Proof of performance in the module "information technology and its social context"
Portfolio (lat.: portare - to carry: folium - leaf) meant orrginally pocket book or wallet. A portfolio is a collection of objects of a certain type.
Portfolios are in use in art and design, in economics, in product and service management and in learning and teaching.
During education a portfolio serves the development of personal, methodological and subject-specific skills of the learners plus as a proof of performance. Typical of a portfolio is the continued work on it, reflection of the author and feedback from teachers, mentors and co-learners. Thus a portfolio is a good tool in competency-based learning (blog 13 Dec 2011) [and in English CW2009]).
The 8+1 W (blog 29 Mar 2012 [and in English 29 Jul 2019]) can serve to describe a portfolio:
Portfolios in education are used for one course, a study program or as a personal continued education portfolio. If the portfolio serves as proof of performance the teacher has to formulate learning objectives and assessment criteria in advance and to come to an agreement with the students (blog 11 Feb 2012).
A portfolio contains completed tasks, reflections and undertakings. The author can and should use it not only as proof of performance during her or his education or an (admission) exam. She or he should use it also to look upon certain topics a few years later, to see what the author did, thought and had in mind so far. Thus it is first and foremost a portfolio for yourself, the author.
Each student produces a portfolio and places the results of the continued work in his or her area in the virtual classroom in dropbox. The material includes also reflections due to three milestones during the term, each one to two pages long:
I as IT product manager in the world of web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and internet 4.0 (internet of things):
What do I understand by social informatics?
What are my tasks?
Which values and norms do I take as basis?
What do I want to learn in "social informatics"? Describe your learning objectives for each: "information technology and its social context" and "social nets".
Which ethical principles are relevant for information and communication technology in my view?
Look also on norms, values, objectives of individuals, groups and companies.
Take into consideration the aspects product, people, planet - economics, society, environment - also from the perspective sustainability.
I as IT product manager in the world of web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and internet 4.0 (internet of things):
What did I learn during the last weeks?
What do I want, what do I want to learn, what do I want to do ... in a year's time ... in five years' time?
Reflections during a study program, in science and in professional life include to grapple with other people's statements and insights. You enter dialogues with other authors by citing their publications, list them in a bibliography, recapture and comment them: Where do you consent? Where not? And why? What induced further insights and attitudes?
Documents, which the students produced during the exercises of the in-person sessions, are:
The following sections are to be included
For the submission the author merges the materials in one PDF. A table of contents, an abstract and a bibliography are mandatory. The co-learners and the teacher offer feedback during the term at the milestones. This is realised in buddy teams of two, respective three students (if the group number is uneven). The buddies acquaint themselves with the work of their partner and present the work of the partner to the group at the milestones. This procedure shall enable the students
This working process is inspired by software development: pair programming shows how the cooperation of buddies can enhance the quality of their work.
study and examination regulations of HFU;
CMPBL Frame and Assessment Criteria [pdf] - contains assessement criteria according to Deininger:
The assessment of the portfolios includes also criteria referring to form and content.
Form (grade 1 very good to grade 4 acceptable, grade 5 insufficient, grade 6 missing)
Content (assessment criteria according to Deininger, see above)
During the term the students get a feedback to their reflections 1,2 and 3 from the teacher as comments in their PDF. The teacher sends the overall review of the portfolio via e-mail including the assessment and grade. Furthermore an edited PDF of the particular portfolios contains teacher's comments, stored in the access controlled virtual classroom on dropbox.
Status: 09 Jan 2018 [translated from the German version on 07 Dec 2021]
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