Beyond Portfolios: High-Impact Programmatic Uses of Domains at Georgetown University
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Date: 2021-04-22

When an academic program adopts the use of Domains, it is typically in the service of creating open portfolio’s of the students’ work, an identified high-impact practice (Kuh 2008). At Georgetown University, we are seeing a number of more creative uses of Domains on a programmatic level, leading to the creation of open resources, collaborative reflection spaces, and living documentation of a program and their students, reflecting other high-impact practices identified by Kuh. This presentation will outline a small number of examples, as well as detail how we logistically support these programmatic initiatives, as they relate to Kuh’s high-impact practices. We will first describe how the Learning, Design, and Technology Masters has incorporated digital identity and project-based learning into the program using Domains. We will also explore the ways that the Public Relations and Corporate Communications Masters using Domains for real-world impact, as well as community building without the program. Finally, the Computer Science program uses Domains for community outreach through the Girls Who Code initiative.