E-portfolio Research for AAEEBL

[Coach Carole]

The Research Committee of the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence Based Learning (AAEEBL) is conducting research to gain greater understanding about eportfolio use.  Our 2012 survey will assess the motivations, benefits, strengths, and challenges of eportfolio implementations across diverse institutions.  In particular, this survey will examine how eportfolio pedagogies and assessment strategies are being promoted globally in higher education and also will aim at identifying conditions conducive to successful eportfolio implementation.  

We invite you to participate in this important research in order to add to the current knowledge base in the eportfolio field.  The survey will be available for your response at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2012aaeeblsurvey starting on May 9 through June 22 with preliminary findings to be shared and discussed at the annual AAEEBL conference in Boston, July 16-19.  In order to ensure that as broad an international audience as possible is able to contribute to our ongoing discussion on these issues, we will also follow-up after the conference with online venues such as webinars and web chats.

Please share about ten minutes of your time with us, and respond to survey questions from your own individual, personal and professional perspectives.  We do not expect for you to feel responsible as the primary spokesperson for your program or for what may be several eportfolio initiatives at your institution.  We encourage you to concentrate on a single eportfolio project or program with which you are involved.  However, we urge you to forward this survey to colleagues who may also be working with eportfolios on your campus so that our research will represent a diverse range of eportfolio-related initiatives.

On behalf of the Research Committee,

Gary Brown (bro...@pdx.edu), Helen Chen (hlc...@stanford.edu), Trent Batson (trent...@mac.com), Aifang Gordon (aif...@pdx.edu), Judy Batson (judyb...@me.com)