Educational Pathways, published by
Lorenzo
Associates, Inc., is providing In-depth, special
coverage on electronic portfolio, assessment & accreditation management
tools and systems. George Lorenzo, a seasoned education journalist and
president of Lorenzo Associates, is one of a few writers and researchers
who is actively covering these important topics that have enormous
impact on the future of higher education.
Access, through a
paid-subscription, the following in-depth vendor case studies,
published in the Spring-Summer 2008 issue of Educational Pathways
(abstracts below), featuring interviews with key executives and several
of their higher education clients who provide testimonials regarding
their adoption, implementation and future use of these tools and
systems.
- Chalk & Wire:
Founder of Chalk & Wire Geoff Irvine talks about ePortfolio2, an eportfolio
authoring tool that has unlimited storage, secure sharing
capabilities and is completely portable, and CWReporter, a desktop
reporting tool that allows users to download assessment data to
their desktops and perform complex statistical analyses.
Testimonials are provided by Southern Utah University,
Southern New Hampshire University and Oral Roberts University (ORU).
In particular, the story of how ORU successfully implemented Chalk
and Wire in its School of Education,
and later across campus, is an exceptional model of how an institution can
actually develop an eportfolio assessment system by creating an institutional
culture of evidence with sophisticated eportfolio and reporting features and
functions.
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- Digication:
Digication is a web-based eportfolio software company that was created by two
art educators, Jeffry Yan and Kelly Driscoll, both graduates of and faculty
members at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), noted as one of the top art
schools in the country. Driscoll and Yan also have extensive backgrounds in web
application development, user interface design, and digital media, so it makes
sense that they have created an eportfolio product and service that has become
highly regarded for its ease of use; great-looking, customizable and intuitive
interface; and its strong capability to easily store and display complex digital
images and video files. Driscoll and Yan also have a strong community-building,
social-networking, Web 2.0 kind of mindset that is helping to steer their
product down interesting and highly creative educational pathways.
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- LiveText:
Co-founder Robert Budnik talks about
what all accrediting agencies have in common, explaining how the
LiveText suite of tools helps institutions address six guiding
principles related to accreditation processes. In addition,
Budnik says that
when an institution approaches his company, or vice versa, the early discussions
typically focus on discovering what learning objectives and outcomes need to be
measured and at what levels. He reviews the overarching options to take under consideration when building the structure for
providing evidence of student learning. Additionally, education professionals
from California Baptist University and the University of Central
Florida talk about how they are using LiveText.
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- TaskStream:
Executive Vice President Webster
Thompson provides an overview of this company's newest
solution, called the Accountability Management System (AMS), and the re-branding of its popular
eportfolio system, now called Learning Achievement Tools (LAT).. Read about how Texas Woman’s University (TWM),
has developed a continuous improvement system using TasksStream
tools. Carol Kominski,
TWM associate vice president for Institutional Effectiveness and Research, has
implemented an Academic Institutional Effectiveness System (AIES) where the goal
is to get 102 degree programs on board to effectively utilize TaskStream LAT
accounts for producing institutional effectiveness plans and reports according
to pre-defined rubrics. In addition, University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) Professor of Education and Department of
Educational Leadership Program Coordinator John Fischetti, explains why and how
the UNCW Watson School of Education uses TaskStream.
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- Stay tuned. Many
other vendor case studies are coming throughout 2008. Plus, some
informative web-based broadcasts are on the horizon.
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