Eportfolios enhancing the professional dialectic EDUC2118

  • Academic Session: 2024-25
  • School: School of Education
  • Credits: 30
  • Level: Level 2 (SCQF level 8)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 1
  • Available to Visiting Students: No
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No

Short Description

This course considers how eportfolios can be used as a professional resource to enhance collegiate critically underpinned reflections on practice with a view to considering and deciding upon future actions associated with the development of that practice.

Timetable

Two hours twilight (with a pre-recorded resource supplied one week in advance of each session) session normally taking place on a Thursday evening for six consecutive weeks

Requirements of Entry

Excluded Courses

NA

Co-requisites

NA

Assessment

Students will in small groups:

1. Create an eportfolio that:

1. a) evidences appropriate contributions from all group members around an overarching theme

1. b) blends a range of relevant reading with reflections on practice via web pages and a chat facility

1. c) incorporates and juxtaposes learning objects associated with the theme in a coherent manner (including design) that promotes collegiate professional development (50% weighting)

An alternative individual assignment will be provided where it is not possible for a participant to work in a group due to extenuating circumstances such as ill health.

2. Author, individually, a report on your portfolio that explains the notion of "collect, select, reflect, connect" (Hughes, 2008) and why and how those skills were enhanced via your engagement with the eportfolio, specific to selected aspects of the Standard for childhood Practice (SSSC, 2015). (50% weighting - 1500 words +/- 10 %)

Course Aims

To support students to:

1. Via their engagement with an eportfolio, to enhance the complex processes of self and collaborative professional evaluation.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Enhance the cyclical processes of goal setting, reflecting upon growth, and recognising achievement, followed by further goal setting to facilitate continued professional development via a collegiate eportfolio.

2. Develop a collegiate portfolio via decision-making and analysis concerning the selection and arrangement of the artifacts to be included as well as the development of eportfolio presentation skills to facilitate purposeful, informed and collegiate communication concerning professional development.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.