Create. Share. Engage.

<p>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.</p>

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.Connect withCandyce on L...

10-29
31:43

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 ref...

10-15
36:03

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 ...

10-01
36:33

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.Click through to the episode notes for the transcript.Connect with Jonathan...

09-17
39:00

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) a...

09-03
25:43

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.Connect with Patsie on LinkedInResourcesPatsie's research and publicationsBlog post 'Can portfolio pegagogy be shaken by AI' wit...

08-20
23:38

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...

08-06
38:06

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.Connect with Derrin on LinkedInResourcesInstitute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE)Office for Standards in Educat...

07-23
35:07

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 ...

07-09
36:02

Amanda B. Wallace & Kylie Pugh: The portfolio as well-being tool

Assistant Professor at Tallahassee State College Amanda B. Wallce, MA, and Kylie Pugh, MA, Adjunct Faculty at the University of West Florida and Customer Success Manager at Instructure talk about their experience with portfolios that they designed around student well-being. Together with Dr Bre Garrett (University of West Florida), they conducted research in that area and published that at the end of 2023.Kylie and Amanda share their own learning journey, filled with trials, errors, and lots ...

06-25
56:25

Mario A. Peraza: Use AI to help curate your digital presence

Mario A. Peraza just completed his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering - Design Methodology at Stanford University and was a student ambassador and intern at the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab (ILPL) at the university where he taught workshops on using portfolios to curate one's digital presence besides performing a number of other tasks.In his interview Mario shares how he's been using generative AI to help with the creation and revamping of his personal public portfolio. He also...

06-11
29:16

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.Connect with Shari on LinkedInResourcesArticles and pre...

05-28
39:10

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.Connect with Mark on LinkedInResourcesDCU's Teaching Enhancemen...

05-14
42:56

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 momen...

04-30
28:13

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 support...

04-16
46:22

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.ConnectDebra on LinkedInMargaret on Hylo and on X (former...

04-02
34:47

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 st...

03-19
36:08

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.Connect with Derrin on LinkedInResourcesTDM's Skills BootcampsUK's Department of Education information on Skills BootcampsRichar...

03-05
34:21

Jamie Fulcher: Portfolio boot camp for educators

Senior Learning Designer Jamie Fulcher, MEd (University of Newcastle) has been using portfolios since about 2008. She developed a highly effective boot camp for educators to get exposed to the practice and experience it themselves to better support their own students. In this episode, Jamie shares the blueprint for this boot camp and outlines why she gamified the professional development opportunity.Connect with Jamie on LinkedInResourcesJamie's presentation 'Developing a Mahara boot camp for...

02-20
17:32

Brian Williams: CIA and portfolios

Brian Williams, BTech, is Security Operations Supervisor at Catalyst IT shares why information security is an important consideration for people creating and working with portfolios. He explains the acronym CIA (confidentiality, integrity, availability) and highlights a few stories that illustrate why data privacy needs to be a fundamental consideration for portfolio creators.Connect with Brian on LinkedInResourcesMaharaAAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios PrinciplesGDPRWhat is a SOC?The CIA ...

02-06
27:31

Recommend Channels