Eportfolios as Tools for Facilitating and Assessing Knowledge Transfer from Lower Division, General Education Courses to Upper Division, Discipline- Specific Courses

ePortfolios can both facilitate and assess knowledge transfer from lower division, general education courses to upper division, discipline-specific courses. The chapter opens with a discussion of Teaching/Writing in Thirdspaces (Grego & Thompson, 2008) and argues that the notion of thirdspace can apply to the distance between general education courses and the information skills required within students’ majors. By tracking student learning in general education courses, ePortfolios provide a tool for faculty and administrators to make visible the connections and disjunctures between the delivered curriculum in lower division courses and the expectations for students’ competencies expressed by faculty teaching upper division courses for majors.