19 December 2024, 7:51

Hello everyone,

AAEEBL (Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning) has published the call for proposals for its upcoming Field guide to reflection in ePortfolios. It's an exciting opportunity for you to share your practice around portfolios with focus on reflection with the community.

Here's the call for proposals. You can also read the original on the AAEEBL website.

By Tracy Penny Light and Helen L. Chen, the Executive Editors of the Field Guide to Reflection in ePortfolios

The Significance of Reflection

Reflection, the cornerstone of effective ePortfolio learning and implementation, is more than a method; it’s a mindset also known as “folio thinking.” It encourages learners to connect their learning experiences across contexts (academic, workplace, community), fostering lifelong learning skills, and integrative thinking. The habits of mind fostered in reflection are needed today to address real-world challenges that are encountered across our learning journeys. Identifying appropriate reflective activities that suit our unique learning contexts, however, can be challenging. 

To address this, our collective mission is to co-author an Open Educational Resource (OER) to serve as a living and evolving compendium of ePortfolio best practices, the Field Guide to Reflection in ePortfolios. 

We are inviting authors/co-authors to contribute to the Field Guide in various ways. Contributors may submit, for instance, frameworks, activities, templates, and rubrics, orienting chapter, histories, case stories, exemplars. Below is a sample table of contents that will be refined based on submissions. This is not exhaustive so please feel free to share additional ideas!

Field Guide to Reflection in ePortfolios – Sample Table of Contents

1. History of Reflection and Folio Thinking
   1. Art & Science of Reflection
   2. Reflection and Integrative Learning
2. Translating Reflection across Disciplines
   1. Disciplinary Examples
   2. Case Stories
3. Reflection and Assessment
   1. Best Practices & Writing Effective Prompts
   2. Rubrics
   3. Examples
4. Reflection and Learner Identity/Positionality
   1. Agency and Autonomy
   2. Reflection to Promote Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Mattering
5. Reflection across the Campus: Bridging Academic & Student Affairs
   1. Reflection across the Learning Career/Journey (Scaffolding)
   2. Reflection at Orientation/Transition to Higher Learning
   3. Leadership and Careers
6. Curating Reflection: Instructors and Learners
   1. Modelling Reflection
   2. Types of Portfolios
7. Reflection as a Wellness Practice for Learners, Teachers, Leaders

Timeline

• January 27, 2025: Proposal submissions due 
• January 27-31, 2025:  Review of proposals
• February 3, 2025: Authors notified of acceptance
• Week of February 10, 2025: Authors online meetup for planning
• March 10, 2025: Draft submissions due
• March 11-21, 2025: Peer review of submissions
• March 24-31, 2025: Final edits
• April 3-5, 2025 and beyond: Presentation of the Field Guide at various conferences

How to Submit a Proposal 

Prospective authors/section editors will be asked to submit a brief (250 word) synopsis of their contribution, a brief CV (2 pages), and a statement of their experience with reflection and ePortfolios via the proposal submission form by January 27, 2025. Questions can be sent to [email protected]