Host
Kristina Hoeppner, MA
Project Lead and Product Manager of the open source portfolio platform Mahara and host of this podcast.
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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.
Contributors
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Arturo Flores, Jr.
Arturo Flores, Jr., is a Psychology and History major at Dominican University of California in his final year. He holds a number of on-campus jobs, amongst them being a peer mentor.
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His podcast episode was published on 26 February 2025.
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Chahira Nouira, MSc
Chahira Nouira, MS, is an instructional designer at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in Germany where she supports lecturers in their use of educational technology and how to incorporate them into their teaching and learning activities.
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His podcast episode was published on 26 March 2025.
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Christina Stollner, MA
Christina Stollner, MA, works at Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden (OTH Amberg-Weiden) in Bavaria in Germany. There she is a member of the 'Dreiklang' project, which aims to make it easier for lecturers and students to work with portfolios by offering a triad of triad of support: theory, communication, and examples for the direct application of portfolios in various contexts in higher education.
Her episode went live on 21 May 2025.
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Franziska Ohl, MSc
Franziska Ohl, MSc, works in the Institute for Psychology, and there specifically in the Department of Psychology in Education at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Germany. She is a member of the feedback portfolio project, supporting lecturers and students in their department with the creation of portfolios.
Her podcast episode was published on 9 April 2025.
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KatieAnn Nguyen
KatieAnn Nguyen is a Chemistry student at Dominican University of California. She's also a peer mentor for digital portfolios at Dominican.
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Her podcast episode was published on 12 February 2025.
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Matthew E. Mueller, CRC, MEd, MBA
Matthew E. Mueller, CRC, MA, MBA, is the Director of Accessibility and Disability Services at Dominican University of California where he's also finished his MBA in December 2024. He's also one of the integrative coaches of the Student Success Center.
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His podcast episode was published on 12 March 2025.
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Prof Dr Margarete Imhof
Prof Dr Margarete Imhof works in the Institute for Psychology, and there specifically in the Department of Psychology in Education at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Germany. She is a member of the feedback portfolio project, supporting lecturers and students in their department with the creation of portfolios.
Her podcast episode was published on 9 April 2025.
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Prof Dr Michael Sankey
Professor Dr Michael Sankey is Adjunct in the Faculty of Arts and Society at Charles Darwin University, Larrakia Country, in Australia. He has been involved in the ePortfolio practice for more than 25 years, started out writing HTML pages, then used various portfolio platforms, and transitioned to a non-institution owned site now that he is retired.
He is:
- Director, Learning Technologies Leadership Institute
- Director, Australasian Council on Open and Digital Education (ACODE)
- Community Fellow, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE)
His podcast episode was published on 7 May 2025.
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Romy Hösl, MA
Romy Hösl, MA, works at Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden (OTH Amberg-Weiden) in Bavaria in Germany. There she is a member of the 'Dreiklang' project, which aims to make it easier for lecturers and students to work with portfolios by offering a triad of triad of support: theory, communication, and examples for the direct application of portfolios in various contexts in higher education.
Her episode went live on 21 May 2025.
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Sebastian Laube, MSc
Sebastian Laube, MSc, works in the Institute for Psychology, and there specifically in the Department of Psychology in Education at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in Germany. He is a member of the feedback portfolio project, supporting lecturers and students in their department with the creation of portfolios.
His podcast episode was published on 9 April 2025.
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Solena Ornelas, MA
Solena Ornelas, MA, started her college career at Dominican University of California, earning her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Music. She then continued on to New York University to pursue a Master of Arts in Art Politics, and is now a civil servant as congressional staffer.
Her episode aired on 15 January 2025.
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