Learning Objectives

1. Identify the challenges faced by students when they engage with ePortfolio writing

2. Examine ways to support students in writing effective reflections on their learning and experience

3. Critically assess some ‘case study’ examples of international best practice associated with writing reflectively for ePortfolio

4. Reflect on how these successes and challenges might transfer to an Irish higher education context, and discuss ways to enhance student engagement through reflective writing.

Professor Kathleen Yancey

Kathleen Blake Yancey, Kellogg Hunt Professor of English and Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Florida State University, specializes in writing studies and in portfolio theory and practice.

She has served as president/chair of all the major US literacy organizations, including the Council of Writing Program Administrators, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), and the National Council of Teachers of English. She is also active in national assessment efforts; a steering committee member of the AAC&U VALUE project, she is a faculty member for the WASC Assessment Leadership Academy. Author/co-author of 100+ refereed articles and book chap¬ters, she is also the author/editor/coeditor of 16 scholarly books, among them Eportfolios 2.0 and ePortfolio-as-Curriculum. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Purdue University Distinguished Woman Scholar Award, the FSU Graduate Teaching Award (twice), and the CCCCC Exemplar Award.

Her first book on portfolios, the 1992 edited collection Portfolios in the Writing Classroom was followed by her 1997 co-edited Situating Portfolios, which included sections on both print and electronic portfolios. Other publications on ePortfolios followed, including the coedited Electronic Portfolios 2.0: Emergent Research on Implementation and Impact and her most recent edited collection, ePortfolio-as-Curriculum Models and Practices for Developing Students’ ePortfolio Literacy. Her most recent book ‘ePortfolio as Curriculum: Models and Practices for Developing Students’ ePortfolio Literacy’ was published in 2019.