ABSTRACT

This chapter presents current template choices and three examples of early student adopters showing how the ePortfolio template supported their work. Hampshire College is a private liberal arts college where about 1,400 students create their own educational plans. All were in some way about integration, whether integrating theory with community-based learning, integrating ideas across the disciplines, or integrating theory and practice to set new goals, precisely the marks of integrative learning according to the VALUE rubrics. Because faculty use portfolios to write overarching evaluations of student work at certain milestones at Hampshire, it is tempting to ask students to include all they have done, and building an inventory of work supports such a compilation. At Hampshire individualized program of study is created student by student in response to personal goals and questions. The practice of reflection as a way to make meaning is central to a college curriculum intended to lead to lifelong learning.