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Mario A. Peraza, MSc, 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 talks about the newly created workshop in which he used AI with students to curate their online presence.

Connect with Mario on LinkedIn

Resources

• Mario's website Mario A. Peraza
• Mario's LinkedIn post 'Leveraging Generative AI for ePortfolio Building: A Personal Journey'
• The Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab
• ILPL on LinkedIn
• ILPL framework for the curation of your digital presence
• Episode 'Helen L. Chen: Reflect through conversation to tell your story'
• Episode 'Mike Joiner-Hill: Represent yourself through a portfolio'
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfolios
• AAEEBL webinar series on AI in portfolio practice, in partnership with ePortfolios Australia and Eportfolio Ireland

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

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.

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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

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.

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Resources

• DCU's Teaching Enhancement Unit
• Other episodes with DCU staff and a student
  • Lisa Donaldson: 'From 0 to 6,000 in six weeks'
  • Orna Farrell: 'Supporting learners and lecturers alike in their learning journey'
  • Mark Brady: 'Journal regularly for profound insight'
• DCU publications on portfolios:
  • 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
• Loop Reflect, DCU's ePortfolio site
• Eportfolio Ireland
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principles

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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 moment.

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Resources

• DCU Annual ePortfolio Student Showcase and Awards 2022 video
• Lisa Donaldson, the former ePortfolio champion at DCU, about how DCU started using portfolios via Mahara
• Orna Farrell, researcher at DCU, on how DCU supports faculty and students in their portfolio journey
• Loop Reflect help resources and student portfolio examples
• 'The learning portfolio in higher education: A game of snakes and ladders', publication by the Centre for Assessment Research, Policy and Practice in Education and the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University
• Information about 'DCU Futures'

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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

• Annemarie Galeucia on LinkedIn
• Boz Bowles on LinkedIn

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'

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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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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

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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.

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Resources

• TDM's Skills Bootcamps
• UK's Department of Education information on Skills Bootcamps
• Richard W. Hand , Glenys G. Bradbury , Derrin M. Kent, and Margaret A. Kent (2010). Mahara 1.2 E-Portfolios: Beginner's guide
• Richard Hand, Thomas W. Bell, and Derrin M. Kent (2012). Mahara ePortfolios: Beginner's guide
• David Kolb's reflective learning cycle
• Lev Vygotsky's zone of proximal development (ZPD)
• Jerome Bruner's scaffolding of learning
• Pedagogy, andragogy, and heutagogy
• SmartEvidence presentation and new feature video
• Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel (2014).
  Make it stick: The science of successful learning

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Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward

Senior Learning Designer Jamie Robinson, 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.

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Resources

• Jamie's presentation 'Developing a Mahara boot camp for educators' at Mahara Hui in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, in 2017
• Trailer for the boot camp

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Brian Williams, BTech, 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 LinkedIn

Resources

• Mahara
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principles
• GDPR
• What is a SOC?
• The CIA triad: Definition, components, and examples

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