Learning and Teaching in Practice/Course guide/Assessment portfolio

Overview
There is one cumulative assessment portfolio that must be presented for marking in this course. For this course, you are asked to set up and develop a digital portfolio (also called an electronic or e-portfolio). This will need to be accessible to the facilitators for feedback and marking. If you do not wish to make your work public, you will need to provide the course co-ordinator with access details.

For formally enrolled participants - formative feedback will be given on the development of the portfolio throughout the course. You may request marking of any section before the final due date. Suggested checkpoints for progressive marking and grading are after you have completed module 4 and module 8. This is encouraged and you will be encouraged to create an Assessment timeline plan to help keep you on task.

Requirements
Compile a portfolio (collection of evidence, narrative and reflective discussion supported by literature) to demonstrate your learning. In compiling your portfolio include these items for each module.
 * 1) Evidence: material that you collect or create when doing the activities or from other experiences – needs to be authentic, current, sufficient and relevant to the learning outcomes, and easily located.
 * 2) Narrative: a well-structured and coherent story used to explain your choice of evidence and how it relates to the learning outcomes of the module, and to your practice;
 * 3) Reflective discussion: reflection on your evidence, using several examples, about what you have learned.  Include how and why this learning is relevant to your work and has impacted upon your practice (that is, has changed it and influenced decisions and possible future actions).
 * 4) Supporting literature:  use and integrate a broad range of educational literature and other forms of information throughout the narrative and reflective discussion to support your perspectives (APA referencing is required).


 * Exemplar for Module One ePortfolio.

Portfolio evidence
You must provide sufficient evidence and reflections in your portfolio that you have met the learning outcomes for each module. You may use a mix of media (e.g., audio, video, images and diagrams) for these, and you are advised to also include written work. The Portfolio Activities are designed to help you collate and prepare evidence and reflections for your portfolio.

Provided you can show you have met the course outcomes, you have considerable freedom over the sorts of evidence you submit and how it is presented. See the Study desk for detailed suggestions for the Portfolio Activities that might be appropriate for each module.

In its simplest form, the reflection might comprise a written blog post with the evidence as an attached file. Or, you might include just the narrative and reflective portions in your blog with links to evidence stored in Google Sites or some other form of web storage.