From paper to digital portfolio: UMC Utrecht Academy
Arrianne Nagel works at the UMC Utrecht Academy as senior policy officer and is a key-user of Scorion. In 2017 Arrianne was involved in the pilot to implement Scorion and later on also to roll out Scorion to all nursing continuation courses and medical support courses. Arrianne is the link between functional management and fellow educators. At the moment Arrianne is the project manager, together with Wilma Kleijer, to implement Scorion for the EPA based education. Wilma is senior educator of the cluster Intensive Care. This includes all mother-child educations and the long term care programs like Oncology and Neurology. Just like Arrianne, Wilma has also been involved in the implementation of Scorion from the start
What was the reason you started working with Scorion and why?
In 2017 we were working on how we could make our paper portfolio digital, as we had huge folders of paper. Within UMC Utrecht, Scorion was already being used by the medicine educational programme. At the time, we checked whether Scorion was compatible with the functionalities we needed to digitalize the paper portfolio. That is why we started a pilot for two educations, paediatric oncology nurse practitioner and the professional preparation period of surgery assistants/medical nurse anaesthetists. We also looked at other possible providers of portfolios, but these did not meet our requirements. Because we were well informed, the good experiences of the medicine educational programme, the good pilot that we ran and the possibilities that Scorion has (and increasingly has), we decided to continue with the Scorion e-portfolio.
How did you implement Scorion?
In 2017 we were working on how we could make our paper portfolio digital, as we had huge folders of paper. Within UMC Utrecht, Scorion was already being used by the medicine educational programme. At the time, we checked whether Scorion was compatible with the functionalities we needed to digitalize the paper portfolio. That is why we started a pilot for two educations, paediatric oncology nurse practitioner and the professional preparation period of surgery assistants/medical nurse anaesthetists. We also looked at other possible providers of portfolios, but these did not meet our requirements. Because we were well informed, the good experiences of the medicine educational programme, the good pilot that we ran and the possibilities that Scorion has (and increasingly has), we decided to continue with the Scorion e-portfolio.
How is Scorion applied within the education?
Within the education we provide, practical learning is separated from theoretical learning. Practical learning is the responsibility of the practitioner but our clients like to think about the design of the portfolio together with other clients and with us as a training institute. What does it look like? And how do we offer that in Scorion? We facilitate that and then the use is really in practice. The trainers of the UMC Utrecht Academy only have a limited role in this. It’s really that you facilitate the practice in the practical learning, where the student can invite someone for an assessment, get feedback on it, that you can then keep everything together in a system and then have insight into the progress and development in a dashboard. You record the entire development of a student in a portfolio by means of various assessment instruments and then you can see the progress and development in the dashboard.
What took a lot of getting used to in practice was the transition from a paper to a digital portfolio. This did require a different working method for the practice and a different set-up. The student is even more owner of the portfolio and asks himself for assessment, feedback, tests, etc. This is a different view and requires different skills in practice that really had to bed in. Furthermore, Scorion works well and Scorion X is much more intuitive than before.
Do you have any wishes for the future with regard to Scorion?
We would like the export functionality to be available for students. Then students can generate a pdf faster. Parantion always thinks along with us and that is very pleasant.
