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

    24 MARS

    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
  2. Vickel Narayan: Portfolios in the age of AI: A rethink to the approach?

    10 MARS

    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
  3. Yvonne Moore and James Pearce: Skills portfolios encourage continued reflection

    10 FÉVR.

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

    27 JANV.

    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

    1 h 12 min
  5. Jaye Ryan: Showcase yourself through your portfolio

    13 JANV.

    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. Resources Ryan, J. A. (2025). The lived experience of mature undergraduate nursing students with quasi-dyslexia: Navigating ongoing academic challenges [Doctoral Thesis, Birmingham City University].Ryan, J. A. (2018). Which resources are most helpful to support development of an ePortfolio? British Journal of Nursing, 27(5), 266–271.AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles: SupportHoeppner, K. (2025, May 15). Portfolios: Integral to your programmatic assessment approach.Mahara 26.04 refresh: December 2025 updateJaye's fundraiser for her dad after hurricane Melissa in 2025Related episodes Amy Cicchino & Brandi Gilbert: Portfolios as high-impact practicesChristina Mayes: Portfolio support through peer mentorsDavid Hicks: The portfolio tells the story of growthMichael Sankey: The portfolio as the place of representation for emerging professionalsJonathan Murphy: Demonstrate skills and competenciesSubscribe 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

À propos

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.