This document provides an overview of an interactive workshop on using OB3 to create reflective practice portfolios for capturing learning experiences through formal, non-formal, and informal education. The workshop objectives are to introduce OB3, create media-rich documents, and develop elements for a reflective practice portfolio. OB3 is described as a personal learning environment that empowers users to produce and share media-rich content as part of their learning. Examples are given of how OB3 can be used for formal education, non-formal training, informal learning, and lifelong learning by allowing individuals to author and curate content that travels with them throughout their educational experiences.

1. Lifelong Learning ePortfolios: A
media-rich technology for capturing
and evidencing experience as part
of formal, non-formal, and informal
education
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Workshop | 2020 ePortfolios Australia Forum
Dr Gloria Gomez | Rodney Tamblyn | OceanBrowser Ltd.
gloria@oceanbrowser.com | rodney@oceanbrowser.com

2. Interactive Workshop on making Reflective
Practice Portfolios with OB3
Objectives:
• Brief introduction to OB3
and use cases in ePortfolio
activities
• Create media-rich documents
to capture individual and
collective learning
experiences.
• Develop elements for a
reflective practice portfolio
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To actively participate you
will need:
• A laptop or desktop computer
• A modern browser e.g. Chrome,
Safari or Firefox
• An OB3 account, which we will issue
to you
Getting ready
• Request your OB3 account by
sending a chat message in Zoom
with your name and email address.
We will message you back with
your invite code

3. Dr Gloria Gomez | Facilitator
• Co-founder, researcher and strategist at OceanBrowser Ltd.
• Honorary senior lecturer at the Save Sight Institute, University of
Sydney
• Applied design researcher in novel educational practice
• See portfolio at http://www.gloriagomez.com
• LinkedIn
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Rodney Tamblyn | Facilitator
• Co-founder & CEO at OceanBrowser Ltd.
• Heads up sales, product and operations at OB3
• 30 years experience developing and supporting educational
technologies for Higher Education.
• LinkedIn and Twitter (@ocnb3)

4. What
OB3 – Beautiful Study for Lifelong
Learning is a personal learning
environment for creating and
sharing media-rich content as part
of informal, non-formal, and
formal learning.
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Pains / Needs
• Academics with little time to
update teaching documents
• Students not engaging in
discussion forums
• Educational designers having
difficulties in updating teaching
materials for different courses
against deadlines
OB3 publications in ResearchGate at http://bit.ly/ob3papers

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OB3 has been designed to
empower people with basic
digital literacy, so they can
produce content to keep and
share online as part of
educational activities.
Author attribution or
ownership is tracked at every
instance. Videos and audio can
be uploaded directly into the
document for enhanced
privacy (data ownership,
digital ethics).
OB3 media-rich documents
can promote deep
understanding in diverse
study activities. Therefore,
OB3 may be particularly well
suited for independent,
lifelong, and self-directed
styles of learning.
Access Gomez et al. (2018) at
https://bit.ly/ob3wpseries2018

6. Cases in formal
learning:
• Personal Reflective Practice
ePortfolios in an MBA
programme
• Interactive ePortfolios for
professional certification as
part of a bachelor in
Midwifery1
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Case in non-formal
learning:
• Transferable skills portfolio
as part of training and
compliance within a
business
[1] Embracing technology:
Interactive ePortfolios for
Midwifery Students (Prier &
Gomez at TTMEC 2020)
Case in informal
learning:
• An academic capturing
experiences to be used in
different kinds of activities

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The OB3 platform is a game changing
educational technology that shifts the power
from institutions to individuals (i.e. academic
staff, students, learning support).
An individual chooses what content to share
and with whom throughout lifelong study.
The content authored in OB3 travels with
him/her throughout every educational
experience, whether this occurs in formal, non-
formal, or informal education.

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Examples of using OB3 for formal, non-
formal, and informal learning

9. Example of formal learning

10. Example of non-formal learning

11. Example of learning at work

12. Example of informal learning

13. During the workshop, attendees will learn
how to build an OB3 reflective practice
portfolio:
1. Capture your thoughts in writing, audio recordings, video, photos,
hyperlinks, etc. to reflect on development areas;
2. Keep private and personal records of your reflections as they
happen;
3. Email content and any attachments from your mobile devices
directly to your portfolio;
4. Share selected sections of your reflections with other people as
part of a formal, non-formal, or informal learning activity
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14. Beautiful Study for Lifelong LearningTM
www.ob3.io