November 13, 2015

Signaling Student Experience and Accomplishment: How Badges, Portfolios, and Alternative Credentials

Redefine Evidence of Learning

Agenda

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Welcome

Evidence of Learning: Definition & Overview

Panelist Introductions

Moderated Discussion: The Value of True Measures

Audience Q&A

Additional Resources

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Adam Newman Founder and Managing Partner, Tyton Partners

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Adam is a founding partner of Tyton Partners, with more than 15 years of experience in consulting and market research, management, banking, and teaching across all segments of the education sector. Prior to founding Tyton Partners, Adam was a director at Berkery Noyes, where he originated the firm’s strategic advisory practice for education companies and investors. Previously, Adam served as managing vice president at Eduventures, leading the firm’s industry solutions division. Prior to Eduventures, Adam served as a senior manager at the Corporate Executive Board in the company’s corporate strategy board practice.

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What Is “Evidence of Learning”?

Evidence of Learning: “The body of knowledge, skills, and experience achieved through both formal and informal activities, that individuals accumulate and validate during their lifetime.”

Dr. Bret Eynon Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, LaGuardia Community College (CUNY)

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Dr. Bret Eynon is a historian and Dean at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY). Founder of LaGuardia’s Center for Teaching and Learning, Eynon is on the national faculty of the Association of American Colleges & Universities. With Georgetown’s Randy Bass, he led the Visible Knowledge Project, producing The Difference that Inquiry Makes: A Collaborative Case Study on Technology and Learning. With Laura Gambino, Eynon led the Connect to Learning Project, a 24- campus community of practice that advanced learning for more than 110,00 students and produced Catalyst for Learning: ePortfolio Resources & Research. http://c2l.mcnrc.org/ Eynon & Bass forthcoming essay, Open & Integrative: Designing Liberal Education for the New Ecosystem, will be released by AAC&U in January 2016.

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What Difference does ePortfolios Make? Connect to Learning Findings

When done well, ePortfolio makes learning visible and leads to these measureable outcomes:

1.  Advance Student Learning & Success 2.  Support Reflection, Social Pedagogy and Deep Learning 3.  Catalyze Learning-Centered Institutional Change

Eynon, Gambino & Torok, “The Difference that ePortfolio Makes: A Field Report from the Connect to Learning Project.”

International Journal of ePortfolio, Spring 2014 http://www.theijep.com/

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Alignment & Its Challenges •  LaGuardia uses ePortfolio &

artifacts of student learning to assess outcomes for General Education, disciplinary majors, and co-curricular learning.

•  15-20,000 artifacts per year.

•  Sustained engagement of stakeholders is crucial. Faculty must take ownership.

•  Highly challenging to do across institutions & with employers

Dr. Jeff King Executive Director, Center for Excellence in Transformative Teaching & Learning, University of Central Oklahoma

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Jeff King, Ed.D., is Executive Director of UCO’s Center for Excellence in Transformative Teaching and Learning. His research and application interests have long focused on what faculty can do to help students learn, to be motivated toward deep learning strategies, and to persist in their educations. A decades-long study of educational beliefs held by faculty and students and how to change limiting beliefs has found its way into his work at UCO. Over the years, whether as college faculty member or in faculty professional development, he has matched passion to position in helping students learn. His Ed.D. in Higher Education with a cognate in Adult and Continuing Education is from the University of North Texas.

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UCO’s Student Transformative Learning Record

Matthew Pittinsky, Ph.D. Chief Executive Officer, Parchment

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Matthew brings to Parchment a unique background as both an education technology entrepreneur and a sociologist of education. In 1997 he co-founded Blackboard Inc., serving first as Chief Executive Officer and then Executive Chairman. Matthew is on the faculty of Arizona State University, serves on the Board of Trustees of The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and is leading a national effort to establish a national, standardized Postsecondary Achievement Report (PAR). In 2012 the Teachers College at Columbia University awarded Matthew with The President’s Medal of Excellence. He is a frequent speaker, and has recently been invited to present at NewSchools Summit, Association of American Universities meeting, National Association for College Admission Counseling National Conference and SXSWedu.

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Moderated Discussion: The Value of True Measures

•  Why now?

•  Capturing learning for learning’s sake

•  Implementation and outcomes

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Why Now?

•  The landscape is rapidly evolving •  New ways of understanding, measuring evidence of learning •  Students demanding more, as the role of higher education changes

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Capturing Learning for Learning’s Sake

Institutions •  Better able to serve students

•  Connecting learning with research

Students •  Taking ownership of their learning path

•  Understanding core competencies

Employers •  Deeper understanding of full set of skills

•  Alternative formats (e.g., portfolios, badges) show more than historical models

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Implementation and Outcomes

•  Making connections – Institutions sharing resources, best practices

•  Showcasing experiences beyond the classroom

•  Redeveloping an existing model

•  Authentic assessment vs. proxy assessment

05 Questions & Answers

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Additional Resources

For additional resources on evidence of learning, including the recording of this webinar, please visit: tytonpartners.com/library/webinar