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Prof Dr Candyce Reynolds ( Boise State University ), Prof Dr Debbie Oesch-Minor ( Indiana University Indianapolis ), and Dr Helen L. Chen ( Stanford University ) were on the organising teams of the AAEEBL Annual Meeting and / or AAEEBL Symposium , held in June 2026. In this episode, we look back at these two events, what we are taking away from them, and share what some of the plans are for the As...

Developer Doris Tam, BE , and Senior Visual Designer Evonne Cheung, BDes , from Catalyst IT talk about the redesign of Mahara that went live at the end of April 2026. The redesign marks a milestone in the almost 20-year history of the Mahara project. It overhauled the look and feel of Mahara entirely, aligning it to modern principles of design-led and responsive web design. This makes it easier fo...

Host Kristina Hoeppner looks back at the advice that the learning designers, faculty, and students from the past year have for learners who create portfolios. Their advice can be put into five different categories: Authenticity and identity Embracing creativity and risk Purpose and audience Reflection and growth Ownership and pride Interviews in alphabetical order: Amy Cicchino and Brandi Gilbert...

Dr Rob Lowney , SCMALT, SFHEA, SFSEDA, is a Senior Learning Technologist in the Teaching and Enhancement Unit at Dublin City University in Ireland. He's been working with digital technologies for many years and supports students and staff at DCU in their work with them. Rob is also active in the Mahara and Moodle communities because DCU contributes knowledge and features that benefit everyone...

Take out your planner or open your digital calendar and get ready to enter the upcoming events that give you the opportunity to chat with other portfolio practitioners because you don't want to miss any of them. There's a mix of Mahara focused events and wider portfolio community events and a mix of free and paid-for events. Here they are in chronological order: May 2026 6, 7, and 12 May...

Pablo Avila, MA , is the Associate Director of The Center for Teaching and Learning at LaGuardia Community College (City University of New York). He's been creating portfolios and supporting students and faculty with their own and the strategic implementation of portfolios at LaGuardia since 2008. In this episode, Pablo talks about his own portfolio journey, how it influenced his work with po...

Associate Prof Dr Amy Cicchino , the Director of the Writing Center at the University of Central Florida , is back for another interview. This time it's all about student support and the student perspective. Two of her students, McKenna Slaughter, BA, and Nghi Chau , join her to talk about their experiences creating portfolios themselves in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric and as Gradua...

Associate Prof Dr Mpho-Entle Modise and Prof Dr Norm Vaughan are the editors of the book ' Digital resilience of ePortfolios during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons for the future ', which was published in 2025 and brought together 85 authors from around the world who shared their diverse portfolio stories. In this episode, Mpho-Entle and Norm share highlights from this publishi...

Dr Vickel Narayan is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Learning in the Institute of Education at Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand. He's been working with portfolios for nearly two decades at various institutions of higher and tertiary education in Aotearoa and Australia. Vickel shares his thoughts around the use of artificial intelligence, in particular large language models, in education...

Dr Megan Mize is the Director for ePortfolios and Digital Initiatives in the Academic Success Center (ASC) at Old Dominion University (ODU). She's been supporting portfolios at ODU since 2012 and is currently involved in a couple of strategic initiatives at her university that incorporate portfolios to support students. Resources Monarch Humanities Internship Academy ODU General Education Ref...

Yvonne Moore, MA , is the Digital Education Developments Lead, and James Pearce, BA , is the Educational Software Development Manager in the Centre for Learning & Teaching at University of Bath . They support faculty at the university to implement educational technologies meaningfully and effectively - Yvonne from the pedagogical side and James from the technical side. The university has been...

Prof Dr Debbie Oesch-Minor and her student Salsabil Qaddoura from Indiana University Indianapolis talk about portfolios at IU Indianapolis, in particular in Debbie's composition course that Salsabil took where she created a portfolio that showed her the power of this practice. Debbie shares her reasons for working with portfolios and supporting other faculty and students in the portfolio proc...

Associate Professor Dr Jaye Ryan, SFHEA , headed the nursing ePortfolio programme at Birmingham City University (BCU) in the UK between 2010 and 2019. She supported students and staff in creating ePortfolios and introduced Student Academic Mentors ePortfolios (StAMPs) to help students as peers. In this episode, Jaye talks about the ePortfolio practice in her nursing programme, the challenges she f...

Soropepeli Ramacake , MSW Applied, PGDip in Supervision, Dip in Counselling, BTheology works at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Fiji as Assistant Lecturer. He is also a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney. Soro uses Mahara as portfolio platform with his social work students who are on placement in various South Pacific countries, supporting them mainly from the distance. Resourc...

Associate Prof Dr Amy Cicchino , the Director of the Writing Center at the University of Central Florida and Brandi Gilbert , MPH, the Director of the Life-Health Sciences Internship Program at Indiana University Indianapolis talk about high-impact practices and how portfolios fit in. Resources Assessment Institute HIPs in the States AAC&U list of high-impact practices AAEEBL Digital Ethics Ta...

In this episode, podcast host, Kristina Hoeppner , MA, from Catalyst IT , picks out a few memorable situations from her recent trip to Europe in September and early October 2025. Resources MoodleMoot DACH MoodleMoot Global 2025 Kawaiicon Mahara UX review 2024 Mahara refresh mock-ups CPD enhancements Mahara subscription 'Mahara Ask Me Anything' sessions AMA on 25 November 2025 AMA on 16/1...

OStR'in Antje Koenen, MA, is a senior teacher for English and German at Max-Beckmann-Schule in Frankfurt a. M. in Germany. She also works for the Hessische Lehrkräfteakademie , facilitating workshops for other teachers in the use of Mahara and digital media in general, amongst other things. In this episode, Antje shares why portfolios are a central part of her teaching and learning strategy....

Dr Tessa Forshaw , Founding Scholar of the Next Level Lab at Harvard University and Rich Braden (BSEE and BSCE), Chief Innovation Evangelist at People Rocket are the authors of the book Innovation-ish: How anyone can create breakthrough solutions to real problems in the real world . In this episode, they share what innovation and creativity mean to them, how everyone can be creative and innovative...

Jack Rice , MBA, is the Director of Digital and Extended Learning at Acadia University and the Executive Director of the Maple League of Universities in Canada. In this episode, he shares stories from his various positions where he encountered portfolios and how he's changed his view on the tool and pedagogy to embrace portfolios fully and seeing them as being very important in the future of...

Christina Mayes, MSc , is the Assistant Director of Digital Support Services, including the Fletcher Jones Digital Portfolio Lab within the Center for the Dominican Experience at Dominican University of California , U.S.A. In this episode, Christina shares how the peer mentors at Dominican support students with questions for their portfolio, career readiness, and navigating college life in general...

Assistant Research Professor in Principled Innovation Dr Bea Rodriguez-Fransen works at the  Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University (ASU), focusing on its Principled Innovation Infrastructure for Discovery and Engagement initiative. In early 2025, Bea published the book Education and decolonial futures in the Philippines: Perspectives for educators and practitioner...

Marie 'Bernie' Fisher , SFHEA, AFHERDSA, BA/BSc, Grad Dipl Ed, MA, MA (Hons), is a PhD candidate at the University of New England in Australia. She's been creating portfolios and supporting students create their own for many years in and outside of academia. As a member of the ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee, she's been involved in community engagement and support. I...

Dr Suzanne Schibeci is the Work-Integrated Learning Partner at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, supporting students, faculty, and employers with the administration and running of work-integrated learning (WIL) experiences. In this episode, Sue shares how she's using portfolios to help her students reflect on their WIL experiences that take them outside of the university. She talks a...

Prof. Dr. paed. Dipl.-Math. Mike Altieri is a professor of Media Didactics in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Media, and Computer Science at Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden (OTH Amberg-Weiden) in Bavaria in Germany. He teaches in the Master's programme in Educational Technology and leads the research project Dreiklang . Projekt Dreiklang is funded by Stiftung Innovati...

Prof Dr David Hicks is a Professor of History and Social Science Education at Virginia Tech in the U.S.A. He's been teaching with portfolios for over 20 years supporting teacher candidates on their journey to become professionals. In this episode he talks about how he and his team integrate portfolios into a capstone course in the teacher training programme at Virginia Tech (VT), what scaffol...