spacertype Webfolios are portfolios on the World Wide Web. The
purpose of Webfolios is to assess student learning by
integrating technology to an authentic student learning
assessment method, that is, portfolios. Incorporating
technology into the curriculum to create webfolios not only
provides students and faculty with access to the most
current resources available through the Web, but also
fosters collaborative efforts in multiple learning
relationships among students, faculty, and practitioners as
they exchange feedback and share ideas and resources. More about....
In order to develop their own webfolios, students need to
master the knowledge and skills required in the course and
critically think how they can present the evidence of their
learning outcomes. Putting portfolios on the Web also
fosters collaborative efforts among students as they
exchange resources and ideas. Students will be able to
demonstrate technology skills and knowledge by creating
their own webfolios. Students will also be able to
demonstrate their learning by presenting evidence of
competence of the subject using multiple methods from
multiple sources. Students will be able to provide
constructive peer feedback to one another and share their
resources obtained from the World Wide Web research.
Webfolios also encourage students to be creative and
innovative in presenting their portfolios through
experimenting uses of a variety of resources available to
them.
Portfolios have been widely recognized as an authentic
assessment. Webfolios have an additional component to
portfolios in that they integrate technology into the
curriculum. Unlike traditional portfolios, webfolios
provide easy and convenient access for students and faculty
to exchange feedback during the process of portfolios
development, when students need them, rather than at the end
of portfolios completion.
Implementation of webfolios will have a great impact on
both breadth and depth of the curriculum and on student
learning. The curriculum and student learning will become
more meaningful to faculty and students. Faculty would
facilitate student self-learning and evaluate student
performance outcomes while students would actively engage
themselves in learning and take responsibilities to produce
evidence of their learning.
Webfolios and Student
Learning Outcomes
Webfolios and Impact
on the Curriculum
The webfolios may also be used as an authentic student
outcomes assessment for the courses offered through distance
learning as students are able to share their ideas and
feedback. Their work-in-progress webfolios will be
accessible to one another through the Web during the entire
course period in a learning community created by technology.
The webfolios provide a new perspective on student
evaluation where students would learn to experience the
synergy of collaborative learning rather than
competitiveness experienced during testing or
examinations. By sharing their resources obtained with
one another, students become true partners in learning and
develop their professional collegial relationships while
they are in class.This also will overcome the isolation
often felt by the students in distance learning classes.
