learnonline ePortfolio – powered by Mahara

What is an ePortfolio? Each ePortfolio is student owned & student driven online space and is a unique expression of your academic, co-curricular, and career experience. Your ePortfolio might include: A personal profile and professional networking tool Selected evidence from coursework, with reflective commentary Artefacts from extra-curricular activities (community service, volunteer work, sports, organisations) Details of awards and honours you’ve received Projects, films, music or other creative endeavours Career objectives, education, resume, skills/training, academic/work samples, employment history, and contact information A place for personal data storage A collaborative workspace

Why use an ePortfolio?  Having a place to collect and store your coursework A place for group discussion and collaborative work  Being able to share examples of your work with advisors, faculty, mentors or potential employers.  Directly demonstrating the knowledge, skills and attributes gained within and beyond the classroom.  Developing valuable technology skills.  Using your creativity to represent yourself and your education and make connections between where you are and where you want to go professionally.  Create a valuable bridging tool for your next job or place of study  Can be used an instrumental tool for feedback from staff and for peers  Collecting evidence of professional competencies. Source -

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Mahara Pages A key structural element of the Mahara ePortfolio is pages. Essentially, pages are like the individual webpages that form an ePortfolio. Pages can contain a wide range of media files and web-applications. They can also be used to display any part of a users ePortfolio. Pages are copyable, meaning that a page can also be considered a template. A wide range of templates can therefore be easily distributed among students to scaffold their initial introduction to the ePortfolio environment or to support teaching and learning and any stage of a student’s program. In Mahara pages can be grouped together to form collections.

ePortfolio Groups Groups in the learnonline ePortfolio offer a range of powerful functionality that allow a groups of student or staff of any size to operate an autonomous zone or ‘walled garden’ within the ePortfolio. Groups have Forums through which you can communicate with tutors and friends. Group owners and members are able to start new Forums and post and reply to topics. Some of the other functionality is available in a tab structure within the group itself. There are 3 main membership settings: 1) Open group membership 2) Controlled group membership 3) Request group membership. You may create as many Groups as you wish.

Discussion? Other pedagogical functions? Assessment Programmatic implementation Using pages Staff/Student training Staff homepage