ePAAWS
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(ePAAWS = electronic Personal Academic Advising Work Space)
The ePAAWS project is sponsored and directed by the Division of Undergraduate Studies at the Pennsylvania State University.
Purpose of the ePAAWS project: to construct a web-based system that supports the construction and delivery of an advising curriculum by advisers as educators and the engagement of students with learning objects selected from the curriculum in a learning workspace incorporating ePortfolio tools that allow them to develop, store, assess, and share individual learning profiles and plans for navigating the institution's educational environment.
· ePAAWS system goal: to implement the "advising as educating" model--
· "Advising as educating" model purpose : the advising function is assigned the institutional responsibility of educating individual students as to what it means to be educated and how to define, plan, and achieve their own educational goals over their lifetimes.
· Discovery Learning: the discovery by the learner (advisee) of learner development questions and of knowledge needed to develop appropriate personal responses to these questions.
· Discovery Learning Advising Process definition: An interactive process in which the adviser designs and delivers educative interventions and instruction aimed at assisting the student in discovering, planning, learning, and constructing knowledge about advising questions, in order for the student to more effectively navigate the institution's educational environment toward the achievement of personalized educational goals and the development of capacities as a self-directed life-long learner and educational planner.
· Discovery learning curriculum goal: to provide web-based learning opportunities in the form of learning modules in the four core advising knowledge domains that are referenced when addressing the four basic advising questions :
• Discovery Learner advising questions and corresponding advising knowledge domains:
How can I gain knowledge and understanding about:
~ What does it mean for me "to be educated? What does it mean for me "to be empowered?" How to set my personal educational goals and conduct my own educational planning? (advising knowledge domain: educational goals and planning)
~ What is the level of my personal educational readiness and preparation and how should I expect to develop as a learner? (advising knowledge domain: self-knowledge about learner development)
~ What are the educational and personal development opportunities, requirements, and expectations embedded in the institution's formal academic curriculum and co-curricular environment and how do I navigate among them? (advising knowledge domain: institutional educational opportunities)
~ How do I become proficient in knowledge construction in the disciplines and in higher-order cognition and learning? (advising knowledge domain: meta-knowledge re knowledge structures, cognition, and learning)
The ePAAWS Project Development Team:
Members from DUS:
- Holly Hart
- Ruth Hussey
- Gail Kamon
- Michael Leonard
- James Levin, Projecct Team Leader
- Eric White, Director
Consultants from the Center for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE):
Project Components:
- ePAAWS Development Team
- ePAAWS Curriculum Committee
- ePAAWS learning module and tool construction teams
- ePAAWS Technology committee
- ePAAWS professional developmental and project evaluation Task Group
- ePAAWS project design--Consultant and Workshop Principal
- ePAAWS Professional Development and Evaluation--Consultant and Workshop Principal
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