2025 Eportfolio Forum

2025 Eportfolio Forum
Day 1 - Future-Focussed Innovation and Strategy

Wednesday 12 November 2025

Launceston, Australia time, AEDT (GMT +10.5) (Dual Delivery)
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Subject to change

8.45 am

Registration - Networking

9.30 am –10.50 am
Plenary sessions

9.30 am

Welcome and Housekeeping

Allison Miller, ePortfolios Australia and Digital Capability

9.40 am

Opening Address

Professor Natalie Brown, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Pro Vice-Chancellor, Launceston, University of Tasmania

10.00 am

Opening Keynote

Shane Sutherland, Chief Mischief Maker (AKA Chief Academic Officer) at PebblePad

11.00 am –11.35 am

Morning tea

11.35 am –12.35 pm
Plenary Panel

11.35 am - 12.35 pm

Plenary Panel

How does presenting a strategic approach to eportfolio practice sustain interest and support in an ever changing world?

Panel MC:

Dr Ingrid D'Souza, Monash University

Panelists:

Angela Berndt, University of Tasmania
Heather Pate, Edith Cowan University
Helen L Chen, Stanford University, AAEEBL
Keith Murfin, University of the Sunshine Coast
Prof. Patsie Polly, UNSW Sydney

Student Panelists:

12.35 pm –1.30 pm

Lunch

12.50 pm –1.10 pm
Enhancing Assessment through a Student-Owned Learning and Assessment Portfolio

Pieter J. Smits, Drieam, Portflow

Enhancing Assessment through a Student-Owned Learning and Assessment Portfolio

Portflow is an innovative digital portfolio solution dedicated to enhance assessment by streamlining program-level assessment processes. As Australian institutions rethink their assessment designs in light of generative AI, Portflow offers an important advantage: it prioritises process over product and empowers learners to personalise how they demonstrate their progress towards achieving learning outcomes. This helps institutions build assessments that are more authentic, resilient to AI interference, and meaningful for real world application. Portflow also enables institutions to integrate feedback seamlessly, support assessment as, of, and for learning, and track work-integrated learning (WIL) experiences. This makes Portflow the ideal foundation for future-focused assessment design.

Pieter J. Smits, Portflow powered by Drieam

Pieter Smits is the dedicated product manager for Portflow, bringing a career-long focus in EdTech to his role. With a strong academic background in Educational Science and Technology, Pieter combines his expertise with a deep commitment to advancing innovative educational solutions. His work with Portflow reflects his passion for stimulating student ownership of learning in personalised digital learning environments.

12.50 pm –1.10 pm
Asynchronous Digital Poster ‘Spotlight’

Asynchronous: Advocacy and influence to support eportfolio practice, Finding the calm in the flex of constant change

Finding the Calm in the Flex of Constant Change: My ePortfolio Advocacy Journey

Barbara Nicolls, Buckinghamshire New University

Asynchronous: Navigating digital technologies – integration, usage and literacies

Reflective Practice for Digital Literacy in Online Work and Learning

Claire Bowmer, Australian Submarine Corporation

1.30 pm –3.00 pm
Shortened peer reviewed papers

1.30 pm - 1.50 pm

Session 1A. Advocacy and influence to support eportfolio practice

Beneath the surface: advocating influence in ePortfolio Practice

Dr Ingrid D'Souza and Carmen Sapsed, Monash University

Session 2A. Navigating digital technologies – integration, usage and literacies

Authenticity in the age of AI: A framework for ePortfolio assessment based on Process, Provenance, and Persona

Dr Nantana Taptamat, University of Queensland

Session 3A. Professional capabilities, attributes and accreditation

From Foundations to Practice: The Journey of Co-Designing an ePortfolio that Supports Reflective, Competent Occupational Therapy Graduates

Dr Anita Hamilton, Helen Titmuss, Professor Angela Berndt, Susan Batur, University of Tasmania and Carole Hunter, PebblePad

2.00 pm - 2.20 pm

Session 1B. Advocacy and influence to support eportfolio practice

Paper: Resolution for Building Resilient ePortfolios for Higher Degree by Research students

Marie (Bernie) Fisher, University of New England

Session 2B. Transformation of career and professional practice through eportfolio-led design

Finding the Sweet Spot: Portfolios, Programmatic Learning and Student Belonging

Heather Pate, Edith Cowan University

2.30 pm - 2.50 pm

Session 1C. Advocacy and influence to support eportfolio practice

Developing Global Competencies in Agricultural Sciences: ePortfolio Assessment as a Catalyst for Global Citizenship and Leadership in Agriculture Education.

Tin Pham Nguyen, University of Queensland
Professor Susanne Schmidt, University of Queensland
Dr Nicole Robinson, University of Queensland

Session 2C. Transformation of career and professional practice through eportfolio-led design

Making Audience Tangible in Career-focused ePortfolios

Helen L Chen, Stanford University
James J Tarbox, Stanford University

3.00 pm –3.30 pm

Afternoon tea

3.30 pm –4.30 pm
Plenary Fireside Chat

3.30 pm

Be inspired and re-energised by our Fireside Hosts to feel confident and brave enough to move forward on your eportfolio journey, and to inspire others about the power of eportfolio practice, post the Forum.

We hope that during this session you will see that change is part of your eportfolio journey, and working collaboratively with others will allow you to go further on this journey.

Fireside Hosts will interview one another about their eportfolio journeys.

Fireside Hosts:

Professor Kylie Readman, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education and Students) at University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Shane Sutherland, Chief Mischief Maker (AKA Chief Academic Officer) at PebblePad

4.30 pm
Day 1 Close

4.45 pm –6.15 pm

Face to Face Networking

Royal Oak Hotel, 514 Brisbane St, Launceston

Buy your own drinks - nibbles provided!!

Day Two program

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