Who Owns the ePortfolio?
After reading this week’s articles and observing some of the powerful discussions already taking place, my understanding of the ownership of ePortfolios can be simply stated as: taking ownership represents one’s genuine, reflective, and ongoing lifelong learning. That is ours, always will be, and will continually shift as we continue to learn and grow.
However, we as students do not own the ideas Lamar University shares with us and promotes through various videos, articles, and discussion questions, but the thoughts and learning taking place in our own lives each week are indeed ours. Our school and professors are guides to meaningful learning and this is represented clearly through the COVA process by giving us ownership opportunities. Moreover, our teachers are not just showing us, but they are “walking the walk” by teaching us using the ePortfolio model themselves! This guarantees credible learning because they have experienced what we are experiencing – the application of learned knowledge and concepts into a creation that can be shared with others.
Thus, when these ideas and learning experiences become ours, we can then take it to the next level like our professors have done and share them with others by creating powerful representations of our learning through projects, posts, etc. I strongly believe the highest level of learning is when you can share your own understandings and teach someone else. This cycle of learning all starts with the importance of taking ownership of one’s own learning. So go forth, and own your learning!
However, we as students do not own the ideas Lamar University shares with us and promotes through various videos, articles, and discussion questions, but the thoughts and learning taking place in our own lives each week are indeed ours. Our school and professors are guides to meaningful learning and this is represented clearly through the COVA process by giving us ownership opportunities. Moreover, our teachers are not just showing us, but they are “walking the walk” by teaching us using the ePortfolio model themselves! This guarantees credible learning because they have experienced what we are experiencing – the application of learned knowledge and concepts into a creation that can be shared with others.
Thus, when these ideas and learning experiences become ours, we can then take it to the next level like our professors have done and share them with others by creating powerful representations of our learning through projects, posts, etc. I strongly believe the highest level of learning is when you can share your own understandings and teach someone else. This cycle of learning all starts with the importance of taking ownership of one’s own learning. So go forth, and own your learning!
"You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them."
- Jennifer Lopez
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