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Mahara Featured in Exploring ePortfolio Technologies Webinar
The journey continues with a look at the open source e-portfolio system, Mahara. This session concludes the widely popular, Exploring ePortfolio Technologies Webinar Series, hosted by AAEEBL, ePortfolio California, and EPAC, the Electronic Portfolio Action & Communication community of practice. This session will be recorded and archived. Read more about the resources developed through this project.
Ellen Marie Murphy
Mahara
Wednesday, December 7
10:00 AM PST | 1:00 PM EST
Representing Mahara are Kristina Hoeppner, an e-learning specialist and member of the Mahara development team, and Ellen Marie Murphy, Author and Director of Online Curriculum at the State University of New York at Empire State College.
Pre-register today. One lucky participant at Wednesday's session will receive a copy of Ellen Marie Murphy's recently publsihed book, Mahara Cookbook 1.4
Kristina Hoeppner is an e-learning specialist. Having started her career in a multi-year EU project at the University of Munich, Germany, as project manager, curriculum designer, and instructor for face-to-face and blended learning courses, she continued to work at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, and introduced Mahara in the Bachelor in Educational Sciences there. In June 2010 she moved to New Zealand to work for Catalyst IT, the largest independent open source technology specialist in Australasia, to work with Catalyst's Mahara development team. She can often be found online answering questions in the Mahara community forums and supporting users.
Ellen Marie Murphy is a curriculum and learning technologies specialist with over 16 years of experience in education. She is an avid proponent of open source software. Her first Moodle and Mahara implementations were during her tenure at The Sage Colleges, where she was employed as Director of Instructional Technologies. More recently she served as the Director of Learning Technologies and Online Education at Plymouth State University, and Higher Education Liaison to the New Hampshire Society for Technology in Education, where she was actively engaged with all levels of education from K to 20. Currently, she serves as the Director of Online Curriculum at the State University of New York at Empire State College.
About the Exploring ePortfolio Technology Series
Based on feedback from a community survey conducted in spring 2011, EPAC, ePortfolio California, and AAEEBL will host a series of interactive webinars with leading eportfolio developers to see how their solution addresses eportfolio pedagogy. Sessions will include a short overview demonstration of the tool or technology, followed by an interview-style Q&A period where the developer will demonstrate how their tool addresses specific areas of teaching and learning with eportfolios.
Archives of the webinar sessions, product and IT information, and vendor responses to the community survey will form the basis of a comprehensive, interactive online resource that will be shared back with the community, encouraging further discussion and development over time. In addition, a companion series of vendor interviews conducted by Trent Batson, Executive Director of AAEEBL, will appear in Campus Technology magazine in October.
See the Exploring ePortfolio Technologies Webinar Series Resources here.
All sessions are free and will run twice monthly through the fall and, depending on the response, continue through spring 2012. Facilitators include: Helen Chen. Stanford University; Gary Brown, University of Portland; Patricia Donohue, ePortfolio California; Trent Batson, AAEEBL; John Ittelson, PESC Academic ePortfolio Workgroup; and Judy Williamson Batson, AAEEBL. Vendors scheduled for the fall sessions include eFolioWorld, Desire2Learn, FolioTek, Mahara, LiveText and Epsilen. Stay informed. Join the ePortfolio California Listserv to receive more information and updates about the Exploring ePortfolio Technologies: Reviewing Platforms and Approaches for Teaching, Learning and Beyond webinar series.