Everything Mahara

inspired by work from a number of Scottish universities; first mentioned in https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=5633

As part of the July 2013 newsletter

reported results from University of Warwick

primarily scooped by Gideon Williams

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.

example of a Year 9 page

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.

This presentation was used to introduce GippsTAFE staff to Mahara ePortfolios

I'm a research assistant at the Department for Interactive Media and Educational Technology at the Danube University Krems and lead there are two part-time master's courses. The concept of the e-portfolio, I was at my first encounter in 2006 rather skeptical. By intensively studying it in research projects and in their own teaching, my position has changed now. This dissertation project was launched in January 2008 as part of the Doctoral College Lifelong Learning and completed in March 2012 with honors. More about me and my work focuses to learn in See my presentation!