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 learned along the way besides why Margaret wanted to create a portfolio in the first place.

Connect

• Debra on LinkedIn
• Margaret on Hylo and on X (formerly Twitter)

Resources

• Margaret's research seminar portfolio
• Selected publications of Margaret
• Debra's podcast episode 'The value of self-reflection and peer feedback'
• Debra's professional interests and publications
• On Ecological Constructivism: Hoven, D. & Palalas, A. (2011). (Re)Conceptualizing Design Approaches for Mobile Language Learning. Special Issue of CALICO Journal: CALL Research in Canada. 28(3).
• 2018 Canadian Association for Graduate Studies Taskforce on the Doctorate
• Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED)
• Other doctoral portfolio projects (not mentioned in the episode; added here for further exploration)
  • Dr Kathryn Coleman's 'An a/r/tist in Wonderland: Exploring identity, creativity and digital portfolios as a/r/tographer'
  • Presentation 'Doctoral ePortfolios: Can a dissertation be an ePortfolio?' by Mandi Mizuta, Sheila Mulooly, Melissa Shaquid Pirie, and Candyce Reynolds (Portland State University) in 2021
• Debra's Technology Demonstrators Community of Practice Event on portfolios in March 2024
• Sandra Styres's book 'Pathways for remembering and recognizing Indigenous thought in education'
• 'Joyce's Principle'
• Heiltsuk Nation
• Esquimalt Nation
• lək̓ʷəŋən Traditional Territory

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

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 project that some of her MEd students engaged in to reflect on their own learning in the programme and help students coming after them get a head start.

Connect with Debra on LinkedIn

Resources

• Presentation 'What I know now that I wish I'd known then: A photo(video) voice collaborative autoethnographic study of student ePortfolio creation' at the 2023 Eportfolio Forum (shortened peer-reviewed paper)
• Hoven, D., Walsh, P., Al-Tawil, R., & Zuba Prokopetz, R.:  Exploring professional development needs and strategies for instructors/faculty facilitating ePortfolios online, Irish JTEL 2021
• Debra's Technology Demonstrators Community of Practice Event on portfolios in March 2024
• Master in Education in Open, Digital, and Distance Education at Athabasca University
• Debra's professional interests and publications

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

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 episode, Rita shares  why she's working with Mahara as portfolio technology, and how the portfolio pedagogy has influenced her learners and herself.

Click through to the episode notes for the transcript. Transcription support provided by kris wehipeihana.

Connect with Rita

• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Resources

• Selected theory-to-practice articles
  • Electronic Portfolios: Enhancing Language Learning, AePR 2018
  • Professional Self-Development Mediated by ePortfolio: Reflections of an ESL Practitioner, TESL Canada Journal 2018
  • Capstone Electronic Portfolios of Master’s Students: An Online Ethnography, 2019
  • Uniqueness of ePortfolios: Reflections of a Creator, Curator, and User, AePR 2019
  • Student Engagement and Reflective Learning Mediated by ePortfolios: Observations of an ESL Instructor, AePR 2020
  • Electronic Portfolio: Enhancing Blended Learning Experiences in a Community of Language Learners in Blended Language Learning: Evidence-Based Trends and Applications, 2021
  • Electronic Portfolio: Reflective Project in a Community of Language Learners, Irish JTEL 2021
  • Electronic portfolios: Research Site in Internet Spaces, IJeP 2021
  • A Reflection upon Capstone ePortfolio Projects and Their Alignment with Learning Theories, IJeP 2022
  • English as a Second Language, Eportfolio Ireland 2022
  • ePortfolio Pedagogy: Stimulating a Shift in Mindset, OTESSA Journal 2022
• Collaborative articles
  • Hoven, D., Walsh, P., Al-Tawil, R., & Zuba Prokopetz, R.:  Exploring professional development needs and strategies for instructors/faculty facilitating eportfolios online, Irish JTEL 2021
  • Zuba Prokopetz, R., Patel, N., & Tran, C.: Innovative pedagogy in a time for change: Student & instructor perspectives of an ePortfolio, AePR 2022
• Recording of 'Introduction to Mahara' by Kristina Hoeppner, 2022, with the 5 C's model

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