Misty Kirby: Supporting eProfessionalism through portfolios

10/25/22 • 28 min

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.
Click through to the episode page for the transcript.
Connect with Misty

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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Production information
Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

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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Orna Farrell: Supporting learners and lecturers alike in their portfolio journey

Dr Orna Farrell is a researcher at Dublin City University whose portfolio history goes back to 2008. Since then she's taught courses using portfolios and conducted numerous studies involving portfolios. Her interests lie in supporting learners and lecturers alike, also using open education strategies.
See the episode page for the transcript.
Connect with Orna

Resources

Portfolios at DCU

PhD thesis and selected articles

PhD thesis 'Developing critical thinking through eportfolio based learning: an exploration of the experiences of non-traditional online distance learners'
Farrell, O. (2018). Failure to Launch: The unfulfilled promise of eportfolios in Irish Higher Education
Farrell, O., & Seery, A., (2019). “I am not simply learning and regurgitating information, I am also learning about myself”: Learning portfolio practice and online distance students
Farrell, O., (2020). From Portafoglio to Eportfolio: The Evolution of Portfolio in Higher Education
Farrell, O., Buckley, K., Donaldson, L., & Farrelly, T. (2021). Eportfolio in Ireland: A landscape snapshot of current practice

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Teresa MacKinnon: Professional portfolios, values, and transferable skills

Teresa MacKinnon, MA, has been a language educator for many years, incorporating portfolios into language learning at University of Warwick, and is a scholar working in the field of open educational resources, open access, and open recognition, amongst many other interests of her that she continues to follow in retirement.
In her interview Teresa talks about her work with portfolios, her own professional portfolio journey, and how staying true to her values of openness has brought her to using and valuing Mahara.
Click through to the episode page for the transcript.
Connect with Teresa

Resources

Teresa's blog 'next steps'
Teresa's research activities
Virtual Exchange: connecting university cohorts for language education
UNICollaboration
First CMALT portfolio
CMALT review portfolio
Future Teacher 3.0 UK, the European funding has finished but the UK group continues to run regular webinars and publish openly as Xerte objects
Association of Learning Technologists (ALT)
ALT Open Education Special Interest Group
Article 'A meta-analysis of open educational communities of practice and sustainability in higher educational policy' by Teresa MacKinnon, Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou, Howard Manns, and Scott Grant (2016)
AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force

Audio editing support: Sofia Kokoreva

Create. Share. Engage. - Misty Kirby: Supporting eProfessionalism through portfolios

Transcript

Kristina Hoeppner 00:05

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 into 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, and I look forward to speaking with Dr. Misty Kirby today.

Misty earned her PhD at the College of Wil