Speaker

Teresa McKinnon is an open educator, an award winning language teacher with a wealth of expertise in professional online activity. Experienced in education management and course design in secondary and higher education, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Certified Member of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), Teresa has extensive experience of the integration of computer-mediated communication in learning design. She retired in January 2021 from her post as Associate Professor at the University of Warwick but remains active online as @WarwickLanguage where she enjoys connecting educators internationally across sectors. She advocates open educational practice, leads ALT’s Open Education Special Interest Group and is active in the areas of virtual exchange and open badges.

Learning Objectives

• Understand how students are using ePortfolios in higher education
• Recognise the issues that students experience when using ePortfolios and evaluate the importance of student and staff support structures
• Participants will learn about the use for ePortfolio implementation across different disciplines
• Explore assessment strategies and the collaborative approach used with ePortfolios
• Explore the trends with regards to the reflection, ownership, and portable information technology skills among students

This is a hybrid event. Attendees can choose to take part in person or online. Refreshments will be served on arrival and a light lunch will be offered to attendees following the event at 1pm.