members and departments Participation in the International Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research (INCEPR) and the Center for e. Portfolio Based Assessment (Ce. BA) Reorganization of ITS to support processes

my. MAPP/faculty Implemented for 2006 -2007 Annual Review Departments created master category lists Account of year’s activities shared by faculty with chairs who shared with deans who shared with Vice Chancellor Assessment of my. MAPP/Faculty undertaken with valuable feedback

my. MAPP/student Focused on direct measures of student achievement Tied directly to student learning outcomes Will allow for assessment of assignments by faculty to be captured Expected to be minimally invasive for faculty Pilot to be run in spring of 2008 in two course sections

my. MAPP/enterprise contains data from the dept and college portfolios way to integrate data that is live and in the data warehouse (historical) consists of data warehouse reporting primarily

my. MAPP/enterprise

my. MAPP/college Report

my. MAPP/dept Report

Current Architecture Design Heuristics reusability modular structure private and secure ease of use

System Architecture

Application Architecture

Semantic Architecture • Rich taxonomy • Allows for deep and easy classification • Flexibility - can be adapted to other organizations • Can be difficult to put in data - cognitive load • working on this

Ontology

Interoperability Semantic web services Developed portfolio XML standard • PML - Portfolio Markup Language Description Why another standard? Differences with other standards

e-Portfolio Interoperability Model

XML Standard • http: //mymapp. unomaha. edu/standards/portfolio. xs d. html • • Open Standard Partners?

Progress

Lessons Learned Know academic processes (or at least begin to discover) assessment, program review, etc. Getting more input from faculty - UI improvements, taxonomy Managing faculty resistance Piloting with students - more cautious process (cognitive overload)

Questions?