The ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee are pleased to announce our next webinar for 2024:

Programmatic assessment with eportfolio thinking

4 July 2024 – 7.00 pm-8.15 pm

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) offers great opportunities in learning and teaching, however, it is also contributing to existing assessment integrity challenges within higher education.

TEQSA, Australia’s higher education quality assurance and regulator, has provided guiding principles on how higher education providers could approach this issue through the ‘Assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence’ document.

Taking an eportfolio approach in learning and teaching offers a dynamic method to support programmatic assessment. By integrating eportfolios practices, Australian universities and higher education providers can move beyond traditional assessment methods to a more holistic approach that captures a wide range of student learning experiences which demonstrates their program learning outcomes.

This webinar will highlight and showcase how an eportfolio approach to programmatic assessment supports TEQSA’s guiding principles through presentations by academics and learning designers using eportfolio approaches in this way.

Presenters:

Heather Pate and Janica Jamieson, Edith Cowan University – Programmatic assessment e-portfolio in practice in Nutrition & Dietetics
Kate Mitchell, University of Melbourne – Programmatic design for ePortfolios and beyond
Michael Sankey, Charles Darwin University

Bios:

Heather Pate is a senior learning designer in the Centre for Learning and Teaching, working with the School of Medical and Health Sciences and the School of Education. Heather’s background is in whole-of-course design, scaffolded learning, and designing curriculum for all students.

Janica Jamison is a lecturer in the Master of Nutrition and Dietetics in the School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University. Janica is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and experienced educator. Her research interest lies in health professions education, particularly the evaluation and application of programmatic assessment, which was the focus on her doctoral research.

Kate Mitchell is the Senior Learning Designer (ePortfolio) within Student and Scholarly Services at University of Melbourne. She has been working with portfolios and ePortfolios for well over a decade, both in her past lives as a Secondary and Vocational education teacher and media producer, then moving to and supporting educational technologies within tertiary and higher education since 2011. She is a longstanding ePortfolios Australia organising committee member, and currently part of the AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force.
Aside from a love/hate relationship with ePortfolios, Kate has a passion for learning design, particularly where there are opportunities to work at the programmatic level and to support equity in online education. She is also passionate about supporting others in the field through mentorship, communities of practice and research. Connect with Kate on LinkedIn