Learning journey

Developmental portfolio for lifelong learning

Promote skills transfer and career readiness through technology-enhanced student portfolios

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Learning outcome

Prep time

Intermediate (10-30 min)

Activity type

Learning Journey

Why this learning journey?

Learning journeys are multi-step course templates based on active learning for different target learning outcomes. This journey will help you with:

Track student progress over time

The portfolio generates a holistic picture of students’ learning progress that answers many questions: Which skills have learners accomplished? Where do they stand as compared to the learning goals? What activities do they enjoy doing? and more. With these inputs, instructors can provide timely support and improve the syllabus.

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Enable meaningful interactions

With the ability to use student-initiated feedback and involve mentors who may be external to a particular course environment, the developmental portfolio enables students to reflect on their learning and progress and, at times, be guided by a mentor in this process.

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Increase student autonomy

By offering a place where students can access all the received feedback and visualization of their progress, the portfolio encourages learners to actively identify their weaknesses and make improvements. This provides them with more agency in their learning process.

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Activity setup

Activity steps

Developmental portfolio for lifelong learning

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Activity steps

Step 1: Set up a developmental portfolio

Instructors create a dashboard to measure student progress using FeedbackFruits Developmental Portfolio. In this, instructors set up a shared library to host activities, rubrics, and learning journeys, as well as develop a competency framework that outlines the key competencies students need to achieve at the end of the course.

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Step 2: Assignments setup

Instructors create learning journeys with different activities and rubrics based on the defined competencies. They can either create these from scratch or use the existing templates.

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Step 3: Students work on the first draft

After receiving assignment instructions, students work on the first draft of the assignment (which can be an essay, video, podcast, slide, etc.) and submit it to the Peer Review tool.

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Step 4: Students review peers’ first drafts

Within Peer Review, students are assigned to review peers’ first drafts. They give feedback based on the instructor-design rubric.

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Step 5: Students receive personalized feedback

Instructors can also choose to enable the Feedback Coach feature, which generates AI-powered feedback on technical aspects of students’ writing, such as spelling, grammar, structure, and more. This further helps students to improve their work later on.

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Step 6: Instructors give feedback

Instructors provide feedback on students’ first drafts. Thanks to the personalized feedback stage, instructors can have more time to emphasize higher-order aspects of students’ writing, such as reasoning or argumentation.

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Step 7: Revision and final submission

Based on the feedback received in the previous stages, students improve their work and submit it for final grading in the Assignment Review tool.

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Step 8: Students reflect on their performance

Students reflect on the writing and feedback process, what they have learned, and which competencies they have developed. This step is supported by the Self-Assessment tool.‍

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Step 9: Portfolio showcase

Students export the portfolio and hand in as the summative assignment of the entire course. This portfolio reflects student’s progress towards the desired learning outcomes.