Yvonne Moore and James Pearce: Skills portfolios encourage continued reflection

Yvonne Moore, MA, is the Digital Education Developments Lead, and James Pearce, BA, is the Educational Software Development Manager in the Centre for Learning & Teaching at University of Bath. They support faculty at the university to implement educational technologies meaningfully and effectively - Yvonne from the pedagogical side and James from the technical side.

The university has been using Mahara for many years and focussed on skills portfolios and work-integrated learning portfolios in more recent years. Yvonne and James detail how skills portfolios support reflection, an important ingredient of lifelong learning, and how they make use of existing functionality in Mahara, like SmartEvidence, and also enhance it further, contributing their changes back to the community.

Resources

• Public resources on Mahara by the University of Bath
• Planning and decision making guide for the use of ePortfolios in academic teaching from the DiKuLe project
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics in ePortfolios Principle 'Support'
• SmartEvidence
  • Nuessler, S., & Kirby, M. (2014). SmartEvidence: Improving ePortfolio quality through intervention [Presentation]. Mahara Hui, Wellington, NZ
  • What is SmartEvidence?
  • Case study on how AP Hogeschool Antwerpen enhanced SmartEvidence

Related episodes

• DiKuLe: Planning and decision making guide for portfolios
• Shari Bowker: Establish good feedback practices in your portfolio

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Production information
Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
Artwork: Evonne Cheung
Music: The Mahara tune by Josh Woodward