PARE your goals this Wednesday (+ Call for Proposals & other great eportfolio news)

The Plan, Act, Reflect and Eportfolio (PARE) sessions are an invaluable opportunity for you to establish/maintain your eportfolio practices to achieve your career, professional and/or personal goals, as well as, expanding your eportfolio networks.



Join us this Wednesday 1 May 2024 – 1.00-2.30 pm (SYD time) – online to PARE your goals in a supportive environment.

To register or for more information about PARE sessions: https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/

Or enquiry about ePortfolios Australia hosting a PARE for your organisation:

  • eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com
  • 0400 732 270


Call for Proposals due by 27 May: 2024 Eportfolio Forum (Dual delivery) 

The 2024 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery)Call for Proposals are now open.

The 2024 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery) will be held at the University of Southern Queensland‘s Toowoomba campus on Jagera, Giabal and Jarowair land and Online on 10-11 September 2024.

This year’s Forum’s theme is: Humanistic, Holistic, Realistic

2024 Eportfolio Forum is again dual delivery, so you can present/facilitate either live in Toowoomba/Jagera, Giabal and Jarowair land, online via webinar or via a recording.

There are a range of presentation/facilitation options – Shortened Peer Reviewed Papers, 20×20 sessions, Digital Posters, Facilitated Conversations, In-depth & Intensive Workshops (also in dual delivery mode).

Submissions close on 27 May – https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/forums/2024-eportfolio-forum-home-page/2024-eportfolio-forum-call-for-proposals/ 

The Organising Committee want this year’s Forum to again be highly interactive, with all sessions involving some type of audience participation – so please consider presenting at this year’s Forum.  

If you are interested in facilitating a session or if you would like more information, please contact:

AI for portfolio feedback and assessment webinar

AAEEBL’s Digital Ethics Task Force will be hosting another AI and portfolio webinar on Monday, 27 May 2024 at 9 am German time as part of the AI Supported Observation of E-Portfolios (AISOP) project in Germany, funded by the BMBF as part of the initiative ‘Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education’.

This session provides you with the chance to learn about this project and explore what the project participants have already discovered, and where their technology is at as well as what role digital ethics, in particular data privacy, plays for them.

The presenters:

  • Prof Dr Sandra Rebholz (Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule)
  • Prof Dr Paul Libbrecht (IU International University of Applied Sciences)
  • Alexander Gantikow, MA (University of Education Weingarten)
  • Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Andreas Isking (University of Education Weingarten)

Register at: https://events.humanitix.com/ai-for-portfolio-feedback-and-assessment

Via AAEEBL News


Other eportfolio-related activities to join

Check out the following eportfolio-related activities to join:

  • PebbleBash 24: Refresh, Reshape, Redesign – First international gathering of PebblePad explorers and trailblazers in six years in Edinburgh, Scotland on 11-13 June 2024 – See the full conference programme for PebbleBash 24
  • AAEEBL Annual Meeting: The Role of Reflection in ePortfolio Learning: Documenting Community Best Practices – 14 -16 August 2024 hosted by College Unbound –  Providence, Rhode Island.  The Call for Proposals will be posted shortly so watch out for the announcement on their LinkedIn page and website
  • ePIC 2024 6-8 November 2024 in Paris – Call for proposals – ePIC 2024 welcomes participants and speakers from all continents and backgrounds to explore all dimensions of the emerging recognition culture that gave birth to Open Badges, the Open Credentials – https://epic.openrecognition.org/call-for-contributions/

Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:


Listen to Debra Hoven & Margaret Rauliuk share their experience about disrupting the dissertation with an ePortfolio via the Create. Share. Engage. Podcast – https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/create-share-engage/id1644874810?i=1000651177823


See Cornell University student eportfolios via their ‘Making learning visible’ page:  https://cornell.digication.com/app/


Learn about the “Insights into the Internship Experience: What We’ve Learned from Our LeADERS” at Old Dominican University where students are using ePortfolios – https://www.odu.edu/facultydevelopment/article/insights-the-internship-experience-what-weve-learned-our-leaders




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Call for Proposals: 2024 Eportfolio Forum (Dual delivery) (+ other eportfolio-related news)

The ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee are pleased to announce that the 2024 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery) Call for Proposals is now open.

The 2024 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery) will be held at the University of Southern Queensland‘s Toowoomba campus on Jagera, Giabal and Jarowair land and Online on 10-11 September 2024.

This year’s Forum’s theme is: Humanistic, Holistic, Realistic

2024 Eportfolio Forum is again dual delivery, so you can present/facilitate either live in Toowoomba/Jagera, Giabal and Jarowair land, online via webinar or via a recording.

There are a range of presentation/facilitation options – Shortened Peer Reviewed Papers, 20×20 sessions, Digital Posters, Facilitated Conversations, In-depth & Intensive Workshops (also in dual delivery mode).

Submissions close on 27 May – https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/forums/2024-eportfolio-forum-home-page/2024-eportfolio-forum-call-for-proposals/ 

The Organising Committee want this year’s Forum to again be highly interactive, with all sessions involving some type of audience participation – so please consider presenting at this year’s Forum.  

If you are interested in facilitating a session or if you would like more information, please contact:

Plan, Act, Reflect and Eportfolio (PARE) – 1 May 2024 – Register now!

The Plan, Act, Reflect and Eportfolio (PARE) sessions are an invaluable opportunity for you to establish/maintain your eportfolio practices to achieve your career, professional and/or personal goals, as well as, expanding your eportfolio networks.

The next PARE is on 1 May 2024 – 1.00-2.30 pm (SYD time) – online.

To register or for more information about PARE sessionshttps://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/

Or enquiry about ePortfolios Australia hosting a PARE for your organisation:

  • eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com
  • 0400 732 270

High-Impact Practices and Third Spaces: Connecting across Disciplines 

From Amy Cicchino‘s LinkedIn post

The closing article in the ePortfolios Across the Disciplines special issue is “High-Impact Practices and Third Spaces: Connecting across Disciplines” by Morgan Gresham, Megan Mize, and Sarah Zurhellen from AAEEBL – Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning‘s Digital Ethics Task Force.

The authors argue that third space professionals—positions that blur academic and nonacademic employment categories― are often important laborers in efforts to promote high-impact practices, including ePortfolios, yet their positions often do not encourage them to engage in scholarship, leaving their voices underrepresented in the literature.

Specifically, the article discusses how a coalition made up by many third space professionals came together to develop AAEEBL’s Digital Ethics in ePortfolios principles. The authors paired that work with research to map the presence and labor tasks of third space professionals.

As a third space professional myself, I am grateful that this article takes a strength-based approach to describing the work these folks do as they connect multi-disciplinary constituents in achieving shared goals for student and faculty success.

Read this great article at
https://lnkd.in/e2zzjGzc

Read the full special issue at 
https://lnkd.in/eCsMXk8P 


Keep up to date with the latest Mahara news

This newsletter from Catalyst IT on Mahara and all things portfolios is curated by Kristina Hoeppner, project lead of the open source platform Mahara, to share news and resources from the portfolio community and our team at Catalyst IT with you.

See February 2024’s edition here: https://mailchi.mp/catalyst/mahara-and-other-portfolio-news-from-catalyst-it-july-17371700

Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:


PebbleBash 2024 will held in Edinburgh, Scotland 11-13 June 2024 – There’s still time to register: https://pebblepad.com/pebblebash-2024/


Reflecting on one’s values increases success in job search, says study – Good article for supporting Eportfolio practice and employability
https://phys-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/phys.org/news/2023-10-values-success-job.amp
Via Kate Mitchell


New research: E-portfolio as an effective tool for improvement of practitioner nurses’ clinical competence
https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-024-05092-z 



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Last chance to register: Supporting reflection through an AI powered reflection bot webinar – 8 December – 11 am Sydney time (+ other eportfolio information)

What if you could ask all of your learners targeted reflection questions based on their previous input?

This is exactly what Riff, the reflection chatbot by Leticia Britos Cavagnaro from the d.school at Stanford University does. In this webinar, Leticia will show us and demonstrate with us how Riff works and how it differs from other reflection question prompts that you may have used in your portfolio practice. 

Come along to this session on 8 December at 11.00 am SYD time if you are interested in the intersection between portfolios and artificial intelligence.

You can win one of four copies of Leticia’s latest book, Experiments in reflection, due at the end of November 2023, sponsored by AAEEBL and ePortfolios Australia


2023 Eportfolio Forum Proceedings: Work in progress

The 2023 Eportfolio Forum was held on 11-12 October 2023 at Charles Darwin University – Darwin / Larrakia Land and online.

ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee are currently collating all of this year’s Forum’s proceedings via the Forum’s Online Program – to date, you can access:

  • Presentation Slides of those presenters who have given us permission to share their slides
  • eBook of Shortened Peer Reviewed papers 

The recordings of the Forum sessions will be available shortly.


Can your organisation host the 2024 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery)?

ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee (Committee) are currently seeking Expressions of Interests from organisations interested in hosting the 2024 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery)

Hosting the Eportfolio Forum is ideal for any organisation looking to expand or enhance their use of eportfolios to support education, reflection, work integrated learning and/or professional practice.

Hosting involves:

  • providing in-kind use of a venue and equipment to host the Forum (ie Plenary area + up to 3 breakout areas + servicing of catering space)
  • use of online technology and support to allow online participation (Dual Delivery), and recording of sessions
  • at least one member of your organisation being on the ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee to help with planning and decision-making about the Forum

Determining the dates of the 2024 Eportfolio Forum would happen in negotiation with the Committee.

The Committee is responsible for managing the funding, registrations, presenters, promotions and marketing, and has Public Liability/Professional Indemnity Insurance.

Contact ePortfolios Australia to express your organisation’s interest OR if you have a specific question about the Forum:

  • eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com
  • 0400 732 270

Plan, Act, Reflect and Eportfolio (PARE) – 2024 Dates/Times TBC – Can you facilitate a session?

The Plan, Act, Reflect and Eportfolio (PARE) sessions are proving to be an invaluable opportunity for people to be establishing/maintaining their eportfolio practices to achieve their career, professional and/or personal goals, as well as, expanding their eportfolio networks.

The ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee will announce the dates and times for 2024 PARE sessions  in the new year.

Please let us know if you can facilitate one of these sessions and help to support your colleagues and peers benefit from launching or re-launching their own eportfolio practice.

For more information about PARE sessionshttps://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/

Or enquiry about ePortfolios Australia hosting a PARE for your organisation:

  • eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com
  • 0400 732 270

Invitation to participate in Research Project survey: Mapping ePortfolio Use and Labour in Tertiary Education in Australia and New Zealand 

The Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning’s (AAEEBL) Digital Ethics Task Force developed ten principles, one of which advocates for acknowledging and valuing ePortfolio labour. As such, the Task Force aims to better understand and map the field of ePortfolio work within higher education in Australia and New Zealand, after an earlier version of this survey was conducted in the USA and Canada. Similar projects will be conducted internationally to generate a comprehensive view of the field.

The survey is anonymous, and participation is voluntary.  The results will inform ePortfolio use and the labour involved.

This research is being led by Associate Professor Christine Slade, University of Queensland

For more information: https://uniofqueensland.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4HeD81LrfnnBtBQ

Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:


PebbleBash 2024 will held in Edinburgh, Scotland 11-13 June 2024 – Call for proposal is now openhttps://resources.pebblepad.co.uk/pebblebash-june-2024-register-interest 


You might be interesting in using Dana Bui‘s AI bot with students which can guide a user’s reflective practice through Gibb’s reflective cycle – https://poe.com/Gibbsreflectionbot


Health Education England – Cornwell GP Training offers some tips for creating an eportfolio – https://gp-training.hee.nhs.uk/cornwall/mrcgp/eportfolio/


Check out the Lily Family School of Philanthropy’s student eportfolios:



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Last PARE for 2023 + AI powered reflection bot (+ lots more eportfolio stuff)

SHARE your PARE (Plan, Act, Reflect, Eportfolio) practice with experienced (and not so experienced) and passionate eportfolio practitioners within a supportive online environment on 15 November – 10.30 am-12 noon (SYD time).



Facilitators for this session:

These sessions invaluable to establishing/maintaining their eportfolio practices to achieve their career, professional and/or personal goals, as well as, expanding their eportfolio networks.

If you have colleagues or people in your network who would benefit from launching their eportfolio practice, then please share this information with them.

REGISTER NOW for the 15 November PAREhttps://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/

Or enquiry about ePortfolios Australia hosting a PARE for your organisation:

  • eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com
  • 0400 732 270


Webinar: Supporting reflection through an AI powered reflection bot

What if you could ask all of your learners targeted reflection questions based on their previous input?

This is exactly what Riff, the reflection chatbot by Leticia Britos Cavagnaro from the d.school at Stanford University does. In this webinar, Leticia will show us and demonstrate with us how Riff works and how it differs from other reflection question prompts that you may have used in your portfolio practice. 

Come along to this session on 8 December at 11.00 am SYD time if you are interested in the intersection between portfolios and artificial intelligence.

You can win one of four copies of Leticia’s latest book, Experiments in reflection, due at the end of November 2023, sponsored by AAEEBL and ePortfolios Australia

Invitation to participate in Research Project survey: Mapping ePortfolio Use and Labour in Tertiary Education in Australia and New Zealand 

The Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning’s (AAEEBL) Digital Ethics Task Force developed ten principles, one of which advocates for acknowledging and valuing ePortfolio labour. As such, the Task Force aims to better understand and map the field of ePortfolio work within higher education in Australia and New Zealand, after an earlier version of this survey was conducted in the USA and Canada. Similar projects will be conducted internationally to generate a comprehensive view of the field.

The survey is anonymous, and participation is voluntary.  The results will inform ePortfolio use and the labour involved.

This research is being led by Associate Professor Christine Slade, University of Queensland

For more information: https://uniofqueensland.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4HeD81LrfnnBtBQ

Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:


PebbleBash 2024 will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland 11-13 June 2024 – Register your interest: https://resources.pebblepad.co.uk/pebblebash-june-2024-register-interest


Hear Michael Sankey, Charles Darwin University do an awesome job promoting eportfolios in Empowering Graduates: Enhancing Career-Readiness in Higher Education.
Via Marlene Daicopoulos


Empowering Engineering Students: The Impact of ePortfolios and the Biggadike Innovation Grant – Brandon Crisel, instructor and adviser in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas, was an inaugural recipient of this grant, which he used to establish ePortfolios for students. “Through discussion with industry representatives and reading through case studies, it was apparent that ePortfolios are a valuable tool for both job seekers and employers,” stated Crisel.


From Ed Tech Fad to Field of Study: Maintaining the Momentum of ePortfolio Transformation” by Helen C. Chen, Research Scientist, Stanford University
Via Mahara Newsletter


Eportfolio resources from University of Queensland – https://web.library.uq.edu.au/library-services/it/learnuq-blackboard-help/learnuq-assessment/eportfolio



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Time to register! 2023 Eportfolio Forum (+ your latest eportfolio news)

It’s time to register for 2023 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery) on 11-12 October at Charles Darwin University – Darwin / Larrakia Land and Online (if you haven’t already done so).



Image created by Michael Sankey


The two day program of “Emerging, Connecting, Sustaining”, will have lots of hands-on activities through Intensive and Indepth Workshops:

  • 10 principles to guide your ethical portfolio work, Kristina Hoeppner, Mahara/Catalyst IT
  • Exploring Strategies for embodying a pedagogy of care when designing ePortfolio tasks online, Marie B. Fisher & Penny Wheeler, Australian Catholic University
  • ePortfolio Innovation Lab: A Hackathon for Collaborative and Programmatic Learning DesignLeanne Ngo, Latrobe University, Kate Mitchell & Kashmira Dave, University of New England, Keith Heggart, University of Technology Sydney
  • Accessibility in ePortfolios, Fabienne Loveder, Pebblepad, Christian Carbjosa, Marty Sison, Charles Darwin University

These two days will also include Shortened Peer Reviewed Paper presentations, 20×20, digital posters and facilitated conversations – so there’s lots to look forward to.


Our sponsor – Portflow by Drieam will be hosting a lunchtime session.

Full Program: https://sites.google.com/view/2023-eportfolio-forum-program

Register Nowhttps://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/forums/2023-eportfolio-forum-home-page/2023-eportfolio-forum-registration/


Have a question about the 2023 Eportfolio Forum? Contact: 

  • eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com
  • 0400 732 270

PARE your CARE (Career Advancement, Redesign or Expansion): 15 November

Use eportfolio practice (Plan, Act, Reflect and Eportfolio – PARE) for your Career Advancement, Redesign or Expansion (CARE) in a supportive environment on 15 November from 10.30 am-12.00 pm (SYD time).



Facilitators for this session:


These sessions invaluable to establishing/maintaining their eportfolio practices to achieve their career, professional and/or personal goals, as well as, expanding their eportfolio networks.

We will release dates for 2024 PARE sessions shortly.

If you have colleagues or people in your network who would benefit from launching their eportfolio practice, then please share this information with them.

REGISTER NOW for the 15 November PAREhttps://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/

Or enquiry about ePortfolios Australia hosting a PARE for your organisation:

  • eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com
  • 0400 732 270


Resources: How to get started with AI tools for portfolios

Resources are now available from the practical online workshop led by Dr Megan Mize (Old Dominion University) in August called ‘How to get started with AI tools for portfolios’.

During this workshop, Megan shared her first hand experiences of experimenting with AI technology in her classes. Megan presented the tools that she uses, including ones she has personally created without any programming knowledge. 


Publishing on Practice: Doing Digital Ethics in Our Classrooms, Programs, and Publications 

In collaboration with the AAEEBL ePortfolio Review (AePR), AAEEL’s Digital Ethics Task Force is proposing a special issue sharing open educational resources of the principles in practice.  This issue will join efforts to make evidence-based ePortfolio practice explicit and accessible (Eynon & Gambino, 2018; Yancey, 2019; Donaldson, 2022).

To support this process, AAEEBL is running a workshop to help participants brainstorm and start drafting a submission for this special issue.

Publishing on Practice: Doing Digital Ethics in Our Classrooms, Programs, and Publications – 21 Sept USA time.
Via AAEEBL newsletter

Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:

Marie (Bernie) Fisher, a long standing ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee Member and eportfolio practice advocate, has:



Bonnie Amelia Dean has written: Supporting writing a teaching portfolio by focusing on practice


You can view May Lim’s UNSW myEducation Porfolio – Mary is a Senior Lecturer, Engineering at UNSW.


Read about 9 Things About E-Portfolios That Students Should Know About in 2023 by Tech Buzz Ireland 

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Full Program released so register now: 2023 Eportfolio Forum (+ other interesting eportfolio news)

The Full Program for the 2023 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery) on 11-12 October at Charles Darwin University – Darwin / Larrakia Land and Online is now available.

Register now to hear from, and engage with, eportfolio topics on the sub-theme of “Connecting eportfolio practice”, such as these Shortened Peer Reviewed Paper presentations:

  • Connecting through e-portfolio practice: trust, relationships & expertise, by Ingrid D’Souza, Zala Volcic & Carmen Sapsed, Monash University 
  • Strategies for embodying a pedagogy of care when designing ePortfolio tasks in an online environment, by Marie B. Fisher & & Penny Wheeler, Australian Catholic University
  • What I know now that I wish I’d known then: A photo(video)voice collaborative autoethnographic study of student eportfolio creation, by Debra Hoven, Athabasca University

These two days will also include in-depth and intensive practical workshops, 20×20, digital posters and facilitated conversations – so there’s lots to look forward to.

See the Full Programhttps://sites.google.com/view/2023-eportfolio-forum-program

Register Nowhttps://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/forums/2023-eportfolio-forum-home-page/2023-eportfolio-forum-registration/

Have a question about the 2023 Eportfolio Forum? Contact: 

  • eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com
  • 0400 732 270

PARE your CARE (Career Advancement, Redesign or Expansion): 7 September

Use eportfolio practice (Plan, Act, Reflect and Eportfolio – PARE) for your Career Advancement, Redesign or Expansion (CARE) in a supportive environment on 7 September from 7.00-8.30 pm (SYD time).



Barbara Nicolls, Buckinghamshire New University will facilitate this session.

These sessions invaluable to establishing/maintaining their eportfolio practices to achieve their career, professional and/or personal goals, as well as, expanding their eportfolio networks.

Also, put a placeholder in your calendar for the last PARE session for 2023:

  • 15 November 10.30 am-12 noon (SYD time)

If you have colleagues or people in your network who would benefit from launching their eportfolio practice, then please share this information with them.

REGISTER NOW for the 7 September PAREhttps://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/

AAEEBL Annual Meeting Resources now available

AAEEBL’s Annual Meeting was held online on 13-14 July 2023 and at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) in British Columbia, Canada, from 19 to 21 July 2023 and welcomed over 180 registered attendees who shared their work in presentations, workshops, conversations, and discussions during breaks.

The Schedule on the AAEEBL Annual Meeting website contains links to the recordings via the session headings and additional resources. Watch the in-person event, the keynote by Kevin Kelly, the AI panel, and the two sponsor sessions from Drieam and PebblePad were recorded.

Via AAEEBL eNews

Call for Proposals: AAEEBL ePortfolio Review (AePR) – Close 31 August 

This issue of the AAEEBL ePortfolio Review (AePR) is dedicated to articles on the 2023 AAEEBL Annual Conference theme of ePortfolio Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Fostering Authentic Assessment Through Inclusive Pedagogies and Design Justice.

However, other articles will be reviewed and may be included in the upcoming edition – Submission due date is 31 August (North American time) – https://airtable.com/shrggaDXx7y7bYKez

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted (or forced) many of us in the ePortfolio community to rethink how we design ePortfolio implementations so as to center those who are often marginalized. Since then, the ongoing ramifications of post-pandemic life as well as new opportunities for rethinking pedagogical practices such as the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) require that we remain vigilant in designing ePortfolio opportunities that foster equity and inclusion while also promoting engagement, authentic learning, and academic integrity. Now more than ever, changes in enrollments and budgets demand that we articulate the value and impact of ePortfolios to institutional and community stakeholders.

AAEEBL are especially looking for articles that explore these areas:

  • Authentic assessment: How can authentic assessment strategies center marginalized voices, e.g. in institutional assessment and accreditation efforts, effective course and program design?
  • Digital tools, including AI: How can portfolio practice give students the critical digital literacies to navigate present and emerging digital tools in ways that complement and extend their learning, productivity, and well-being? How does technology expand and / or constrain the scope of our vision for ePortfolios that are designed with justice in mind?
  • Design justice: How can portfolio designs be justice oriented, and how can these designs improve and enhance higher education? How should we consider the principles of design when implementing ePortfolios?
  • Effective implementation frameworks: How can applying an effective implementation framework using a stakeholder approach and other high impact practices sustain, heal, and empower all members of our community? How can we most effectively promote equity, access, inclusion, and belonging through ePortfolio implementations? What practices (e.g. pedagogies, integrations, assessments, reflections, showcases, professional development) have proven to be successful in creating authentic assessments?

Via Candyce Reynolds

Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:

Michael Sankey crunched the numbers on a recent benchmarking activity on ePortfolio use at Australasian Universities, conducted by ACODE Australasia. It shows the change in ePortfolio tools used over the last 6 years. Of note, in 2017, 7 institutions had no formal ePortfolio system, that is no-longer the case, as now all institutions support some form of system and some institutions are now formally supporting the use of two tools.  To read more, see Michael’s LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7093136017200738304/

Via Michael Sankey


Marty Sison and the crew from the Digital Learning Design Team at Charles Darwin University will be running a Workshop at the forthcoming Eportfolio Forum in Darwin, partly based around this great resource on Accessibility at PebblePad using an PebblePad portfolio and with some additional resources created by CDU.
Via Michael Sankey

Via Michael Sankey


View Joseph Fluckiger’s Academic ePortfolio which he completed as part of his postgraduate program in Data Science at UT Austin McCombs.


Learn how the University of Central Florida use eportfolios to support their “Knights of Distinction program which encourages undergraduate students to PLAN, CONNECT, and REFLECT in the pursuit of their goals”.



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Still time to register for AI tools for portfolios Workshop + Register now for 2023 Eportfolio Forum (+ so much more)

The ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee, AAEEBL and Eportfolio Ireland encoourage you to register now for the 2023 Eportfolio Workshop (Dual Delivery) – How to get started with AI tools for portfolios Workshop.on:

  • 10 August 2023 – 10.00-11.20 am Aus EST  (SYD time) 
  • 9 August 2023 – 5.00-6.30 pm PT / 8.00-9.30 pm EDT (North America) 

Attend online or at La Trobe University City Campus Melbourne, Australia

With new artificial intelligence (AI) tools, assistants, chatbots, and system integrations launching every day, it can be challenging to figure out where to start. What AI tools can a portfolio practitioner try out or create themselves easily? Where can a learning designer find inspiration? How do you set up a chatbot within the promised 5 minutes? Should you give any of this a go yourself?

Join us for a practical online workshop led by Dr Megan Mize (Old Dominion University), where she will share her first hand experiences of experimenting with AI technology in her classes in recent months.


Dr Megan Mize

Megan will present tools that she’s used, including ones she has personally created without any programming knowledge. During this hands-on session, you’ll interact with one of these tools and even set up your own chatbot!

Together, we will explore the intersection of AI and portfolio-based education, uncovering new possibilities, and navigating the ethical considerations of AI in teaching and learning.

REGISTER NOW for the How to get started with AI tools for portfolios Workshop (Dual Delivery) webinar: https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/eportfolio-workshop/ 

2023 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery): Registrations now 

Just a little over 2 months until the 2023 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery) starts on 11-12 October at Charles Darwin University – Darwin / Larrakia Land and Online.

These two days will include in-depth and intensive practical workshops, Shortened Peer Reviewed Paper presentations, 20×20, digital posters and facilitated conversations – so there’s lots to look forward to for eportfolio enthusiasts.



The Plenary Panel will be hosted by Pro Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ruth Wallace, who leads the Faculty of Arts and Society at Charles Darwin University. 

Other Plenary Panelists include:

  • Michael Sankey – Charles Darwin University
  • Jennifer Munday – Charles Sturt University
  • Kristina Hoeppner – Mahara/Catalyst
  • Tara Harrold – Good Work Career Consulting

Student Panelists:

  • Liuba Moghilco – University of Queensland, (first-year Master of Dietetics Studies student)
  • More student panelists to be announced

See the Forum’s Keynote speakers at: https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/forums/2023-eportfolio-forum-home-page/2023-eportfolio-forum-keynote-presenters/

The full program will be available shortly.

Register Nowhttps://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/forums/2023-eportfolio-forum-home-page/2023-eportfolio-forum-registration/

PARE your CARE (Career Advancement, Redesign or Expansion): 7 September

Use eportfolio practice (Plan, Act, Reflect and Eportfolio – PARE) for your Career Advancement, Redesign or Expansion (CARE) in a support environment on 7 September from 7.00-8.30 pm (SYD time).



Barbara Nicolls, Buckinghamshire New University will facilitate this session.

These sessions invaluable to establishing/maintaining their eportfolio practices to achieve their career, professional and/or personal goals, as well as, expanding their eportfolio networks.

Also, put a placeholder in your calendar for the last PARE session for 2023:

  • 15 November 10.30 am-12 noon (SYD time)

If you have colleagues or people in your network who would benefit from launching their eportfolio practice, then please share this information with them.

REGISTER NOW for the 7 September PAREhttps://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/

Mapping ePortfolio Use and Labour Research Project

The Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning’s (AAEEBL) Digital Ethics Task Force is conducting research on ePortfolio work in tertiary education in Australia and New Zealand. An earlier version of the survey was conducted in the USA and Canada. 

If you are involved in eportfolio work in either of these countries as part of your professional role, we invite you to participate in this research survey.

Your valuable insights will contribute to the mapping of eportfolio practices and help us gain a better understanding of common practices and the labour involved.



The survey is anonymous and will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. Your participation is voluntary, and you can choose to close the survey at any time if you wish to withdraw. 

For more information and to participate in the research project, please go to uniofqueensland.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4HeD81LrfnnBtBQ


We hope that you will consider participating in this important research.

Via Christine Slade

Call for new members AAEEBL Digital Ethics Taskforce Year 5 – Close 15 September 

AAEEBL‘s Digital Ethics Task Force (Task Force) are charged with researching and articulating research-based practices for ePortfolios, and have been working on this since 2019.

The Task Force is calling for new members AAEEBL Digital Ethics Taskforce Year 5 – Submission’s close 15 September: tiny.cc/AAEEBL-Apply2023

Via Christine Slade

Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:

Marty Sison and the crew from the Digital Learning Design Team at Charles Darwin University will be running a Workshop at the forthcoming Eportfolio Forum in Darwin, partly based around this great resource on Accessibility at PebblePad using an PebblePad portfolio and with some additional resources created by CDU.

Via Michael Sankey


Read this article from Daily Nurse about how to “Advance Your Nursing Career: Creating a Nursing E-Portfolio is Easier Than You Think“.



Read about the winners of the Auburn University 2023 Student Writing Awards – Outstanding ePortfolio Award to recognise exceptional eportfolios created by Auburn students.



Read Catalyst IT’s Mahara Newsletter for all things portfolios which is curated by Kristina Hoeppner, project lead of the open source platform Mahara.  This newsletter shares news and resources from the portfolio community and the Catalyst IT team.
Via Kristina Hoeppner

Stay connected all year round – share any eportfolio news or ask questions via the
Eportfolio Community of Practice Facebook Group

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2023 Eportfolio Forum Keynote Speakers + next AI & Portfolios Workshop + so much more

The Keynote presenters for the 2023 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery) on 11-12 October at Charles Darwin University – Darwin / Larrakia Land and Online have been announced:

  • Opening Keynote: Kevin Kelly, Educational Consultant, Author, Lecturer at San Francisco State University, AAEEBL Board Member – Emerging, Connecting, Sustaining: Changes in Behavior Due to Changes in Priority
Kevin Kelly
  • Closing Keynote: Lisa Gray, Senior Consultant – learning, teaching and assessment at PebblePad, and former Senior Consultant and Program Manager at JISC – 
    If not now, when? eportfolio as a process, pedagogy and strategy-enabler whose time has (finally) come

Lisa Gray

Both keynotes have lots of experience helping other with their eportfolio practice, and their presentations nicely complement this year’s Forum theme: Emerging, Connecting, Sustaining.

Read more about the Keynote speakers go to: https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/forums/2023-eportfolio-forum-home-page/2023-eportfolio-forum-keynote-presenters/

Registrations for the Forum are also open: https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/forums/2023-eportfolio-forum-home-page/2023-eportfolio-forum-registration/


How to get started with AI tools for portfolios Workshop (Dual Delivery) – 10 August 

The ePortfolios Australia Organising Committee, AAEEBL and Eportfolio Ireland are pleased to announce the 2023 Eportfolio Workshop (Dual Delivery) – How to get started with AI tools for portfolios Workshop.on:

  • 10 August 2023 – 10.00-11.20 am Aus EST  (SYD time) 
  • 9 August 2023 – 5.00-6.30 pm PT / 8.00-9.30 pm EDT (North America) 

Attend online or at La Trobe University City Campus Melbourne, Australia

With new artificial intelligence (AI) tools, assistants, chatbots, and system integrations launching every day, it can be challenging to figure out where to start. What AI tools can a portfolio practitioner try out or create themselves easily? Where can a learning designer find inspiration? How do you set up a chatbot within the promised 5 minutes? Should you give any of this a go yourself?

Join us for a practical online workshop led by Dr Megan Mize (Old Dominion University), where she will share her first hand experiences of experimenting with AI technology in her classes in recent months.
Dr Megan Mize
Megan will present tools that she’s used, including ones she has personally created without any programming knowledge. During this hands-on session, you’ll interact with one of these tools and even set up your own chatbot!

Together, we will explore the intersection of AI and portfolio-based education, uncovering new possibilities, and navigating the ethical considerations of AI in teaching and learning.

REGISTER NOW for the How to get started with AI tools for portfolios Workshop (Dual Delivery) webinar: https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/eportfolio-workshop/ 


Dare to PARE (Plan, Act, Reflect & Eportfolio): Maintain the momentum – 25 July

Establishing and maintaining your own eportfolio practice provides you with opportunities to really focus on and achieve key goals – whether they be career, professional and/or personal goals.

Join the next PARE is on 25 July from 4.00-5.30 pm (SYD time) to support this practice. 

Dr Leanne Ngo from La Trobe University will facilitate this session.

These sessions invaluable to establishing/maintaining their eportfolio practices to achieve their career, professional and/or personal goals, as well as, expanding their eportfolio networks.

Also, put a placeholder in your calendar for these other 2023 PARE sessions:

  • 7 September – 7.00 pm-8.30 pm (SYD time)
  • 15 November 10.30 am-12 noon (SYD time)

If you have colleagues or people in your network who would benefit from launching their eportfolio practice, then please share this information with them.

REGISTER NOW for the 25 July PAREhttps://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/


Opportunity to participate in eportfolio research

David Randall is a PhD candidate from the University of South Australia (UniSA) who is interested in how ePortfolios affect motivation and self-regulated learning in higher education.  He is looking for leading practice ePortfolio courses to research. 

David would ideally like to work with people who are:

  • facilitating undergraduate course/s at English-speaking universities and colleges
  • using an ePortfolio which aligns with self-regulated learning (SRL) as a core component of the course pedagogy. That is, the tasks involve activities such as goal setting, collection of artefacts for formative feedback, reflective opportunities etc. and is not just for a showcase of work at the end of the course. 
  • courses run with both a purely online cohort and a purely a classroom cohort for comparison.  If this is not possible, then online and blended courses would his preferences
  • working with a minimum of 65 enrolled students (though he is flexible with this number)

The data collection would involve:

  • All students would be asked to complete a Likert scale SRL questionnaire at the beginning and end of the course. 
  • A small number of volunteer students being asked to complete a few learning diary entries and be interviewed.

UniSA can pay the students for their time.  David is also happy to chat to participating course co-ordinators about being added as a co-author to any published papers that are based on the research. 

He aims to start to collect data this year, then move into early next year.

To participate or for more information, contact David at: david.randall@unisa.edu.au 

Referred to ePortfolios Australia by Kate Mitchell

Call for new members AAEEBL Digital Ethics Taskforce Year 5 – Close 15 September 

AAEEBL‘s Digital Ethics Task Force (Task Force) are charged with researching and articulating research-based practices for ePortfolios, and have been working on this since 2019.

The Task Force is calling for new members AAEEBL Digital Ethics Taskforce Year 5 – Submission’s close 15 September: tiny.cc/AAEEBL-Apply2023

Via Christine Slade

Global perspectives on AI and portfolios webinar – Recording and resources

The ‘Global perspectives on AI and portfolios‘ webinar was held on 23 April 2023 with panelists, Christine Slade, Leanne Ngo and Kevin Kelly.  You can access webinar recording and resources online, including the slides and transcript.

This webinar was brought to you by ePortfolios AustraliaAAEEBL and Eportfolio Ireland.

Follow these groups on social media and subscribe to our newsletters to stay informed about upcoming events:

ePortfolios Australia:

AAEEBL:

Eportfolio Ireland Twitter

Via Kristina Hoeppner


Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:

Check out Kristina Hoeppner’s presentation slides cover a number of eportfolio (and other) topics.  Kristina is the Project Lead & Community Facilitator of the open source portfolio platform Mahara.


New eportfolio article: Supporting the journey of architecture students towards graduation through a design ePortfolio (Colabella, et al, 2023) – the writers are from the University of Melbourne (UoM) and have recently published their work from a Design ePortfolio Project that they developed in collaboration with ABP students and ABP/UoM staff. It was also implemented in the Architecture Major of the Bachelor of Design (BDes) that started in 2021.

This design ePortfolio results from an LTI grant developed over two years through interviews, focus groups with students, and the development of exercises and assignment guidelines. The implementation took place in different phases. The results of this two-year project illustrate the potential of our Design ePortfolio to link students’ personal and professional interests and achievements holistically, therefore highlighting the relationship between curricular and extracurricular activities and indirect connections between design studios and seminar-based subjects. The significance of this teaching and learning project lies in the identification of patterns in the curricular and extracurricular experiences of students that helps them define their identity, goals, and purpose.

They cite the essential reading: Field Guide to Eportfolios – is a collaborative of the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL), the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), the International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP), and the Electronic Portfolio Action and Communication (EPAC) Community of Practice.

Via Kate Coleman



University of Waterloo – Examples of Student ePortfolios – These ePortfolios are creative, fun, and effective. Although they use different approaches (and different platforms), they are alike in embodying the student’s reflections on his or her learning while at the same time showcasing his or her achievements.


Eportfolios and how they influence hiring decisions (in Northern America) – “EPortfolios can be useful to assess a candidate’s skills, qualifications and suitability for a particular job at many organizations. A resume offers a quick summary of an applicant’s skills and history, but an ePortfolio helps to show proof of that applicant’s abilities.”

Stay connected all year round – share any eportfolio news or ask questions via the
Eportfolio Community of Practice Facebook Group

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Next PARE 19 June & AI & Portfolios webinar 22 June (+ so much more)

Next Plan, Act, Reflect & Eportfolio (PARE) – 19 June

The next PARE session will be on 19 June – 2.00-3.30 pm (SYD time) and facilitated by Terrie Paterson, James Cook University PhD candidate will facilitate this session.

We have had a number of attendees who have found these sessions invaluable to establishing/maintaining their eportfolio practices to achieve their career and professional goals, as well as, expanding their eportfolio networks.

Also, put a placeholder in your calendar for these other 2023 PARE sessions:

  • 25 July – 4.00-5.30 pm (SYD time)
  • 7 September – 7.00-8.30 pm (SYD time)
  • 15 November 10.30 am-12 noon (SYD time)

If you have colleagues or people in your network who would benefit from launching their eportfolio practice, then please share this information with them.

REGISTER NOW for the 19 June PAREhttps://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/

AI & Portfolios webinar – 22 June: Global perspectives on artificial intelligence and portfolios

Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken centre stage in education with the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. Many conversations in education revolve around exploring the benefits and challenges of this text-generating AI and other AI applications which impact how learning and assessment may continue. This in turn impacts ePortfolio practice.

This has led AAEEBLePortfolios Australia, and Eportfolio Ireland to partner in an AI & Portfolios webinar series, with the first webinar discussing: ‘Artificial intelligence and portfolios’ to foster discussions within our global communities’.

This webinar will ask:

  • What is the influence of AI on portfolios?
  • What are the implications for using AI in portfolio practice?

Join the panelists on:

  • 22 June 2023 – 10:00 am Aus EST  (SYD time)
  • 21 June 5.00 pm PT / 8.00 pm EDT

REGISTER NOW for the Global perspectives on artificial intelligence and portfolios webinar: https://events.humanitix.com/ai-portfolios-webinar-1


ePortfolio Pedagogies webinar – 8 June: Ethical engagement and empowered student feedback

UNSW’s Scientia Education Academy are hosting Associate Professor, Christine Slade and Learning Designer, Shari Bowker from the University of Queensland for an online lecture of AAEEBL’s Task Force Digital Ethics in ePortfolios topic of: Ethical engagement and empowered student feedback on 8 June 12.00-1.00 pm Aus EST (SYD time).

This lecture will explore the importance of ethical ePortfolio practices and the shift towards empowering students in their feedback processes and utilising ePortfolios for assessment and learning.

Via Christine Slade


Registrations to open soon: 2023 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery) 

The Call for proposals for 2023 Eportfolio Forum in Darwin/Larrakia Land on 11-12 October at Charles Darwin University have now closed – but preparations for opening registrations are next on the agenda.

This year’s Forum’s theme is: Emerging, Connecting, Sustaining

2023 Eportfolio Forum is again dual delivery, so people can present/facilitate either live in Darwin/Larrakia Land, online via webinar or via a recording.

This year’s Forum will be highly interactive, with all sessions involving some type of audience participation – so please watch this space for the opening of registration.  

For more information, please contact:

  • (+61) 0400 732 270
  • eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com



Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:

The latest edition of AePR – A Time for Reflection is now available – Articles include:

  • Blending Research and ePortfolio: Two HIPS in One, by Karen Agustin Paz, Marissa Greisen, James Heilman, Sylvia Rodriguez Zacarias, & Sonja Taylor
  • 21st Century Skills: Facilitating Practice and Assessing ePortfolios, by Julie McCarroll & Peggy Hartwick
  • You Thought You Knew Yourself, and Then, You Retired, by Carra Leah Hood
  • AI Corner: AI-Originated Definitions and Concepts of ePortfolio,by Russel Stolins

Via Candyce Reynolds



AAEEBL’s Annual Meeting – July 2023 – AAEEBL’s 2023 Annual Meeting will be held at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and online, on various dates in July.

This year’s meeting will focus on ePortfolio Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Fostering Authentic Assessment Through Inclusive Pedagogies and Design Justice.  



You can access the resources from the Peralta Online Equity Conference held in April by ‘registering’ on their website

Via Kevin Kelly

Stay connected all year round – share any eportfolio news or ask questions via the
Eportfolio Community of Practice Facebook Group

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Call for Proposals closes 22 May – 2023 Eportfolio Forum (Dual Delivery) + other great eportfolio information

The Call for proposals for 2023 Eportfolio Forum in Darwin/Larrakia Land on 11-12 October at Charles Darwin University closes on 22 May 2023 – just under 2 weeks away.

This year’s Forum’s theme is: Emerging, Connecting, Sustaining

2023 Eportfolio Forum is again dual delivery, so people can present/facilitate either live in Darwin/Larrakia Land, online via webinar or via a recording.

There are a range of presentation/facilitation options – Shortened Peer Reviewed Papers, 20×20 sessions, Digital Posters, Facilitated Conversations, Indepth & Intensive Workshops (also in dual delivery mode)

Submission close on 22 May – https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/forums/2023-eportfolio-forum-home-page/2023-eportfolio-forum-call-for-proposals/ 

The Organising Committee want this year’s Forum to be highly interactive, with all sessions involving some type of audience participation – so please consider presenting at this year’s Forum.  

If you are interested in facilitating a session or if you would like more information, please contact:

  • (+61) 0400 732 270
  • eportfoliosaustralia@gmail.com

Next Plan, Act, Reflect & Eportfolio (PARE) – 19 June

PARE sessions allow you to spend time planning and developing your OWN career / professional / other goals by working on your OWN eportfolio.  If you are new to having your own eportfolio – then these sessions also allow you to get guidance about how to start.

Register now for the PARE session on 19 June – 2.00-3.30 pm (SYD time) – Terrie Paterson, James Cook University PhD candidate will facilitate this session.

Also, put a placeholder in your calendar for these other 2023 sessions:

  • July – date & time TBC
  • 7 September – 7.00-8.30 pm (SYD time)
  • 15 November 10.30 am-12 noon (SYD time)

We have had a number of attendees who have found these sessions invaluable to establishing/maintaining their eportfolio practices, as well as, expand their eportfolio networks.

If you have colleagues or people in your network who would benefit from launching their eportfolio practice, then please share this information with them.

REGISTER NOW for the 19 June PARE: https://eportfoliosaustralia.wordpress.com/other-events/plan-act-reflect-eportfolio/

AAEEBL’s Annual Meeting – July 2023

AAEEBL’s 2023 Annual Meeting will be held at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and online, on various dates in July.

ePortfolio Learning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Fostering Authentic Assessment Through Inclusive Pedagogies and Design Justice.  


Some other great eportfolio news and resources

Check out this other great eportfolio news and resources:

At the April PARE, Kate Mitchell shared some great resources:

Plus: Students comment on PebblePad eportfolio in General Education – ” Ohio State’s new general education curriculum has accerlerated the development of student portfolios through the use of a new ePortfolio system” – PebblePad – Find out more here: https://www.thelantern.com/2023/04/students-comment-on-use-of-pebblepad-in-new-ge-launch-courses/

Stay connected all year round – share any eportfolio news or ask questions via the
Eportfolio Community of Practice Facebook Group

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