Debra Hoven & Margaret Rauliuk: Disrupt the dissertation with an ePortfolio

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Dr Debra Hoven and Margaret Rauliuk, dissertation mentor and student team at Athabasca University in Canada, talk about the trials and tribulations but also the joy in creating a portfolio as alternative to the Doctor in Education monograph. They share how their work contributes to opening doors for other types of dissertations and what they have learned along the way besides why Margaret wanted to create a portfolio in the first place.
Connect

• Debra on LinkedIn
• Margaret on Hylo and on X (formerly Twitter)

Resources

• Margaret's research seminar portfolio
• Selected publications of Margaret
• Debra's podcast episode 'The value of self-reflection and peer feedback'
• Debra's professional interests and publications
• On Ecological Constructivism: Hoven, D. & Palalas, A. (2011). (Re)Conceptualizing Design Approaches for Mobile Language Learning. Special Issue of CALICO Journal: CALL Research in Canada. 28(3).
• 2018 Canadian Association for Graduate Studies Taskforce on the Doctorate
• Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED)
• Other doctoral portfolio projects (not mentioned in the episode; added here for further exploration)
  • Dr Kathryn Coleman's 'An a/r/tist in Wonderland: Exploring identity, creativity and digital portfolios as a/r/tographer'
  • Presentation 'Doctoral ePortfolios: Can a dissertation be an ePortfolio?' by Mandi Mizuta, Sheila Mulooly, Melissa Shaquid Pirie, and Candyce Reynolds (Portland State University) in 2021
• Debra's Technology Demonstrators Community of Practice Event on portfolios in March 2024
• Sandra Styres's book 'Pathways for remembering and recognizing Indigenous thought in education'
• 'Joyce's Principle'
• Heiltsuk Nation
• Esquimalt Nation
• lək̓ʷəŋən Traditional Territory

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

Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Margaret: Discovering portfolios (00:01:10)

3. Debra: Continuing advocacy for portfolios (00:03:37)

4. The struggle with 'decolonisation' (00:07:43)

5. The portfolio as disruptor (00:11:04)

6. The portfolio dissertation components (00:17:19)

7. The role of the supervisor (00:22:58)

8. Q&A: Words to describe porfolio work (00:30:47)

9. Q&A: A tip for educators and learning designers (00:31:19)

10. Q&A: A tip for learners (00:32:39)