URBAN PHOTOGRAPHER

My project, " Learning together through SEAMEO- AUS EDULINK: Practices and Principles for Collaborative Pedagogy and Assessment using ePortfolios", has been selected as one of the two winners of the SEAMEO Australia Education Links Award. ​This project strives for building a trusted community for the professional development of its members.

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In this proposed project, I will design and develop two interrelated innovations—an interactive eLearning course entitled "Practices and principles for collaborative pedagogy and assessment using e-Portfolios" and a community of practice (CoP) named " SEAMEO- AUS EDULINK." While an online course proposes enhancing participants' knowledge and skills in using portfolios for authentic learning, the SEAMEO- AUS EDULINK CoP aims at building trust and form a bond among participants to create a friendly environment where they will continuously engage in exchanging ideas and practices throughout the project implementation.

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The two foci are at the heart of the program development, involving e-portfolios as collaborative pedagogy and authentic assessment and community of practices to teaching and learning. 

Investigate and analyse: The participating teachers will learn the principles of using e-portfolios to assess students' learning through interactive eLearning. They will also critically discuss how ePortfolio might allow them to develop their professional identity and engage with reflective practice.

Practice: The participating teachers will create portfolios to introduce themselves and their hometown and showcase their teaching as they like. 

Share: The participating teachers will share their stories with other teachers using their portfolios through the SEAMEO- AUS EDULINK CoP. They will actively engage in giving and receiving feedback throughout the process. At the end of the project, the participants will have an opportunity to work together with other teachers or work individually to create a 2-5-minute promo video to pitch how they have used and/or will use e-portfolios to enhance students' learning.

Reflect and revise: The participants will be encouraged to write reflective journals to reflect on their experience throughout this experiment. 

In essence, the participating teachers, educators and research team will continuously exchange resources and give constructive feedback to the participants' portfolios throughout the project implementation in a trust and friendly environment.

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Within this community of practice, I will design and develop a series of microlearning courses that will be implemented from September to December 2021. There will be three primary courses:

1. Practice and principles of using ePortfolios in education

2. Professional ePortfolios

3. Creating your portfolio on the Wix platform.

This capstone presents the third course of this series. 

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Learning theories behind this

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The learning theories behind this design are constructivism, connectivism and andragogy. As participating teachers are adults who are willing to learn about using ePortfolios to enhance their teaching and learning activities as well as engage in reflective practices, their learning will be driven by their intrinsic motivation. They are able to direct their learning whilst exchanging ideas and practices with other participating teachers. By engaging with other teachers in this online CoP, each teacher develops professional self-identity. At the same time, their engagement would shape the collective identity of their CoP (Weinberg et al., 2021). 

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A video clip below summarises this learning scenario.