Debbie Oesch-Minor and Salsabil Qaddoura: Foster student ownership and empowerment through a portfolio

Prof Dr Debbie Oesch-Minor and her student Salsabil Qaddoura from Indiana University Indianapolis talk about portfolios at IU Indianapolis, in particular in Debbie's composition course that Salsabil took where she created a portfolio that showed her the power of this practice.

Debbie shares her reasons for working with portfolios and supporting other faculty and students in the portfolio process within the ePortfolio Studio. Salsabil outlines the benefits that she as student saw while engaged in the portfolio process, which she then also shared with other faculty at the university.

Resources

• AAEEBL
• High-impact practices
• ePortfolio student showcase
• Oesch-Minor, D. (2023, July 14). EPortfolios on the Fives: Simplifying and streamlining ePortfolio building for students and faculty [Presentation]. AAEEBL Annual Meeting, Vancouver
• Salsabil's portfolio 'Legal, not always just'
• Dweck, C. (2014). Developing a growth mindset [Presentation]. Stanford+Connects micro lecture, New York.
• Elbow, P. (1993). Ranking, evaluating, and liking: Sorting out three forms of judgment. College English, 55(2), 187–206.
• Pratt, M. L. (1991). Arts of the contact zone. Profession, 33–40.
• Percy, J. (2014, October 14). My terrifying night with Afghanistan’s only female warlord. The New Republic.
• Berehulak, D. (2016, December 7). 'They are slaughtering us like animals.' The New York Times.
• Hoeppner, K. (2015, April 9). Scaffolding ePortfolio use [Presentation]. Mahara Hui 2015, Auckland, New Zealand.
• NACE career readiness competencies
• ePortfolios Australia PARE sessions

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• Cathy Elliott: Have fun, be flexible, and encourage feedback in your portfolio
• Amy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practices
• The wunderkammer: Metaphors in portfolio practice
• Allison Miller: The portfolio is a process

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Production information
Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward