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Professor Dr Paul Libbrecht (International University of Applied Science) and Professor Dr Wolfgang Müller (PH Weingarten) are members of the AISOP project, coordinated by PH Weingarten, University of Education Weingarten, in Germany. They research how to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) well into the portfolio process to support students and lecturers.

In this episode we talk about why they love portfolios, what role they want AI to play in the portfolio process, and what challenges they face.

Connect with

• Paul on LinkedIn
• Wolfgang on LinkedIn

Resources

• Paul's website
• Wolfgang's academic bio and research
• AISOP project website (in German) - AI-Supported Observations of E-Portfolios

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Paul Raper, MSc, is a former engineer turned linguist who studied Teaching English for Specific Purposes at Aston University in the UK with corpus linguistics as his primary subject. Paul now teaches English to engineers at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and uses the ePortfolio as his primary coaching tool.

In this episode, Paul shares his practice of using SWITCHportfolio, a Mahara-based site for Swiss institutions of higher education, for his own portfolios as well as with student groups, encouraging collaboration and feedback giving.

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Connect with Paul on LinkedIn

Resources

Special Interest Group ePortfolio at eduhub by SWITCH

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Dr Leticia Britos Cavagnaro is the co-Founder and co-Director of the University Innovation Fellows, a programme of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford University. Leticia uses emerging technologies to empower learners to be self-directed, action-oriented, and reflective shapers of the future.

In this episode, she shares her view on why reflection is important, how to scaffold its practice for learners, and how to incorporate it into every learning experience. She talks about her upcoming book 'Experiments in reflection', published by Penguin Random House, and her recently published Riff chatbot.

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Connect with Leticia

• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Resources

• Blog post introducing Riff: 'Reflecting with AI: A Tool to Develop Human Intelligence'
• Enchatted, company that did the technical work on Riff
• 'Teaching & Learning' programme at the d.school
• Bulk discounts of 'Experiments in Reflection'
• Full d.school series of books at a discounted price for the set

Reflective frameworks mentioned

• 'What? So what? Now what?' by Terry Borton
• 'I Used to Think... Now I Think...' by Harvard University's Project Zero

Scholars mentioned

• Ellen J. Langer: 'The Power of Mindful Learning' (1997)
• Guy Claxton: 'Learning to Learn – The Fourth Generation: Making Sense of Personalised Learning' (2006)
• Gavriel Salomon, David Perkins, and Tamar Globerson: 'Partners in Cognition: Extending Human Intelligence with Intelligent Technologies' (1991)
• Erica Estrada-Liou, MBA
• Meenu Singh, MS

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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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Dr Andrea Ghoneim is eDeveloper - Digital Teaching Services at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business). She has gained extensive experience using and researching portfolios through her participation in EU-funded projects, in particular EUfolio, Europortfolio, and ATS 2020 when she worked at Donau-Universität Krems (Danube University Krems). Recently, she co-edited a white  paper on assessment strategies, in which portfolios featured.

Andrea takes us back to these projects, their aims, their approach, and what the benefits of using portfolios were.

Connect with Andrea

• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Resources

• Andrea's research publications
• ATS 2020 project website and ATS 2020 resource website
• ATS 2020: Tools and technology for assessment of transversal skills (Andrea's work pacakge)
• BeInSpired: Video about ATS2020
• 'EUfolio: A classroom ePortfolio pilot project', book chapter by Ben Murray and Sinéad Tuohy
• White paper 'Digital Assessment in Higher Education: Perspectives of a European Community of Practice'

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Dr Bob Reuter is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education and Social Work at University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg where he has taught courses relating to educational psychology, educational technology, and educational research, in particular in the Bachelor en Sciences de l'Éducation / Bachelor of Science in Education (BScE) since 2004.

Bob is a technology enthusiast and explores how all technology, not just educational technology can benefit students in their learning. He uses a social constructivist approach to teaching and learning for which he thinks portfolios are very well suited.

In this episode, he talks about the two different types of portfolios the future school teachers of Letzebuerg encounter during their studies and how they help in the learning process.

Connect with Bob

• LinkedIn
• Mastodon

Resources

• 'A la rencontre de Lev Vygotsky', Volume I
• Bob's publications
• Research project AISOP: AI-Supported Observation of E-Portfolios
• Study about language production in children of 5 years of age

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Dr Helen Chen (Stanford University) is a long-time champion of ePortfolio practice and has been involved in many initiatives and organisations such as EPAC, AAEEBL, and the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab at Stanford University. She takes us through some of the early days of ePortfolios, why the portfolio practice is not just an ed tech fad and how the practice benefits students in many different situations to reflect on their practice and tell their story.

Connect with Helen

• LinkedIn
• Mastodon / FediVerse
• Twitter

Resources

• EPAC
• AAEEBL
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Task Force
• ePortfolios Australia
• Eportfolio Ireland
• Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab
• Documenting learning with ePortfolios: A guide for college instructors
• Sheetal J. Patel and Helen L. Chen: 'Addressing diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging in student showcase ePortfolios'
• Leticia Britos Cavagnaro: 'Reflecting with AI: A tool to develop human intelligence'
• Reflecting with AI demo
• International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP)
• AAEEBL ePortfolio Review (AePR)
• AAC&U PEARL: Publications on ePortfolio: Archives of the Research Landscape
• Helen's Batson Lecture 'From Ed Tech Fad to Field of Study (2019)
• Interview with Rita Zuba Prokopetz on her portfolio practice and building communities of learning through feedback giving and receiving
• Ashley Blackburn: 'Exploring the "e": What the "e" in "ePortfolio" really means'
• LaGuardia ePortfolio Initiative

Upcoming events

• AAEEBL Annual Meeting 2023
• AI webinar series session 1: 'Global perspectives on artificial intelligence and portfolios'

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Dr Martin Dougiamas is founder and CEO of Moodle, the open source learning management system, that is used by millions of learners around the world daily. Moodle has grown from Martin's university project to a 250-person company empowering educators to create and support learning activities.

In this episode, Martin shares his education philosophy, and why he is so passionate about open source. He also talks about the Open EdTech association that brings together educational open source companies and projects to offer an alternative to mega corporations and their lock-ins.

Not recorded are the three words he associates with portfolios: constructionism, collaboration, and curation.

Connect with Martin

• Mastodon
• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Resources

• Moodle
• Mahara assignment submission plugin for Moodle
• Open EdTech
• United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
• The Moodle Podcast

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Dr Cathy Elliott is Vice Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at University College London (UCL), UK. She's created a portfolio assignment for her students in political sciences that makes use of both formative and summative assessments, encouraging her students to be creative and bring in their own personalities. Feedback giving and receiving is an integral part of the portfolio work, and students students comment on each other's portfolios, learning through that process as well.

In this episode, Cathy shares her portfolio assignment format, what is working for her, and what she wants to try next time. She's created an incredible first portfolio assignment in Mahara with the support from learning designer Aurélie Soulier that engages students and helps them make the assessment their own.

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Connect with Cathy

• Bluesky
• UCL researcher profile

Resources

• Video showcasing Cathy's portfolio task and assessment criteria
• SRUC group portfolios
• Brief introduction to SmartEvidence

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Dr Rita Zuba Prokopetz is an educational consultant in Canada who has been teaching with portfolios for over a decade, most recently in a portfolio capstone course for a Master's in Education. Rita's research interests include reflection, feedback interaction, and community building during the development of capstone ePortfolio projects.

In this episode, Rita shares  why she's working with Mahara as portfolio technology, and how the portfolio pedagogy has influenced her learners and herself.

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Connect with Rita

• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Resources

• Selected theory-to-practice articles
  • Electronic Portfolios: Enhancing Language Learning, AePR 2018
  • Professional Self-Development Mediated by ePortfolio: Reflections of an ESL Practitioner, TESL Canada Journal 2018
  • Capstone Electronic Portfolios of Master’s Students: An Online Ethnography, 2019
  • Uniqueness of ePortfolios: Reflections of a Creator, Curator, and User, AePR 2019
  • Student Engagement and Reflective Learning Mediated by ePortfolios: Observations of an ESL Instructor, AePR 2020
  • Electronic Portfolio: Enhancing Blended Learning Experiences in a Community of Language Learners in Blended Language Learning: Evidence-Based Trends and Applications, 2021
  • Electronic Portfolio: Reflective Project in a Community of Language Learners, Irish JTEL 2021
  • Electronic portfolios: Research Site in Internet Spaces, IJeP 2021
  • A Reflection upon Capstone ePortfolio Projects and Their Alignment with Learning Theories, IJeP 2022
  • English as a Second Language, Eportfolio Ireland 2022
  • ePortfolio Pedagogy: Stimulating a Shift in Mindset, OTESSA Journal 2022
• Collaborative articles
  • 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
  • Zuba Prokopetz, R., Patel, N., & Tran, C.: Innovative pedagogy in a time for change: Student & instructor perspectives of an ePortfolio, AePR 2022
• Recording of 'Introduction to Mahara' by Kristina Hoeppner, 2022, with the 5 C's model

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