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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.

  1. Special: Network with community members

    1D AGO

    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 6, 7, and 12 May: Unveiling Mahara 26.04: A fresh look and exciting new features13 May: Mahara Ask Me Anything May 202614 May: Mahara Hui Schweiz19 May: Mahara 26.04: Ein neues Erscheinungsbild und aufregende neue Funktionen20 May: Building digital resilience through ePortfolios: Lessons for the future26 May: PARE - Plan, Act, Reflect, and ePortfolioJune 2026 10-12 June: AAEEBL Annual Meeting16-17 June: AAEEBL Symposium18 June: Mahara Ask Me Anything June 2026September 2026 23-24 September: Eportfolio Forum - subscribe to updates for more information Resources Podcast episode 'Mpho-Entle Modise & Norm Vaughan: The portfolio as enabler of change'Mahara 26.04 highlightsSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios. Production information Production: Catalyst IT Host: Kristina Hoeppner Artwork: Evonne Cheung Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

    13 min
  2. Pablo Avila: Portfolios at scale at LaGuardia Community College

    APR 21

    Pablo Avila: Portfolios at scale at LaGuardia Community College

    Pablo Avila, MA, is the the Associate Director of The Center for Teaching and Learning at LaGuardia Community College (City University of New York). He's been creating portfolios and supporting students and faculty with their own and the strategic implementation of portfolios at LaGuardia since 2008. In this episode, Pablo talks about his own portfolio journey, how it influenced his work with portfolios, and how students and faculty at LaGuardia are supported in their portfolio work. References Pablo's websiteePortfolios at LaGuardiaHIPs in the StatesAAC&U list of high-impact practicesAAEEBLEynon, B., & Gambino, L. M. (2017). High-impact ePortfolio practice: A catalyst for student, faculty, and institutional learning. Routledge.Eynon, B., & Gambino, L. M. (2018). Catalyst in action. Routledge.Taxonomy of Reflective InquiryAAC&U VALUE rubricsRiffAAEEBL webinar series on artificial intelligenceAAEEBL Annual Meeting and Symposium 2026 Related episodesAmy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practicesLeticia Britos Cavagnaro: Make learning visibleSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios. Production information Production: Catalyst IT Host: Kristina Hoeppner Artwork: Evonne Cheung Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

    43 min
  3. Amy Cicchino, McKenna Slaughter, Nghi Chau: Students support students in creating portfolios

    APR 7

    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. Resources AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfoliosAAEEBL Field Guide to ePortfoliosWatson, C. E., Kuh, G. D., Rhodes, T. L., Penny Light, T., & Chen, H. L. (2016). Editorial: ePortfolios – The eleventh High Impact Practice. International Journal of ePortfolio, 6(2), 65–69.Related episodes Amy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practicesAmy Cicchino, Megan Mize, Sarah Zurhellen: Visibility of labourDiKuLe: Planning and decision making guide for portfoliosDebbie Oesch-Minor and Salsabil Qaddoura: Foster student ownership and empowerment through a portfolioChristina Mayes: Portfolio support through peer mentorsMario A. Peraza: Use AI to help curate your digital presenceSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios. Production information Production: Catalyst IT Host: Kristina Hoeppner Artwork: Evonne Cheung Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

    37 min
  4. Mpho-Entle Modise & Norm Vaughan: The portfolio as enabler of change

    MAR 24

    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. Resources Mpho-Entle's public portfolioNorm's public portfolioModise, M.-E., & Vaughan, N. (2024). ePortfolios: A 360-degree approach to assessment in teacher education. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 50(4), 1–18.University of Maryland Global CampusCommonwealth of Learning Mentorship ProgrammeMeet the editors Join the AAEEBL and FLANZ webinar 'Building digital resilience through ePortfolios: Lessons for the future' on 19/20 May 2026. Related episodes Vickel Narayan: Portfolios in the age of AI: A rethink to the approach?Soropepeli Ramacake: Know, grow, and show through your portfolioAmy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practicesZala Volcic: Develop community, relationships, and compassionBob Reuter: Externalise your thinking with portfoliosSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios. Production information Production: Catalyst IT Host: Kristina Hoeppner Artwork: Evonne Cheung Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

    38 min
  5. Vickel Narayan: Portfolios in the age of AI: A rethink to the approach?

    MAR 10

    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. Resources Vickel's Massey University pageNarayan, V. (2017). The mobilised learner: Heutagogy and mobile social media—Murdoch University [Doctoral Thesis, Murdoch University].Massey University graduate profileUDL guidelinesKorowai Mokopuna programmeWebinar series on portfolios and AI, organised by AAEEBLEPEPLA workshop: ePortfolio Evolution Powered by Language AnalysisRelated episodes Mandia Mentis & Wendy Holley-Boen: Bringing the personal to the professionalAllison Miller: The portfolio is a processMichael Sankey: The portfolio as the place of representation for emerging professionalsMike Altieri: Use reflection bot Riff for deeper and more meaningful portfolio reflectionSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios. Production information Production: Catalyst IT Host: Kristina Hoeppner Artwork: Evonne Cheung Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

    48 min
  6. Megan Mize: Ramping up to support 18,000 students with portfolios

    FEB 24

    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. Resources Monarch Humanities Internship AcademyODU General Education ReformAAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force and PrinciplesHigh-impact practicesODU ePortfolio support and resourcesGresham, M., Mize, M., & Zurhellen, S. (2023). High-impact practices and third spaces: Connecting across disciplines. Across the Disciplines, 20(3/4), 157–176. Related episodes Amy Cicchino, Megan Mize, Sarah Zurhellen: Visibility of labourAmy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practicesLisa Donaldson: From 0 to 6,000 in six weeksSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios. Production information Production: Catalyst IT Host: Kristina Hoeppner Artwork: Evonne Cheung Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

    42 min
  7. Yvonne Moore and James Pearce: Skills portfolios encourage continued reflection

    FEB 10

    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. Resources Public resources on Mahara by the University of BathPlanning and decision making guide for the use of ePortfolios in academic teaching from the DiKuLe projectAAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principle 'Support'SmartEvidenceNuessler, S., & Kirby, M. (2014). SmartEvidence: Improving ePortfolio quality through intervention [Presentation]. Mahara Hui, Wellington, NZWhat is SmartEvidence?Case study on how AP Hogeschool Antwerpen enhanced SmartEvidenceRelated episodes DiKuLe: Planning and decision making guide for portfoliosShari Bowker: Establish good feedback practices in your portfolioSubscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios. Production information Production: Catalyst IT Host: Kristina Hoeppner Artwork: Evonne Cheung Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

    33 min
  8. Debbie Oesch-Minor and Salsabil Qaddoura: Foster student ownership and empowerment through a portfolio

    JAN 27

    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. Resources AAEEBLHigh-impact practicesePortfolio student showcaseOesch-Minor, D. (2023, July 14). EPortfolios on the Fives: Simplifying and streamlining ePortfolio building for students and faculty [Presentation]. AAEEBL Annual Meeting, VancouverSalsabil's portfolio 'Legal, not always just'Dweck, C. (2014). Developing a growth mindset [Presentation]. Stanford+Connects micro lecture, New York.Elbow, P. (1993). Ranking, evaluating, and liking: Sorting out three forms of judgment. College English, 55(2), 187–206.Pratt, M. L. (1991). Arts of the contact zone. Profession, 33–40.Percy, J. (2014, October 14). My terrifying night with Afghanistan’s only female warlord. The New Republic.Berehulak, D. (2016, December 7). 'They are slaughtering us like animals.' The New York Times.Hoeppner, K. (2015, April 9). Scaffolding ePortfolio use [Presentation]. Mahara Hui 2015, Auckland, New Zealand.NACE career readiness competenciesePortfolios Australia PARE sessionsRelated episodes Cathy Elliott: Have fun, be flexible, and encourage feedback in your portfolioAmy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practicesThe wunderkammer: Metaphors in portfolio practiceAllison Miller: The portfolio is a process Subscribe to the monthly newsletter about Mahara and portfolios. Production information Production: Catalyst IT Host: Kristina Hoeppner Artwork: Evonne Cheung Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

    1h 12m
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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.

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