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Portfolio work can start at the school level and foster digital resilience through supporting students' technological adaptability, self-directed learning and metacognition, and critical digital engagement, says Molebogeng Esther Thage, MEd. She and Amokelo Given Maweya, MEd, developed a conceptual model to draw these connections and illustrate why portfolios are important in teaching and learning and why students benefit from reflecting on their learning.
Molebogeng is a teacher and a departmental head at a high school in the Tshwane West District, in the Gauteng Province in South Africa. Currently, she is also pursuing her PhD in Educational Foundation at The Tshwane University of Technology. Together with Amokelo, she wrote the chapter 'Digital resilience in the 21st century: The role of ePortfolios in fostering adaptive and technological competencies'.
Resources
- Modise, M.-E., & Vaughan, N. (Eds.). (2025). Digital resilience of ePortfolios during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons for the future. Open Education Alberta
- SAERA Conference
- Data Driven Districts (DDD)
- ePortfolios South Africa YouTube channel
Related episodes
- Mpho-Entle Modise & Norm Vaughan: The portfolio as enabler of change
- Antje Koenen: Engage with your students as partners through a portfolio
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Dr Heather Pate is a Lecturer in the Academic Practice Team, and Rebecca Scriven, SFHEA, is the Digital Learning Lead, both in the Centre for Learning and Teaching at Edith Cowan University (ECU). They are instrumental in supporting the curriculum shift to a programmatic approach to learning that centrally features portfolios.
In this episode, they talk about how portfolios were used at ECU in the past and why the shift to programmatic learning is imperative. They also touch on the absolute need for the support from the whole institution, in particular the leadership to bring everybody along.
Resources
- ePortfolios Australia community of practice
- Eportfolio Forum 2026, 23-24 September 2026 in Sydney and online
- Pate, H., & Scriven, R. (2025, November 12). Finding the sweet spot: Portfolios, programmatic learning, and student belonging [Presentation]. Eportfolio Forum, Launceston. Recording.
- Beck, E., Scriven, R., & Coleman, K. (2026, June 2). Differences in opinion: Portfolio definitions, practices and approaches [Webinar]. 2026 Eportfolio Webinar Series, Online.
- Dollinger, M., Dawson, P., Ford, A., Liu, D., & Rekhari, S. (2026, June 4). Assuring online degrees in the age of gen AI [Panel conversation]. TEQSA Talks, Online. Recording to be published on the TEQSA Talks page.
- TEQSA Generative AI knowledge hub
- Coleman, K. (2017). An a/r/tist in wonderland Exploring identity, creativity and digital portfolios as a/r/tographer [PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne].
- ECU Newsroom. (2026, June 15). Programmatic learning delivers early results.
Related episodes
- Kate Mitchell: Deliberate and programmatic design
- Mark Glynn: Take a programmatic approach to assessment with portfolios
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Prof Dr Candyce Reynolds (Boise State University), Prof Dr Debbie Oesch-Minor (Indiana University Indianapolis), and Dr Helen L. Chen (Stanford University) were on the organising teams of the AAEEBL Annual Meeting and / or AAEEBL Symposium, held in June 2026.
In this episode, we look back at these two events, what we are taking away from them, and share what some of the plans are for the Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning in the coming months.
Resources
- AAEEBL Annual Meeting and Symposium 2026 website
- AAEEBL Symposium 2026 recordings
- AAEEBL Annual Meeting 2026 recording
- Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab at Stanford University
- ePortfolio Studio at Indiana University Indianapolis
- Taxonomy of Reflective Inquiry (TORI)
- International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP)
- AAEEBL ePortfolio Review (AePR)
- Modise, M.-E., & Vaughan, N. (Eds.). (2025). Digital resilience of ePortfolios during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons for the future. Mount Royal University Library.
- Yancey, K. (2023). The value of purposeful design: A case study of an ePortfolio reflective prompt. Across the Disciplines, 20(3/4), 31-49.
- Riff - Reflection partner
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Task Force application; deadline: 15 September 2026
- AAEEBL newsletter
Upcoming events
- Follow AAEEBL events to receive notifications about upcoming events
- AAEEBL Shark Tank, August 2026; pitch submission deadline: 31 July 2026
- Eportfolio Forum in Sydney, Australia, and online, 23-24 September 2026
- FLANZ conference 'He Tāngata' in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand, 7-9 October 2026
- Assessment Institute in Indianapolis, IN, USA, 18-20 October 2026
Related episodes
- Candyce Reynolds & Sonja Taylor: Hashtags, social media, and portfolios
- Debbie Oesch-Minor and Salsabil Qaddoura: Foster student ownership and empowerment through a portfolio
- Helen L. Chen: Reflect through conversation to tell your story
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Developer Doris Tam, BE, and Senior Visual Designer Evonne Cheung, BDes, from Catalyst IT talk about the redesign of Mahara that went live at the end of April 2026. The redesign marks a milestone in the almost 20-year history of the Mahara project. It overhauled the look and feel of Mahara entirely, aligning it to modern principles of design-led and responsive web design. This makes it easier for portfolio creators to use and interact with.
Learn about some of the thinking and the process that went into this release as we pull back the curtain from the software development lifecycle that is typically hidden.
Resources
- Open Source Academy
- Summer of Tech
- Mahara UX review 2024: Wireframes
- Mahara 26.04 highlights
- Mahara demo site
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Host Kristina Hoeppner looks back at the advice that the learning designers, faculty, and students from the past year have for learners who create portfolios. Their advice can be put into five different categories:
- Authenticity and identity
- Embracing creativity and risk
- Purpose and audience
- Reflection and growth
- Ownership and pride
Interviews in alphabetical order:
- Amy Cicchino and Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practices
- Amy Cicchino, McKenna Slaughter, Nghi Chau: Students support students in creating portfolios
- Antje Koenen: Engage with your students as partners through a portfolio
- Christina Mayes: Portfolio support through peer mentors
- Cordula Schwiderski, Hannah Brodel, Martina Osterrieder, Martin Sticht: Planning and decision making guide for portfolios
- David Hicks: The portfolio tells the story of growth
- Debbie Oesch-Minor and Salsabil Qaddoura: Foster student ownership and empowerment through a portfolio
- Jack Rice: The portfolio as the space for growth in between stimulus and response
- Jaye Ryan: Showcase yourself through your portfolio
- Lindsay Richardson: Portfolios in large courses with a side of AI
- Marie 'Bernie' Fisher: Reflecting on portfolio practice
- Megan Mize: Ramping up to support 18,000 students with portfolios
- Mike Altieri: Use reflection bot Riff for deeper and more meaningful portfolio reflection
- Mpho-Entle Modise and Norm Vaughan: The portfolio as enabler of change
- Pablo Avila: Portfolios at scale at LaGuardia Community College
- Rob Lowney: Create collaborative portfolios to surface group learning
- Soropepeli Ramacake: Know, grow, and show through your portfolio
- Sue Schibeci: Portfolios in work-integrated learning experiences
- Tessa Forshaw and Rich Braden: Unleash your innovation and creativity with a portfolio
- Vickel Narayan: Portfolios in the age of AI: A rethink to the approach?
- Yvonne Moore and James Pearce: Skills portfolios encourage continued reflection
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Dr Rob Lowney, SCMALT, SFHEA, SFSEDA, is a Senior Learning Technologist in the Teaching and Enhancement Unit at Dublin City University in Ireland. He's been working with digital technologies for many years and supports students and staff at DCU in their work with them. Rob is also active in the Mahara and Moodle communities because DCU contributes knowledge and features that benefit everyone.
Rob talks about the use of group portfolios at DCU as the university has been sponsoring an update to Mahara and the Mahara assignment submission plugin for Moodle to streamline the submission of group portfolios and administer the managing of groups for submission purposes. He also discusses how students and staff are supported on their portfolio journey at DCU.
Resources
- MoodleMunch
- DCU's reflective practice guide and resources
- DCU's transversal skills framework
- DCU portfolio help, including student examplesLowney, R. (2025, June 10). Enhancing engagement with group portfolio submissions. Mahara Hui Online, Online.
- Scully, D., O’Leary, M., & Brown, M. (2018). The learning portfolio in higher education—A game of snakes and ladders. Dublin City University, Centre for Assessment Research, Policy & Practice in Education (CARPE) and National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL).
- Donaldson, L. (Ed.). (2018). Eportfolio based assessment—Inspiring exploration and supporting evaluation for practitioners. Dublin City University, National Institute for Digital Learning, Dublin City University.
- Donaldson, L. (Ed.). (2021). Exemplars of DCU best practice with eportfolio based assessment. Dublin City University, National Institute for Digital Learning.
Upcoming events
- EdTech Conference, 3-4 June 2026
- AAEEBL Annual Meeting, 10-12 June 2026
- AAEEBL Symposium, 16-17 June 2026
- Catalyst Moodle Community Day, 16 June 2026
- Upcoming Mahara events
Related DCU episodes
- Lisa Donaldson: From 0 to 6,000 in six weeks
- Orna Farrell: Supporting learners and lecturers alike in their portfolio journey
- Mark Brady: Journal regularly for profound insight
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Take out your planner or open your digital calendar and get ready to enter the upcoming events that give you the opportunity to chat with other portfolio practitioners because you don't want to miss any of them. There's a mix of Mahara focused events and wider portfolio community events and a mix of free and paid-for events.
Here they are in chronological order:
May 2026
- 6, 7, and 12 May: Unveiling Mahara 26.04: A fresh look and exciting new features
- 13 May: Mahara Ask Me Anything May 2026
- 14 May: Mahara Hui Schweiz
- 19 May: Mahara 26.04: Ein neues Erscheinungsbild und aufregende neue Funktionen
- 20 May: Building digital resilience through ePortfolios: Lessons for the future
- 26 May: PARE - Plan, Act, Reflect, and ePortfolio
June 2026
- 10-12 June: AAEEBL Annual Meeting
- 16-17 June: AAEEBL Symposium
- 18 June: Mahara Ask Me Anything June 2026
September 2026
23-24 September: Eportfolio Forum - subscribe to updates for more information
Resources
- Podcast episode 'Mpho-Entle Modise & Norm Vaughan: The portfolio as enabler of change'
- Mahara 26.04 highlights
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Pablo Avila, MA, is the Associate Director of The Center for Teaching and Learning at LaGuardia Community College (City University of New York). He's been creating portfolios and supporting students and faculty with their own and the strategic implementation of portfolios at LaGuardia since 2008.
In this episode, Pablo talks about his own portfolio journey, how it influenced his work with portfolios, and how students and faculty at LaGuardia are supported in their portfolio work.
References
- Pablo's website
- ePortfolios at LaGuardia
- HIPs in the States
- AAC&U list of high-impact practices
- AAEEBL
- Eynon, B., & Gambino, L. M. (2017). High-impact ePortfolio practice: A catalyst for student, faculty, and institutional learning. Routledge.
- Eynon, B., & Gambino, L. M. (2018). Catalyst in action. Routledge.
- Taxonomy of Reflective Inquiry
- AAC&U VALUE rubrics
- Riff
- AAEEBL webinar series on artificial intelligence
- AAEEBL Annual Meeting and Symposium 2026
Related episodes * Amy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practices * Leticia Britos Cavagnaro: Make learning visible
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Associate Prof Dr Amy Cicchino, the Director of the Writing Center at the University of Central Florida, is back for another interview. This time it's all about student support and the student perspective. Two of her students, McKenna Slaughter, BA, and Nghi Chau, join her to talk about their experiences creating portfolios themselves in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric and as Graduate Assistant and Undergraduate Peer Tutor respectively in the UCF Writing Center.
Resources
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfolios
- AAEEBL Field Guide to ePortfolios
- Watson, C. E., Kuh, G. D., Rhodes, T. L., Penny Light, T., & Chen, H. L. (2016). Editorial: ePortfolios – The eleventh High Impact Practice. International Journal of ePortfolio, 6(2), 65–69.
Related episodes
- Amy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practices
- Amy Cicchino, Megan Mize, Sarah Zurhellen: Visibility of labour
- DiKuLe: Planning and decision making guide for portfolios
- Debbie Oesch-Minor and Salsabil Qaddoura: Foster student ownership and empowerment through a portfolio
- Christina Mayes: Portfolio support through peer mentors
- Mario A. Peraza: Use AI to help curate your digital presence
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Associate Prof Dr Mpho-Entle Modise and Prof Dr Norm Vaughan are the editors of the book 'Digital resilience of ePortfolios during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons for the future', which was published in 2025 and brought together 85 authors from around the world who shared their diverse portfolio stories. In this episode, Mpho-Entle and Norm share highlights from this publishing experience and themes from the book.
Mpho-Entle teaches in the Department of Curriculum and Instructional Studies in the College of Education at the University of South Africa. She has classes of upwards of 12,000 students and incorporates portfolios into each of her classes.
Norm has been teaching with portfolios in the Bachelor of Education programme at Mount Royal University in Alberta, Canada, since 1996. He's passionate about portfolios and considers them the backbone of the programme.
Resources
- Mpho-Entle's public portfolio
- Norm's public portfolio
- Modise, M.-E., & Vaughan, N. (2024). ePortfolios: A 360-degree approach to assessment in teacher education. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 50(4), 1–18.
- University of Maryland Global Campus
- Commonwealth of Learning Mentorship Programme
Meet the editors
Join the AAEEBL and FLANZ webinar 'Building digital resilience through ePortfolios: Lessons for the future' on 19/20 May 2026.
Related episodes
- Vickel Narayan: Portfolios in the age of AI: A rethink to the approach?
- Soropepeli Ramacake: Know, grow, and show through your portfolio
- Amy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practices
- Zala Volcic: Develop community, relationships, and compassion
- Bob Reuter: Externalise your thinking with portfolios
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Dr Vickel Narayan is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Learning in the Institute of Education at Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand. He's been working with portfolios for nearly two decades at various institutions of higher and tertiary education in Aotearoa and Australia.
Vickel shares his thoughts around the use of artificial intelligence, in particular large language models, in education and portfolio practice. He highlights AI use to support student ownership and giving students tools on hand to create multimodal content more easily than they'd been able to do otherwise.
Resources
- Vickel's Massey University page
- Narayan, V. (2017). The mobilised learner: Heutagogy and mobile social media—Murdoch University [Doctoral Thesis, Murdoch University].
- Massey University graduate profile
- UDL guidelines
- Korowai Mokopuna programme
- Webinar series on portfolios and AI, organised by AAEEBL
- EPEPLA workshop: ePortfolio Evolution Powered by Language Analysis
Related episodes
- Mandia Mentis & Wendy Holley-Boen: Bringing the personal to the professional
- Allison Miller: The portfolio is a process
- Michael Sankey: The portfolio as the place of representation for emerging professionals
- Mike Altieri: Use reflection bot Riff for deeper and more meaningful portfolio reflection
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Dr Megan Mize is the Director for ePortfolios and Digital Initiatives in the Academic Success Center (ASC) at Old Dominion University (ODU). She's been supporting portfolios at ODU since 2012 and is currently involved in a couple of strategic initiatives at her university that incorporate portfolios to support students.
Resources
- Monarch Humanities Internship Academy
- ODU General Education Reform
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force and Principles
- High-impact practices
- ODU ePortfolio support and resources
- Gresham, M., Mize, M., & Zurhellen, S. (2023). High-impact practices and third spaces: Connecting across disciplines. Across the Disciplines, 20(3/4), 157–176.
Related episodes
- Amy Cicchino, Megan Mize, Sarah Zurhellen: Visibility of labour
- Amy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practices
- Lisa Donaldson: From 0 to 6,000 in six weeks
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Yvonne Moore, MA, is the Digital Education Developments Lead, and James Pearce, BA, is the Educational Software Development Manager in the Centre for Learning & Teaching at University of Bath. They support faculty at the university to implement educational technologies meaningfully and effectively - Yvonne from the pedagogical side and James from the technical side.
The university has been using Mahara for many years and focussed on skills portfolios and work-integrated learning portfolios in more recent years. Yvonne and James detail how skills portfolios support reflection, an important ingredient of lifelong learning, and how they make use of existing functionality in Mahara, like SmartEvidence, and also enhance it further, contributing their changes back to the community.
Resources
- Public resources on Mahara by the University of Bath
- Planning and decision making guide for the use of ePortfolios in academic teaching from the DiKuLe project
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principle 'Support'
- SmartEvidence
- Nuessler, S., & Kirby, M. (2014). SmartEvidence: Improving ePortfolio quality through intervention [Presentation]. Mahara Hui, Wellington, NZ
- What is SmartEvidence?
- Case study on how AP Hogeschool Antwerpen enhanced SmartEvidence
Related episodes
- DiKuLe: Planning and decision making guide for portfolios
- Shari Bowker: Establish good feedback practices in your portfolio
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Prof Dr Debbie Oesch-Minor and her student Salsabil Qaddoura from Indiana University Indianapolis talk about portfolios at IU Indianapolis, in particular in Debbie's composition course that Salsabil took where she created a portfolio that showed her the power of this practice.
Debbie shares her reasons for working with portfolios and supporting other faculty and students in the portfolio process within the ePortfolio Studio. Salsabil outlines the benefits that she as student saw while engaged in the portfolio process, which she then also shared with other faculty at the university.
Resources
- AAEEBL
- High-impact practices
- ePortfolio student showcase
- Oesch-Minor, D. (2023, July 14). EPortfolios on the Fives: Simplifying and streamlining ePortfolio building for students and faculty [Presentation]. AAEEBL Annual Meeting, Vancouver
- Salsabil's portfolio 'Legal, not always just'
- Dweck, C. (2014). Developing a growth mindset [Presentation]. Stanford+Connects micro lecture, New York.
- Elbow, P. (1993). Ranking, evaluating, and liking: Sorting out three forms of judgment. College English, 55(2), 187–206.
- Pratt, M. L. (1991). Arts of the contact zone. Profession, 33–40.
- Percy, J. (2014, October 14). My terrifying night with Afghanistan’s only female warlord. The New Republic.
- Berehulak, D. (2016, December 7). 'They are slaughtering us like animals.' The New York Times.
- Hoeppner, K. (2015, April 9). Scaffolding ePortfolio use [Presentation]. Mahara Hui 2015, Auckland, New Zealand.
- NACE career readiness competencies
- ePortfolios Australia PARE sessions
Related episodes
- Cathy Elliott: Have fun, be flexible, and encourage feedback in your portfolio
- Amy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practices
- The wunderkammer: Metaphors in portfolio practice
- Allison Miller: The portfolio is a process
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Associate Professor Dr Jaye Ryan, SFHEA, headed the nursing ePortfolio programme at Birmingham City University (BCU) in the UK between 2010 and 2019. She supported students and staff in creating ePortfolios and introduced Student Academic Mentors ePortfolios (StAMPs) to help students as peers.
In this episode, Jaye talks about the ePortfolio practice in her nursing programme, the challenges she faced, and how she and the StAMPs made the portfolio work for students.
Resources
- Ryan, J. A. (2025). The lived experience of mature undergraduate nursing students with quasi-dyslexia: Navigating ongoing academic challenges [Doctoral Thesis, Birmingham City University].
- Ryan, J. A. (2018). Which resources are most helpful to support development of an ePortfolio? British Journal of Nursing, 27(5), 266–271.
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles: Support
- Hoeppner, K. (2025, May 15). Portfolios: Integral to your programmatic assessment approach.
- Mahara 26.04 refresh: December 2025 update
- Jaye's fundraiser for her dad after hurricane Melissa in 2025
Related episodes
- Amy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practices
- Christina Mayes: Portfolio support through peer mentors
- David Hicks: The portfolio tells the story of growth
- Michael Sankey: The portfolio as the place of representation for emerging professionals
- Jonathan Murphy: Demonstrate skills and competencies
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Soropepeli Ramacake, MSW Applied, PGDip in Supervision, Dip in Counselling, BTheology works at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Fiji as Assistant Lecturer. He is also a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney.
Soro uses Mahara as portfolio platform with his social work students who are on placement in various South Pacific countries, supporting them mainly from the distance.
Resources
- Chief, I. Y., & Ramacake, S. (2025, November 11). Learners’ reflection on the use of e-Portfolio in Social Work at The University of the South Pacific. ICDE World Conference 2025, Wellington.
- Mock-ups for Mahara 26.04
- Using Mahara to demonstrate skills acquired in a hospitality workplace practicum. Presentation at Mahara Hui 2017 by Parijata Moeava and Mojito Jione (The University of the South Pacific) in Auckland, New Zealand, on 6 April 2017.
- Creating spaces for students to demonstrate competencies in their profession. Presentation at Mahara Hui 2017 by Irene Yee Chief, Mojito Jione and Rajneel Totaram (The University of the South Pacific) in Auckland, New Zealand, on 6 April 2017.
Related episodes
- Sue Schibeci: Portfolios in work-integrated learning experiences
- Jonathan Murphy: Demonstrate skills and competencies
- Zala Volcic: Develop community, relationships, and compassion
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Associate Prof Dr Amy Cicchino, the Director of the Writing Center at the University of Central Florida and Brandi Gilbert, MPH, the Director of the Life-Health Sciences Internship Program at Indiana University Indianapolis talk about high-impact practices and how portfolios fit in.
Resources
- Assessment Institute
- HIPs in the States
- AAC&U list of high-impact practices
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principles
- Kuh, G.D, O’Donnell, K., & Reed, S. (2013). Ensuring quality and taking high-impact practices to scale. American Association of Colleges and Universities.
- Watson, C. E., Kuh, G. D., Rhodes, T. L., Penny Light, T., & Chen, H. L. (2016). Editorial: ePortfolios – The eleventh High Impact Practice. International Journal of ePortfolio, 6(2), 65–69.
- Kinzie, J., Silberstein, S., McCormick, A.C., Gonyea, R. M., & Dugan, B. (2021). Centering racially minoritized student voices in high-impact practices. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 53(4), 6–14
- IU Indianapolis ePortfolio Studio
- IU Indianapolis student ePortfolio showcase
- Elements of HIPs:
- Performance expectations set at appropriately high levels
- Significant investment of concentrated effort by students over an extended period
- Interactions with faculty and peers about substantive matters
- Experiences with diversity, wherein students are exposed to and must contend with people and circumstances that differ from those with which students are familiar
- Frequent, timely, and constructive feedback
- Opportunities to discover relevance of learning through real-world applications
- Public demonstration of competence
- Periodic, structured opportunities to reflect and integrate learning
- Making a difference for others
- Agency and accomplishment
Related episodes
- Christina Mayes: Portfolio support through peer mentors
- Mark Glynn: Take a programmatic approach to assessment with portfolios
- Sheetal J. Patel: Own your story through a portfolio
- Christine Dülfer: Supporting industry internships
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In this episode, podcast host, Kristina Hoeppner, MA, from Catalyst IT, picks out a few memorable situations from her recent trip to Europe in September and early October 2025.
Resources
- MoodleMoot DACH
- MoodleMoot Global 2025
- Kawaiicon
- Mahara UX review 2024
- Mahara refresh mock-ups
- CPD enhancements
- Mahara subscription
- 'Mahara Ask Me Anything' sessions
- AMA on 25 November 2025
- AMA on 16/17 December 2025
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OStR'in Antje Koenen, MA, is a senior teacher for English and German at Max-Beckmann-Schule in Frankfurt a.M. in Germany. She also works for the Hessische Lehrkräfteakademie, facilitating workshops for other teachers in the use of Mahara and digital media in general, amongst other things.
In this episode, Antje shares why portfolios are a central part of her teaching and learning strategy. She explains how portfolios help engage students as partners in the classroom and help create authentic learning tasks that take advantage of the students' own experiences.
Resources
- Schulportal Hessen
- Lernbegleitung
- Demo site of Mahara
Related episodes
- Sigi Jakob-Kühn: Make students your partners in exploring portfolios
- Christine Dülfer: Supporting industry internships
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Dr Tessa Forshaw, Founding Scholar of the Next Level Lab at Harvard University and Rich Braden (BSEE and BSCE), Chief Innovation Evangelist at People Rocket are the authors of the book Innovation-ish: How anyone can create breakthrough solutions to real problems in the real world.
In this episode, they share what innovation and creativity mean to them, how everyone can be creative and innovative, and how the portfolio comes into play in their classes and also consulting projects. Learn about a couple of the mindsets and moves from their book and the difference between passive reflection and active metacognition.
Resources
- Project Zero at Harvard University
- Harvard Innovation Labs
- Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University, aka d.school
- IDEO CoLab
- Clinton Global Initiative
- NEOM project
- Book Experiments in reflection: How to see the present, reconsider the past, and shape the future by Dr Leticia Britos Cavagnaro
- Thinking routines
Related episodes
- Leticia Britos Cavagnaro: Make learning visible
- Cathy Elliott: Creativity and feedback in assessment portfolios
- Bob Reuter: Externalise your thinking with portfolios
- Ingrid D'Souza: Creativity and lifelong portfolios
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Jack Rice, MBA, is the Director of Digital and Extended Learning at Acadia University and the Executive Director of the Maple League of Universities in Canada.
In this episode, he shares stories from his various positions where he encountered portfolios and how he's changed his view on the tool and pedagogy to embrace portfolios fully and seeing them as being very important in the future of education.
Resources
- Jack's publications on EvoLLLution
- VoiceThread
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfolios: DEIBD
Related episodes
- Rita Zuba Prokopetz: Building a learning community
- Debra Hoven: The value of self-reflection and peer feedback
- Debra Hoven & Margaret Rauliuk: Disrupt the dissertation with an ePortfolio
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Christina Mayes, MSc, is the Assistant Director of Digital Support Services, including the Fletcher Jones Digital Portfolio Lab within the Center for the Dominican Experience at Dominican University of California, U.S.A.
In this episode, Christina shares how the peer mentors at Dominican support students with questions for their portfolio, career readiness, and navigating college life in general.
Resources
- Digital portfolio support at Dominican
- Peer Mentor Program at Dominican
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force
- AAEEBL ePortfolio Retreat 2024
- AAEEBL ePortfolio Review
- Elizalde, R., Mayes, C. (2025). Reflective portfolios as a tool for community and belonging, K-12 and beyond [Presentation]. Peralta Online Equity Conference. (presentation slides)
- Cendon, D., Denk, K., Kuo, K., Mema, L., Nkwadi, S., Nguyen, K., Avila, P., Chen, H. L., Mayes, C., & Mize, M. (2025). Bridging the gap: Insights from student advocates and peer mentors in ePortfolio practice [Presentation]. AAC&U Conference on Learning and Student Success (CLASS), 2025 Forum on Digital Innovation, Puerto Rico.
- Kecia Denk's penguin radio station
- Christina's portfolio
Related episodes
- Solena Ornelas: Set goals and achieve them with a portfolio
- Starlight (José) Lain-Straus: The portfolio as impactful practice for students
- KatieAnn Nguyen: Showcase your achievements in a portfolio and be proud of them
- Arturo Flores, Jr.: The portfolio is a reflection of yourself
- Matthew E. Mueller: Create and control your own narrative with a portfolio
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Assistant Research Professor in Principled Innovation Dr Bea Rodriguez-Fransen works at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University (ASU), focusing on its Principled Innovation Infrastructure for Discovery and Engagement initiative.
In early 2025, Bea published the book Education and decolonial futures in the Philippines: Perspectives for educators and practitionersin which she introduces the decolonial design futures framework that she developed. It is an extension of design thinking to suit working with Indigenous and marginalised communities better.
Bea introduces the decolonial design futures framework along with the decolonial portals and related ideas in this episode, tying them in particular to reflection and how educators can make use of the techniques and frameworks that she's developed, tested, and elaborated on through her work with different communities.
Additional resources
- Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation
- Principled innovation framework
- Bea's TED World Theater talk 'Unlocking Indigenous knowledge: A new path for education'
- Young African Leaders Initiative
- Design Justice Network
- Costanza-Chock, S. (2020). Design justice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- Paulo Freire
- Cervantes, C. L. G. (2025). The Filipino experience of Kutob: Understanding culturally-informed hyper-intuition. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies Advance Publication Archive, 113.
- Rank, H. (1976). Teaching about public persuasion, In: Daniel Dietrich (ed.). Teaching about doublespeak. Illinois: National Council of Teachers of English.
- ORID framework
- Rodriguez-Fransen, B. (2024). From “Little Brown Brother” to Filipino genocide: A critical discourse analysis of the Philippine-American War’s impact on Modern Filipino colorism. Journal of Colorism Studies; Windsor Mill, 5(1), 1–22.
- Quimpo, N. G. (2020). Colonial name, colonial mentality and ethnocentrism. Public Policy, 4(1), 1–49.
Related episodes
- Christine Slade and Kevin Kelly: Digital ethics principle DEIBD
- Kevin Kelly & Kristina Hoeppner: Digital ethics principles and UDL guidelines
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Marie 'Bernie' Fisher, SFHEA, AFHERDSA, BA/BSc, Grad Dipl Ed, MA, MA (Hons), is a PhD candidate at the University of New England in Australia. She's been creating portfolios and supporting students create their own for many years in and outside of academia. As a member of the ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee, she's been involved in community engagement and support.
In this episode, Bernie takes us on her portfolio journey and shares what is important to her in her portfolio practice, what some of her methods and ways are to reflect meaningfully, and how she supports others with reflection.
Resources
- AAEEBL
- HERDSA
- Eportfolio Forum, 12-13 November 2025
- PARE sessions
- Shut Up & Write!
- Fisher, M. (2024, August 13). Look in the mirror and what do you see [Presentation]. AAEEBL Annual Meeting.
- Bernie's publications
- Gibbs, G. (1988). Learning by doing: A guide to teaching and learning methods. Oxford Brookes University.
- Mezirow, J., & Taylor, E. W. (Eds.). (2009). Transformative learning in practice: Insights from community, workplace, and higher education. Jossey-Bass.
Related episodes
- Allison Miller: The portfolio is a process
- Bob Reuter: Externalise your thinking with portfolios
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Dr Suzanne Schibeci is the Work-Integrated Learning Partner at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, supporting students, faculty, and employers with the administration and running of work-integrated learning (WIL) experiences.
In this episode, Sue shares how she's using portfolios to help her students reflect on their WIL experiences that take them outside of the university. She talks about what works for her and what some challenges are.
Resources
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Task Force
- Eportfolio Forum 2025: Revolution, Evolution, Resolution
- STAR method by Michael Pell
- Schibeci, S. (2025). Enabling students to identify and develop employability skills during work-integrated learning experiences. AAEEBL ePortfolio Review, Summer/Fall, 30–34.
Related episodes
- Mike Altieri: Use reflection bot Riff for deeper and more meaningful portfolio reflection
- Leticia Britos Cavagnaro: Make learning visible
- Mark Brady: Journal regularly for profound insight
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Prof. Dr. paed. Dipl.-Math. Mike Altieri is a professor of Media Didactics in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Media, and Computer Science at Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden (OTH Amberg-Weiden) in Bavaria in Germany. He teaches in the Master's programme in Educational Technology and leads the research project Dreiklang.
Projekt Dreiklang is funded by Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre and contributes to the improvements in using portfolios in Germany in higher education.
In this interview Mike shares how he uses the artificial intelligence reflection bot Riff with his students to encourage deeper and more meaningful reflection in their portfolios and how he incorporates his students' work in their portfolios into his lectures.
Resources
- Mike's OTH web page
- Sign-up for free access to the Dreiklang ePortfolio starter kit (some information is in English)
- Publications by the Dreiklang project team
- Map of institutions using portfolios in Germany (and beyond). This map is in the early stages. Get in touch with Mike if you want to be listed.
- Blog post introducing Riff: 'Reflecting with AI: A Tool to Develop Human Intelligence'
Recordings of the AAEEBL AI webinar series, including recording 'Supporting reflection through an AI powered reflection bot'
Related episodes
- Christina Stollner & Romy Hösl: Portfolio support for educators and learners
- Dr Leticia Britos Cavagnaro: Make learning visible
- Prof Dr Paul Libbrecht and Prof Dr Wolfgang Müller: Support your portfolio learning with AI
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Prof Dr David Hicks is a Professor of History and Social Science Education at Virginia Tech in the U.S.A. He's been teaching with portfolios for over 20 years supporting teacher candidates on their journey to become professionals.
In this episode he talks about how he and his team integrate portfolios into a capstone course in the teacher training programme at Virginia Tech (VT), what scaffolds they employ, and how the supports in place help students create portfolios that emphasise reflection. The basis of his portfolio work is folio thinking and the ePortfolio development framework that he and his team have developed over the course of time.
Resources
- Hicks, D., Allen, A., & Evers, S. (2025). Folio thinking in teacher education: A case study on the evolution of reflective ePortfolio assignments. AePR ePortfolio Review, Winter / Spring 2025, 19–29.
- Parkes, K. A., Dredger, K., & Hicks, D. (2013). ePortfolio as a measure of reflective practice. International Journal of ePortfolio, 3(2), 99–115.
- Penny Light, T., Chen, H. L., & Ittelson, J. C. (2011). Documenting learning with ePortfolios: A guide for college instructors. Jossey-Bass.
Connect with Virginia Tech School of Education in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
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- Rita Zuba Prokopetz: Building a learning community
- Debra Hoven: The value of self-reflection and peer feedback
- Bob Reuter: Externalise your thinking with portfolios
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Dr Lindsay Richardson is the Educational Technology Manager in the Teaching and Learning Services Department at Carleton University. She is also an Adjunct Professor and Contract Instructor in the Department of Psychology at the university.
Lindsay has been using portfolios in large introductory psychology courses with 200 to 450 students. Students create 'success portfolios' which they also grade themselves based on a rubric. In this interview, Lindsay talks about why she introduced portfolios into her courses and how she is navigating the use of generative AI.
Resources
- Dr Lindsay Richardson and Dr Ashley Thompson's podcast 'Agile Ed': Exploring learner-centred education fuelled by curiosity and critical thinking
- Students as Partners Programme
- cuPortfolio, Carleton University's instance of Mahara
- Ungrading and alternative assessments, a resource from York University
Related episode: Cathy Elliott: Have fun, be flexible, and encourage feedback in your portfolio
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In this episode, Mahara project lead Kristina Hoeppner, MA, takes a brief look back at 15 years on the Mahara team at Catalyst IT. She pulls out a few instances of portfolio use. This is only a tiny selection and by no means a full representation of what is happening in the portfolio community as you can see from the many stories that we share on this podcast.
Resources
- Learning management system Moodle
- MoodleMoot Global 2025
- Library management system Koha
- KohaCon 2025
- Bret Eynon, Laura Gambino (2018): Catalyst in action: Case studies of High-Impact ePortfolio practice
- Recording of Mahara Hui Online on 10 June 2025 on the Mahara YouTube channel
- Morgan Gresham, Megan, Mize, Sarah Zurhellen (2023). High-impact practices and third spaces: Connecting across disciplines. Across the Disciplines, 20(3–4), 157–176.
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force and Digital Ethics in ePortfolios principles
- AAEEBL YouTube channel
- ePortfolios Australia and upcoming Eportfolio Forum
- Chris Cormack (2025): Data sovereignty in Aotearoa: Navigating how to protect our digital taonga
- Presentation 'Portfolios: Integral to your programmatic assessment approach'
- Janine Quiding, Miriam Laidlaw, Tabitha Parker, Kristina Hoeppner (2020): Portfolios come full circle in the world of work
- Janine Quiding, Miriam Laidlaw, Tabitha Parker (2022): PDRP at Waitematā
Related episodes
- Andrea Ghoneim: Learn transversal skills through portfolios
- Lisa Donaldson: From 0 to 6,000 in six weeks
- Christina Stollner & Romy Hösl: Portfolio support for educators and learners
- DiKuLe: Planning and decision making guide for portfolios
- Chahira Nouira: Use a portfolio to give students space and time to reflect
- Mahara 25.04 and how a feature makes it into Mahara
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Cordula Schwiderski, MA, Hannah Brodel, MA, Martina Osterrieder, and Dr Martin Sticht work at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg in Germany. Hannah, Martina, and Martin are members of the DiKuLe project, and Cordula works in the eFolio team, which was established through the project.
DiKuLe - Digitale Kulturen der Lehre entwickeln (develop digital cultures in academic teaching) is a project funded by Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre.
The part of the project the four are involved in looks at improving portfolio practices. To do that, they have created a planning and decision making guide as one output of the project. This guide combines the technical and learning design aspects necessary for successfully planning, preparing, and implementing portfolios in academic courses.
Connect with
- Cordula
- Hannah
- Martina
- Martin
- DiKuLe on LinkedIn
Resources
- Planungs- und Entscheidungshilfe zum Einsatz von E-Portfolios in der Lehre (incl. editable file)
- Planning and decision making guide for the use of ePortfolios in academic teaching
- DiKuLe Symposium
- Online workshop 'Strategic course design with ePortfolios: A practical guide' with Hannah Brodel and Martina Osterrieder
- Biggs, J. (1996). Enhancing teaching through constructive alignment. In Higher Education 32, S. 347–364.
- eFolio offering at the University of Bamberg
Related episodes
- Christina Stollner & Romy Hösl: Portfolio support for educators and learners
- Margarete Imhof, Franziska Ohl, Sebastian Laube: Feedback as driver for learning with portfolios
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Christina Stollner, MA, and Romy Hösl, MA, work at Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden (OTH Amberg-Weiden) in Bavaria in Germany. There they are members of the 'Dreiklang' project, which aims to make it easier for lecturers and students to work with portfolios by offering a triad of support: theory, communication, and examples for the direct application of portfolios in various contexts in higher education.
The resources they have already created and that they will continue to create until the end of their project, are all available under the Creative Commons license BY 4.0.
Projekt Dreiklang is funded by Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre and contributes to the improvements in using portfolios in Germany in higher education.
Connect with
- Christina on LinkedIn
- Romy on LinkedIn
Resources
- Projekt Dreiklang
- OTH's Master's programme in Educational Technology
- Sign-up for free access to the starter kit (some information is in English)
- Reflection bot Riff
- Recordings of the AAEEBL AI webinar series, including recording 'Supporting reflection through an AI powered reflection bot'
- AISOP project
Related episodes
- Dr Leticia Britos Cavagnaro: Make learning visible
- Prof Dr Paul Libbrecht and Prof Dr Wolfgang Müller: Support your portfolio learning with AI
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Professor Dr Michael Sankey from Charles Darwin University in Australia has been involved in the ePortfolio practice for more than 25 years. He started out writing HTML pages, then used various portfolio platforms throughout his university career, and transitioned to a non-institution owned site now that he is retired.
In this conversation Michael emphasises the role of the portfolio to support emerging professionals. He advocates for institution-operated portfolio platforms to provide a space where employers looking at student portfolios can be assured that they are dealing with real students. Michael also makes the case for programmatic assessment as the next evolution in assessment and the key role that the portfolio plays in it.
Connect with Michael
- Bluesky
Resources
- Michael's website
- ePortfolios Australia
- Keynote at the Eportfolio Forum 2024: 'Making visible the "human" side of learning and celebrating one’s achievements through ePortfolio practice
- University of Sydney's two-lane approach to artificial intelligence in assessment tasks
- What to do about assessments if we can’t out-design or out-run AI?
- Program level assessment design and the two-lane approach
- Artificial intelligence and academic integrity: A conversation between Prof Dr Danny Liu and Prof Dr Stephen Marshall
- Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University; resources on programmatic assessment:
- Nieminen, J. H., & Boud, D. (2024). Placing authenticity at the heart of student self-assessment: an integrative review. Teaching in Higher Education, 30(3), 640–662.
- Tree, D., Harvey, A., & Rand-Weaver, M. (2025) Integrated Programme Assessment: 10 years on. (2025). Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 4(1).
- CRADLE Seminar Series 2025 #1: Programmatic Assessment. Insights from Theory and Practice with Dr Liesbeth Baartman
Related episodes
- Kate Mitchell: Deliberate and programmatic design
- Mark Glynn: Take a programmatic approach to assessment with portfolios
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In this episode, podcast host Kristina Hoeppner, MA, who is the Mahara Project Lead and Product Manager, shares how a feature makes into the application, using a couple of recent examples from Mahara 25.04 that will be released by the end of April 2025.
Mahara 25.04 will have a number of great new features available that enhance portfolio practice and also help teaching and support staff in their roles.
Connect with Kristina
- Mastodon
- Send a message via the Mahara community website
Resources
- Tree swing story
- Cartoon
- History of the cartoon
- Origin of the CPD plugin
- Wireframes as result of the usability review
- Mock-ups for Mahara 26.04
- Mahara roadmap
- Announcement of the Mahara 25.04 preview
- Presentation 'Who creates open source software?'
- Upcoming Mahara events
- Events by AAEEBL
- Recording of the 'New features in Mahara 25.04' webinar
Related episodes
- Monash University
- Dr Ingrid D'Souza: Creativity and lifelong portfolios
- Assoc Prof Dr Zala Volcic: Develop community, relationships, and compassion
- Jamie Robinson, MEd: Portfolio boot camp for educators
- Programmatic design and assessment
- Kate Mitchell, MEd: Deliberate and programmatic design
- Dr Mark Glynn, PFHEA: Take a programmatic approach to assessment with portfolios
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Prof Dr Margarete Imhof, Franziska Ohl, MSc, and Sebastian Laube, MSc work in the Institute for Psychology, and there specifically in the Department of Psychology in Education at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Germany. They are members of the feedback portfolio project, supporting lecturers and students in their department with the creation of portfolios.
Franziska, Margarete, and Sebastian are strong believers in portfolios and how they can empower students in becoming reflective practitioners, engage meaningfully in feedback processes, and ultimately be good teachers. In this episode, in particular, they talk about their feedback practices, the use of templates, and how collaboration amongst students and also with lecturers can be scaffolded.
Connect with
- Franziska via her university page
- Margarete via her university page
- Sebastian via his university page
Resources
- Sebastian's video series on Mahara
- Sebastian's current template
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principle in ePortfolios: Support
- Metaphors in portfolio practice: Coleman, K.S. (2017). An a/r/tist in wonderland: Exploring identity, creativity and digital portfolios as a/r/tographer, Ph.D. dissertation, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2017.
- Mahara roadmap
- AAC&U's High-Impact Practices
- Ohl, F., Laube, S., Imhof, M. & Harring, M. (2022). Portfolioarbeit und Feedbackkultur gemeinsam entwickeln. In M. Krämer, J. Zumbach & I. Deibl (Eds.), Psychologiedidaktik und Evaluation XIV (pp. 337-343). Düren: Shaker.
- Laube, S., Ohl, F., Harring, M., Imhof, M. (2023). Das digitale Feedback-Portfolio. In L. Mrohs, J. Franz, D. Herrmann, K. Lindner & T. Staake (Eds.), Digitale Kulturen der Lehre entwickeln. Perspektiven der Hochschuldidaktik (pp. 301- 307). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Related episodes
- Shari Bowker: Establish good feedback practices in your portfolio
- The wunderkammer: Metaphors in portfolio practice
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Chahira Nouira, MSc, is an instructional designer at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in Germany where she supports lecturers in their use of educational technology and how to incorporate them into their teaching and learning activities.
In this episode, Chahira talks about the support that the instructional design team offers to lecturers, in particular the initiative 'Get[IN]spired' that also fosters connections between lecturers. She then talks about which study programmes use portfolios, including theology, musicology, and forest sciences. Learn how the portfolio delivers benefits to students in them.
Special thanks from Chahira to Natalia Lischer, MA, and Dipl-Ing Christian Fliegner from the Digital Learning and Teaching team at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, whose efforts to support all the university's teaching staff with portfolio work have been remarkable and continue to be very crucial.
Connect with Chahira
- Mastodon
Resources
- Initiative 'Get[IN]spired'
- The eLearning service team at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Related episodes
- Jamie Fulcher: Portfolio boot camp for educators
- Mark Brady: Journal regularly for profound insight
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Matthew E. Mueller, CRC, MA, MBA, is the Director of Accessibility and Disability Services at Dominican University of California where he's also finished his MBA in December 2024. He's also one of the integrative coaches of the Student Success Center.
In this episode, Matthew talks about how all of his roles at Dominican contribute to him being able to support students holistically, coach them, and provide services to them that help them navigate college successfully. He also shares a bit about his own portfolio journey.
This episode is the fifth and last interview with portfolio authors from Dominican University of California whom I was privileged to meet in preparation for the first AAEEBL ePortfolio Retreat that was held at Dominican on 18 October 2024.
Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn
Resources
- Matthew's portfolio and his Dominican web page
- The Dominican Experience, of which the portfolio work is part
- Digital portfolio support at Dominican
- Christina Mayes, MS, Manager of the Fletcher Jones Digital Portfolio Lab
- Naomi Elvolve, MA, Executive Director of the Student Success Center, Integrative Coach
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Related Dominican University of California episodes:
- Solena Ornelas: Set goals and achieve them with a portfolio
- Starlight (José) Lain-Straus: The portfolio as impactful practice for students
- KatieAnn Nguyen: Showcase your achievements in a portfolio and be proud of them
- Arturo Flores, Jr.: The portfolio is a reflection of yourself
Related episodes
- Kate Mitchell: Deliberate and programmatic design
- Mark Glynn: Take a programmatic approach to assessment with portfolios
- Kevin Kelly & Kristina Hoeppner: Digital ethics principles and UDL guidelines
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Arturo Flores, Jr., is a Psychology and History major at Dominican University of California in his final year. He holds a number of on-campus jobs, amongst them being a peer mentor.
Arturo started developing his public portfolio in his first year at Dominican and details some of that journey for us in this episode. He reflects on the benefits of the portfolio for him as a student already now and for the future.
This episode is the fourth of five interviews with portfolio authors from Dominican University of California whom I was privileged to meet in preparation for the first AAEEBL ePortfolio Retreat that was held at Dominican on 18 October 2024.
Connect with Arturo on LinkedIn
Resources
- Arturo's portfolio
- The Dominican Experience, of which the portfolio work is part
- Digital portfolio support at Dominican
- Christina Mayes, MS, Manager of the Fletcher Jones Digital Portfolio Lab
- Naomi Elvolve, MA, Executive Director of the Student Success Center
- Jennifer Labovich, BA, Integrative Coach
- Stacy L. Poe, MA, Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
- Rec Sports at Dominican
Related Dominican University of California episodes:
- Solena Ornelas: Set goals and achieve them with a portfolio
- Starlight (José) Lain-Straus: The portfolio as impactful practice for students
- KatieAnn Nguyen: Showcase your achievements in a portfolio and be proud of them
- Matthew E. Mueller: Create and control your own narrative with a portfolio
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KatieAnn Nguyen is a Chemistry student at Dominican University of California. She's also a peer mentor for digital portfolios at Dominican.
In this episode, KatieAnn shares what she does as a peer mentor and why she thinks portfolios are important for students to create.
This episode is the third of five interviews with portfolio authors from Dominican University of California whom I was privileged to meet in preparation for and during the first AAEEBL ePortfolio Retreat that was held at Dominican on 18 October 2024.
Connect with KatieAnn on LinkedIn
Resources
- KatieAnn's portfolio
- The Dominican Experience, of which the portfolio work is part
- Digital portfolio support at Dominican
- Christina Mayes, MS, Manager of the Fletcher Jones Digital Portfolio Lab
Related Dominican University of California episodes:
- Solena Ornelas: Set goals and achieve them with a portfolio
- Starlight (José) Lain-Straus: The portfolio as impactful practice for students
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Starlight (José) Lain-Straus is an Education Studies bachelor student at Dominican University of California. He's also a peer mentor, supporting students when they join Dominican.
In this episode, Starlight shares how the portfolio has helped them to see all their accomplishments since joining Dominican and how it became impactful for their further education.
This episode is the second of five interviews with portfolio authors from Dominican University of California whom I was privileged to meet in preparation for and during the first AAEEBL ePortfolio Retreat that was held at Dominican on 18 October 2024.
Connect with Starlight
- Tiktok
- YouTube
Resources
- Starlight's portfolio
- The Dominican Experience, of which the portfolio work is part
- Digital portfolio support at Dominican
- Christina Mayes, MS, Manager of the Fletcher Jones Digital Portfolio Learning Lab
- Kathleen Ferrando, MA, Adjunct Professor in Education
- ASDU - Associated Students of Dominican University
- PRIDE Club
- PSAAC - Penguin Student-Athlete Advisory Committee
Related Dominican University of California episodes:
- Solena Ornelas: Set goals and achieve them with a portfolio
- KatieAnn Nguyen: Showcase your achievements in a portfolio and be proud of them
Related episode: Shari Bowker: Establish good feedback practices in your portfolio
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Solena Ornelas, MA, started her college career at Dominican University of California, earning her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Music. She then continued on to New York University to pursue a Master of Arts in Art Politics, and is now a civil servant as congressional staffer.
In this interview Solena outlines how she started with her portfolio and developed it over time, and what the main uses are for her: goal setting and showcasing her accomplishments as a multi-talented performance artist, activist, academic, and civil servant.
This episode kicks of a mini-series with five portfolio authors from Dominican University of California whom I was privileged to meet in preparation for and during the first AAEEBL ePortfolio Retreat that was held at Dominican on 18 October 2024.
Connect with Solena on LinkedIn
Resources
- Solena's portfolio
- The Dominican Experience, of which the portfolio work is part
- Digital portfolio support at Dominican
- Integrative coaches at Dominican
- Christina Mayes, MS, Manager of the Fletcher Jones Digital Portfolio Lab
- Associate Professor Alison Howard, MA, Director of Core Curriculum
- Jonathan Lear (2008). Radical hope. Harvard University Press.
- On Nina Simone's activism
Related Dominican University of California episodes:
- Starlight (José) Lain-Straus: The portfolio as impactful practice for students
- KatieAnn Nguyen: Showcase your achievements in a portfolio and be proud of them
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In this episode, podcast host and Mahara Project Lead Kristina Hoeppner, MA, from Catalyst IT shares some insights from her trip to the Northern hemisphere in October and November 2024 where she's met with portfolio enthusiasts and Mahara community members to talk about portfolios.
Connect with Kristina
- Mastodon
Resources
- AAEEBL retreat, October 2024
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force
- Mahara community site and demo of Mahara
- MoodleMoot Global 2024 recordings
- Kristina's presentation 'Mahara y Moodle: Una combinación perfecta para los estudiantes'
- How to add Mahara to Moodle
- Université de Lorraine project Pléiades, programme Trajectoires
- Université de Lorraine project template and competency template
- ESUP Portail
- Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg's project DiKuLe
- Planungs- und Entscheidungshilfe für den Einsatz von Portfolios vom Projekt DiKuLe
- Planning and decision-making guide for portfolios created by Project DiKuLe
- Portfolio starter kit from Projekt Dreiklang (in German) with lots of case studies and tutorials (enter using the guest login)
- Mahara UX review 2024: Wireframes
Related episodes
- Dr Leticia Britos Cavagnaro: Make learning visible
- Dr Helen L. Chen: Reflect through conversation to tell your story
- Mike Joiner-Hill: Represent yourself through a portfolio
- Dr Ruth Cox & Dr Kevin Kelly: Grow and nurture the portfolio through the framework of ePorticulture
- Dr Ricardo Elizalde: See the whole student and their learning journey
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Professor Dr Olga Göransson works in Lund University's Department of Experimental Medical Science, specifically the Lund University Diabetes Centre in Sweden. She is the director of the 'Generic knowledge and skills (ePortfolio)' course, in which all 1,200 PhD students of the Medical Faculty are enrolled. They all create portfolios.
In this interview, Olga outlines the two purposes of the portfolio and how the PhD students benefit from both the learning and the assessment portfolios that they create.
Resources
- Olga's researcher profile
- Library guide of the course 'Generic knowledge and skills (ePortfolio)'
- Rolfe et al.'s model of reflection based on Borton's prompts
Related episode: Debra Hoven & Margaret Rauliuk: Disrupt the dissertation with an ePortfolio
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Associate Professor Dr Fergus Green from University College London (UCL) talks in this episode about why he started working with portfolios in his political science classes, what he has learned, and how he can better support his students on their learning journey by having incorporated portfolios.
Connect with Fergus
- X (formerly Twitter)
Resources
- Fergus' website
- UCL's ChangeMakers projects
Related episodes
- Cathy Elliott: Creativity and feedback in assessment portfolios
- Cathy Elliott: Have fun, be flexible, and encourage feedback in your portfolio
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Professor Dr Candyce Reynolds, Director of University Foundations (General Education) at Boise State University, and Dr Sonja Taylor, Director of Senior Inquiry at Portland State University (PSU) talk about one of their projects in which they use social media to teach their students reflection, digital citizenship, and digital literacy skills. Tune in to learn why folio thinking, the process, is important to them, and how they bring their students along on the journey.
Connect with
- Candyce on LinkedIn
- Sonja on LinkedIn
Resources
- Reynolds, C., Pirie, M. S., & Taylor, S. (2024). Folio thinking and digital literacy: Integrating social media and ePortfolios. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1–10.
- Reynolds, C., & Pirie, M. S. (2022). Growing the garden of integrative learning: Composting as a metaphor for folio thinking. AAEEBL ePortfolio Review, Fall/Winter, 46–50.
- Sonja's portfolio
- Candyce's portfolio
- Summer Bridge programme at PSU
- Swordfisk, K. (2024, August 22). Inquiry for Justice at Portland State bridges gap for historically excluded students.
- Taylor, S. (2024). Teaching to a different test. Presentation at Pebblebash 2024.
- Taylor, S. (2024). Public reflection as a classroom tool. Presentation at AAEEBL Annual Meeting 2024.
- Funds of Knowledge Alliance
- Penny Light, T., Chen, H. L., & Ittelson, J. C. (2011). Documenting learning with ePortfolios: A guide for college instructors. Jossey-Bass. (Helen developed the idea of 'folio thinking' in this book)
- Suter, V. (2013, June 5). Folio thinking. Vicki Suter.
- Reynolds, C., & Patton, J. (2014). Leveraging the ePortfolio for integrative learning: A faculty guide to classroom practices for transforming student learning. Routledge.
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios principle of DEIBD
- Sonja's PebbleBash presentation
- Distinguished Professor Dr Sylvia Spears from College Unbound
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Honorary Senior Lecturer Tom Worthington, MEd FHEA FACS CP, from The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia, teaches computer science students. He uses authentic learning tasks, in particular around the topic of job applications to engage his students in portfolio practice.
In this interview, Tom shares his own journey from a design portfolio to one for his Master's in Education and what he has learned along the way that is helping him support his students in their own reflective practice without employing portfolio language, but rather using language that has more meaning to his students.
Connect with Tom on LinkedIn
Resources
- Tom's blog posts on his portfolio course ideas
- Presentation 'A job application as the capstone for work integrated learning'
- Professor Dr Stephen Dann
- LEGO SERIOUS PLAY
- Professor Dr Charles Gretton
- ANU TechLauncher
- Awasthy, R., Flint, S., & Sankaranarayana, R. (2017). Lifting the constraints—Closing the skills gap with authentic student projects. 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 955–960.
- Worthington, T. (2019). Blend and flip for teaching communication skills to final year international computer science students. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Education (TALE), 1–5.
Related episodesThe Master in Education at Athabasca University:
- Dr Rita Zuba Prokopetz: Building a learning community
- Professor Dr Debra Hoven: The value of self-reflection and peer feedback
Mike Joiner-Hill: Represent yourself through a portfolio
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Professor Dr Cathy Elliott is Vice Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at University College London (UCL), UK. She teaches a political science class on nature and supports over 1,000 faculty and 7,000 students in the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at UCL.
In this episode she gives an update on what she has achieved since her first episode in May 2023 and what she's excited about in regards to portfolios. She shares how the Geography Department is going to use portfolios in a programmatic approach, starting in an overhauled first year and making the work in the portfolio the centre of the assessment strategy.
Connect with Cathy
- X
- UCL researcher profile
Resources
- Associate Professor Dr Fergus Green
- Professor Dr Jan Axmacher
- Campaign of the National Union of Students 'Mark my words, not my name'
- Pitt, Edd, & Winstone, Naomi (2018). The impact of anonymous marking on students’ perceptions of fairness, feedback and relationships with lecturers. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 43(7), 1183–1193.
Related episodes
- Prof Dr Cathy Elliott: Creativity and feedback in assessment portfolios
- Kate Mitchell, MEd: Deliberate and programmatic design
- Dr Mark Glynn, PFHEA: Take a programmatic approach to assessment with portfolios
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Jonathan Murphy, FCA, is Head of the Apprenticeship Department at Griffith College in Ireland and is passionate about portfolios for his degree apprentices but would also take it beyond his own department. In his interview, Jonathan outlines who students at Griffith College use portfolios, demonstrate and track their skills and competencies and how the portfolio helps bridge the apprenticeship with the academic rigour.
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Connect with Jonathan on LinkedIn
Resources
- Griffith College case study
- Universal Design for Learning
- Fundamentals of SmartEvidence
- More power to assess competencies with SmartEvidence version 2
- QQI: Quality and Qualifications Ireland
- NFQ: National Framework of Qualifications
Related episodes
- Derrin Kent: Portfolios in degree apprenticeships
- Kathleen Blake Yancey: Heuristics for meaningful portfolios
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Dr Sheetal J. Patel from the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab (ILPL) at Stanford University wears several hats besides the one of being founding member and contributor to the lab. She runs her own company, Aha! >> Opportunities, co-founded the facilitation company Ninety-Five Z, works for LinkedIn Learning, and is a mom.
In this episode, Sheetal shares why diversity, equity, and inclusion (and belonging and decolonisation - DEIBD if talking about the AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles) are at the forefront of her thinking, what frameworks the ILPL has developed that the student ambassadors and workshop facilitators at the ILPL work with, what impact generative AI is having, and why she thinks reflection is key, not just to portfolios.
Connect with Sheetal on LinkedIn
Resources
- Workshop 'Addressing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging in Student Showcase ePortfolios' in 2020
- ILPL video series
- ILPL LinkedIn page
- Interview with Naomi Pitts (Auburn University)
- Bloom's taxonomy
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles
Related episodes with other members of the ILPL
- Dr Helen L. Chen: Reflect through conversation to tell your story
- Mike Joiner-Hill, MSW: Represent yourself through a portfolio
- Mario A. Peraza, MS: Use AI to help curate your digital presence
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Professor Dr Patsie Polly (SFHEA), Director and Fellow of the UNSW Scientia Education Academy at University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, has been using portfolios in biomedical sciences since 2011/12. In this episode she shares how she started with the practice, and why she is a strong advocate for using portfolios not just for authentic assessment tasks.
Connect with Patsie on LinkedIn
Resources
- Patsie's research and publications
- Blog post 'Can portfolio pegagogy be shaken by AI' with Kate Coleman
- Field Guide to ePortfolio
- Presentation 'Linking learning to employability through ePortfolios' with Dr Beth Gordon, Roger Emery, Kristina Hoeppner, and Sibylle Würz
- Riff: AI reflection bot
- AAC&U's High-Impact Practices
- HERDSA - Higher Education and Development Society of Australia
- ePortfolios Australia
- Eportfolio Forum 2024
- AAEEBL - Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning
Related episodes
- Kate Mitchell: Deliberate and programmatic design
- Mark Glynn: Take a programmatic approach to portfolio assessment
- Allison Miller: The portfolio is a process
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Associate Professor Dr Zala Volcic is Director of Teaching Innovation within the Faculty of Arts at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She shares how her students in the Bachelor of Media Communication (BMC) in the School of Media, Film, and Journalism use portfolios in different ways in their studies.
Zala shares what is important to her in teaching students and how she and her colleagues assist them become humans with personal, professional, and social responsibilities. She has a lot of tips for educators, and the biggest one is to work with the learning / educational designers at their institutions.
Zala's work was supported by the Australian Research Council [DP230103037].
Resources
- Press release on Zala being awarded the Australian University Teacher of the Year 2023 Award in February 2024
- Bachelor of Media Communication students on their portfolio work
- D’Souza, I., Volcic, Z., & Sapsed, C. (2023a). Connecting through eportfolio practice: Trust, relationships & expertise. eBook of Shortened Peer Reviewed Papers, Eportfolio Forum 2023, 15–19.
- D’Souza, I., Volcic, Z., & Sapsed, C. (2023b, October 11). Connecting through eportfolio practice: Trust, relationships & expertise. Eportfolio Forum 2023, Darwin, Australia.
- Volcic, Z., Tran, I., Palepu, V., & Baath, R. (2024). Intercultural communication during pandemic: New ways to build intercultural dialogue and relationships. Intercultural Communication, 35(1), 42–61.
- Ingrid D'Souza's episode on creativity and lifelong learning
- Joanne Painter from the ICON Agency
- Zala's publications
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In this episode, Derrin Kent, Founder of The Development Manager (TDM) in the UK, talks about how his company supports degree apprentices on their learning journey with portfolios. He details the difference between a degree and an apprenticeships and how together they are very complementary. He points out the importance of the portfolio and the reflection process.
Connect with Derrin on LinkedIn
Resources
- Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE)
- Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted)
- Bloom's taxonomy
- Derrin's episode on Skills Bootcamps
- SmartEvidence and SmartEvidence version 2
- TDM's degree apprenticeships
- TDM's Skills Bootcamps
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Allison Miller, MLD, Director and Lead Consultant at Digital Capability in Adelaide, Australia, talks about her passion: ePortfolios. She also leads the ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee that offers events, research, and practice opportunity for portfolio researchers and practitioners, primarily in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
In this episode, Allison shares some of her practice and projects she's involved in and explains what the main components of a portfolio are for her and how to get started.
Connect with Allison on LinkedIn
Resources
- Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA)
- Tall Poppy Syndrome
- EmPr Beverley Oliver
- ePortfolios Australia community website
- ePortfolio Australia PARE sessions
- Eportfolio Forum, 10-11 September 2024
- Kate Mitchell's episode on programmatic design
- Shari Bowker's episode on feedback
- Flyer for one of the 'Shut up and ePortfolio' sessions with Sandra Stewart in 2020
- Brown, G., Chen, H. L., & Gordon, A. (2012). The annual AAEEBL survey at two: Looking back and looking ahead. International Journal of ePortfolio, 2(2), 129–138.
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Assistant Professor at Tallahassee Community College Amanda B. Wallce, MA, and Kylie Pugh, MA, Adjunct Faculty at the University of West Florida and Customer Success Manager at Instructure talk about their experience with portfolios that they designed around student well-being. Together with Dr Bre Garrett (University of West Florida), they conducted research in that area and published that at the end of 2023.
Kylie and Amanda share their own learning journey, filled with trials, errors, and lots and lots of reflective work. They showcase beautifully portfolio work themselves.
The majority of their work that they share happened during the COVID-19 pandemic. In one part of the interview they share some of the difficult situations that they experienced. This section is prefaced with a content warning so you can skip to the next chapter if this may be difficult for you to listen to.
Connect with Amanada and Kylie
- Amanada on LinkedIn
- Kylie on LinkedIn
Resources
- Garrett, B., Pugh, K., & Wallace, A. B. (2023). ePortfolio Composition: Fostering a Pedagogy of Well-Being. Across the Disciplines, 20(3–4), 87–109.
- Webinar 'From research to application: ePortfolio practice across the disciplines' on 28 June 2024
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Mario A. Peraza just completed his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering - Design Methodology at Stanford University and was a student ambassador and intern at the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab (ILPL) at the university where he taught workshops on using portfolios to curate one's digital presence besides performing a number of other tasks.
In his interview Mario shares how he's been using generative AI to help with the creation and revamping of his personal public portfolio. He also talks about the newly created workshop in which he used AI with students to curate their online presence.
Connect with Mario on LinkedIn
Resources
- Mario's website Mario A. Peraza
- The Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab
- ILPL on LinkedIn
- ILPL framework for the curation of your digital presence
- Episode 'Helen L. Chen: Reflect through conversation to tell your story'
- Episode 'Mike Joiner-Hill: Represent yourself through a portfolio'
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfolios
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Shari Bowker, MEd, is Learning Designer (ePortfolios) at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. There she works in the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI) and supports educators university wide with implementing portfolios into their classes. In this interview Shari shares why feedback is a crucial component of portfolio practice. She gives examples of a couple of feedback frameworks and how she uses them.
Connect with Shari on LinkedIn
Resources
- Articles and presentations by Shari
- Bowker, S., & La Burniy, N. (2021, June 24). ePortfolios at UQ - Champagne and papercuts. TELedvisor webinar -includes the diagrams Shari describes
- Bowker, S., & Slade, C. (2021). Increased student participation in feedback using ePortfolios: Shifting to a new paradigm. 2021 Eportfolio Forum, 2–8.
- Bowker, S., Slade, C., & Cave, D. (2023). An empirical study of enhanced feedback literacy through ePortfolios in a dietetics postgraduate program. 2023 Eportfolio Forum, 3–8.
- Cabot, P. J., Bowker, S., & Slade, C. (2023). Leveraging eportfolios to support a learner-centred approach in the Master of Pharmaceutical Industry Practice Program. 2023 Eportfolio Forum, 9–14.
- Dulfikar, A., Bowker, S., & Slade, C. (2023, October 12). Enhancing self-directed learning through connecting a workplace management system and an ePortfolio platform. 2023 Eportfolio Forum.
- Elliot, J., Mitchell, K., & Bowker, S. (2022). Reflecting, refining, and resourcing: A framework for building and supporting ePortfolios in a post-COVID19 landscape. AAEEBL ePortfolio Review, 6(2), 27–35.
- Wozniak, H., & Bowker, S. (2018). Building a scalable ePortfolio based assessment strategy to connect clinical learning experiences: Preliminary lessons. 2018 Eportfolio Forum, 57–64.
- Boud, D., & Molloy, E. (Eds.). (2012). Feedback in higher and professional education: Understanding it and doing it well. Routledge.
- Carless, D., & Boud, D. (2018). The development of student feedback literacy: Enabling uptake of feedback. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 43(8), 1315–1325.
- Winstone, N., & Carless, D. (2020). Designing effective feedback processes in higher education: A learning-focused approach. Routledge.
- Podcast:
- Mark Glynn: Take a programmatic approach to assessment with portfolios
- Kate Mitchell: Deliberate and programmatic design
- ePortfolios Australia
- AAEEBL
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Mark Glynn, now Head of Business Development for EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) at Catalyst IT Europe, used to be the Head of the Teaching Enhancement Unit at Dublin City University (DCU) for many years. In this episode, Mark shares his view on the benefits for implementing an institution-wide portfolio strategy and for rolling out a single institution-supported portfolio platform, in the case of DCU, Mahara.
Connect with Mark on LinkedIn
Resources
- DCU's Teaching Enhancement Unit
- Other episodes with DCU staff and a student
- Lisa Donaldson: 'From 0 to 6,000 in six weeks'
- Orna Farrell: 'Supporting learners and lecturers alike in their learning journey'
- Mark Brady: 'Journal regularly for profound insight'
- DCU publications on portfolios:
- Ebook 'Eportfolio based assessment: Inspiring exploration and supporting evaluation for practitioners'
- Ebook 'Exploring the diversity of ePortfolio practice: An international sharing of practice, activities, and assessment'
- Special issue on ePortfolios in the Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning
- The learning portfolio in higher education: A game of snakes and ladders
- Loop Reflect, DCU's ePortfolio site
- Eportfolio Ireland
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principles
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Mark Brady is a student studying in the Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Disruptive Technologies programme at Dublin City University in Ireland. He's had a successful career as videographer, but during the pandemic decided to fulfil one of his dreams to study psychology.
At Dublin City University, portfolios are used extensively. Mark discusses how he is regularly engaging with his portfolio, what he has learned, and how the reflections via a regular journal work best for him at the moment.
Connect with Mark on LinkedIn
Resources
- DCU Annual ePortfolio Student Showcase and Awards 2022 video
- Lisa Donaldson, the former ePortfolio champion at DCU, about how DCU started using portfolios via Mahara
- Orna Farrell, researcher at DCU, on how DCU supports faculty and students in their portfolio journey
- Loop Reflect help resources and student portfolio examples
- 'The learning portfolio in higher education: A game of snakes and ladders', publication by the Centre for Assessment Research, Policy and Practice in Education and the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University
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Dr Annemarie Galeucia and David 'Boz' Bowles, MFA, are members of the Communications Across the Curriculum (CxC) team at Louisiana State University in the U.S.A. The CxC team created the Distinguished Communicator Medal Program in 2005, supporting students before effective communicators.
In this episode, Annemarie and Boz talk about the evolution of the program in which portfolios play a crucial role and discuss how and why the portfolio component has changed over time and how the team supports students.
A cool thing about the programme? Students receive an actual medal upon graduation.
Connect with
- Annemarie Galeucia on LinkedIn
- Boz Bowles on LinkedIn
Resources
- Distinguished Communicator Medal Program at LSU
- Article 'Using ePortfolios to Help Students Reframe, Reflect, and Integrate Their Learning' by Annemarie Galeucia, Boz Bowles, Jennifer Baumgartner, and Rebecca Burdette in the special ePortfolio issue of 'Across the Disciplines'
- Article 'High-Impact Practices and Third Spaces: Connecting across Disciplines' by Morgan Gresham, Megan Mize, and Sarah Zurhellen in 'Across the Disciplines'
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Dr Debra Hoven and Margaret Rauliuk, dissertation mentor and student team at Athabasca University in Canada, talk about the trials and tribulations but also the joy in creating a portfolio as alternative to the Doctor in Education monograph. They share how their work contributes to opening doors for other types of dissertations and what they have learned along the way besides why Margaret wanted to create a portfolio in the first place.
Connect
- Debra on LinkedIn
- Margaret on Hylo and on X (formerly Twitter)
Resources
- Margaret's research seminar portfolio
- Selected publications of Margaret
- Debra's podcast episode 'The value of self-reflection and peer feedback'
- Debra's professional interests and publications
- On Ecological Constructivism: Hoven, D. & Palalas, A. (2011). (Re)Conceptualizing Design Approaches for Mobile Language Learning. Special Issue of CALICO Journal: CALL Research in Canada. 28(3).
- 2018 Canadian Association for Graduate Studies Taskforce on the Doctorate
- Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED)
- Other doctoral portfolio projects (not mentioned in the episode; added here for further exploration)
- Dr Kathryn Coleman's 'An a/r/tist in Wonderland: Exploring identity, creativity and digital portfolios as a/r/tographer'
- Presentation 'Doctoral ePortfolios: Can a dissertation be an ePortfolio?' by Mandi Mizuta, Sheila Mulooly, Melissa Shaquid Pirie, and Candyce Reynolds (Portland State University) in 2021
- Debra's Technology Demonstrators Community of Practice Event on portfolios in March 2024
- Sandra Styres's book 'Pathways for remembering and recognizing Indigenous thought in education'
- 'Joyce's Principle'
- Heiltsuk Nation
- Esquimalt Nation
- lək̓ʷəŋən Traditional Territory
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Dr Debra Hoven is an educator at Athabasca University in Canada, teaching and researching primarily in the Master in Education in Open, Digital, and Distance Education and in the Doctorate in Education programme. She has a long history with portfolios and shares one aspect of her research and practice in this interview, the autoethnographic video project that some of her MEd students engaged in to reflect on their own learning in the programme and help students coming after them get a head start.
Connect with Debra on LinkedIn
Resources
- Presentation 'What I know now that I wish I'd known then: A photo(video) voice collaborative autoethnographic study of student ePortfolio creation' at the 2023 Eportfolio Forum (shortened peer-reviewed paper)
- Hoven, D., Walsh, P., Al-Tawil, R., & Zuba Prokopetz, R.: Exploring professional development needs and strategies for instructors/faculty facilitating ePortfolios online, Irish JTEL 2021
- Debra's Technology Demonstrators Community of Practice Event on portfolios in March 2024
- Master in Education in Open, Digital, and Distance Education at Athabasca University
- Debra's professional interests and publications
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Derrin Kent is Founder and Managing Director of The Development Manager (TDM) in the UK. He has been incorporating portfolios into apprenticeships and Skills Bootcamps since the late 2000s, giving learners better opportunities to secure and then succeed in their jobs.
In this episode, we talk specifically about the Skills Bootcamps and how the portfolio works in them.
Connect with Derrin on LinkedIn
Resources
- TDM's Skills Bootcamps
- UK's Department of Education information on Skills Bootcamps
- Richard W. Hand , Glenys G. Bradbury , Derrin M. Kent, and Margaret A. Kent (2010). Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's guide
- Richard Hand, Thomas W. Bell, and Derrin M. Kent (2012). Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's guide
- David Kolb's reflective learning cycle
- Lev Vygotsky's zone of proximal development (ZPD)
- Jerome Bruner's scaffolding of learning
- Pedagogy, andragogy, and heutagogy
- SmartEvidence presentation and new feature video
- Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel (2014).
Make it stick: The science of successful learning
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Senior Learning Designer Jamie Fulcher, MEd (University of Newcastle) has been using portfolios since about 2008. She developed a highly effective boot camp for educators to get exposed to the practice and experience it themselves to better support their own students. In this episode, Jamie shares the blueprint for this boot camp and outlines why she gamified the professional development opportunity.
Connect with Jamie on LinkedIn
Resources
- Jamie's presentation 'Developing a Mahara boot camp for educators' at Mahara Hui in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, in 2017
- Trailer for the boot camp
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Brian Williams, BTech, is Security Operations Supervisor at Catalyst IT shares why information security is an important consideration for people creating and working with portfolios. He explains the acronym CIA (confidentiality, integrity, availability) and highlights a few stories that illustrate why data privacy needs to be a fundamental consideration for portfolio creators.
Connect with Brian on LinkedIn
Resources
- Mahara
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principles
- GDPR
- What is a SOC?
- The CIA triad: Definition, components, and examples
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Kristina Hoeppner (Catalyst IT), host of this podcast, delves into metaphors used to explain how to work with portfolios in this solo episode. This is the first short episode in a new series that will be published throughout the year in which she explores concepts and ideas around portfolio practice.
Connect with Kristina
- Fediverse (Mastodon)
- Mahara page on LinkedIn
Resources
- Episode 35 with Ruth Cox and Kevin Kelly
- Shada, A.; Kelly, K.; Cox, R. & Malik, S. (2011). Growing a New Culture of Assessment: Planting ePortfolios in the Metro Academies Program. International Journal of ePortfolio, 1(1), 71-83.
- The gallery or museum metaphor, shared by Mandia Mentis and Wendy Holley-Boen
- Coleman, K.S. (2017). An a/r/tist in wonderland: Exploring identity, creativity and digital portfolios as a/r/tographer, Ph.D. dissertation, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2017.
- The performance or performance hall metaphor, shared by Hazel Owen
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Dr Ruth Cox and Dr Kevin Kelly, pioneers of ePortfolios at San Francisco State University (SFSU) in the U.S.A. share their metaphor of 'ePorticulture' and how the gardening metaphor works well to convey the cycle of work that is involved when you create a portfolio.
We go back to the roots of their portfolio initiative, what they have achieved, and where portfolios are at today at SFSU.
Go to the episode notes for the links to resources, the transcript, and chapter markers.
Connect with Ruth
- Ruth's work with the Northern California Society of Botanical Artists
- Ruth's Internet Movie Database page, an example of a portfolio you don't fully control when you are in the public sphere
Connect with Kevin
- Kevin on (X) Twitter
- Kevin on LinkedIn
Resources
- Articles and book chapters on ePorticulture:
- Shada, A.; Kelly, K.; Cox, R. & Malik, S. (2011). Growing a New Culture of Assessment: Planting ePortfolios in the Metro Academies Program. International Journal of ePortfolio, 1(1), 71-83.
- Kelly, K. & Cox, R. (2012). ePorticulture: Growing a New Culture of Assessment. In D. Cambridge (Ed.), E-Portfolios and Global Diffusion: Solutions for Collaborative Education, pp. 56-69. Hershey, PA: IGI-Global.
- Kelly, K., Cox, R. (2008). Techno expression. In S. Hirtz & D.G. Harper (Eds.), Education for a digital world: Advice, guidelines, and effective practice from around the globe, pp. 413-427. Vancouver, BC: BCcampus.
- Kelly, K. & Cox, R. (2009). Establishing a Sustainable ePorticulture: How to Prepare, Plant, Grow, and Harvest Student ePortfolios. In S. Hirtz & K. Kelly (Eds.), Education for a Digital World: Innovations in Education (Volume 2), pp. 323-348. Vancouver, BC: BCcampus.
- Video 'San Francisco State University ePortfolio: A window into learning'
- Kevin's books:
- Advancing Online Teaching Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments with Todd D. Zakrajsek
- The Blended Course Design Workbook A Practical Guide with Kathryn E. Linder
- Going Alt-Ac A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers with Kathryn E. Linder
- Making College Courses Flexible Supporting Student Success Across Multiple Learning Modalities
- PEARL database
- eFolioMinnesota initiative
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In June 2023, the 'Think UDL' podcast episode 'Digital ethics in ePortfolios with Kristina Hoeppner and Kevin Kelly' went live. In it, Lillian Nave (Appalachian State University) interviewed Dr Kevin Kelly (San Francisco State University) and Kristina Hoeppner (Catalyst IT) on the AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfolios in relation to the Universal Design for Learning guidelines. This is a re-post of the episode. Many thanks to Lillian for making it happen.
Go to the episode notes for the links to resources, the transcript, and chapter markers.
Connect with Lillian
- Lillian on LinkedIn
- Lillian on X (Twitter)
Connect with Kevin
- Kevin on (X) Twitter
- Kevin on LinkedIn
Connect with Kristina
- Kristina on Mastodon
- Kristina on LinkedIn
Resources
- Original episode on Lillian Nave's podcast 'Think UDL'
- UDL guidelines
- Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL)
- AAEEBL Task Force on Digital Ethics in ePortfolios
- The four principles discussed more deeply
- Accessibility
- Technology and Usability
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Decolonization (DEIBD)
- Data Responsibility
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfolios
- Task Force YouTube playlist
- Upcoming AAEEBL events
- Andratesha Fitzgerald's book Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success
- Kevin Kelly and Todd D. Zakrajsek's book Advancing Online Teaching: Creating Equity-Based Digital Learning Environments
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Dr Kathleen Blake Yancey (Emerita Professor at Florida State University) has contributed to ePortfolio research and practice for many years through her numerous publications, presentations, and workshops. In this interview she looks back at some of that practice, with a particular focus on portfolio heuristics and how they differ from templates.
Connect with Kathy on LinkedIn
Resources
- Kathy's web page at Florida State University and her Wikipedia entry
- Kathy's 2022 Batson Lecture 'Tracing Learning in ePortfolios'
- Guest edited volume on portfolios: Computers and Composition, Vol 13, Issue 2, 1996
- Yancey, K. (Ed.). (2019). ePortfolio as curriculum: Models and practices for developing students’ ePortfolio literacy.
- Roche, C., Abria, L., Farrell, O., Johnston, J., Penny Light, T., McKibben, A., Reast, A., & Yancey, K. B. (2023). ePortfolio to support professional development during experiential learning placements: Guided by students-as-partners theory, enabled through students-as-partners practice. International Journal for Students As Partners, 7(2), 165–180.
- Megan Mize's online workshop 'How to get started with AI tools'
- Leticia Britos Cavagnaro:
- Book Experiments in reflection
- Reflection AI bot Riff
- Webinar Supporting reflection through an AI powered reflection bot
- AAC&U Institute on ePortfolios
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force
- Richard Lanham's book The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts
- Yancey, K. (2023). The value of purposeful design: A case study of an ePortfolio reflective prompt. Across the Disciplines, 20(3/4), 31-49.
Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.
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Dr Terrel (Terry) Rhodes is Distinguished Fellow at AAC&U and can look back at a long history of working with portfolios, establishing the VALUE rubrics, tying portfolios to assessment and employability, and supporting many institutions in their portfolio journey.
In this interview, Terry touches on many of these areas, highlighting the importance of digital ethics, student control, authenticity, and the need for integrative practice.
Connect with Terry on LinkedIn
Resources
- Terry's profile on AAC&U
- AAEEBL
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force
- FIPSE
- AAC&U High Impact Practices
- Editorial 'ePortfolios - The Eleventh High Impact Practice' by C. Edward Watson, George D. Kuh, Terrel Rhodes, Tracy Penny Light, and Helen L. Chen
- VALUE Initiative at AAC&U
- Terry's Batson Lecture 'Lift Every Voice: EPortfolio for Creating and Integrating'
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Oberstudienrätin (Senior Teacher) Sieglinde Jakob-Kühn taught in the German school system for many years and discovered Mahara a few years after having started working with Moodle in an innovative way with her language students. In this interview, Sigi shares a few anecdotes from her active teaching time, showing how students took to the ePortfolio in the mid 2000s, exploring this new technology with her in partnership.
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Resources
- Sigi's keynote 'My personal learning story with Mahara' at Mahara Hui UK 2015
- Christine Dülfer's interview 'Supporting industry internships'
- Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft: The MOSEP E-Portfolio Course: A New Didactic Concept for Teachers and Vocational Trainers
- MOSEP overview
- Sir Ken Robinson with Lou Aronica: 'The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything'
- Sir Ken Robinson with Lou Aronica: 'Finding Your Element'
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Mike Joiner-Hill, MSW, is Associate Director of Career Coaching and Education - Humanities & Sciences, in Stanford Career Education and works in the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab alongside Helen L. Chen. In his interview, Mike explains why a portfolio is a useful way to represent yourself when thinking about your career. He also looks far into the future and predicts a new kind of portfolio.
Connect with Mike on LinkedIn
Resources
- Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab at Stanford University
- Sheetal J. Patel and Helen L. Chen's workshop 'Addressing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging in Student Showcase ePortfolios'
- Helen L. Chen's podcast episode 'Reflect through conversation to tell your story'
Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.
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Podcast host Kristina Hoeppner (Catalyst IT) looks back at a year of interviewing portfolio practitioners and researchers for 'Create. Share. Engage.' She shares common insights and recurring themes.
If you'd like to share your story, get in touch.
Connect with Kristina
- Fediverse
Resources
- Quarterly Mahara community newsletter
- Monthly Catalyst portfolio newsletter
- Mahara website
- Mahara on LinkedIn
- AAEEBL
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principles
- Eportfolios Australia
Podcast guests in order of their quotes in the episode
Mandia Mentis, Bob Reuter, Ingrid D'Souza, Stephen Harlow, Paul Libbrecht, Wendy Holly-Boen, Andrea Ghoneim, Teresa MacKinnon, Edd Bolton, Kate Mitchell, Ricard Elizalde, Megan Mize, Misty Kirby, Amy Cicchino, Sam Taylor, John Ittelson, Sarah Zurhellen, Bobbi Kamil, Paul Raper, Christine Dülfer, Bas Bakker, Christine Slade, Wolfgang Müller, Lisa Donaldson, Kevin Kelly, Helen L. Chen, Rita Zuba Prokopetz, Orna Farrell, Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Cathy Elliott, Alberto Pugnale, Sofia Colabella, Maia Miller, Martin Dougiamas
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Dr Ricardo Elizalde is a Digital Learning Partner at San Francisco Unified School District and has been working with portfolios for over two decades. He creates portfolios for himself and supports students and teachers create them in his school district.
We talk about his personal portfolio experience, how he assists people in his learning community, and also creates department level and group portfolios.
Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.
Connect with Ricardo on Mastodon
Resources
- Digital portfolios at San Francisco Unified School District
- San Francisco Unified School District podcast 'Stories from the digital learning field' and slides
- Slides for 'Towards a culturally responsive multimedia digital portfolio'
- Stephen Harlow's episode on digital storytelling: 'Tell your story through your portfolio'
- Leticia Britos Cavagnaro's episode on reflection and her AI chatbot Riff: 'Make learning visible'
- Megan Mize's workshop on AI tools
- Zaretta Hammond's 'Ready For Rigor' Framework
- PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification by KQED Teach
- KQED youth media challenge
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Dr Sofia Colabella and Dr Alberto Pugnale work at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (ABP) of The University of Melbourne in Australia. They have been working with design portfolios for many years, and recently introduced an ePortfolio into their classes. This helped them discover how powerful the medium and practice can be, in particular in getting to know their students as persons.
Their findings can be applied to other study programmes and are a wonderful way to engage with students through scaffolding the portfolio practice yet leave enough space for them to bring in their own personalities.
Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.
Connect with
- Sofia on LinkedIn and Sofia on Instagram
- Alberto on LinkedIn and Alberto on Instagram
Resources
- Article in 'Frontiers in Education': 'Supporting the journey of architecture students towards graduation through a design ePortfolio'
- Flipped classroom model of teaching
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principle 'Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Decolonization' (DEIBD)
- Sofia's website
- Alberto's website
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Professor Dr Paul Libbrecht (International University of Applied Science) and Professor Dr Wolfgang Müller (PH Weingarten) are members of the AISOP project, coordinated by PH Weingarten, University of Education Weingarten, in Germany. They research how to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) well into the portfolio process to support students and lecturers.
In this episode we talk about why they love portfolios, what role they want AI to play in the portfolio process, and what challenges they face.
Connect with
- Paul on LinkedIn
- Wolfgang on LinkedIn
Resources
- Paul's website
- Wolfgang's academic bio and research
- AISOP project website (in German) - AI-Supported Observations of E-Portfolios
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Paul Raper, MSc, is a former engineer turned linguist who studied Teaching English for Specific Purposes at Aston University in the UK with corpus linguistics as his primary subject. Paul now teaches English to engineers at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and uses the ePortfolio as his primary coaching tool.
In this episode, Paul shares his practice of using SWITCHportfolio, a Mahara-based site for Swiss institutions of higher education, for his own portfolios as well as with student groups, encouraging collaboration and feedback giving.
Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.
Connect with Paul on LinkedIn
Resources
Special Interest Group ePortfolio at eduhub by SWITCH
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Dr Leticia Britos Cavagnaro is the co-Founder and co-Director of the University Innovation Fellows, a programme of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford University. Leticia uses emerging technologies to empower learners to be self-directed, action-oriented, and reflective shapers of the future.
In this episode, she shares her view on why reflection is important, how to scaffold its practice for learners, and how to incorporate it into every learning experience. She talks about her upcoming book 'Experiments in reflection', published by Penguin Random House, and her recently published Riff chatbot.
Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.
Connect with Leticia
Resources
- Blog post introducing Riff: 'Reflecting with AI: A Tool to Develop Human Intelligence'
- Enchatted, company that did the technical work on Riff
- 'Teaching & Learning' programme at the d.school
Reflective frameworks mentioned
- 'What? So what? Now what?' by Terry Borton
- 'I Used to Think... Now I Think...' by Harvard University's Project Zero
Scholars mentioned
- Ellen J. Langer: 'The Power of Mindful Learning' (1997)
- Guy Claxton: 'Learning to Learn – The Fourth Generation: Making Sense of Personalised Learning' (2006)
- Gavriel Salomon, David Perkins, and Tamar Globerson: 'Partners in Cognition: Extending Human Intelligence with Intelligent Technologies' (1991)
- Erica Estrada-Liou, MBA
- Meenu Singh, MS
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Stephen Harlow is a Learning Designer at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato The University of Waikato, in Aotearoa New Zealand where he supports students and lecturers via Te Puna Ako - Centre for Tertiary Teaching and Learning (CeTTL). He's been introduced to digital storytelling in the early 2000s and has been using it since then for himself and in his teaching.
Digital storytelling is a wonderful method to use in portfolios to tell your learning story.
Connect with Stephen
- Mastodon
Resources
- The Mastodon post that started it all.
- Flexible Learning Leaders in New Zealand
- StoryCenter, formerly, the Center for Digital Storytelling
- BBC's 'Capture Wales'
- BBC Micro; GBP235 in today's money is GBP861 (NZD1,787 / USD1,090)
- DS106 - Digital Storytelling 106
- MyPortfolio
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Dr Andrea Ghoneim is eDeveloper - Digital Teaching Services at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business). She has gained extensive experience using and researching portfolios through her participation in EU-funded projects, in particular EUfolio, Europortfolio, and ATS 2020 when she worked at Donau-Universität Krems (Danube University Krems). Recently, she co-edited a white paper on assessment strategies, in which portfolios featured.
Andrea takes us back to these projects, their aims, their approach, and what the benefits of using portfolios were.
Connect with Andrea
Resources
- Andrea's research publications
- ATS 2020 project website and ATS 2020 resource website
- ATS 2020: Tools and technology for assessment of transversal skills (Andrea's work pacakge)
- BeInSpired: Video about ATS2020
- 'EUfolio: A classroom ePortfolio pilot project', book chapter by Ben Murray and Sinéad Tuohy
- White paper 'Digital Assessment in Higher Education: Perspectives of a European Community of Practice'
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Dr Bob Reuter is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education and Social Work at University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg where he has taught courses relating to educational psychology, educational technology, and educational research, in particular in the Bachelor en Sciences de l'Éducation / Bachelor of Science in Education (BScE) since 2004.
Bob is a technology enthusiast and explores how all technology, not just educational technology can benefit students in their learning. He uses a social constructivist approach to teaching and learning for which he thinks portfolios are very well suited.
In this episode, he talks about the two different types of portfolios the future school teachers of Letzebuerg encounter during their studies and how they help in the learning process.
Connect with Bob
- Mastodon
Resources
- 'A la rencontre de Lev Vygotsky', Volume I
- Bob's publications
- Research project AISOP: AI-Supported Observation of E-Portfolios
- Study about language production in children of 5 years of age
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Dr Helen Chen (Stanford University) is a long-time champion of ePortfolio practice and has been involved in many initiatives and organisations such as EPAC, AAEEBL, and the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab at Stanford University. She takes us through some of the early days of ePortfolios, why the portfolio practice is not just an ed tech fad and how the practice benefits students in many different situations to reflect on their practice and tell their story.
Connect with Helen
- Mastodon / FediVerse
Resources
- EPAC
- AAEEBL
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Task Force
- ePortfolios Australia
- Eportfolio Ireland
- Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab
- Documenting learning with ePortfolios: A guide for college instructors
- Sheetal J. Patel and Helen L. Chen: 'Addressing diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging in student showcase ePortfolios'
- LinkedIn campaign on what it means to be a professional
- Leticia Britos Cavagnaro: 'Reflecting with AI: A tool to develop human intelligence'
- Reflecting with AI demo
- International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP)
- AAEEBL ePortfolio Review (AePR)
- AAC&U PEARL: Publications on ePortfolio: Archives of the Research Landscape
- Helen's Batson Lecture 'From Ed Tech Fad to Field of Study (2019)
- Interview with Rita Zuba Prokopetz on her portfolio practice and building communities of learning through feedback giving and receiving
- Ashley Blackburn: 'Exploring the "e": What the "e" in "ePortfolio" really means'
- LaGuardia ePortfolio Initiative
Upcoming events
- AAEEBL Annual Meeting 2023
- AI webinar series
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Dr Martin Dougiamas is founder and CEO of Moodle, the open source learning management system, that is used by millions of learners around the world daily. Moodle has grown from Martin's university project to a 250-person company empowering educators to create and support learning activities.
In this episode, Martin shares his education philosophy, and why he is so passionate about open source. He also talks about the Open EdTech association that brings together educational open source companies and projects to offer an alternative to mega corporations and their lock-ins.
Not recorded are the three words he associates with portfolios: constructionism, collaboration, and curation.
Connect with Martin
- Mastodon
Resources
- Moodle
- Mahara assignment submission plugin for Moodle
- Open EdTech
- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
- The Moodle Podcast
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Dr Cathy Elliott is Vice Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at University College London (UCL), UK. She's created a portfolio assignment for her students in political sciences that makes use of both formative and summative assessments, encouraging her students to be creative and bring in their own personalities. Feedback giving and receiving is an integral part of the portfolio work, and students students comment on each other's portfolios, learning through that process as well.
In this episode, Cathy shares her portfolio assignment format, what is working for her, and what she wants to try next time. She's created an incredible first portfolio assignment in Mahara with the support from learning designer Aurélie Soulier that engages students and helps them make the assessment their own.
Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.
Connect with Cathy
- UCL researcher profile
Resources
- Video showcasing Cathy's portfolio task and assessment criteria
- SRUC group portfolios
- Brief introduction to SmartEvidence
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Dr Rita Zuba Prokopetz is an educational consultant in Canada who has been teaching with portfolios for over a decade, most recently in a portfolio capstone course for a Master's in Education. Rita's research interests include reflection, feedback interaction, and community building during the development of capstone ePortfolio projects.
In this episode, Rita shares why she's working with Mahara as portfolio technology, and how the portfolio pedagogy has influenced her learners and herself.
Click through to the episode notes for the transcript. Transcription support provided by kris wehipeihana.
Connect with Rita
Resources
- Selected theory-to-practice articles
- Electronic Portfolios: Enhancing Language Learning, AePR 2018
- Professional Self-Development Mediated by ePortfolio: Reflections of an ESL Practitioner, TESL Canada Journal 2018
- Capstone Electronic Portfolios of Master’s Students: An Online Ethnography, 2019
- Uniqueness of ePortfolios: Reflections of a Creator, Curator, and User, AePR 2019
- Student Engagement and Reflective Learning Mediated by ePortfolios: Observations of an ESL Instructor, AePR 2020
- Electronic Portfolio: Enhancing Blended Learning Experiences in a Community of Language Learners in Blended Language Learning: Evidence-Based Trends and Applications, 2021
- Electronic Portfolio: Reflective Project in a Community of Language Learners, Irish JTEL 2021
- Electronic portfolios: Research Site in Internet Spaces, IJeP 2021
- A Reflection upon Capstone ePortfolio Projects and Their Alignment with Learning Theories, IJeP 2022
- English as a Second Language, Eportfolio Ireland 2022
- ePortfolio Pedagogy: Stimulating a Shift in Mindset, OTESSA Journal 2022
- Collaborative articles
- Hoven, D., Walsh, P., Al-Tawil, R., & Zuba Prokopetz, R.: Exploring professional development needs and strategies for instructors/faculty facilitating eportfolios online, Irish JTEL 2021
- Zuba Prokopetz, R., Patel, N., & Tran, C.: Innovative pedagogy in a time for change: Student & instructor perspectives of an ePortfolio, AePR 2022
- Recording of 'Introduction to Mahara' by Kristina Hoeppner, 2022, with the 5 C's model
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Dr Bobbi Kamil was Associate Dean at State University of New York, Empire State College, when it was founded in 1971. Together with the founding team, she was instrumental in establishing the vision for the college to provide adult learners with the opportunity to earn a degree by having their prior learning taken into consideration and creating their own degrees.
In this episode we explore the beginnings of that work and the role portfolios played for both faculty and students.
Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.
Connect with Bobbi on LinkedIn
Resources
- 'A prospectus for a new university college: Objectives, process, structure and establishment,' which established the foundations for SUNY Empire State College
- 'Reflections on Origins III The Experience of an Experiment: An Interview with tom Clark' by Richard Bonnabeau in 'All About Mentoring', 2020
- Association of Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL)
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Dr John Ittelson, Professor Emeritus at California State University, Monterey Bay, has been researching and working with portfolios for many decades. He has an illustrious academic career, working with educational technologies and using them with students to document their learning.
In this episode, John shares stories from his long career and also reveals the roots of his passion for portfolios, going all the way back to the sixth grade.
Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.
Connect with John on LinkedIn
Resources
- Book 'Documenting Learning with ePortfolios: A Guide for College Instructors', co-authored with Dr Helen Chen and Dr Tracy Penny Light
- Association of Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL)
- ePortfolio Action and Communication (EPAC)
- Dr Helen Barrett's extensive portfolio resources
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Kate Mitchell, MEd, works at the University of Melbourne, Australia, as Learning Designer and co-founded TELedvisors, a community of practice for educational designers. In her role as Learning Designer, she is constantly exploring new ways of supporting learners and is iterating over her experiments. Most recently, she's been interested in deliberate and programmatic design for portfolios to integrate portfolios more into the course design.
Connect with Kate
- Fediverse
Resources
- PARE sessions from ePortfolios Australia
- TELedvisors
- Eportfolio Forum 2023 shortened, peer reviewed paper 'Authentic, personalised, and programmatic: (Re)considering deliberate design for ePortfolios' and slides
- Article 'Reflecting, Refining, and Resourcing: A Framework for Building and
Supporting ePortfolios in a Post-COVID19 Landscape' - University of Melbourne's ePortfolio guide
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principles
- TPACK keynote by Punya Mishra and Matthew Koehler in 2018
- Information about CMALT and CMALT Boot Camp
- Reflective practice: History and frameworks (Tryskiel, 2017)
- University of Edinburgh Reflection Toolkit
- UX journey mapping resources
- Shift Elearning: Learner Experience Mapping: Personalized 'Learner-centric' experiences
- Trainingzone: How to use Journey Mapping in Learning Design
- Interaction Design Foundation: Customer Journey Maps
- Adobe: User Experience mapping
- Boagworld: Customer journey mapping: Your definitive guide
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Note: Kate is not affiliated with the Mahara community. University of Melbourne uses a different portfolio platform.
Transcription support provided by kris wehipeihana
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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
Dr Christine Slade (University of Queensland) and Dr Kevin Kelly (San Francisco State University; Independent Consultant) explore the concepts of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and decolonisation (DEIBD) in portfolio practice, having been members on the AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force since 2019. They share their reasons for joining the task force, why DEIBD is important to them, and what learning designers, instructors, and learners can do to incorporate them into their own practice.
This is the second episode with members of the Digital Ethics Task Force. Episode 12 looks at the principle of 'Visibility of Labor' with Dr Amy Cicchino, Dr Megan Mize, and Dr Sarah Zurhellen.
Click through to the episode page for the transcript.
Connect with Christine
- Christine on LinkedIn
- Christine on Twitter
Connect with Kevin
- Kevin on LinkedIn
- Kevin on Twitter
Resources
- Christine's research and publications
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principles
- AAEEBL Task Force webinar on DEIBD (recording)
- ePortfolio Mapping Survey - participate to have your voice heard
- Book 'Documenting learning with ePortfolios: A guide for college instructors' by John Ittelson, Helen Chen, and Tracy Penny Light
- Kevin's book 'Advancing online teaching: Creating equity-based digital learning environments', co-authored with Todd Zakrajsek
- ePortfolios Australia
- PARE sessions from ePortfolios Australia to work on your portfolio
- Shari Bowker's feedback tools
Note: Interviewees are not affiliated with the Mahara community. They use different technologies.
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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
Dr Sarah Zurhellen (Appalachian State University), Dr Megan Mize (Old Dominion University), and Dr Amy Cicchino (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) talk digital ethics in portfolio practice. The main focus is on the AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principle 'Visibility of Labor', and how that impacts educators and students alike.
This is the first episode with members of the Digital Ethics Task Force. The next one will look at the principle of 'Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Decolonization' (DEIBD) with Dr Christine Slade and Dr Kevin Kelly.
Click through to the episode page for the transcript.
Connect with Amy
- Amy on LinkedIn
- Amy on Twitter
Connect with Megan
- Megan on LinkedIn
- Megan on Twitter
Connect with Sarah on Twitter
Resources
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principles
- AAEEBL Task Force webinar on sustainable ePortfolio practice
- ePortfolio Mapping Survey - participate to have your voice heard
- Folio thinking post by Vicky Suter, inspired by Helen L. Chen's definition shared in 'Documenting Learning'
- AAC&U High Impact Practices
- 3-part podcast conversation on 'Digication Scholars' exploring the Digital Ethics Principles
- WAC/WID Mapping Project
- Upcoming AAEEBL events
Note: Interviewees are not affiliated with the Mahara community. They use different technologies.
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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
Edd Bolton, M.A., is Learning Technologist at Solent University in Southampton, UK. He's been working with portfolios for many years now, supporting students and academic in their practice. He's particularly interested in competency portfolios and how to integrate them into apprenticeship degrees to assist students progressing through university and gain the competencies they need for their future job.
Edd shares his practice and why he loves the SmartEvidence functionality in Mahara that allows you to map competency standards to portfolio elements.
Go to the episode page for the transcript.
Connect with Edd via LinkedIn
Resources
- Presentation on SmartEvidence for an overview of the functionality
- SmartEvidence documentation in the Mahara manual
- Enhancement proposal for SmartEvidence
- Interview by Roger Emergy with Olivia Farrell about employability portfolios at Solent University
Transcription support by kris wehipeihana
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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
Ingrid D'Souza, MA, holds degrees in Midwifery and Education, and is currently an Educational Designer in the Faculty of Medicine at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She has extensive experience with portfolios, both in her own midwifery practice and supporting students and faculty in higher education.
In this interview, Ingrid shares her portfolio journey, how versatile portfolios are, from assessment to employability, digital posters, and connecting students with their own families, making it a valuable lifelong practice that reaches beyond the classroom.
Click through to the episode page for the transcript.
Connect with Ingrid via LinkedIn
Resources
- Presentation 'Student Curated Learning - Process to Product' by Dr Zala Volcic and Ingrid D'Souza, MA, at Monash University's Learning & Teaching Conference in July 2021
- Student portfolio examples from Monash University, Faculty of Arts
- Interview with Breanna Edebohls, a student at Monash University in 2021, about her experience with portfolios in the Faculty of Arts
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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
Maia Miller, BA Honours, is the Accessibility Services Manager at Catalyst IT, where she works with clients and our own teams to train them in web accessibility practices in all stages of the software development life cycle and content creation via various training programmes, peer reviews, and audits.
In this episode we talk about the importance of web accessibility, how you can make media content available accessibly so that it's not just text that you can add to your portfolio. We also talk about Maia's career path and how she got into tech with a bachelor's degree in humanities.
Click through to the episode page for the transcript.
Connect with Maia via LinkedIn
Resources
- Catalyst's accessibility services
- Accessibility statement for Mahara
- WCAG 2.0
- WCAG 2.1
- Webaim colour contrast checker
- International Association of Accessibility Professionals
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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
Bas Bakker, MScBA, is an independent learning designer, working for different Dutch institutions of higher education. He has a long history of supporting and using Mahara for learning and assessment, but also has experiences with other portfolio platforms.
In this episode, Bas shares his views on how his marketing background helps him as learning designer, how portfolios can be better integrated at organisations, and where portfolios are at in Dutch institutions of higher education.
Click through to the episode page for the transcript.
Connect with Bas
Resources
- JISC report 'Learning analytics in higher education'
- Proposal to enhance SmartEvidence in Mahara, with an earlier iteration that shows the spider diagram / radar graph
- Outcomes portfolio (to be released in Mahara 23.04)
- Other proposals for Mahara
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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
Dr Mandia Mentis and Dr Wendy Holley-Boen work in the Institute of Education at Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand. They have been using portfolios in their teaching for more than 20 years, appreciating the affordances that the pedagogy and technology have in terms of personalising the learning for their students and giving students the chance to bring in their authentic selves.
In this episode, Mandia and Wendy talk about the many benefits portfolios have for their learners and how they help their learners to make the most out of them.
Click through to the episode page for the transcript.
Connect with Mandia
- Mandia on Twitter
- Mandia on LinkedIn
Connect with Wendy
- Wendy on Twitter
- Wendy on LinkedIn
Resources
- Massey University's portfolio site
- The art gallery or museum metaphor
- Presentation 'Evidencing course competencies alongside soft skills in ePortfolios to rethink professional identity and employability'
- Mandia's research
- Wendy's research
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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
Christine Dülfer (OStR'in; Dipl.-Hdl'in) is a Business Administration and English teacher at Berufliche Schulen des Landkreises Waldeck-Frankenberg in Korbach und Bad Arolsen, which are vocational schools in Germany, and a team leader at the Hessische Lehrkräfteakademie in the media department (Dezernat Medien II.3, SG II.3-3 Fortbildung), responsible for Moodle trainers. Christine has been supporting students for over 10 years in creating portfolios as part of their internships that are an integral part of their vocational studies in the German 'duale System'.
In this interview, Christine talks about her approach to portfolio work and the benefit that individual students as well as their peers have from their use.
Click through to the episode page for the transcript.
Resources
- Berufliche Schulen des Landkreises Waldeck-Frankenberg in Korbach und Bad Arolsen
- Hessische Lehrkräfteakademie
- Lpaso – Institut für Lernkultur e.V., Organisers of Mahara Hui DE
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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
Sam Taylor (PGCert, FHEA, CMALT) has been supporting portfolio practice as learning designer since 2008 at higher education institutions in the UK and since 2018 as eLearning consultant at Catalyst IT Europe. She's worked with a diverse range of students, lecturers, and staff giving her insight into many different portfolio practices.
In this episode, Sam shares a number of her stories that illustrate how flexibly portfolios built in Mahara can be used.
Click through to the episode page for the transcript.
Connect with Sam
- Fediverse
Resources
- Griffith College, enhancing functionality in Mahara
- 'Enhancing group assessment with Moodle, Mahara and Turnitin' presentation on the use of group portfolios
- 'Designing effective ePortfolio activities' workshop outline
- Presentation 'Scaffolding portfolio use' by Kristina Hoeppner
- DigiCompEdu framework
- Universal Design for Learning
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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
Teresa MacKinnon, MA, has been a language educator for many years, incorporating portfolios into language learning at University of Warwick, and is a scholar working in the field of open educational resources, open access, and open recognition, amongst many other interests of her that she continues to follow in retirement.
In her interview Teresa talks about her work with portfolios, her own professional portfolio journey, and how staying true to her values of openness has brought her to using and valuing Mahara.
Click through to the episode page for the transcript.
Connect with Teresa
- YouTube
Resources
- Teresa's blog 'next steps'
- Teresa's research activities
- Virtual Exchange: connecting university cohorts for language education
- UNICollaboration
- First CMALT portfolio
- CMALT review portfolio
- Future Teacher 3.0 UK, the European funding has finished but the UK group continues to run regular webinars and publish openly as Xerte objects
- Association of Learning Technologists (ALT)
- ALT Open Education Special Interest Group
- Article 'A meta-analysis of open educational communities of practice and sustainability in higher educational policy' by Teresa MacKinnon, Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou, Howard Manns, and Scott Grant (2016)
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force
Audio editing support: Sofia Kokoreva
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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
Dr Misty Kirby is an academic and practitioner with university and school experience, creating portfolios herself and with her students. Misty shares her thoughts on how portfolios can support eProfessionalism in both academics and students. She explains what was behind the idea of SmartEvidence for her and why it's an important feature in Mahara.
Click through to the episode page for the transcript.
Connect with Misty
- Misty on Twitter
- Misty on LinkedIn
- Misty's website
Resources
- Presentation 'ECARx: Early career academic researchers’ experience using ePortfolios'
- Presentation 'SmartEvidence: Improving ePortfolio quality through intervention'
- Brown Wilson, C., Slade, C., Kirby, M. M., Downer, T., Fisher, M., & Nuessler, S. (2018). Digital ethics and the use of the ePortfolio: A scoping review of the literature. International Journal of ePortfolio, 8(2), 115-126.
- Kirby, M. M., Slade, C.S., Brown Wilson, C., Downer, T., Fisher, M.B., Siddiqui, Z., Isbel, S., McAllister, L., & Miller, A. (in press). A call to action for eProfessionalism: Supporting emerging health and education practitioners build their online presence through ePortfolio use, for the Journal of Computing in Higher Education.
- Kathryn Coleman's work
- ePortfolios Australia's 'Plan, act, reflect, and eportfolio' (PARE) sessions
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfolios
- AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force ePortfolio mapping survey
Register for a free webinar in the week of 31 October 2022.
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Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
Dr Orna Farrell is a researcher at Dublin City University whose portfolio history goes back to 2008. Since then she's taught courses using portfolios and conducted numerous studies involving portfolios. Her interests lie in supporting learners and lecturers alike, also using open education strategies.
See the episode page for the transcript.
Connect with Orna
- Orna on Twitter
- Orna on LinkedIn
- Eportfolio Ireland
Resources
- Borton's reflective framework 'What? So what? Now what?'
- Ebook 'Eportfolio based assessment: Inspiring exploration and supporting evaluation for practitioners'
- Ebook 'Exploring the diversity of ePortfolio practice: An international sharing of practice, activities, and assessment'
- femedtech open letter
- Holy Grail of Rubrics
- Photos from the 2018 unconference
- Special issue on ePortfolios in IJTEL
- The learning portfolio in higher education: A game of snakes and ladders
- Universal Design for Learning
Portfolios at DCU
- Loop Reflect
- Annual Student Showcase and Awards for 2022
PhD thesis and selected articles
- PhD thesis 'Developing critical thinking through eportfolio based learning: an exploration of the experiences of non-traditional online distance learners'
- Farrell, O. (2018). Failure to Launch: The unfulfilled promise of eportfolios in Irish Higher Education
- Farrell, O., & Seery, A., (2019). “I am not simply learning and regurgitating information, I am also learning about myself”: Learning portfolio practice and online distance students
- Farrell, O., (2020). From Portafoglio to Eportfolio: The Evolution of Portfolio in Higher Education
- Farrell, O., Buckley, K., Donaldson, L., & Farrelly, T. (2021). Eportfolio in Ireland: A landscape snapshot of current practice
Upcoming event
Workshop on accessibility, facilitated by the AAEEBL Task Force on Digital Ethics in partnership with Eportfolio Ireland on 25 October 2022
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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
Until recently, Lisa Donaldson, MSc, worked at Dublin City University in Ireland in the Teaching Enhancement Unit. There she was responsible for Loop Reflect, DCU's ePortfolio platform based on Mahara. In our conversation, Lisa shares how everything started at DCU, and what some of the important steps were that the University took to grow its portfolio initiative.
Click through to the episode page for the transcript.
Connect with Lisa and ePortfolio organisations she's active in
- Lisa on Twitter
- Lisa on LinkedIn
- Eportfolio Ireland
- AAEEBL
Publications of interest
- Ebook 'Eportfolio based assessment: Inspiring exploration and supporting evaluation for practitioners'
- Ebook 'Exploring the diversity of ePortfolio practice: An international sharing of practice, activities, and assessment'
- Special issue on ePortfolios in the Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning
- The learning portfolio in higher education: A game of snakes and ladders
Portfolios at Dublin City University
- Loop Reflect, DCU's ePortfolio site
- Annual Student Showcase and Awards for 2022
- AAEEBL student interviews, in particular Emaan, Ruby, and Samantha
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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
Audio editing support: Sofia Kokoreva
'Create. Share. Engage.' is a podcast about portfolios for learning and more for educators, learning designers, and managers keen on integrating portfolios in their education and professional development practices.
This new podcast is all about sharing portfolio stories from around the world. The first episode will air on Wednesday, 28 September 2022. You'll hear from Lisa Donaldson about her portfolio journey and quickly to 6,000 students using portfolios at Dublin City University within six weeks. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app so you don't miss it.
'Create. Share. Engage.' is produced by Catalyst IT, the main development company for Mahara. We offer the full range of services to support you implement portfolios at your organisation using Mahara and also offer support packages for shorter engagements.
Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward