“Learning for the Future: ePortfolios Across the Learning Career”
Dr. Tracy Penny Light, a leading scholar in the field of e-portfolios and learning, will discuss how engaging learners with e-portfolios enables them to make visible their knowledge and to explore ways to transfer learning to a variety of contexts (workplace, academic, community).
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Today’s students come to university to learn with the aim of a career upon graduation. Yet often traditional disciplinary approaches to learning mask the knowledge, skills, and abilities that enable learners to articulate what they know, understand, and are able to do to audiences outside the University, including potential employers. Engaging learners with e-portfolios enables them to make visible their knowledge and to explore ways to transfer learning to a variety of contexts (workplace, academic, community). This talk explores examples of learning designed for future readiness with e-portfolios. Participants will consider how they can enable learners in their contexts to document their abilities, foster lifelong learning and facilitating learning for the future.
Dr. Tracy Penny Light, Associate Professor of History and former Executive Director of the Centre for Student Engagement and Learning Innovation at Thompson Rivers University, is a leading scholar in the field of e-portfolios and learning. Her ongoing educational research focuses on e-portfolios as a pedagogical approach to learner engagement and transformation. Prior to becoming a professor, Tracy worked in areas of faculty development and instructional technologies. In addition to using e-portfolios in her own courses, she has worked with other institutions, faculty and staff to implement e-portfolios. She has co-authored two books on e-portfolios: Electronic Portfolios and Student Success (2010) and Documenting Learning with ePortfolios (2011).
