ePortfolio - Supporting your students

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LearnHQ: Monash ePortfolio

This LearnHQ page provides student facing resources that you can share with your students to familiarise them with Mahara before they begin the activity.

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How to support your students

  • Be specific about the purpose of the ePortfolio and allow for discussion so that students can understand the reasoning.
  • Develop clear guidelines and instructions. Let students know what they need to do and what the deadlines are.
  • Embed peer feedback. This gives students the opportunities to give and receive peer feedback which will improve learning outcomes.
  • Educate students that feedback quality varies, train them how to rate peers with constructive feedback and how to critically evaluate and incorporate feedback received.
  • Follow-up with opportunities for students to reflect on their portfolio.

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Mahara podcasts

Host Kristina Hoeppner talks with portfolio practitioners, researchers, learning designers, students, and others about their portfolio story.

Eportfolio Based Assessment - Inspiring Exploration and Supporting Evaluation for Practitioners (eBook)

A collection of case studies of ePortfolios within a diverse range of disciplines from educators in Ireland and the UK. Funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning. Edited by Lisa Donaldson, Dublin City University.

Field guide to ePortfolios

Assembled by the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence- Based Learning (AAEEBL), the 'Field Guide to ePortfolios', provides an authoritative guide for how to understand ePortfolio in the context of higher education.

Exemplars of DCU Best Practice with ePortfolio based assessment

Case studies from Dublin City University that demonstrate the different ways ePortfolios can be adopted for summative and formative learning in a range of disciplines. Edited by Lisa Donaldson.

Digital Ethics Principles in ePortfolios

Developed by the Digital Ethics Task Force, this resource is designed to support a variety of stakeholders, including students, faculty, staff, and platform developers in implementing ePortfolios with digital ethics at the centre of their design.

Learning Portfolios in Higher Education (2018)

Created by Darina Scully, Michael O'Leary and Mark Brown, this report synthesizes and critically reviews the literature pertaining to its use in universities and higher education institutions.