Themes: BUS, CIT, DSN, ELPS & EAP, FSHN, ISU Comm, NREM

FSHN eDoc

Design Team Leaders: Dr. Bonnie Glatz, Dr. Jean Anderson, Anne Oldham
Screen Shots, Demo

Purpose: Assessment, Learning, Professional Development, Employment, & Showcase

The Food Science and Human Nutrition Department will use electronic portfolios to assist students map and showcase their knowledge and professional skill development. Currently about 60 dietetics students use portfolios (most of which are hard copy format) to demonstrate their professional communication skills and content area abilities to prospective employers. As electronic communication becomes the norm, students should be able to electronically display their creative and professional work.
We will use the software to manage and archive student-generated products and their own self-evaluation and comments on their educational and professional goals. Students will work with their faculty advisors to develop such goals and formulate plans to reach these goals (e.g. courses taken, internships, coop programs, summer employment, research, and teaching experiences. Artifacts (e.g., research papers, lab results, Power-Point presentations) will be placed in the portfolio for mutual access by the student and the advisor. Each semester the student will add new products with accompanying self-evaluation.

The desired outcome is to foster a professional development attitude in students’ learning. Students will be better prepared to secure highly desired entry-level positions, in part by using a subset of their artifacts as a professional portfolio that displays greater depth of skills and knowledge than contained in a transcript and resume.