Mahara and the challenges of adulthood

Mahara and the challenges of adulthood

Mark Nichols

Executive Director, Faculty

Open Polytechnic

On Internet years and psychosocial development !

Conception Infancy

Early childhood Preschool School age Adolescence

Young adulthood !

The upcoming mid-‐life crisis Conclusion: A new vision?

How old is Fido?

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How old is Fido? !

One dog year = 7 human years




How old is Fido? !

One dog year = 7 human years !

One internet year = 4.7 human years

http://www.fatdux.com/blog/2009/09/22/calculating-‐the-‐length-‐of-‐an-‐internet-‐year/


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http://www.fatdux.com/blog/2009/09/22/calculating-the-length-of-an-internet-year/



Psychosocial development: Erikson’s stages of life

Approximate Age Virtues Psycho Social Crisis Significant Relationship Existential Question Examples

Infancy 0–2 years

Hopes Basic Trust vs. Mistrust Mother Can I Trust the World? Feeding, Abandonment

Early childhood 2–4 years Will

Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt Parents Is It Okay To Be Me?

Toilet Training, Clothing Themselves

Preschool 4–5 years

Purpose Initiative vs. Guilt Family Is It Okay For Me To Do, Move and Act?

Exploring, Using Tools or Making Art

School age 5–12 years

Competence Industry vs. Inferiority Neighbours, School Can I Make It In The World Of People And Things?

School, Sports

Adolescence 13–19 years Fidelity Identity vs. Role Confusion Peers, Role Model Who Am I? What Can I Be? Social Relationships

Young adulthood 20–39 years Love Intimacy vs. Isolation Friends, Partners Can I Love?

Romantic Relationships

Middle adulthood 40–64 years Care Generativity vs. Stagnation Household, Workmates Can I Make My Life Count? Work, Parenthood

Maturity 65-‐death Wisdom Ego Integrity vs. Despair Mankind, My Kind

Is It Okay To Have Been Me? Reflection on Life

Conception: Back at the beginning

Commercial: • iWebfolio • ePortaro !Open source: • TheOSPI • ELGG !Non-‐applications: • PPT • Web pages

“The aim of the project is to develop an ePortfolio application for use in the New Zealand tertiary sector, and to provide guidelines for its effective

use. Such an application would be cross-‐disciplinary in its application, flexible enough to be used for different purposes, including peer and instructor feedback on student work, providing accessible evidence of

students’ progress towards graduate outcomes, capturing digital artifacts and student reflection, and generating multiple presentations by students for various publics (in the form of digital CVs that include actual examples of student work). It is intended that the outcome of the project be made available as an open source application and be accompanied with tested

guidelines for implementation.” !

Project application


E-‐Learning Collaborative Development Fund (eCDF) allocation: $568,222.22 !

The proud parents: Mark Nichols (Project Chair), Gordon Suddaby, Drs Bill Anderson, Mark Brown, Mary Simpson (Massey University); Dr Andrew Higgins and Mark

Northover (Auckland University of Technology); Luanna Meyer, Dr Margaret Connor, Margaret Lamont, Rose McEldowney (Victoria University of Wellington); Richard

Wyles (Open Polytechnic); Meredith Henson (Project Manager)

Deliverables: Generating a theoretical framework for student ePortfolios.

Developing an open source ePortfolio application, made available over the Internet. Facilitating a series of case studies.

Creating documentation for implementation strategies, user guides, and suggested policies.

Establishing an open source group for further development.



Infancy 0–2 years





Preschool 4–5 years Purpose Initiative vs. Guilt Family

Is It Okay For Me To Do, Move and Act?


School age 5–12 years Competence Industry vs. Inferiority Neighbours, School

Can I Make It In The World Of People And Things? School, Sports

Adolescence 13–19 years

Fidelity Identity vs. Role Confusion Peers, Role Model Who Am I? What Can I Be? Social Relationships

Young adulthood 20–39 years

Love Intimacy vs. Isolation Friends, Partners Can I Love? Romantic Relationships

Middle adulthood 40–64 years

Care Generativity vs. Stagnation Household, Workmates Can I Make My Life Count? Work, Parenthood

Maturity 65-‐death

Wisdom Ego Integrity vs. Despair Mankind, My Kind Is It Okay To Have Been Me?

Reflection on Life

Infancy: Mahara’s Mum and Dad


Infancy 0–2 years Hopes Basic Trust vs. Mistrust Mother Can I Trust the World?

Feeding, Abandonment

















Reflection on Life

Early childhood: Multiple loving parents




















Reflection on Life

Preschool: Adoption by the community




Early childhood 2–4 years

Will Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt

Parents Is It Okay To Be Me? Toilet Training, Clothing Themselves






School, Sports







Wisdom Ego Integrity vs. Despair Mankind, My Kind Is It Okay To Have Been Me? Reflection on Life

School age: “A popular pupil”


Version Release date Downloads

1.0 April 2008 (No reliable data)

1.1 February 2009 1,443

1.2 November 2009 20,618












School, Sports







Wisdom Ego Integrity vs. Despair Mankind, My Kind Is It Okay To Have Been Me? Reflection on Life


Adolescence: Recognition as a leader



















Reflection on Life

Where would I go online to get the most up to date information

about you, professionally?


















Reflection on Life

Young adulthood: Can I form relationships with others?

http://tinyurl.com/mnichols

http://tinyurl.com/mnichols


















Reflection on Life


Can Mahara facilitate a user-‐centred, lifelong and mobile-‐editable Web-‐presence, from formal

education through to professional networking?


Can Mahara facilitate a user-‐centred, lifelong and mobile-‐editable Web-‐presence, from formal

education through to professional networking? !

My wish list: Powerful mobile app

Domain options for public pages Full integration with business networking apps

Account integration with online apps “One app to bind them all…”


ePorfolios: Student-‐centred Web presences… …but the right blend of features?

!“If all you're doing is blogging then Mahara may be overkill -‐ in which case Wordpress is an excellent choice… Whether you host this internally or on wordpress.com, students can also easily

export all their content elsewhere. The Wordpress app works very well on phones as well.”


ePorfolios: Student-‐centred Web presences… …and lifelong professional profile?

!“We carried out a trial on using Mahara… One of the issues which arose was the inability to continue using Mahara once students

graduated and where they could then export the portfolio… A case study from the Evernote trial is to be written…”



















Reflection on Life


A new vision? !

At the simplest level, Mahara is two things: an ePortfolio and a social networking system combined.


A new vision? !


!At the simplest level, Mahara is three things: a professional

ePortfolio platform, a mobile-‐enhanced experience, and a cloud-‐based synchronised file service.



















Reflection on Life




















Middle adulthood: Can I find the elixir of youth?



















Maturity: Only for online services that age too much!

1998: Search engine. 2000: Advertising. Browser toolbar. 2002: Blogger. Google books. 2004: Gmail. 2005: Google Maps. Google Talk. Google analytics. 2006: Google Calendar and Google Apps. YouTube acquired. 2007: Streetview. Android. 2008: Chrome. 2009: Google Voice. Google Chrome OS. 2010: Google TV. Self-‐driving car. 2-‐step verification. 2011: Android 4 (ice-‐cream sandwich). Google+. 2012: Google Drive. Google Glass. 2013: Project Loon (aptly named…). Google Hangouts. 2014: …? Continued innovation!

A new vision? !





A new vision? !




!ULTIMATELY:

Mahara should be the key to an individual’s Web-‐presence.


Psychosocial development: Erikson’s stages of life


Infancy 0–2 years










School, Sports







Mahara as the key to an individual’s Web-‐

presence.

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