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"Hands-On Labs Session In this Hands-on manual, you will learn to setup your own Mahara ePortfolio server and integrate it with Moodle LMS. We assume that you know how to install and configure Linux CentOS-5 server, and also how to install and configure Moodle LMS on Linux. In this lab session, you learn how to install and configure Mahara on Linux CentOS-5. Next, I will show how to integrate it with Moodle LMS using SSO via XMLRPC authentication scheme. The entire hands-on lab was done using VMware; however, you can also use any other virtual machines like MS VirtualPC, Linux Xen, Citrix XenServer, or VirtualBox from Oracle."

via http://twitter.com/#!/DrPlumEU/statuses/96268084347801600 "This paper presents an exploratory study of the potential for offering students elements to construct their own personal learning environments, through a combination of an e-portfolio and integrated learning platform. The intention was to integrate an institutional virtual learning environment; an e-portfolio for assembling work, where the students can include ideas and reflections and create their own work; and social networks as powerful communication tools, particularly of an informal nature. The study aims to find out whether students think that an e-portfolio can improve project assignments when used in collaborative group work; whether this independent way of learning enriches collaborative work and reciprocity among the members of each group so that a knowledge-building process is generated in the case study in question; and whether using e-portfolios contributes more effectively to the achievement of the course's proposed learning outcomes."

I'd Love to read it BUT twitter is blocked at my education institution!

Mahara is a plat form that allows users to build an electronic or digital portfolio usually accessed via the internet. Users can upload files, including documents and images, to their portfolio and use these along with text that they input to provide evidence of their qualifications and skills. Mahara is integrated with Moodle.

via http://twitter.com/nelliemuller/statuses/22639550562

article from 2011

held on 25 June 2010 in Melbourne, Australia

PLANE (www.plane.edu.au) has implemented an integrated Mahara/Moodle platform for educators to collate digital materials that evidence professional learning over time. Collecting evidence of teacher professional learning has become more important in recent times due to employment conditions. Enrolling in a course on PLANE will automatically create a mahara page to evidence learning. Submitting the page to a group for review allows the learning evidence to be assessed and if compliant, a moodle certificate is granted and automoatically added to the teachers portfolio page for that Moodle course. Teachers can use their portfolio to create online pages, as well as setting and monitoring professional learning goals, reflecting on learning and controlling which items to keep private and which items to share with colleagues.