Teresa MacKinnon: Professional portfolios, values, and transferable skills

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Teresa MacKinnon, MA, has been a language educator for many years, incorporating portfolios into language learning at University of Warwick, and is a scholar working in the field of open educational resources, open access, and open recognition, amongst many other interests of her that she continues to follow in retirement.
In her interview Teresa talks about her work with portfolios, her own professional portfolio journey, and how staying true to her values of openness has brought her to using and valuing Mahara.
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Connect with Teresa

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• YouTube

Resources

• Teresa's blog 'next steps'
• Teresa's research activities
• Virtual Exchange: connecting university cohorts for language education
• UNICollaboration
• First CMALT portfolio
• CMALT review portfolio
• Future Teacher 3.0 UK, the European funding has finished but the UK group continues to run regular webinars and publish openly as Xerte objects
• Association of Learning Technologists (ALT)
• ALT Open Education Special Interest Group
• Article 'A meta-analysis of open educational communities of practice and sustainability in higher educational policy' by Teresa MacKinnon, Sarah Pasfield-Neofitou, Howard Manns, and Scott Grant (2016)
• AAEEBL Digital Ethics Task Force

Audio editing support: Sofia Kokoreva

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

章节

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. About Teresa (00:01:17)

3. Teresa's own professional portfolio journey (00:04:08)

4. The language of reflection (00:09:07)

5. Students' language portfolios (00:14:30)

6. Portfolios beyond assessment (00:16:27)

7. Trends in portfolio practice (00:20:12)

8. Digital ethics and portfolios (00:22:28)

9. The messiness of learning (00:23:38)

10. What can't you do with portfolios just yet? (00:27:10)

11. Q&A: Words to describe portfolio practice (00:30:17)

12. Q&A: A tip for learning designers and educators (00:31:38)

13. Q&A: A tip for portfolio authors (00:33:20)