ePortfolios & National Standards

The Association for American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) sees ePortfolios as a venue for "high-impact learning" (E-Portfolio Forum). Many national organizations, especially those devoted to writing pedagogy agree that ePortfolios offer optimal scenes for learning. According to a position statement from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), ePortofolios are seen as valuable tools both for student reflection and learning. ePortfolios therefore represent a productively organic, academically appropriate, and personally meaningful method for assessing student learning:

Students are guided by clearly articulated individual, course, programmatic, or institutional outcomes in their collection, selection, reflection upon, and presentation of “artifacts” (various electronic documents) in the e-portfolio. At the same time, students structure portfolios around their own learning goals. ("Principles & Practices")

Thus, E-Portfolios! In the flipcards ahead, you will see how to use UVU's CANVAS system to help build and/or link to your ePortfolio assignment in ways that will benefit student reflective learning and serve both course and Gen Ed assessment purposes.