ePortfolios in Australian Universities

Dr Jennifer Rowley is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. She has worked in higher education since 1993 and is committed to enhancing students’ learning experiences through evolving and effective pedagogic practice. Her specialisations are eLearning (its design and use for learning engagement); the use of ePortfolios for enhancing student learning; social, professional and identity issues for practice (concerns of beginning professionals, graduate professional capabilities, behaviour management, cultural diversity, social justice and equity); secondary and tertiary Teaching and Learning and gifted education. Jennifer currently lectures in pedagogy and curriculum; educational and developmental psychology; behaviour management and social and professional issues for music teachers at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. Her research interests are in professional learning and how the individual cognitive, social, emotional and behavioural needs of all learners can be met in a diverse range of educational and technology settings. Jennifer has published on various aspects of teaching and learning in higher education and has been awarded two Australian Government funded research grants to investigate the effectiveness of ePortfolios.

• Chapter 1 Professional learning ecosystem support for ePortfolio use in Australia higher education: An historical perspective.- Chapter 2 Striving for sustainability: ePortfolio pedagogy in Australian higher education.- Chapter 3 Professional development to support the embedding of ePortfolios in higher education programs.- Chapter 4 ePortfolio, assessment and professional skills in the Medical Sciences.- Chapter 5 ePortfolios and the development of student career identity within a community of practice: Academics as facilitators and guides.- Chapter 6 ePortfolios in a music faculty: Student differentiations, applications and uses.- Chapter 7 The roles and features of ePortfolios in two Australian Initial Teacher Education degree programs.- Chapter 8 Mindful collections: Purposeful ePortfolios planned across an undergraduate degree.- Chapter 9 Embedding ePortfolios in a postgraduate medical sonography program.- Chapter 10 Perceived usefulness and relevance of ePortfolios in the creative arts: Investigating student views.- Chapter 11 A strategic approach to institution-wide implementation of ePortfolios.- Chapter 12 Building professional capabilities: ePortfolios as developmental ecosystems.