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Portfolio-Based
Learning
“Paper Behind Glass”
Video Text
Images Feeds / Filters
Hyperlinks
Audio
Mahara Personalised Learning Environment
Processes for Reflective Growth
Groups and Communities
CV Builder
E-assessment Processes
The Modern Arch-lever file
Starting from the learner's perspective...
A Self-Development Process
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Setting your own learning agendas...
My Goals / My Skills
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Building your content and your stories...
A Learner-Led, Portfolio-Building Process
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Showcasing your learning
Personalised learning and showcasing...
“Paper behind glass”
Easy online showcasing of your learning...
Lifelong Learning
Online Resume (CV) Builder
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Portability of data
The Leap2a Open Data Standard
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Assessment of Competence
An assessor-led evidence-building process:
Build (eg Communicaive Language Testing) templates
Feedback on submitted views
Lock completed views for verification
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Information, Advice & Guidance
Learners, tutors, Assessors (templates), employers, mentors, verifiers, etc. have the freedom to presentMy Views...
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Social Networking
Create Groups for Communities of Practice and Professional Networks
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Create your own CoPs
Each group has many members, each member has many groups:
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Practical uses include:
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•Group Projects•Build your English persona•International Working Parties•Special Interest Groups•Teacher networks (Knowledge Transfer, Capture & Creation)•Monitored Social Networking (protection against sexually inappropriate behaviour, cyberbullying, etc.)
•Stakeholder feedback•Formal assessment•External marketing•Reflective Fridays•Lecture / Conference notesharing•Internal Reporting•Job applications (digital CV)•....and more and more and more...
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which this technology
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Small Pieces, Coherently Joined
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“Vygotskian theory stipulates that the development of the child's higher mental processes depends on the presence of mediating agents in the child's interaction with the environment. Vygotsky himself primarily emphasised symbolic tools-mediators
appropriated by the children in the context of particular sociocultural activities, the most important of which he considered to be formal education. Russian students of Vygotsky researched two additional types of mediation – mediation through another human
being and mediation in the form of an organised learning activity. Thus the acquisition model became transformed into a mediation model. Some mediational concepts such as scaffolding (see Wood, 1999) or apprenticeship (Rogoff, 1990) appeared as a direct assimilation of Vygotskian ideas; others such as Feuerstein's
(1990) mediated learning experience have been developed independently and only later acquired new meaning in the context of sociocultural theory.”
...from Kozulin, A (2003) Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context, Cambridge University Press (My highlights added).
The “Acquisition Model” of Learningversus the “Mediation Model”
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Evaluation < > Transmission < > Mediation < > Acquisition
LMS < > VLE < > PLE < > SLE/PLN
Key
LMS VLE PLE SLE/PLN
Evaluation Transmission Mediation Acquisition
What problems does Mahoodle solve?
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The Institution Needs...
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The Teacher / Trainer Needs...
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The Learner Needs...
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Mahara Certifications
Mahara Book
The TDM Mahara book practically illustrates how Mahara might be used in:
A Primary SchoolAn International CorporationA private WBL Provider
But the applications are numerous eg:Recruitment Agency / English Language School / Corporate University / HE University / Adult Education Provider / Professional Body / etc. etc.
This book also includes the Implementation (Pre-)Planner – useful guidelines for any organisational software implementation.
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