Associate Prof Dr Mpho-Entle Modise and Prof Dr Norm Vaughan are the editors of the book 'Digital resilience of ePortfolios during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons for the future', which was published in 2025 and brought together 85 authors from around the world who shared their diverse portfolio stories. In this episode, Mpho-Entle and Norm share highlights from this publishing experience and themes from the book.

Mpho-Entle teaches in the Department of Curriculum and Instructional Studies in the College of Education at the University of South Africa. She has classes of upwards of 12,000 students and incorporates portfolios into each of her classes.

Norm has been teaching with portfolios in the Bachelor of Education programme at Mount Royal University in Alberta, Canada, since 1996. He's passionate about portfolios and considers them the backbone of the programme.

Resources

• Mpho-Entle's public portfolio
• Norm's public portfolio
• Modise, M.-E., & Vaughan, N. (2024). ePortfolios: A 360-degree approach to assessment in teacher education. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 50(4), 1–18.
• University of Maryland Global Campus
• Commonwealth of Learning Mentorship Programme

Meet the editors

Join the AAEEBL and FLANZ webinar 'Building digital resilience through ePortfolios: Lessons for the future' on 19/20 May 2026.

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Production: Catalyst IT
Host: Kristina Hoeppner
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