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Prof Dr Margarete Imhof, Franziska Ohl, MSc, and Sebastian Laube, MSc work in the Institute for Psychology, and there specifically in the Department of Psychology in Education at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Germany. They are members of the feedback portfolio project, supporting lecturers and students in their department with the creation of portfolios.

Franziska, Margarete, and Sebastian are strong believers in portfolios and how they can empower students in becoming reflective practitioners, engage meaningfully in feedback processes, and ultimately be good teachers. In this episode, in particular, they talk about their feedback practices, the use of templates, and how collaboration amongst students and also with lecturers can be scaffolded.

Connect with

• Franziska via her university page
• Margarete via her university page
• Sebastian via his university page

Resources

• Sebastian's video series on Mahara
• Sebastian's current template
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principle in ePortfolios: Support
• Metaphors in portfolio practice: Coleman, K.S. (2017). An a/r/tist in wonderland: Exploring identity, creativity and digital portfolios as a/r/tographer, Ph.D. dissertation, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2017.
• Mahara roadmap
• AAC&U's High-Impact Practices
• Ohl, F., Laube, S., Imhof, M. &  Harring, M. (2022). Portfolioarbeit und Feedbackkultur gemeinsam entwickeln. In M. Krämer, J. Zumbach & I. Deibl (Eds.), Psychologiedidaktik und Evaluation XIV (pp. 337-343). Düren: Shaker. 
• Laube, S., Ohl, F., Harring, M., Imhof, M. (2023). Das digitale Feedback-Portfolio. In L. Mrohs, J. Franz, D. Herrmann, K. Lindner & T. Staake (Eds.), Digitale Kulturen der Lehre entwickeln. Perspektiven der Hochschuldidaktik (pp. 301- 307). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Related episodes

• Shari Bowker: Establish good feedback practices in your portfolio 
• The wunderkammer: Metaphors in portfolio practice

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

Chahira Nouira, MSc, is an instructional designer at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in Germany where she supports lecturers in their use of educational technology and how to incorporate them into their teaching and learning activities.

In this episode, Chahira talks about the support that the instructional design team offers to lecturers, in particular the initiative 'Get[IN]spired' that also fosters connections between lecturers. She then talks about which study programmes use portfolios, including theology, musicology, and forest sciences. Learn how the portfolio delivers benefits to students in them.

Special thanks from Chahira to Natalia Lischer, MA, and Dipl-Ing Christian Fliegner from the Digital Learning and Teaching team at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, whose efforts to support all the university's teaching staff with portfolio work have been remarkable and continue to be very crucial.

Connect with Chahira

• LinkedIn
• Mastodon

Resources

• Initiative 'Get[IN]spired'
• The eLearning service team at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Related episodes

• Jamie Fulcher: Portfolio boot camp for educators
• Mark Brady: Journal regularly for profound insight

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

Matthew E. Mueller, CRC, MA, MBA, is the Director of Accessibility and Disability Services at Dominican University of California where he's also finished his MBA in December 2024. He's also one of the integrative coaches of the Student Success Center.

In this episode, Matthew talks about how all of his roles at Dominican contribute to him being able to support students holistically, coach them, and provide services to them that help them navigate college successfully. He also shares a bit about his own portfolio journey.

This episode is the fifth and last interview with portfolio authors from Dominican University of California whom I was privileged to meet in preparation for the first AAEEBL ePortfolio Retreat that was held at Dominican on 18 October 2024.

Connect with Matthew on LinkedIn

Resources

• Matthew's portfolio and his Dominican web page
• The Dominican Experience, of which the portfolio work is part
• Digital portfolio support at Dominican
• Christina Mayes, MS, Manager of the Fletcher Jones Digital Portfolio Lab
• Naomi Elvolve, MA, Executive Director of the Student Success Center, Integrative Coach
• Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Related Dominican University of California episodes: 

• Solena Ornelas: Set goals and achieve them with a portfolio
• Starlight (José) Lain-Straus: The portfolio as impactful practice for students
• KatieAnn Nguyen: Showcase your achievements in a portfolio and be proud of them
• Arturo Flores, Jr.: The portfolio is a reflection of yourself

Related episodes

• Kate Mitchell: Deliberate and programmatic design
• Mark Glynn: Take a programmatic approach to assessment with portfolios
• Kevin Kelly & Kristina Hoeppner: Digital ethics principles and UDL guidelines

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

Arturo Flores, Jr., is a Psychology and History major at Dominican University of California in his final year. He holds a number of on-campus jobs, amongst them being a peer mentor.

Arturo started developing his public portfolio in his first year at Dominican and details some of that journey for us in this episode. He reflects on the benefits of the portfolio for him as a student already now and for the future.

This episode is the fourth of five interviews with portfolio authors from Dominican University of California whom I was privileged to meet in preparation for the first AAEEBL ePortfolio Retreat that was held at Dominican on 18 October 2024.

Connect with Arturo on LinkedIn

Resources

• Arturo's portfolio
• The Dominican Experience, of which the portfolio work is part
• Digital portfolio support at Dominican
• Christina Mayes, MS, Manager of the Fletcher Jones Digital Portfolio Lab
• Naomi Elvolve, MA, Executive Director of the Student Success Center
• Jennifer Labovich, BA, Integrative Coach
• Stacy L. Poe, MA, Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
• Rec Sports at Dominican

Related Dominican University of California episodes: 

• Solena Ornelas: Set goals and achieve them with a portfolio
• Starlight (José) Lain-Straus: The portfolio as impactful practice for students
• KatieAnn Nguyen: Showcase your achievements in a portfolio and be proud of them
• Matthew E. Mueller: Create and control your own narrative with a portfolio

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

KatieAnn Nguyen is a Chemistry student at Dominican University of California. She's also a peer mentor for digital portfolios at Dominican.

In this episode, KatieAnn shares what she does as a peer mentor and why she thinks portfolios are important for students to create.

This episode is the third of five interviews with portfolio authors from Dominican University of California whom I was privileged to meet in preparation for and during the first AAEEBL ePortfolio Retreat that was held at Dominican on 18 October 2024.

Connect with KatieAnn on LinkedIn

Resources

• KatieAnn's portfolio
• The Dominican Experience, of which the portfolio work is part
• Digital portfolio support at Dominican
• Christina Mayes, MS, Manager of the Fletcher Jones Digital Portfolio Lab

Related Dominican University of California episodes: 

• Solena Ornelas: Set goals and achieve them with a portfolio
• Starlight (José) Lain-Straus: The portfolio as impactful practice for students
• Arturo Flores, Jr.: The portfolio is a reflection of yourself
• Matthew E. Mueller: Create and control your own narrative with a portfolio

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

Starlight (José) Lain-Straus is an Education Studies bachelor student at Dominican University of California. He's also a peer mentor, supporting students when they join Dominican.

In this episode, Starlight shares how the portfolio has helped them to see all their accomplishments since joining Dominican and how it became impactful for their further education.

This episode is the second of five interviews with portfolio authors from Dominican University of California whom I was privileged to meet in preparation for and during the first AAEEBL ePortfolio Retreat that was held at Dominican on 18 October 2024.

Connect with Starlight

• Instagram
• Facebook
• Tiktok
• LinkedIn
• YouTube

Resources

• Starlight's portfolio
• The Dominican Experience, of which the portfolio work is part
• Digital portfolio support at Dominican
• Christina Mayes, MS, Manager of the Fletcher Jones Digital Portfolio Learning Lab
• Kathleen Ferrando, MA, Adjunct Professor in Education
• ASDU - Associated Students of Dominican University
• PRIDE Club
• PSAAC - Penguin Student-Athlete Advisory Committee

Related Dominican University of California episodes: 

• Solena Ornelas: Set goals and achieve them with a portfolio
• KatieAnn Nguyen: Showcase your achievements in a portfolio and be proud of them
• Arturo Flores, Jr.: The portfolio is a reflection of yourself
• Matthew E. Mueller: Create and control your own narrative with a portfolio

Related episode: Shari Bowker: Establish good feedback practices in your portfolio

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

Solena Ornelas, MA, started her college career at Dominican University of California, earning her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Music. She then continued on to New York University to pursue a Master of Arts in Art Politics, and is now a civil servant as congressional staffer.

In this interview Solena outlines how she started with her portfolio and developed it over time, and what the main uses are for her: goal setting and showcasing her accomplishments as a multi-talented performance artist, activist, academic, and civil servant.

This episode kicks of a mini-series with five portfolio authors from Dominican University of California whom I was privileged to meet in preparation for and during the first AAEEBL ePortfolio Retreat that was held at Dominican on 18 October 2024.

Connect with Solena on LinkedIn

Resources

• Solena's portfolio
• The Dominican Experience, of which the portfolio work is part
• Digital portfolio support at Dominican
• Integrative coaches at Dominican
• Christina Mayes, MS, Manager of the Fletcher Jones Digital Portfolio Lab
• Associate Professor Alison Howard, MA, Director of Core Curriculum
• Jonathan Lear (2008). Radical hope. Harvard University Press.
• On Nina Simone's activism

Related Dominican University of California episodes: 

• Starlight (José) Lain-Straus: The portfolio as impactful practice for students
• KatieAnn Nguyen: Showcase your achievements in a portfolio and be proud of them
• Arturo Flores, Jr.: The portfolio is a reflection of yourself
• Matthew E. Mueller: Create and control your own narrative with a portfolio

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

In this episode, podcast host and Mahara Project Lead Kristina Hoeppner, MA, from Catalyst IT shares some insights from her trip to the Northern hemisphere in October and November 2024 where she's met with portfolio enthusiasts and Mahara community members to talk about portfolios.

Connect with Kristina

• LinkedIn
• Mastodon

Resources

• AAEEBL retreat, October 2024
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force
• Mahara community site and demo of Mahara
• MoodleMoot Global 2024 recordings
• Kristina's presentation 'Mahara y Moodle: Una combinación perfecta para los estudiantes'
• How to add Mahara to Moodle
• Université de Lorraine project Pléiades, programme Trajectoires
• Université de Lorraine project template and competency template
• ESUP Portail
• Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg's project DiKuLe
• Planungs- und Entscheidungshilfe für den Einsatz von Portfolios vom Projekt DiKuLe
• Planning and decision-making guide for portfolios created by Project DiKuLe
• Portfolio starter kit from Projekt Dreiklang (in German) with lots of case studies and tutorials (enter using the guest login)
• Mahara UX review 2024: Wireframes

Related episodes

• Dr Leticia Britos Cavagnaro: Make learning visible
• Dr Helen L. Chen: Reflect through conversation to tell your story
• Mike Joiner-Hill: Represent yourself through a portfolio
• Dr Ruth Cox & Dr Kevin Kelly: Grow and nurture the portfolio through the framework of ePorticulture
• Dr Ricardo Elizalde: See the whole student and their learning journey

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

Professor Dr Olga Göransson works in Lund University's Department of Experimental Medical Science, specifically the Lund University Diabetes Centre in Sweden. She is the director of the 'Generic knowledge and skills (ePortfolio)' course, in which all 1,200 PhD students of the Medical Faculty are enrolled. They all create portfolios.

In this interview, Olga outlines the two purposes of the portfolio and how the PhD students benefit from both the learning and the assessment portfolios that they create.

Resources

• Olga's researcher profile
• Library guide of the course 'Generic knowledge and skills (ePortfolio)'
• Rolfe et al.'s model of reflection based on Borton's prompts

Related episode: Debra Hoven & Margaret Rauliuk: Disrupt the dissertation with an ePortfolio

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

Associate Professor Dr Fergus Green from University College London (UCL) talks in this episode about why he started working with portfolios in his political science classes, what he has learned, and how he can better support his students on their learning journey by having incorporated portfolios.

Connect with Fergus

• LinkedIn
• X (formerly Twitter)

Resources

• Fergus' website
• UCL's ChangeMakers projects

Related episodes

• Cathy Elliott: Creativity and feedback in assessment portfolios
• Cathy Elliott: Have fun, be flexible, and encourage feedback in your portfolio

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