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Professor Jay Alan Van Eys is an assistant professor of education at CWU and teaches two sections of EDU 235. He is a member of the Institutional Assessment and Research Team, so he is familiar with, and helped to develop, the institutional assessment plan that will serve the university through the upcoming accreditation visit. He was also instrumental in developing the College of Education’s Conceptual Framework.
Professor Van Eys enjoys engaging in collaborative projects with students and colleagues, maintains a professional website and extensive library of podcasts, videocasts and other resources on current hot topics in education. He has developed resource websites for each of his classes and he encourages both students and other instructors to use them. He holds regular virtual office hours and conducts webinars on current topics on the university’s conferencing website.
Professor Van Eys has subadministrator permissions for the use of Chalk & Wire, meaning that he can create and edit rubrics and tables of contents; and also run reports for his department. Dr. Van Eys is interested in the use of eportfolio assessment in higher education and has written several journal articles on various aspects of the topic. He makes extensive use of the sharing, commenting, and messaging functions available in the Chalk & Wire software so that students can receive feedback and revise their work if they so choose. He has most recently developed an instructional collaborative model that integrates the three functions, and has introduced the model in his advanced unit planning class for undergraduates.
Professor Van Eys uses the Sharing Portfolios feature to full advantage. Students follow a realistic timeline for sharing their portfolios, so that they can revisit and revise their work to gain a deeper understanding of key concepts. Once the portfolio is shared, it updates automatically each time it is edited by the student. The instructor’s comments and student responses are recorded on the portfolio page, and there is the option to allow others to view comments as well.
Dr. Eys not only uses sharing to give feedback to students, but he also models the use of sharing by making his own portfolio collection available to students from the course website.