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myMAPP
Cultural Shift from
Teaching to
Learning through ePortfolios
Steve Bullock
Professor, Political Science
Director, Center for ePortfolio Based
Assessment (CeBA)
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Matt Morton
Manager of Web Development and Enterprise
Architecture
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Mapping Academic Performance through ePortfolios
Overview
An Introduction to the Tool
History
Institutional Culture Shift
Institutional Framework
Components
Architecture Plan
Progress
Questions
Tool
myMAPP
myMAPP/enterpris
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IR
Data
myMAPP/colleg
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myMAPP/departmen
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myMAPP/faculty
myMAPP/studen
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myMAPP/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
Shift to AQIP track in HLC—more data driven
Faculty and administrators more focused on
student learning
Increase in assessment initiatives
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-Assessment coordinator and mentors
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-Assessment grants
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-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
ePortfolio Based Assessment (CeBA)
Reorganization of ITS to support processes
myMAPP/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 myMAPP/Faculty undertaken with
valuable feedback
myMAPP/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
myMAPP/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
myMAPP/enterprise
myMAPP/college
Report
myMAPP/dept Report
Current Architecture
Design Heuristics
reusability
modular structure
private and secure
ease of use
System Architecture
Application Architecture
Semantic Architecture
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Rich taxonomy
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Allows for deep and easy classification
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Flexibility - can be adapted to other organizations
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Can be difficult to put in data - cognitive load
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working on this
Ontology
Interoperability
Semantic web services
Developed portfolio XML standard
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PML - Portfolio Markup Language
Description
Why another standard?
Differences with other standards
e-Portfolio Interoperability Model
XML Standard
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http://mymapp.unomaha.edu/standards/portfolio.xs
d.html
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Open Standard
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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?