Create. Share. Engage. Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:23:06 +1200 https://mahara.org en-us © 2026 Catalyst IT Limited yes 70af29b8-cf3a-5a0e-b2d5-b32588cd321e Mahara Project episodic false Portfolios for learning and more brought to you by the Mahara team at Catalyst IT. Host Kristina Hoeppner talks with portfolio practitioners, researchers, learning designers, students, and others about their portfolio story.

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) mahara, eportfolio, portfolio, e-portfolio, education, lifelong learning, open source, personalized learning, professional development Mahara Project https://storage.buzzsprout.com/pr0xltqw04fy0jts72i9i5vzlw0o?.jpg Create. Share. Engage. https://mahara.org Kristina Hoeppner Tour de tip: 31 encouraging tips for portfolio authors Tour de tip: 31 encouraging tips for portfolio authors 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

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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:

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner Buzzsprout-19279909 Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +1200 1439 portfolio, ePortfolio, tip, advice, education, ownership, pride, authenticity, identity, creativity, risk, purpose, audience, reflection, growth 1 95 full false Rob Lowney: Create collaborative portfolios to surface group learning Rob Lowney: Create collaborative portfolios to surface group learning 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Rob Lowney Buzzsprout-19193293 Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +1200 2518 portfolio, ePortfolio, Mahara, group portfolio, collaboration, Ireland, higher education, assessment, Moodle, integration, reflection, peer support, collaborative portfolio 1 94 full false Rob Lowney Kristina Hoeppner Special: Network with community members Special: Network with community members 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

June 2026

September 2026

23-24 September: Eportfolio Forum - subscribe to updates for more information

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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.

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May 2026

June 2026

September 2026

23-24 September: Eportfolio Forum - subscribe to updates for more information

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner Buzzsprout-19126722 Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +1200 796 eportfolio, portfolio, event 1 93 full false Pablo Avila: Portfolios at scale at LaGuardia Community College Pablo Avila: Portfolios at scale at LaGuardia Community College 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Pablo Avila Buzzsprout-19019100 Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +1200 2609 portfolio, ePortfolio, USA, first year seminar, career, capstone, peer, AI, articifial intelligence, community college 1 92 full false Pablo Avila Kristina Hoeppner Amy Cicchino, McKenna Slaughter, Nghi Chau: Students support students in creating portfolios Amy Cicchino, McKenna Slaughter, Nghi Chau: Students support students in creating portfolios 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Amy Cicchino, McKenna Slaughter, Nghi Chau Buzzsprout-18913570 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +1200 2224 ePortfolio, portfolio, student perspective, digital literacy, reflective mindset, collaborative learning, audience awareness, portfolio challenge, feedback, career development, portfolio skills, writing center 1 91 full false Amy Cicchino McKenna Slaughter Nghi Chau Kristina Hoeppner Mpho-Entle Modise & Norm Vaughan: The portfolio as enabler of change Mpho-Entle Modise & Norm Vaughan: The portfolio as enabler of change 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Mpho-Entle Modise, Norm Vaughan Buzzsprout-18847281 Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1300 2252 portfolio, ePortfolio, reflection, collaboration, AI, education, higher education, book, Africa, teacher education, resilience, Mahara, COVID, pandemic, cultural responsiveness, authentic assessment, community 1 90 full false Mpho-Entle Modise Norm Vaughan Kristina Hoeppner Vickel Narayan: Portfolios in the age of AI: A rethink to the approach? Vickel Narayan: Portfolios in the age of AI: A rethink to the approach? 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Vickel Narayan Buzzsprout-18808759 Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +1300 2899 portfolio, ePortfolio, Mahara, New Zealand, Aotearoa, AI, artificial intelligence, ownership, co-creation, reflection 1 89 full false Vickel Narayan Kristina Hoeppner Megan Mize: Ramping up to support 18,000 students with portfolios Megan Mize: Ramping up to support 18,000 students with portfolios 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Megan Mize Buzzsprout-18691232 Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1300 2522 portfolio, ePortfolio, USA, HIP, high-impact practices, reflection, internship, work-based learning, work-integrated learning, feedback 1 88 full false Megan Mize Kristina Hoeppner Yvonne Moore and James Pearce: Skills portfolios encourage continued reflection Yvonne Moore and James Pearce: Skills portfolios encourage continued reflection 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Yvonne Moore, James Pearce Buzzsprout-18634408 Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1300 1966 portfolio, ePortfolio, Mahara, UK, higher education, SmartEvidence, reflection, skills, competencies, work placements, work-integrated learning, template, support 1 87 full false James Pearce Yvonne Moore Kristina Hoeppner Debbie Oesch-Minor and Salsabil Qaddoura: Foster student ownership and empowerment through a portfolio Debbie Oesch-Minor and Salsabil Qaddoura: Foster student ownership and empowerment through a portfolio 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Debbie Oesch-Minor, Salsabil Qaddoura Buzzsprout-18561960 Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1300 4296 ePortfolio, portfolio, student ownership, peer review, multimodal composition, immersion, support, feedback, reflection, assessment, learning outcomes, student engagement, high-impact practices, USA, writing, project, structure, template 1 86 full false Debbie Oesch-Minor Salsabil Qaddoura Kristina Hoeppner Jaye Ryan: Showcase yourself through your portfolio Jaye Ryan: Showcase yourself through your portfolio 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Jaye Ryan Buzzsprout-18414916 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +1300 2210 portfolio, ePortfolio, Mahara, UK, nursing, showcase, feedback, student mentor, development, reflection, student engagement, employability, SmartEvidence, programmatic assessment 1 85 full false Jaye Ryan Kristina Hoeppner Soropepeli Ramacake: Know, grow, and show through your portfolio Soropepeli Ramacake: Know, grow, and show through your portfolio 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Soropepeli Ramacake Buzzsprout-18349955 Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +1300 1795 portfolio, ePortfolio, Mahara, USP, Fiji, reflection, social work, internship 1 84 full false Soropepeli Ramacake Kristina Hoeppner Amy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practices Amy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practices 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Amy Cicchino, Brandi Gilbert Buzzsprout-18272214 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +1300 1957 portfolio, eportfolio, HIP, high-impact practices, reflection, assessment portfolio, showcase portfolio, USA, internship, metacognitive skills, student engagement 1 83 full false Amy Cicchino Brandi Gilbert Kristina Hoeppner Kristina Hoeppner: Making connections and sharing the passion for portfolio work Kristina Hoeppner: Making connections and sharing the passion for portfolio work 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner Buzzsprout-18210481 Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:00:00 +1300 698 Mahara, travel, portfolio, ePortfolio, connection, showcase 1 82 full false Antje Koenen: Engage with your students as partners through a portfolio Antje Koenen: Engage with your students as partners through a portfolio 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Antje Koenen Buzzsprout-18088173 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +1300 2133 portfolio, ePortfolio, Germany, school, template, showcase, freedom, sharing, feedback, mahara 1 81 full false Antje Koenen Kristina Hoeppner Tessa Forshaw and Rich Braden: Unleash your innovation and creativity with a portfolio Tessa Forshaw and Rich Braden: Unleash your innovation and creativity with a portfolio 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Tessa Forshaw, Rich Braden Buzzsprout-18035583 Wed, 22 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +1300 2454 portfolio, innovation, creativity, reflection, design education, metacognition, decision making, mindset 1 80 full false Rich Braden Tessa Forshaw Kristina Hoeppner Jack Rice: The portfolio as the space for growth in between stimulus and response Jack Rice: The portfolio as the space for growth in between stimulus and response 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Jack Rice Buzzsprout-17906955 Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +1300 2887 portfolio, ePortfolio, Mahara, reflection, collaboration, feedback, education, Canada, higher education, assessment, innovation 1 79 full false Jack Rice Kristina Hoeppner Christina Mayes: Portfolio support through peer mentors Christina Mayes: Portfolio support through peer mentors 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Christina Mayes Buzzsprout-17831905 Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +1200 2053 portfolio, eportfolio, peer mentor, USA, university, higher education, support 1 78 full false Christina Mayes Kristina Hoeppner Bea Rodriguez-Fransen: Embrace decolonial design futures thinking in education Bea Rodriguez-Fransen: Embrace decolonial design futures thinking in education 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 practitioners in 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.

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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 practitioners in 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Bea Rodriguez-Fransen Buzzsprout-17787126 Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +1200 2460 decolonial design futures, principled innovation, storytelling, collaboration, ethical decision making, design justice, relationality, reflection, Indigenous community, Philippines, U.S.A. 1 77 full false Bea Rodriguez-Fransen Kristina Hoeppner Marie 'Bernie' Fisher: Reflecting on portfolio practice Marie 'Bernie' Fisher: Reflecting on portfolio practice 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Marie 'Bernie' Fisher Buzzsprout-17721707 Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +1200 2324 reflection, portfolio, ePortfolio, teaching, academia, Australia, community, studying 1 76 full false Marie 'Bernie' Fisher Kristina Hoeppner Sue Schibeci: Portfolios in work-integrated learning experiences Sue Schibeci: Portfolios in work-integrated learning experiences 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Sue Schibeci Buzzsprout-17643920 Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +1200 1692 portfolio, ePortfolio, WIL, work-integrated learning, reflection, feedback, Australia, higher education 1 75 full false Sue Schibeci Kristina Hoeppner Mike Altieri: Use reflection bot Riff for deeper and more meaningful portfolio reflection Mike Altieri: Use reflection bot Riff for deeper and more meaningful portfolio reflection 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Mike Altieri Buzzsprout-17567918 Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +1200 1478 portfolio, ePortfolio, Riff, Mahara, reflection, reflection competency, artificial intelligence, AI, Germany 1 74 full false Mike Altieri Kristina Hoeppner David Hicks: The portfolio tells the story of growth David Hicks: The portfolio tells the story of growth 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, David Hicks Buzzsprout-17491384 Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +1200 1963 portfolio, ePortfolio, electronic portfolio, digital portfolio, U.S.A., teacher education, evidence, framework, folio thinking, templates 1 73 full false David Hicks Kristina Hoeppner Lindsay Richardson: Portfolios in large courses with a side of AI Lindsay Richardson: Portfolios in large courses with a side of AI 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Lindsay Richardson Buzzsprout-17338503 Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +1200 1900 portfolio, eportfolio, learning, psychology, canada, ai, artificial intelligence, Mahara, education, self grading, assessment, large classes 1 72 full false Lindsay Richardson Kristina Hoeppner Some thoughts on portfolios over the last 15 years Some thoughts on portfolios over the last 15 years 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner Buzzsprout-17350516 Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +1200 891 Mahara, portfolio, eportfolio, education, programmatic assessment, workplace portfolios 1 71 full false DiKuLe: Planning and decision making guide for portfolios DiKuLe: Planning and decision making guide for portfolios 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Cordula Schwiderski, Hannah Brodel, Martina Osterrieder, Martin Sticht Buzzsprout-17238885 Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +1200 1732 portfolio, eportfolio, learning, constructive alignment, germany, mahara, guide, support, feedback, professional development, academic teaching 1 70 full false Cordula Schwiderski Hannah Brodel Martin Sticht Martina Osterrieder Kristina Hoeppner Christina Stollner & Romy Hösl: Portfolio support for educators and learners Christina Stollner & Romy Hösl: Portfolio support for educators and learners 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Christina Stollner, Romy Hösl Buzzsprout-17150793 Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 +1200 1844 portfolio, eportfolio, learning, constructive alignment, germany, mahara, starter kit, template, artificial intelligence, ai, riff, support 1 69 full false Christina Stollner Romy Hösl Kristina Hoeppner Michael Sankey: The portfolio as the place of representation for emerging professionals Michael Sankey: The portfolio as the place of representation for emerging professionals 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Michael Sankey Buzzsprout-17046326 Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +1200 2272 portfolio, eportfolio, learning, programmatic assessment, assessment, professional, showcase, lifelong, higher education, ai, artificial intelligence 1 68 full false Michael Sankey Kristina Hoeppner Mahara 25.04 and how a feature makes it into Mahara Mahara 25.04 and how a feature makes it into Mahara 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner Buzzsprout-17007430 Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +1200 1025 Mahara, portfolio, eportfolio, open source, product development, features, collaboration, community 1 67 full false Margarete Imhof, Franziska Ohl, Sebastian Laube: Feedback as driver for learning with portfolios Margarete Imhof, Franziska Ohl, Sebastian Laube: Feedback as driver for learning with portfolios 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Margarete Imhof, Franziska Ohl, Sebastian Laube Buzzsprout-16896282 Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +1200 2527 portfolio, eportfolio, learning, reflection, feedback, engagement, germany, mahara, collaboration, teacher training, education, peer feedback, templates 1 66 full false Franziska Ohl Margarete Imhof Sebastian Laube Kristina Hoeppner Chahira Nouira: Use a portfolio to give students space and time to reflect Chahira Nouira: Use a portfolio to give students space and time to reflect 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Chahira Nouira Buzzsprout-16750108 Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +1300 2037 portfolio, eportfolio, learning, reflection, learning design, germany, education, inspiration, assessment, showcase 1 65 full false Chahira Nouira Kristina Hoeppner Matthew E. Mueller: Create and control your own narrative with a portfolio Matthew E. Mueller: Create and control your own narrative with a portfolio 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.

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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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Matthew Mueller Buzzsprout-16382600 Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +1300 1891 portfolio, eportfolio, learning, reflection, coaching, USA, staff, student, introspection, narrative, holistic, high impact practice, HIP, support, storytelling, folio thinking 1 64 full false Matthew E. Mueller Kristina Hoeppner Arturo Flores: The portfolio is a reflection of yourself Arturo Flores: The portfolio is a reflection of yourself 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Arturo Flores Buzzsprout-16368368 Wed, 26 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +1300 1113 portfolio, eportfolio, learning, reflection, showcase, peer mentor, USA, student, career development, support, vulnerability 1 63 full false Arturo Flores, Jr. Kristina Hoeppner KatieAnn Nguyen: Showcase your achievements in a portfolio and be proud of them KatieAnn Nguyen: Showcase your achievements in a portfolio and be proud of them 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, KatieAnn Nguyen Buzzsprout-16353050 Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +1300 1002 portfolio, eportfolio, learning, reflection, showcase, peer mentor, USA, student, career development, support 1 62 full false KatieAnn Nguyen Kristina Hoeppner Starlight (José) Lain-Straus: The portfolio as impactful practice for students Starlight (José) Lain-Straus: The portfolio as impactful practice for students 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Starlight (José) Lain-Straus Buzzsprout-16342676 Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +1300 833 portfolio, eportfolio, learning, reflection, student experience, documentation, feedback, progress, USA, higher ed, learning, achievements 1 61 full false Starlight (José) Lain-Straus Kristina Hoeppner Solena Ornelas: Set goals and achieve them with a portfolio Solena Ornelas: Set goals and achieve them with a portfolio 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Solena Ornelas Buzzsprout-16331913 Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +1300 1346 goal setting, feedback, college, university, undergraduate, student, graduate, lifelong portfolio, coaching, support, USA, portfolio, ePortfolio 1 60 full false Solena Ornelas Kristina Hoeppner Kristina Hoeppner: Around the world in 51 days to learn and talk about portfolios Kristina Hoeppner: Around the world in 51 days to learn and talk about portfolios 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner Buzzsprout-16252890 Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:00:00 +1300 1165 eportfolio, portfolio, reflection, mahara, AAEEBL, DiKuLe, Pléiades, Moodle, MoodleMoot, community, support, learning 1 59 full false Olga Göransson: PhD student portfolios for the win Olga Göransson: PhD student portfolios for the win 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Olga Göransson Buzzsprout-15937716 Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +1300 1607 eportfolio, portfolio, reflection, feedback, assessment, phd studies, sweden, medicine, learning portfolio, assessment portfolio, presentation portfolio, mahara 1 58 full false Olga Göransson Kristina Hoeppner Fergus Green: The portfolio is a bit like jazz Fergus Green: The portfolio is a bit like jazz 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Fergus Green Buzzsprout-15911052 Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +1300 1474 eportfolio, portfolio, reflection, feedback, political sciences, great britain, uk, mahara, jazz, freedom, constraints, scaffolding, support, self-directed learning 1 57 full false Fergus Green Kristina Hoeppner Candyce Reynolds & Sonja Taylor: Hashtags, social media, and portfolios Candyce Reynolds & Sonja Taylor: Hashtags, social media, and portfolios 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Candyce Reynolds, Sonja Taylor Buzzsprout-15871660 Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +1300 1903 ePortfolio, portfolio practice, digital literacy, social media, student learning, professional development, general education, portfolio assessment, digital citizenship, reflection, lifelong learning, process, usa, higher education, high school 1 56 full false Candyce Reynolds Sonja Taylor Kristina Hoeppner Tom Worthington: Teach portfolios without the lingo Tom Worthington: Teach portfolios without the lingo 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Tom Worthington Buzzsprout-15833547 Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +1300 2163 eportfolio, portfolio, reflection, feedback, australia, computer science, job application, scaffolding, authentic assessment 1 55 full false Tom Worthington Kristina Hoeppner Cathy Elliott: Have fun, be flexible, and encourage feedback in your portfolio Cathy Elliott: Have fun, be flexible, and encourage feedback in your portfolio 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Cathy Elliott Buzzsprout-15785613 Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +1300 2193 eportfolio, portfolio, learning, reflection, feedback, great britain, mahara, programmatic approach, political sciences, course re-design, innovation, uk, ucl, CathyElliott 1 54 full false Cathy Elliott Kristina Hoeppner Jonathan Murphy: Demonstrate skills and competencies Jonathan Murphy: Demonstrate skills and competencies 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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]]> 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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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Jonathan Murphy Buzzsprout-15724683 Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +1200 2340 eportfolio, portfolio, learning, reflection, feedback, apprenticeship, degree apprenticeship, ireland 1 53 full false Jonathan Murphy Kristina Hoeppner Sheetal J. Patel: Own your story through a portfolio Sheetal J. Patel: Own your story through a portfolio 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Sheetal Patel Buzzsprout-15563040 Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +1200 1543 reflection, learning, generative AI, workshop, eportfolio, portfolio, framework, owning, storytelling, story, usa 1 52 full false Sheetal J. Patel Kristina Hoeppner Patsie Polly: Authentic assessment tasks in biomedical research Patsie Polly: Authentic assessment tasks in biomedical research 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Patsie Polly, Buzzsprout-15526077 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +1200 1418 eportfolio, portfolio,australia, reflective practice, biomedicine, biomedical research, programmatic assessment, systemic assessment, artificial intelligence, ai, generative ai, reflection, australia 1 51 full false Patsie Polly Kristina Hoeppner Zala Volcic: Develop community, relationships, and compassion Zala Volcic: Develop community, relationships, and compassion 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].

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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].

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Zala Volcic Buzzsprout-15486512 Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +1200 2286 eportfolio, portfolio, learning, mahara, australia, media studies, community, compassion, civic responsibility, professionalisation, journalism, Monash University 1 50 full false Zala Volcic Kristina Hoeppner Derrin Kent: Portfolios in degree apprenticeships Derrin Kent: Portfolios in degree apprenticeships 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Derrin Kent Buzzsprout-15406848 Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +1200 2107 portfolio, ePortfolio, apprenticeship, uk, great britain, united kingdom, degree apprenticeship, university, skills, coaching, mentoring, mahara, tdm 1 49 full false Derrin Kent Kristina Hoeppner Allison Miller: The portfolio is a process Allison Miller: The portfolio is a process 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Allison Miller Buzzsprout-15326872 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +1200 2162 portfolio, ePortfolio, support, australia, getting started, programmatic approach, help, community 1 48 full false Allison Miller Kristina Hoeppner Amanda B. Wallace & Kylie Pugh: The portfolio as well-being tool Amanda B. Wallace & Kylie Pugh: The portfolio as well-being tool Assistant Professor at Tallahassee State College Amanda B. Wallace, 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.

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]]> Assistant Professor at Tallahassee State College Amanda B. Wallace, 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Amanda B. Wallce, Kylie Pugh Buzzsprout-15256010 Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +1200 3385 well-being, wellness, pandemic, USA, WAC, research, reflection, self reflection, portfolio, ePortfolio, higher education 1 47 full false Amanda B. Wallace Kylie Pugh Kristina Hoeppner Mario A. Peraza: Use AI to help curate your digital presence Mario A. Peraza: Use AI to help curate your digital presence Mario A. Peraza, MSc, 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.

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]]> Mario A. Peraza, MSc, 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Mario A. Peraza Buzzsprout-15176788 Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +1200 1756 portfolio, ePortfolio, digital presence, curation, LinkedIn, reflection, AI, artificial intelligence, usa 1 46 full false Mario A. Peraza Kristina Hoeppner Shari Bowker: Establish good feedback practices in your portfolio Shari Bowker: Establish good feedback practices in your portfolio 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Shari Bowker Buzzsprout-15126742 Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +1200 2350 feedback, portfolio, ePortfolio, assessment, programmatic assessment, learning, framework, support, learner-centred, australia, programmatic approach 1 45 full false Shari Bowker Kristina Hoeppner Mark Glynn: Take a programmatic approach to assessment with portfolios Mark Glynn: Take a programmatic approach to assessment with portfolios Dr Mark Glynn, PFHEA, 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.

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]]> Dr Mark Glynn, PFHEA, 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Mark Glynn Buzzsprout-15014742 Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 +1200 2576 portfolio, ePortfolio, Mahara, learning, assessment, technology, learning experience, programmatic approach, dcu, teaching, education, ireland 1 44 full false Mark Glynn Kristina Hoeppner Mark Brady: Journal regularly for profound insight Mark Brady: Journal regularly for profound insight 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Mark Brady Buzzsprout-14803124 Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +1200 1693 portfolio, Mahara, ePortfolio, journalling, reflection, insight, change, ireland, DCU, student, transformation 1 43 full false Mark Brady Kristina Hoeppner Annemarie Galeucia & Boz Bowles: Create a portfolio and get a medal for it Annemarie Galeucia & Boz Bowles: Create a portfolio and get a medal for it 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Annemarie Galeucia, Boz Bowles Buzzsprout-14789023 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +1200 2782 portfolio, ePortfolio, reflection, education, reflection, medal, communicator, usa, learning, career development, skills 1 42 full false Annemarie Galeucia Boz Bowles Kristina Hoeppner Debra Hoven & Margaret Rauliuk: Disrupt the dissertation with an ePortfolio Debra Hoven & Margaret Rauliuk: Disrupt the dissertation with an ePortfolio 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Debra Hoven, Margaret Rauliuk Buzzsprout-14660180 Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +1300 2087 dissertation, canada, portfolio, eportfolio, athabasca, learning, reflection, phd, disruption, innovation, cultural competence 1 41 full false Debra Hoven Margaret Rauliuk Kristina Hoeppner Debra Hoven: The value of self-reflection and peer feedback Debra Hoven: The value of self-reflection and peer feedback 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Debra Hoven Buzzsprout-14656054 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +1300 2168 portfolio, learning, Mahara, ePortfolio, reflection, canada, peer feedback, multimodal, capstone, autoethnography, research, athabasca 1 40 full false Debra Hoven Kristina Hoeppner Derrin Kent: Skills Bootcamps using portfolios Derrin Kent: Skills Bootcamps using portfolios 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Derrin Kent Buzzsprout-14568525 Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +1300 2061 portfolio, boot camp, learning, Mahara, ePortfolio, reflection, professional development, UK, apprenticeship, skills, pd, andragogy, tdm 1 39 full false Derrin Kent Kristina Hoeppner Jamie Robinson: Portfolio boot camp for educators Jamie Robinson: Portfolio boot camp for educators Senior Learning Designer Jamie Robinson, 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.

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]]> Senior Learning Designer Jamie Robinson, 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Jamie Robinson Buzzsprout-14446436 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +1300 1052 portfolio, boot camp, learning, mahara, ePortfolio, reflection, professional development, australia, pd, gamification 1 38 full false Jamie Robinson Kristina Hoeppner Brian Williams: Information security and portfolios Brian Williams: Information security and portfolios Brian Williams, BTech, 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.

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]]> Brian Williams, BTech, 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Brian Williams Buzzsprout-14433459 Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +1300 1651 information security, privacy, data privacy, portfolio, Mahara, open source, infosec, transparency, trust, aotearoa, new zealand, catalyst 1 37 full false Brian Williams Kristina Hoeppner The wunderkammer: Metaphors in portfolio practice The wunderkammer: Metaphors in portfolio practice 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner Buzzsprout-14349810 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +1300 763 portfolio, ePortfolio, metaphor, solo episode 1 36 full false Ruth Cox & Kevin Kelly: Grow and nurture the portfolio through the framework of ePorticulture Ruth Cox & Kevin Kelly: Grow and nurture the portfolio through the framework of ePorticulture 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Ruth Cox, Kevin Kelly Buzzsprout-14185121 Wed, 10 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +1300 2485 portfolio, ePortfolio, eporticulture, gardening, metaphor, learning, lifelong learning, support, programmatic assessment, pioneer, usa, higher education 1 35 full false Kevin Kelly Ruth Cox Kristina Hoeppner Kevin Kelly & Kristina Hoeppner: Digital ethics principles and UDL guidelines Kevin Kelly & Kristina Hoeppner: Digital ethics principles and UDL guidelines 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Kevin Kelly, Lillian Nave Buzzsprout-14156193 Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +1300 3812 portfolio, ePortfolio, digital ethics, udl, principles, guidelines, accessibility, usability, DEIBD, education, learning, support, usa 1 34 full false Kevin Kelly Lillian Nave Kristina Hoeppner Kathleen Blake Yancey: Heuristics for meaningful portfolios Kathleen Blake Yancey: Heuristics for meaningful portfolios 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Kathleen Blake Yancey Buzzsprout-14033221 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +1300 2318 ePortfolio, portfolio, reflection, meaningfulness, portfolio makingness, career portfolio, assessment, artificial intelligence, ai, heuristics, template, model, exemplar, usa 1 33 full false Kathleen Blake Yancey Kristina Hoeppner Terrel L. Rhodes: The portfolio as a mode to engage students in learning Terrel L. Rhodes: The portfolio as a mode to engage students in learning 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Terry Rhodes Buzzsprout-13997152 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +1300 1833 employment, employability, assessment, ePortfolio, rubrics, portfolio, integration, integrative, pioneer, artificial intelligence, AI, reflection, usa 1 32 full false Terrel L. Rhodes Kristina Hoeppner Sigi Jakob-Kühn: Make students your partners in exploring portfolios Sigi Jakob-Kühn: Make students your partners in exploring portfolios 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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]]> 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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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Sigi Jakob-Kühn Buzzsprout-13893924 Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +1300 1756 portfolio, reflection, ePortfolio, portfolio, Mahara, Moodle, apprenticeship, school, vocational training, germany 1 31 full false Sigi Jakob-Kühn Kristina Hoeppner Mike Joiner-Hill: Represent yourself through a portfolio Mike Joiner-Hill: Represent yourself through a portfolio 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Mike Joiner-Hill Buzzsprout-13821515 Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +1300 2071 portfolio, reflection, ePortfolio, representation, career education, employability, coaching, learning portfolio, education, higher education, usa 1 30 full false Mike Joiner-Hill Kristina Hoeppner Kristina Hoeppner: A year of interviews in review Kristina Hoeppner: A year of interviews in review 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.

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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.

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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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]]> Mahara Project Buzzsprout-13738854 Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +1300 1067 portfolio, reflection, collaboration, mahara, ePortfolio, digital portfolio, community, review 1 29 full false Ricardo Elizalde: See the whole student and their learning journey Ricardo Elizalde: See the whole student and their learning journey 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Ricardo Elizalde Buzzsprout-13643408 Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +1300 1444 portfolio, reflection, school, usa, community building, storytelling, mahara 1 28 full false Ricardo Elizalde Kristina Hoeppner Sofia Colabella & Alberto Pugnale: A blueprint for working with portfolios with architecture students Sofia Colabella & Alberto Pugnale: A blueprint for working with portfolios with architecture students 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Sofia Colabella, Alberto Pugnale Buzzsprout-13436832 Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +1200 2158 portfolio, ePortfolio, architecture, assessment, learning, design portfolio, research, career, relationship building, australia 1 27 full false Alberto Pugnale Sofia Colabella Kristina Hoeppner Paul Libbrecht and Wolfgang Müller: Support your portfolio learning with AI Paul Libbrecht and Wolfgang Müller: Support your portfolio learning with AI 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Paul Libbrecht, Wolfgang Müller Buzzsprout-13355648 Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +1200 1613 portfolio, eportfolio, learning, ai, feedback, germany, higher education 1 26 full false Paul Libbrecht Wolfgang Müller Kristina Hoeppner Paul Raper: Make the portfolio a habit that is serving you Paul Raper: Make the portfolio a habit that is serving you 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Paul Raper Buzzsprout-13315199 Wed, 16 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +1200 2114 Mahara, portfolio, ePortfolio, feedback, teaching, learning, education, electronic portfolio, imagination, collaboration, switzerland 1 25 full false Paul Raper Kristina Hoeppner Leticia Britos Cavagnaro: Make learning visible Leticia Britos Cavagnaro: Make learning visible 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Leticia Britos Cavagnaro Buzzsprout-13269545 Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +1200 2713 reflection, riff, portfolio, teacher, experiment, conversation, learning, ePortfolio, reflective practice, electronic portfolio, learning, teaching, experimenting, usa 1 24 full false Leticia Britos Cavagnaro Kristina Hoeppner Stephen Harlow: Tell your story through your portfolio Stephen Harlow: Tell your story through your portfolio 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Stephen Harlow Buzzsprout-13186158 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +1200 1971 portfolio, ePortfolio, storytelling, digital storytelling, reflection, Mahara, aotearoa, new zealand 1 23 full true Stephen Harlow Kristina Hoeppner Andrea Ghoneim: Learn transversal skills through portfolios Andrea Ghoneim: Learn transversal skills through portfolios 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Andrea Ghoneim Buzzsprout-12977583 Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +1200 1933 portfolio, ePortfolio, assessment, curation, austria, transversal skills, competencies, transfer of skills 1 22 full false Andrea Ghoneim Kristina Hoeppner Bob Reuter: Externalise your thinking with portfolios Bob Reuter: Externalise your thinking with portfolios 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Bob Reuter Buzzsprout-12931460 Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +1200 1867 portfolio, ePortfolio, education, educational technology, edtech, constructivism, social constructivism, luxembourg, letzebuerg, ICT 1 21 full false Bob Reuter Kristina Hoeppner Helen L. Chen: Reflect through conversation to tell your story Helen L. Chen: Reflect through conversation to tell your story 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Helen L. Chen Buzzsprout-12839911 Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +1200 2132 portfolio, ePortfolio, folio thinking, AI, artificial intelligence, reflection, story telling, education, integrative learning, usa 1 20 full false Helen L. Chen Kristina Hoeppner Martin Dougiamas: Open EdTech as a force for good Martin Dougiamas: Open EdTech as a force for good 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Martin Dougiamas Buzzsprout-12819079 Wed, 24 May 2023 00:00:00 +1200 1855 Moodle, Mahara, ai, artificial intelligence, education, edtech, open source, portfolio, Open EdTech, sustainability, australia 1 19 full false Martin Dougiamas Kristina Hoeppner Cathy Elliott: Creativity and feedback in assessment portfolios Cathy Elliott: Creativity and feedback in assessment portfolios 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Cathy Elliott Buzzsprout-12514705 Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +1200 1543 portfolio, feedback, learning, written, assessment, work, Mahara, education, creativity, UCL, political sciences, UK, CathyElliott 1 18 full false Cathy Elliott Kristina Hoeppner Rita Zuba Prokopetz: Building a learning community Rita Zuba Prokopetz: Building a learning community 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Rita Zuba Prokopetz Buzzsprout-12467571 Wed, 26 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +1200 1890 ePortfolio, learning, Mahara, pedagogy, feedback giving, feedback receiving, community, learning community, collaboration, capstone course, education, portfolio design, learning portfolio, portfolio, athabasca, canada 1 17 full false Rita Zuba Prokopetz Kristina Hoeppner Bobbi Kamil: Demonstrating learning Bobbi Kamil: Demonstrating learning 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Bobbi Kamil Buzzsprout-12190029 Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +1200 1019 portfolio, ePortfolio, mentoring, adult learner, mature learner, demonstrating learning, usa 1 16 full false Bobbi Kamil Kristina Hoeppner John Ittelson: Documenting learning John Ittelson: Documenting learning 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, John Ittelson Buzzsprout-12185504 Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +1300 1899 portfolio, electronic portfolio, ePortfolio, instructional technology, reflection, folio thinking, documenting learning, usa 1 15 full false John Ittelson Kristina Hoeppner Kate Mitchell: Deliberate and programmatic design Kate Mitchell: Deliberate and programmatic design 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.

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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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Kate Mitchell Buzzsprout-12233941 Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +1300 1890 ePortfolio, portfolio, learning, learning design, UX, usability, programmatic design, professional portfolio, australia 1 14 full false Kate Mitchell Kristina Hoeppner Christine Slade and Kevin Kelly: Digital ethics principle DEIBD Christine Slade and Kevin Kelly: Digital ethics principle DEIBD 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.

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]]> 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Christine Slade, Kevin Kelly Buzzsprout-12151270 Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +1300 2371 portfolio, learning, education, equity, inclusion, diversity, belonging, decolonisation, digital ethics, pedagogy, dei, deibd, assessment, evaluation, australia, usa 1 13 full false Christine Slade Kevin Kelly Kristina Hoeppner Amy Cicchino, Megan Mize, Sarah Zurhellen: Visibility of labour Amy Cicchino, Megan Mize, Sarah Zurhellen: Visibility of labour 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.

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]]> 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Amy Cicchino, Megan Mize, Sarah Zurhellen Buzzsprout-12096050 Wed, 15 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +1300 2001 portfolio, eportfolio, learning, support, third space, usa, digital ethics, task force, aaeebl 1 12 full false Amy Cicchino Megan Mize Sarah Zurhellen Kristina Hoeppner Edd Bolton: SmartEvidence and competency portfolios Edd Bolton: SmartEvidence and competency portfolios Edd Bolton, MA, 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.

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]]> Edd Bolton, MA, 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Edd Bolton Buzzsprout-12081022 Wed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +1300 1384 portfolio, eportfolio, learning, UK, higher education, mahara, smartevidence, competency based learning 1 11 full false Edd Bolton Kristina Hoeppner Ingrid D'Souza: Creativity and lifelong portfolios Ingrid D'Souza: Creativity and lifelong portfolios 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.

Since publishing the episode, Ingrid has earned her doctorate.

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.

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]]> 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.

Since publishing the episode, Ingrid has earned her doctorate.

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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Ingrid D'Souza Buzzsprout-11958348 Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +1300 1497 mahara, portfolio, eportfolio, learning, reflection, community, creativity, australia, Monash University 1 10 full false Maia Miller: Web accessibility Maia Miller: Web accessibility 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.

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]]> 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Maia Miller Buzzsprout-11955547 Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +1300 1973 accessibility, mahara, software development, aotearoa, new zealand, catalyst 1 9 full false Maia Miller Kristina Hoeppner Bas Bakker: Learning design and portfolios Bas Bakker: Learning design and portfolios 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 education designer, how portfolios can be better integrated at organisations, and where portfolios are at in Dutch institutions of higher education.

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]]> 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 education designer, how portfolios can be better integrated at organisations, and where portfolios are at in Dutch institutions of higher education.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Bas Bakker Buzzsprout-11506238 Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +1300 1288 portfolio, eportfolio, learning design, netherlands, higher education 1 8 full false Bas Bakker Kristina Hoeppner Mandia Mentis & Wendy Holley-Boen: Bringing the personal to the professional Mandia Mentis & Wendy Holley-Boen: Bringing the personal to the professional 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.

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]]> 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Mandia Mentis, Wendy Holley-Boen Buzzsprout-11382178 Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +1300 1481 portfolio, eportfolio, aotearoa, new zealand, support, benefits 1 7 full false Mandia Mentis Wendy Holley-Boen Kristina Hoeppner Christine Dülfer: Supporting industry internships Christine Dülfer: Supporting industry internships 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.

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]]> 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Christine Dülfer Buzzsprout-11682140 Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +1300 1163 Mahara, portfolio, internship, vocational education, germany 1 6 full false Christine Dülfer Kristina Hoeppner Sam Taylor: Stories from a 14-year portfolio evangelist Sam Taylor: Stories from a 14-year portfolio evangelist 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.

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]]> 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Sam Taylor Buzzsprout-11636711 Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +1300 1447 portfolio, eportfolio, learning, mahara, UK, support 1 5 full false Sam Taylor Kristina Hoeppner Teresa MacKinnon: Professional portfolios, values, and transferable skills Teresa MacKinnon: Professional portfolios, values, and transferable skills 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.

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]]> 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Teresa MacKinnon Buzzsprout-11549188 Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +1300 2094 Mahara, portfolio, eportfolio, open education, value, language learning, assessment, UK 1 4 full false Misty Kirby: Supporting eProfessionalism through portfolios Misty Kirby: Supporting eProfessionalism through portfolios 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.

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]]> 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Misty Kirby Buzzsprout-11337617 Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +1300 1713 portfolio, eportfolio, australia, learning, support, eprofessionalism, professional development 1 3 full false Misty Kirby Kristina Hoeppner Orna Farrell: Supporting learners and lecturers alike in their portfolio journey Orna Farrell: Supporting learners and lecturers alike in their portfolio journey 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.

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]]> 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Orna Farrell Buzzsprout-11255779 Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +1300 1664 portfolio, eportfolio, learning, ireland, mahara, support 1 2 full false Orna Farrell Kristina Hoeppner Lisa Donaldson: From 0 to 6,000 in six weeks Lisa Donaldson: From 0 to 6,000 in six weeks 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.

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]]> 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.

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner, Lisa Donaldson Buzzsprout-11255562 Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +1300 1377 portfolio, eportfolio, learning, ireland, support, implementation, getting started, mahara 1 1 full false Lisa Donaldson Kristina Hoeppner Introduction Introduction 'Create. Share. Engage.' is a podcast about portfolios for learning and more for educators, learning designers, and managers keen on integrating portfolios with 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. 

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]]> 'Create. Share. Engage.' is a podcast about portfolios for learning and more for educators, learning designers, and managers keen on integrating portfolios with 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. 

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]]> Kristina Hoeppner Buzzsprout-11255972 Tue, 13 Sep 2022 22:00:00 +1200 166 1 0 full false