Mark Glynn, now Head of Business Development for EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) at Catalyst IT Europe, used to be the Head of the Teaching Enhancement Unit at Dublin City University (DCU) for many years. In this episode, Mark shares his view on the benefits for implementing an institution-wide portfolio strategy and for rolling out a si…

Mark Brady is a student studying in the Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Disruptive Technologies programme at Dublin City University in Ireland. He's had a successful career as videographer, but during the pandemic decided to fulfil one of his dreams to study psychology. At Dublin City University, portfolios are used extensively. Mark discusse…

Dr Annemarie Galeucia and David 'Boz' Bowles, MFA, are members of the Communications Across the Curriculum (CxC) team at Louisiana State University in the U.S.A. The CxC team created the Distinguished Communicator Medal Program in 2005, supporting students before effective communicators. In this episode, Annemarie and Boz talk about the evolution o…

Dr Debra Hoven and Margaret Rauliuk, dissertation mentor and student team at Athabasca University in Canada, talk about the trials and tribulations but also the joy in creating a portfolio as alternative to the Doctor in Education monograph. They share how their work contributes to opening doors for other types of dissertations and what they have l…

Dr Debra Hoven is an educator at Athabasca University in Canada, teaching and researching primarily in the Master in Education in Open, Digital, and Distance Education and in the Doctorate in Education programme. She has a long history with portfolios and shares one aspect of her research and practice in this interview, the autoethnographic video p…

Derrin Kent is Founder and Managing Director of The Development Manager (TDM) in the UK. He has been incorporating portfolios into apprenticeships and Skills Bootcamps since the late 2000s, giving learners better opportunities to secure and then succeed in their jobs. In this episode, we talk specifically about the Skills Bootcamps and how the port…

Senior Learning Designer Jamie Fulcher, MEd (University of Newcastle) has been using portfolios since about 2008. She developed a highly effective boot camp for educators to get exposed to the practice and experience it themselves to better support their own students. In this episode, Jamie shares the blueprint for this boot camp and outlines why s…

Brian Williams, BTech, is Security Operations Supervisor at Catalyst IT shares why information security is an important consideration for people creating and working with portfolios. He explains the acronym CIA (confidentiality, integrity, availability) and highlights a few stories that illustrate why data privacy needs to be a fundamental consider…

Kristina Hoeppner (Catalyst IT), host of this podcast, delves into metaphors used to explain how to work with portfolios in this solo episode. This is the first short episode in a new series that will be published throughout the year in which she explores concepts and ideas around portfolio practice. Connect with Kristina Fediverse (Mastodon) Linke…

Dr Ruth Cox and Dr Kevin Kelly, pioneers of ePortfolios at San Francisco State University (SFSU) in the U.S.A. share their metaphor of 'ePorticulture' and how the gardening metaphor works well to convey the cycle of work that is involved when you create a portfolio. We go back to the roots of their portfolio initiative, what they have achieved, and…

In June 2023, the 'Think UDL' podcast episode 'Digital ethics in ePortfolios with Kristina Hoeppner and Kevin Kelly' went live. In it, Lillian Nave (Appalachian State University) interviewed Dr Kevin Kelly (San Francisco State University) and Kristina Hoeppner (Catalyst IT) on the AAEEBL Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfolios in relation to the U…

Dr Kathleen Blake Yancey (Emerita Professor at Florida State University) has contributed to ePortfolio research and practice for many years through her numerous publications, presentations, and workshops. In this interview she looks back at some of that practice, with a particular focus on portfolio heuristics and how they differ from templates. Co…

Dr Terrel (Terry) Rhodes is Distinguished Fellow at AAC&U and can look back at a long history of working with portfolios, establishing the VALUE rubrics, tying portfolios to assessment and employability, and supporting many institutions in their portfolio journey. In this interview, Terry touches on many of these areas, highlighting the importance …

Oberstudienrätin (Senior Teacher) Sieglinde Jakob-Kühn taught in the German school system for many years and discovered Mahara a few years after having started working with Moodle in an innovative way with her language students. In this interview, Sigi shares a few anecdotes from her active teaching time, showing how students took to the ePortfolio…

Mike Joiner-Hill, MSW, is Associate Director of Career Coaching and Education - Humanities & Sciences, in Stanford Career Education and works in the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab alongside Helen L. Chen. In his interview, Mike explains why a portfolio is a useful way to represent yourself when thinking about your career. He also looks far into…

Podcast host Kristina Hoeppner (Catalyst IT) looks back at a year of interviewing portfolio practitioners and researchers for 'Create. Share. Engage.' She shares common insights and recurring themes. If you'd like to share your story, get in touch. Connect with Kristina Fediverse LinkedIn Resources Quarterly Mahara community newsletter Monthly Cata…

Dr Ricardo Elizalde is a Digital Learning Partner at San Francisco Unified School District and has been working with portfolios for over two decades. He creates portfolios for himself and supports students and teachers create them in his school district. We talk about his personal portfolio experience, how he assists people in his learning communit…

Dr Sofia Colabella and Dr Alberto Pugnale work at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (ABP) of The University of Melbourne in Australia. They have been working with design portfolios for many years, and recently introduced an ePortfolio into their classes. This helped them discover how powerful the medium and practice can be, in part…

Professor Dr Paul Libbrecht (International University of Applied Science) and Professor Dr Wolfgang Müller (PH Weingarten) are members of the AISOP project, coordinated by PH Weingarten, University of Education Weingarten, in Germany. They research how to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) well into the portfolio process to support students and…

Paul Raper, MSc, is a former engineer turned linguist who studied Teaching English for Specific Purposes at Aston University in the UK with corpus linguistics as his primary subject. Paul now teaches English to engineers at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and uses the ePortfolio as his primary coaching tool. …

Dr Leticia Britos Cavagnaro is the co-Founder and co-Director of the University Innovation Fellows, a programme of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford University. Leticia uses emerging technologies to empower learners to be self-directed, action-oriented, and reflective shapers of the future. In this episode, she shares he…

Stephen Harlow is a Learning Designer at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato The University of Waikato, in Aotearoa New Zealand where he supports students and lecturers via Te Puna Ako - Centre for Tertiary Teaching and Learning (CeTTL). He's been introduced to digital storytelling in the early 2000s and has been using it since then for himself and in his t…

Dr Andrea Ghoneim is eDeveloper - Digital Teaching Services at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business). She has gained extensive experience using and researching portfolios through her participation in EU-funded projects, in particular EUfolio, Europortfolio, and ATS 2020 when she worked at Donau-Universität Krems …

Dr Bob Reuter is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education and Social Work at University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg where he has taught courses relating to educational psychology, educational technology, and educational research, in particular in the Bachelor en Sciences de l'Éducation / Bachelor of Science in Education (BScE) since 2004. Bob…

Dr Helen Chen (Stanford University) is a long-time champion of ePortfolio practice and has been involved in many initiatives and organisations such as EPAC, AAEEBL, and the Integrative Learning Portfolio Lab at Stanford University. She takes us through some of the early days of ePortfolios, why the portfolio practice is not just an ed tech fad and …

Renters rejoice! This episode of Dream, Create, Engage answers many questions that you may have about buying your first home. Including; are interest rates too high? Can I refinance when rates go down? and What to look for in your first home? Our knowledgeable guests Katie Neidermire & Sean Drumm go into detail answering these questions and more in…

Dr Martin Dougiamas is founder and CEO of Moodle, the open source learning management system, that is used by millions of learners around the world daily. Moodle has grown from Martin's university project to a 250-person company empowering educators to create and support learning activities. In this episode, Martin shares his education philosophy, …

Dr Cathy Elliott is Vice Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at University College London (UCL), UK. She's created a portfolio assignment for her students in political sciences that makes use of both formative and summative assessments, encouraging her students to be creative and bring in their own personalities. Feedb…

Dr Rita Zuba Prokopetz is an educational consultant in Canada who has been teaching with portfolios for over a decade, most recently in a portfolio capstone course for a Master's in Education. Rita's research interests include reflection, feedback interaction, and community building during the development of capstone ePortfolio projects. In this ep…

West coast meets east coast in this episode as we had Kara Fransted from KMH Financial Services call in from Washington D.C.! We also invited Jeremy Millar from Amarlo accounting to join us on this episode where we discussed; Kara and Jeremy's backgrounds, the current bank stresses, and what business owners can do to prepare for a looming recession…

Dr Bobbi Kamil was Associate Dean at State University of New York, Empire State College, when it was founded in 1971. Together with the founding team, she was instrumental in establishing the vision for the college to provide adult learners with the opportunity to earn a degree by having their prior learning taken into consideration and creating th…

Dr John Ittelson, Professor Emeritus at California State University, Monterey Bay, has been researching and working with portfolios for many decades. He has an illustrious academic career, working with educational technologies and using them with students to document their learning. In this episode, John shares stories from his long career and also…

Kate Mitchell, MEd, works at the University of Melbourne, Australia, as Learning Designer and co-founded TELedvisors, a community of practice for educational designers. In her role as Learning Designer, she is constantly exploring new ways of supporting learners and is iterating over her experiments. Most recently, she's been interested in delibera…

This month we asked ChatGPT to create a description for this month's episode. This is what we asked ChatGPT: "Create 10 sentences about a podcast recording with marketers and lawyers about AI's integration into our industries." This is what ChatGPT came up with: In the latest podcast episode, marketers and lawyers came together to discuss AI's inte…

Dr Christine Slade (University of Queensland) and Dr Kevin Kelly (San Francisco State University; Independent Consultant) explore the concepts of diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and decolonisation (DEIBD) in portfolio practice, having been members on the AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force since 2019. They share their reasons for joining the …

What does "1883", tanks, & distilling spirits have in common? This podcast... Listen in as Peter, Colin, Paul, & Jon go through their dream projects, good projects, & storytelling technology! In this episode each speaker goes in depth about creative projects that they'd love to do, examples of great projects they have worked on in the past, & some …

Dr Sarah Zurhellen (Appalachian State University), Dr Megan Mize (Old Dominion University), and Dr Amy Cicchino (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) talk digital ethics in portfolio practice. The main focus is on the AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principle 'Visibility of Labor', and how that impacts educators and students alike. This is th…

Edd Bolton, M.A., is Learning Technologist at Solent University in Southampton, UK. He's been working with portfolios for many years now, supporting students and academic in their practice. He's particularly interested in competency portfolios and how to integrate them into apprenticeship degrees to assist students progressing through university an…

Welcome to Dream, Create, Engage. This is our first episode! We got started, and we have a long way to go, and a lot to learn, but we hope you enjoy this episode about online real estate value. This episode features Colin Glenn from Chromatic Digital Cinema, Trey Markel from Centrex Software, Hannah Nelson from Somnu, & Pete Markel from Somnu. List…

Ingrid D'Souza, MA, holds degrees in Midwifery and Education, and is currently an Educational Designer in the Faculty of Medicine at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She has extensive experience with portfolios, both in her own midwifery practice and supporting students and faculty in higher education. In this interview, Ingrid shares her…

Maia Miller, BA Honours, is the Accessibility Services Manager at Catalyst IT, where she works with clients and our own teams to train them in web accessibility practices in all stages of the software development life cycle and content creation via various training programmes, peer reviews, and audits. In this episode we talk about the importance o…

Bas Bakker, MScBA, is an independent learning designer, working for different Dutch institutions of higher education. He has a long history of supporting and using Mahara for learning and assessment, but also has experiences with other portfolio platforms. In this episode, Bas shares his views on how his marketing background helps him as learning d…

Dr Mandia Mentis and Dr Wendy Holley-Boen work in the Institute of Education at Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand. They have been using portfolios in their teaching for more than 20 years, appreciating the affordances that the pedagogy and technology have in terms of personalising the learning for their students and giving students the chan…

Christine Dülfer (OStR'in; Dipl.-Hdl'in) is a Business Administration and English teacher at Berufliche Schulen des Landkreises Waldeck-Frankenberg in Korbach und Bad Arolsen, which are vocational schools in Germany, and a team leader at the Hessische Lehrkräfteakademie in the media department (Dezernat Medien II.3, SG II.3-3 Fortbildung), responsi…

Sam Taylor (PGCert, FHEA, CMALT) has been supporting portfolio practice as learning designer since 2008 at higher education institutions in the UK and since 2018 as eLearning consultant at Catalyst IT Europe. She's worked with a diverse range of students, lecturers, and staff giving her insight into many different portfolio practices. In this episo…

Teresa MacKinnon, MA, has been a language educator for many years, incorporating portfolios into language learning at University of Warwick, and is a scholar working in the field of open educational resources, open access, and open recognition, amongst many other interests of her that she continues to follow in retirement. In her interview Teresa t…

Dr Misty Kirby is an academic and practitioner with university and school experience, creating portfolios herself and with her students. Misty shares her thoughts on how portfolios can support eProfessionalism in both academics and students. She explains what was behind the idea of SmartEvidence for her and why it's an important feature in Mahara. …

Dr Orna Farrell is a researcher at Dublin City University whose portfolio history goes back to 2008. Since then she's taught courses using portfolios and conducted numerous studies involving portfolios. Her interests lie in supporting learners and lecturers alike, also using open education strategies. See the episode page for the transcript. Connec…

Until recently, Lisa Donaldson, MSc, worked at Dublin City University in Ireland in the Teaching Enhancement Unit. There she was responsible for Loop Reflect, DCU's ePortfolio platform based on Mahara. In our conversation, Lisa shares how everything started at DCU, and what some of the important steps were that the University took to grow its portf…

'Create. Share. Engage.' is a podcast about portfolios for learning and more for educators, learning designers, and managers keen on integrating portfolios with their education and professional development practices. This new podcast is all about sharing portfolio stories from around the world. The first episode will air on Wednesday, 28 September …