The Portfolio in the MDE Program |
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Guidelines / How to create an electronic Portfolio/Website on UMUC's server |
The MDE Homepage states that each Master's student will work towards the development of a personal portfolio. The purpose of the portfolio is to gather, organize and present evidence of your qualifications for practice in the field and to demonstrate your competencies, knowledge and skills in a variety of distance education contexts, disciplines and roles. It is our hope that this portfolio would end up being your passport to the professional world. Master's programs, delivered completely online, possibly raise doubts about the reliability of their grading, because there always remains some uncertainty about the origin of the student's contributions and assignments. We want to protect the grades you earn and the reliability of our program against such suspicions. The final portfolio must be submitted as a webpage/website. Your portfolio will be graded an a Pass/Fail basis. The portfolio should exhibit your best work and contains both required and elective documents. The more formal required elements are substantive assignments selected from previous MDE courses you have completed. The elective items might include documents that display other activities and accomplishments while enrolled in the MDE program (conference presentations, articles, whether you are already an active distance education professional or an aspiring one). In addition, the portfolio must contain your resume or Curriculum Vita, and you may wish to include photos, graphics powerpoint presentations or other media components. The portfolio is more than simply a compendium of past work. It should effectively reveal a progression of increasing professionalism in the field. In this regard, the final portion of the portfolio is a reflective summative statement requiring careful thought and expression (to be completed during MDE 690). In this important concluding piece, you should attempt to convey how you have developed personally and professionally while an MDE student, how the MDE curriculum has affected your evolution as a scholar and practitioner in the field, and what your further goals are and how you intend to pursue these. Each student is responsible for maintaining a permanent copy of the various assignments and documents from each course that might become exhibits in your portfolio. You should keep copies on your own computer and remember to keep at least one back-up copy on floppy disks, CDROM or zip drive. |
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