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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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Connect with Misty

• Misty on Twitter
• Misty on LinkedIn
• Misty's website

Resources

• Presentation 'ECARx: Early career academic researchers’ experience using ePortfolios'
• Presentation 'SmartEvidence: Improving ePortfolio quality through intervention'
• Brown Wilson, C., Slade, C., Kirby, M. M., Downer, T., Fisher, M., & Nuessler, S. (2018). Digital ethics and the use of the ePortfolio: A scoping review of the literature. International Journal of ePortfolio, 8(2), 115-126.
• Kirby, M. M., Slade, C.S., Brown Wilson, C., Downer, T., Fisher, M.B., Siddiqui, Z., Isbel, S., McAllister, L., & Miller, A. (in press). A call to action for eProfessionalism: Supporting emerging health and education practitioners build their online presence through ePortfolio use, for the Journal of Computing in Higher Education.
• Kathryn Coleman's work
• ePortfolios Australia's 'Plan, act, reflect, and eportfolio' (PARE) sessions
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfolios
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force ePortfolio mapping survey

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Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

Stephen Harlow is a Learning Designer at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato The University of Waikato, in Aotearoa New Zealand where he supports students and lecturers via Te Puna Ako - Centre for Tertiary Teaching and Learning (CeTTL). He's been introduced to digital storytelling in the early 2000s and has been using it since then for himself and in his teaching.
Digital storytelling is a wonderful method to use in portfolios to tell your learning story.
Connect with Stephen

• Mastodon
• LinkedIn

Resources

• The Mastodon post that started it all.
• Flexible Learning Leaders in New Zealand
• StoryCenter, formerly, the Center for Digital Storytelling
• BBC's 'Capture Wales'
• BBC Micro; GBP235 in today's money is GBP861 (NZD1,787 / USD1,090)
• Helen Barrett's WCELFest keynote 'Balancing the two faces of ePortfolios: Reflection and assessment' in 2015
• DS106 - Digital Storytelling 106
• MyPortfolio: Mahara sites for schools in Aotearoa New Zealand

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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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Connect with Lisa and ePortfolio organisations she's active in

• Lisa on Twitter
• Lisa on LinkedIn
• Eportfolio Ireland
• AAEEBL

Publications of interest

• Ebook 'Eportfolio based assessment: Inspiring exploration and supporting evaluation for practitioners'
• Ebook 'Exploring the diversity of ePortfolio practice: An international sharing of practice, activities, and assessment'
• Special issue on ePortfolios in the Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning
• The learning portfolio in higher education: A game of snakes and ladders

Portfolios at Dublin City University

• Loop Reflect, DCU's ePortfolio site
• Annual Student Showcase and Awards for 2022
• AAEEBL student interviews, in particular Emaan, Ruby, and Samantha

Audio editing support: Sofia Kokoreva

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Dr Debra Hoven and Margaret Rauliuk, dissertation mentor and student team at Athabasca University in Canada, talk about the trials and tribulations but also the joy in creating a portfolio as alternative to the Doctor in Education monograph. They share how their work contributes to opening doors for other types of dissertations and what they have learned along the way besides why Margaret wanted to create a portfolio in the first place.
Connect

• Debra on LinkedIn
• Margaret on Hylo and on X (formerly Twitter)

Resources

• Margaret's research seminar portfolio
• Selected publications of Margaret
• Debra's podcast episode 'The value of self-reflection and peer feedback'
• Debra's professional interests and publications
• On Ecological Constructivism: Hoven, D. & Palalas, A. (2011). (Re)Conceptualizing Design Approaches for Mobile Language Learning. Special Issue of CALICO Journal: CALL Research in Canada. 28(3).
• 2018 Canadian Association for Graduate Studies Taskforce on the Doctorate
• Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED)
• Other doctoral portfolio projects (not mentioned in the episode; added here for further exploration)
  • Dr Kathryn Coleman's 'An a/r/tist in Wonderland: Exploring identity, creativity and digital portfolios as a/r/tographer'
  • Presentation 'Doctoral ePortfolios: Can a dissertation be an ePortfolio?' by Mandi Mizuta, Sheila Mulooly, Melissa Shaquid Pirie, and Candyce Reynolds (Portland State University) in 2021
• Debra's Technology Demonstrators Community of Practice Event on portfolios in March 2024
• Sandra Styres's book 'Pathways for remembering and recognizing Indigenous thought in education'
• 'Joyce's Principle'
• Heiltsuk Nation
• Esquimalt Nation
• lək̓wəŋən Traditional Territory

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Shari Bowker, MEd, is Learning Designer (ePortfolios) at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. There she works in the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI) and supports educators university wide with implementing portfolios into their classes. In this interview Shari shares why feedback is a crucial component of portfolio practice. She gives examples of a couple of feedback frameworks and how she uses them.
Connect with Shari on LinkedIn
Resources

• Articles and presentations by Shari
  • Bowker, S., & La Burniy, N. (2021, June 24). ePortfolios at UQ - Champagne and papercuts. TELedvisor webinar - includes the diagrams Shari describes
  • Bowker, S., & Slade, C. (2021). Increased student participation in feedback using ePortfolios: Shifting to a new paradigm. 2021 Eportfolio Forum, 2–8.
  • Bowker, S., Slade, C., & Cave, D. (2023). An empirical study of enhanced feedback literacy through ePortfolios in a dietetics postgraduate program. 2023 Eportfolio Forum, 3–8.
  • Cabot, P. J., Bowker, S., & Slade, C. (2023). Leveraging eportfolios to support a learner-centred approach in the Master of Pharmaceutical Industry Practice Program. 2023 Eportfolio Forum, 9–14.
  • Dulfikar, A., Bowker, S., & Slade, C. (2023, October 12). Enhancing self-directed learning through connecting a workplace management system and an ePortfolio platform. 2023 Eportfolio Forum.
  • Elliot, J., Mitchell, K., & Bowker, S. (2022). Reflecting, refining, and resourcing: A framework for building and supporting ePortfolios in a post-COVID19 landscape. AAEEBL ePortfolio Review, 6(2), 27–35.
  • Wozniak, H., & Bowker, S. (2018). Building a scalable ePortfolio based assessment strategy to connect clinical learning experiences: Preliminary lessons. 2018 Eportfolio Forum, 57–64.
• Boud, D., & Molloy, E. (Eds.). (2012). Feedback in higher and professional education: Understanding it and doing it well. Routledge.
• Carless, D., & Boud, D. (2018). The development of student feedback literacy: Enabling uptake of feedback. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 43(8), 1315–1325.
• Winstone, N., & Carless, D. (2020). Designing effective feedback processes in higher education: A learning-focused approach. Routledge.
• Podcast:
  • Mark Glynn: Take a programmatic approach to assessment with portfolios
  • Kate Mitchell: Deliberate and programmatic design
• ePortfolios Australia
• AAEEBL

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Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward