Section 1: Goal Description
A. First Goal Statement, Second Goal Statement, Third Goal Statement
C. Pictorial Representation of conceptual framework ( Version 1) ( Version 2)
Section 2: Coursework Experiences and Plans
A. Final Program of Study : Original Program of Study
B. Self-reflective description of previous and current coursework
Section 3: Research Experiences and Plans
This section includes descriptions of my ongoing research activities. I have included information about the specific competencies I am developing in ongoing projects, a list of competencies for which I need additional preparation, and a list of some of my significant research products.
Section 4: Professional Experiences and Plans
This section includes descriptions of my ongoing research professional activities. I have included information about the specific competencies I am developing in ongoing projects, a list of competencies for which I need additional preparation, and a list of some of my significant previous professional activities.
Section 5: Evidence of Analytical and Integrative Thinking
A list of writing projects, publications and presentation that demonstrate evidence of my ability to engage in analytical and integrative thinking. I have provided links to each document as well as brief statements about the analytical or integrative thinking required for each project.
Section 6: Documentation of Academic and Professional Growth
Items documenting my academic and professional growth are hyper-linked directly from their respective sections. While a physical portfolio requires a section for these documents the ability of a hyperlink to directly provide access to supporting documents allows readers to directly interrogate the supporting documentation.
Section 7: Preliminary Dissertation Planning
As a result of my studies of learning in an online video game community (Owens, 2010) and in an online community focused on building video games (Owens, 2011 & Owens, 2012) I’ve become convinced that we need further development of knowledge to support the study of these kinds of online informal learning communities. My dissertation idea paper lays out some of the key mythological and theoretical approaches for a project to inform the study of these kinds of online informal learning communities. For a sense of what exactly this kind of study could entail, see (Owens, forthcoming) an article for a peer reviewed journal focused on methods for the social study of software that I developed as a means to develop a smaller scale version of the dissertation project.
Trevor Owens 