report in form of a presentation on distance education in the Oceania region highlighting that 5 out of 8 NZ universities use Moodle and many HE institutions Mahara; cf. http://globalsnapshot.ning.com/
"For the past 18 months, Dalhousie Medical School has been examining ways to incorporate the use of ePortfolios in medical education. During the 2010 curriculum renewal, "Portfolio Learning" was one of the twenty committees that engaged in an environmental scan, literature review, and proposed four recommendations for the new curriculum."