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“Mahara Suites”Exploring a Multiple
Institution ModelMahara UK 2013
July 3, 2013
A journe
y inside
my head
E-learning resources & servicesLearning community support
Consulting
Learning AgentsAccelerated learning systems
http://bit.ly/DonPresant_ePortfolio
Career Portfolio ManitobaEmployability ePortfolios for Adults• Community-based
– Owned by non-profits• Portfolio building course
– Video tutorials, support• Extensive use of Web 2.0
– YouTube, Screenr, LinkedIn…• Templates and examples
– Pages/collections– Fictional exemplar– Growing gallery of real examples
Beyond the current modelLimits to growth, diversity• Governance constraints
– Non-profit owners: mandate/focus, risk aversion
– ->Transfer ownership to Learning Agents, become “tenants” with other organizations
• Manitoba: small province• New markets
– Colleges and universities– “Career Colleges”– Immigrant service providers– K-12?
Outside Environment
• ePortfolio traction– “Deep learning”, graduate outcomes,
employability– AAEEBL in North America
• Read/write web, social media, digital identity– WordPress, BuddyPress, etc.
• Employer awareness and demand– Linked In, eRecruitment, Video resumes
• Community– Learning communities, communities of practice– Connectivist PLEs, coworking
Coworking as a metaphor
CC uuushh.comCC deskmag
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Virtual coworking
Multi Mahara ExamplesSo far, all educational…• MyPortfolio Schools (Kineo Pacific)
– 1,211 institutions (201301), 85,575 users, 9,976 groups• MyPortfolio Tertiary (Kineo Pacific)
– 14 institutions, 13,381 users,1160 groups – Massey University: 9,000 users
• kyvyt.fi (Discendum)– 49 institutions, 22,000 users, 1,711 groups
• CLEO (One Connect Limited)– 154 institutions, 23,000 users, 874 groups
• Bute/Argyle Education Authority (EdICT)– 160 institutions, 12,500 users, 100+ groups
First Option: “Mahara Proper”The pure FOSS play• Core functionality
– e.g. MyPortfolio Tertiary– Trend: more settings at Institution level
• Third party plugins– E.g. MyPortfolio Schools– Risk management thru upgrades
• Customization– E.g. Isolated theme hack, TinyMCE mods, etc.– MyPortfolio Schools: “Moderation Online”– Risk management thru upgrades
Totara Social Mahara distribution for business• Social media platform (complement
TotaraLMS)– Currently, Mahara with existing plug-ins
• Planned enhancements:– Social collaboration
• Activity streams, ‘following’ a User, ‘likes’/rating, tagging, searching, matching and filtering
• More complete mobile interface, based on Maharadroid
• Interface/integration layer with TotaraLMS• Pull in profile from Totara, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.
– Institutional enhancements?• “Multi-tenancy out of the box”?http://www.kineo.com/totara-insights/totara-social-coming-soon.html
http://slidesha.re/114SdEP
Kyvyt (“skill”) Mahara distro for education & employment• Usability
– “Copy this page”, QR sign-on, folders for pages– Coming: navigation improvements
• Enhancements– Text chat– Coming: revamp theme structure
• Workplace Gallery– Public website for portfolios and ads for jobs,
etc.• Search by categories (FOSS Sphinx DB)
• Open Badge displayer– Share to Mahara community
Kyvyt (“skill”) Mahara distribution for learning communities• Institution enhancements
– Configurable Start Page, share pages to institution
– Coming: more detailed nstitution statistics• Group enhancements
– Return box– “Group only” login (portfolio UI stripped out)– In development: “Course group”
• Simple learning and collaboration tools, e.g.: video chat, enrolment, student management, archiving achievements
• Open Badge Factory (Q1 2014)– Community badge management
MyPortfolio Newsflash Highlights planned for “early in Term 3”• Pages in more than one collection• Share single page in a collection• Users upload/merge LEAP2A portfolios• Embedding a viewable PDF• Flexible layouts: (horizontal alignment)• Drag-and-drop files• Tagging for all user created
content/artefacts.• Full text search• Remove "Copy of" from copied pages and
collections
Why not just use Groups?• Delegation of user administration• Institution users: file quotas, etc.• Themes: display, pages• Institution pages, collections
– Templates for new users• Future enhancements?
Isolated Institutions (Walled Gardens)• LUNS/CLEO proof of concept (1.2)
– 60+ schools (but few trust relationships)• Some issues identified by Richard
Mansfield https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=3960– e.g. Listing Users, Groups and Institutions,
Group member invitations, Institutional Admin Powers
• Estimated core integration– 2 weeks for full analysis, 4+ weeks of
development• My current reflection
– Negative “silo” impact on learning community– Most important for protection of minors
Theming Avoiding the “brown cardigan” effect
Isolated institution themes(via Andrew Nicols, LUNS, for CLEO)• Hack Mahara
– 3 commits• Edit themeconfig.php
– $theme->institutions = array('a', 'b')• Only institutions in array will see the
theme
Benefits of Mahara Suites
• Institutions– Easier to pilot– Less cost, effort, risk to implement– Pan institutional learning community– Clustering/critical mass for employers– No worries after graduation
• Service Provider– Understandable offering
• Pre-defined, based on majority needs– Simpler servicing for basic Mahara– Relationship for other services
Beyond your four wallsOpportunities for academic institutions• Community engagement
– Employers, sector associations– Professional bodies, unions– Regional development clusters
• Revenue for sustainability?– Hosting and technical development– Recursive, “emergent learning”
• Further formal, non-formal learning– Access to HE via RPL/PLAR
• Lifelong portfolio
Mileage may vary…Recommended practices, lessons learned• Build it and they may not come
– Marketing and communications is huge– Explicit linkage to pedagogies and outcomes
• Boots on the ground– MyPortfolio Taster Sessions – 3 teachers/school– Follow-up
• Be responsive to clients– Visual design, navigation, continuous
improvement• Beware over-customization
– One size fits all vs. bespoke
don@learningagents.ca(204) 219-5933
Don Presant
PRESENTATION SUPPORT PAGEhttp://bit.ly/msuites
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