Opened Practices Users from Portland

Educator. Connector. Innovator.

Wende Morgaine has taught at Portland State University for more than five years. In 2005 and 2006 she was the Chief Portfolio Architect and Faculty Team Leader for ePortfolio Expansion, working on spreading and digitizing existing portfolio practices (through the Open Source Portfolio) across all of Portland State, Oregon’s largest university. In that capacity, she also served as Sakai describes itself as a "Collaboration and Learning Environment" (CLE). A CLE is an environment where professors can prepare and deliver courses, communicate, and collaborate with their students, It can also support ad hoc group collaboration, electronic portfolios, and research collaboration. In education, the most common term to describe the teaching and learning part of this tool set is "Learning Management System" (LMS).">CLE Communications Lead, planning the migration to Sakai from WebCT. During this time, in addition, she served as Conference Chair for the Sakai Foundation. Finally, she helped organize some strategic planning and grant writing among leaders in open source on the Portland State campus and across the region.

In 2007, Wende continued to serve as a consultant to higher education institutions around the country for implementing the Open Source Portfolio, Sakai, and for doing faculty development around technology adoption. She has written and presented about this work at length.

For the majority of the past three years, Wende had the great pleasure of doing some community management work for the Open Source Portfolio community. Having done a fair amount of this type of work while in graduate school, she was grateful to serve in the role of Geeky Border Collie yet again.

Wende holds an MST in Interdisciplinary Film Studies, specializing in genre scholarship and has taught courses on film and television for sophomore, juniors, and seniors in Portland State’s award-winning University Studies program. Course she has taught include “Gay Rights, Film, Television, & Social Change”, “The Serial Killer Film Genre”, and “Politics, the Silver Screen, & You”.

Currently, Wende is the VALUE Initiative Manager at the Association of American Colleges & Universities. The VALUE Initiative is a two year eportfolio Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses -- Shifting the Focus from Teaching to Learning. Boston, Allyn and Bacon.)

Courses and learning activities can be assessed via diverse mechanisms, such as pre- and post-tests, written assignments with rubrics, exams, surveys, and capstone or other comprehensive experiences documented with portfolios. Graded assessment of a student's performance regarding learning objectives is sometimes referred to as Evaluation or Summative Evaluation.

Links

• Wikipedia: Assessment

">assessment grant funded by FIPSE and State Farm that focuses on developing and testing common eportfolio assessment.

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Carol Morgaine has been involved in preparing undergraduate and graduate students to work, professionally, with children, youth and families for over thirty years.

Carol Morgaine has been involved in preparing undergraduate and graduate students to work, professionally, with children, youth and families for over thirty years. Having come up through the ranks as an early childhood and parent educator, her interests have gradually focused more on the professionals working with children and families than on the children and families themselves. She has been at Portland State University (PSU) since 1995. Her interest and involvement in the use of portfolios as a means of assessing student learning emerged after having taught a Capstone class and then creating a more focused, structured portfolio system for the CFS Program. Known as the only undergraduate major at PSU that uses a portfolio system to assess students’ learning, the CFS Professional Portfolio facilitates the development of skills or
strategies in a purposeful, reasoned, and directed way to reach truth
or achieve the best conclusion or action in a variety of settings.

Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of
actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing,
synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated
by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication,
as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, it is based on
universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions:
clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence,
good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness. (Michael Scriven &
Richard Paul, National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking
Instruction, 2007.)

Links

• Wikipedia: Critical Thinking
• The Foundation for Critical Thinking
• General Education Critical Thinking Rubric (Northeastern Illinois University)
• Perkins,
  C., & Murphy, E. (2006). Identifying and measuring individual
  engagement in critical thinking in online discussions: An exploratory
  case study. Educational Technology & Society, 9 (1), 298-307.

">critical thinking, professional writing Wikipedia: Skills

">skills, and integration of learning. Carol has also lived and taught in Kenya, at Kenyatta University, and is actively involved in conducting faculty-led Study Abroad programs for PSU students. Carol has an undergraduate degree in Home Economics: Child and Family Studies/Early Childhood Education, a master’s degree in Education: Early Childhood and Parent Education, and a Ph.D. in Education with emphasis in Women’s and Family Studies. She is a Professor and has served as Program Director for Child and Family Studies since 2001.