Initial Resources
The initial decisions regarding support resources for students and staff were complex. There was no required level set by internal curriculum approval bodies and the practice of resourcing across the institution was varied even with a strong online and face-to-face strategy; the level and style of resourcing was very much left to the discretion of individual academics (or teams) to assess the needs of the student cohort. Due to the limited funding/staff available, creative solutions have to be considered to commence the BMgt eportfolio initiative. There needed to be a strong narrative to students about their ePortfolio; its purpose and creation therefore a customised website was led and developed by the course director to bring together the understanding of an ePortfolio to the students as well as corralling a variety of new and publicly available resources (from both acknowledged Deakin University and external sources) covering the following areas:
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The website was completed and launched in time for the orientation session and students were provided with the URL in a number of ways:
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