Create. Share. Engage.

About Create. Share. Engage.

Portfolios for learning and more brought to you by the Mahara team at Catalyst IT. Host Kristina Hoeppner talks with portfolio practitioners, researchers, learning designers, students, and others about their portfolio story.

Publisher

Mahara Project

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Sept 2022

Latest episode

3 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

111 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Nov 2026

   Mark Brown: Learner ownership is at the heart of the portfolio

   What did Prof Dr Mark Brown learn about portfolios in his 21+ years of experience at Massey University and at Dublin City University, working with Mahara? He highlights three lessons: Be clear about the purpose of the portfolio.Support from the institution's leadership.Embed portfolios into programme-wide assessment.Mark advocates for learners to retain the ownership of their portfolio. Most recently, Mark served as the Inaugural Professor of Digital Learning and Director of the National Inst...

2. 

   20 Oct 2026

   Kristina Hoeppner: A look back at 16 years on the Mahara team

   Penny Leach, MA, from Catalyst, interviews podcast host Kristina Hoeppner, MA, on her time on the Mahara project since mid 2010, her experience working on Mahara and supporting organisations around the world in their portfolio implementations. Resources European Language Passport and European Language PortfolioEvent 'Celebrating and sharing ePortfolio practice', for the 10th anniversary of Loop Reflect (Mahara) at Dublin City University; includes links to two new volumes of portfolio case stu...

3. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Christa Matlack & Rebecca Thomas: Scaffold deep reflection

   Christa Matlack, MSc, and Associate Teaching Prof Dr Rebecca Thomas from Bucknell University help students go deep into their reflection in their portfolio. They use the Taxonomy of Reflective Inquiry (TORI) to build their prompts for their students. Students can also use OpenAIR, the Open AI Resources, to use generative AI tools to help them with their reflection. The AI does not do the reflection for them though. It asks the questions, based on a specific TORI domain and selected category. ...

Who has been a guest on Create. Share. Engage.

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• Lindsay Richardson
• Kristina Hoeppner
• Cordula Schwiderski
• Hannah Brodel
• Martina Osterrieder

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YouTube views

243

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

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Podcast Authority Score: 67 / 100

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Quality

80

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

60

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