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AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles: version 3

Strategies for Applying the Technology & Usability Principle

Designing ePortfolio assignments to accommodate students’ varied technology and internet access as well as varied technology skill levels.
Selecting ePortfolio tools based on cross-platform compatibility and ease of use in order to ensure that no stakeholder is excluded from ePortfolio work because they need a specific device for viewing, listening, downloading, embedding, and sharing.
Ensuring that campus facilities and technology support are readily accessible to account for students’ diverse schedules.
Providing students and educators with tutorials and technical support.
Making an institutional commitment (funding, space, staff, and other resources) appropriate to the scope and depth of ePortfolio projects.
Ensuring that external audiences can access and view the ePortfolio with minimal additional steps.

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2. Technology & Usability, Scenario 1 (Available) You are a part-time student attending courses after your normal work hours. As part of your capstone course, you are asked to create an ePortfolio. Although you have a desktop computer at work, know some desktop computers are available to you at the library, and have an iPad and a smartphone, you do not have access to a computer at your home. Moreover, the library has limited hours. When you talk to the professor after class and explain this situation, they already have a plan in place to meet your needs.
3. Technology & Usability, Scenario 2 (Usable)
4. Technology & Usability, Scenario 3 (Supported) You are an educator who has asked your students to complete an ePortfolio as part of a capstone course. Students have already selected artifacts from their learning and co-curricular experiences to include in the ePortfolio, but they have not yet begun creating and filling the actual site. You distribute a survey to students to identify how comfortable they are using digital devices, if they have used the ePortfolio platform before, and how familiar they are with ePortfolios as a genre.