Yesterday I attended CIRCLe 2018, a one-day symposium on ePortfolios hosted by the Faculty of Arts at UBC in collaboration with the UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology. In addition to having the pleasure of giving the lunch address with Christina Schulz, Liberal Studies 2018 and one of our outgoing peer mentors, we heard from Tracy Penny Light (TRU and AAEEBL Board Chair), Thomas Lewis (Microsoft), and many inspiring UBC students and faculty.
I left with a sense that we are on the right track with our ePortfolio initiative here at Capilano University. We are striving to navigate the terrain between learning and career portfolios with care. We are foregrounding the importance of reflection and process in portfolio development. And we are setting out to cultivate a student-centred portfolio culture.
I left with new ideas for ways of moving forward. And I am excited by the possibilities for cross-campus collaborations that could emerge as ever more campuses explore the potential for portfolios to bridge academic learning and professional identities.
A warm thank you to Heidi May (Faculty of Arts, Office of the Dean & Arts ISIT) and Julie Walchi (Arts Co-op) for the invitation to join you yesterday.