MPH E-Portfolio Objectives:

• Provide students with the ability to develop an electronic portfolio demonstrating core competence in community health education through archived evidence (signature assignments, presentations, multimedia work, web-links etc.) from academic classes, practice courses, and culminating experience projects.
  
  

  
         Pedro Arista

• Develop ePortfolios using the portfolio process to “collect, select, reflect, build, publish, link and share” their academic work and their mastery of the responsibilities and competencies required for a master level health education;
• Share their ePortfolios with Advisors, Faculty CE Committee members, and participate actively in a peer review for both formative and summative assessment of their MPH work.
• Encourage students to showcase the professional, leadership, team, and communication skills that they have gained from the MPH program;
• Support future employment opportunities and utilize ePortfolios to showcase skills in public health practice for further academic and professional development and international outreach as public health professionals.
• Use ePortfolios to assess the MPH curriculum effectiveness in developing the master level core competencies in community health education.

MPH Culminating Portfolios Include:

• A professional mission statement
• evidence of work across national competencies in public health
• community based and professional experience
• a culminating experience report
• evidence of leadership skills
  
  
        Nayeli Cerpas

The ten professional competencies are based upon the standards for the preparation of graduate public health practitioners established by the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) and the American Association for Health Education (AAHE). The Diversity and Culture competency has been added by the Department and involves evidence of the ability to work with diverse communities.

Project Overview:
In 2004, the MPH Program at SFSU joined a growing international practice across many disciplines in highereducation by requiring students to prepare an electronic portfolio. The MPH pioneered the use of ePortfolios at San Francisco State, which now has a more extensive ePortfolio Project.

Portfolios are used for assessment, development, and presentational purposes. During their MPH program, students use their “eFolio” sites to archive evidence from their academic classes, practice courses, internship and culminating experience projects. Portfolio development is a process allowing students to collect, select, reflect, build and publish their best work.

The electronic format of these portfolios allows students to archive a wider range of their work, using many different media sources. The MPH eFolios have been designed to support assessment, advising, and a deeper reflection on academic and professional development--ultimately demonstrating core competence in Community Health Education.

Our MPH portfolios are created using eFolio software, an easy to use, web-based platform, widely used in the Minnesota State College and University systems. Students register online for their eFolios, and spend several hours in initial computer-lab training on campus getting familiar with the software. No web-authoring skills are required-- a text editor enables users to manage and update text in a simple to use Microsoft Word-like text editor window, as well as E-Z link technologies, to make building the portfolio similar to using a word processor. eFolio provides a quick and easy system for uploading images, video, audio, or documents throughout each site, allowing for a highly personalized and comrehensive portfolio.

For more information on the MPH E-Portfolio Project and other Portfolio projects at SFSU please contact:
Ruth Cox, Ph.D.
Health Education Department
San Francisco State University
Email: ruthcox@sfsu.edu
http://eportfolio.sfsu.edu