University Level of Workshop: e-Portfolio Way

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e-Portfolio at Kansai University

Kansai University (established in 1886) consists of 13 colleges and the graduate school with the student population of over 300,000. Kansai University includes five campuses, three senior high schools, three junior high schools, one elementary school, and one kindergarten. The ultimate goal of the Kansai University e-Portfolio is to archive all students’ information including the learning results, the evaluation records, and the meta data scattered in various servers on campus into one integrated e-Portfolio database server.

KU e-Portfolio System archives and manages students’ learning activities and their records through the Plan-Do-Check-Action cycle (henceforth, the P-D-C-A cycle). Each student first enters his/her learning goal for enrolled courses and lays out the learning plan. Based on them, the instructor gives advise as well as feedback for improvement. This process continues until both agree with the intended level of achievement. Throughout the course, the student enters logs for learning activities and accomplishments, to which the instructor returns feedback and advice for encouragement. At the end of the semester, the student self-assesses his/her progress, compared with the goal that was set at the beginning of the semester. The results of the self-assessment are again turned in for comments for improvement. In this way, the students’ levels of motivation for improvement is maintained throughout the semester with the constant care and attention by the instructor. In here all information is kept in the e-Portfolio system as the record for intellectual growth.

Last Update: June, 2012.