
Debra Hoven & Margaret Rauliuk: Disrupt the dissertation with an ePortfolio
04/02/24 • 34 min
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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Production information
Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward
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
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
Previous Episode

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.
Connect with Debra on LinkedIn
Resources
- Presentation 'What I know now that I wish I'd known then: A photo(video) voice collaborative autoethnographic study of student ePortfolio creation' at the 2023 Eportfolio Forum (shortened peer-reviewed paper)
- Hoven, D., Walsh, P., Al-Tawil, R., & Zuba Prokopetz, R.: Exploring professional development needs and strategies for instructors/faculty facilitating ePortfolios online, Irish JTEL 2021
- Debra's Technology Demonstrators Community of Practice Event on portfolios in March 2024
- Master in Education in Open, Digital, and Distance Education at Athabasca University
- Debra's professional interests and publications
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
Next Episode

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.
A cool thing about the programme? Students receive an actual medal upon graduation.
Connect with
Resources
- Distinguished Communicator Medal Program at LSU
- Article 'Using ePortfolios to Help Students Reframe, Reflect, and Integrate Their Learning' by Annemarie Galeucia, Boz Bowles, Jennifer Baumgartner, and Rebecca Burdette in the special ePortfolio issue of 'Across the Disciplines'
- Article 'High-Impact Practices and Third Spaces: Connecting across Disciplines' by Morgan Gresham, Megan Mize, and Sarah Zurhellen in 'Across the Disciplines'
Click through to the episode notes for resources and the transcript.
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
Create. Share. Engage. - Debra Hoven & Margaret Rauliuk: Disrupt the dissertation with an ePortfolio
Transcript
Welcome to 'Create. Share. Engage.' This is the podcast about portfolios for learning and more for educators, learning designers, and managers keen on integrating portfolios with their education and professional development practices. 'Create. Share. Engage.' is brought to you by the Mahara team at Catalyst IT. My name is Kristina Hoeppner. In the last episode, Dr Debra Hoven was my guest, and she shared the autoethnographic research proj
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