This document discusses using Mahara to create ePortfolios for students in Pacific TAFE's Hospitality Workplace Practicum program. Currently, student work is tracked using paper workbooks, but ePortfolios offer benefits like regional access and digital skills development. The proposed solution involves creating an ePortfolio toolkit and training students and staff on its use. This will allow students to showcase work from various hospitality areas and assessments. The team will implement this over 2016-2017, with the goals of expanding access and enabling research on its impact on employability and digital literacy.

1. Using Mahara to demonstrate skills
acquired in a hospitality workplace
practicum
PARIJATA MOEAVA AND MOJITO JIONE
MAHARA HUI 2017
@PJMOEAVA @JIONEM

3. Pacific TAFE
Pacific TAFE
College of
Business,
Tourism &
Hospitality
College of Arts
& Humanities
College of
Science,
Technology &
Environment
College of
Foundation
Studies
Workforce
Development
Training Unit
RTO status with Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA)

4. College of Business,
Tourism and Hospitality
14 Skills Based Business
Qualifications
10 specialised
qualifications

5. Certificate IV in Hospitality
Operations
Food and
Beverage 1
Food and
Beverage 2
Front Office
1
Front Office
2
Events 1 Events 2
Sales and
Marketing
Hospitality
Workplace
practicum
Accredited by the International Centre of Excellence in Tourism and
Hospitality (THE - ICE)

6. CETH 48 Hospitality Workplace
Practicum
Areas
Front Office
Events
Food Service
Bar Service
Guest Services
Practicum
Minimum 6
months
Assessment
Assessment 1
Assessment 2
Reflections
Logbook
Industry
Holiday Inn
Novotel
South Sea
Cruises
….

7. Flowchart

8. Standards, Outcomes &
Rubrics
THE-ICE Standards
Graduate Attributes
Programme
Outcomes
Assessment Rubrics

9. Issue
 Print/Paper based workbook filled in weekly by
the student and signed off by the supervisor.
 Organised by weeks rather than areas or outcomes
for the programme.
 Regional access
 Currently only offered in the Laucala Campus

10. Challenges
Digital
literacy
skills
Student
Staff
Access
Internet
Devices
 Technology users
(Student)
 Beginner user 38%
 Average user 58%
 Advanced user 4%
 Access to Internet
 1 – 3 days in a week :
38%
 4 – 7 days in a week:
62%
 Access to devices
 A variety of devices

11. Solution
ePortoflios
Programme ePortfolio
A toolkit to assist students in
creating the ePortfolio

12. The toolkit
Pacific
ePortfolio
Toolkit
Tools
Video
Audio
Photography
Other
Web Storage
URL Shorteners
Office Suites
Browsers
ePortfolio
Media players
Blogs
Resources How to Guides

13. Tools Criteria
Platforms
•Web –
accessible on
any browser
•Mobile –
Android, iOS,
Windows
•OS –
Windows,
Mac OS,
Linux
Offline
•tools that can
be installed
to run without
the internet
Usability
•Easy for a
beginner user
•Advanced
tools for the
expert user
Usage
(license)
•Freeware
•FOSS

14. Solution in detail

15. Sample Portfolio
Hospitality
Operations
(Collection)
Introduction
and
Assessments
Front
Office
Bar
Service
Food
Service
Events
Guests
Services

16. Implementation

17. Timeline
Aug 2016
Scoping
Prototype
Staff
Workshops
Student
Workshops
Final
Version
Pilot – 2nd
Semester
Research
papers

18. Impact
 Enables us to reach out to
the region.
 Other programmes in
PTAFE may use this study
to implement their own
ePortfolio.
 Students and Staff gain
digital literacy skills.
 Research outputs.
 Employability

19. The team
Dr. Irene Yee Chief
• Instructional Designer
• Centre for Flexible Learning
Rajneel Totaram
• Learning Systems Developer
• Centre for Flexible Learning
Mojito Jione
• Education Technologist
• Centre for Flexible Learning
Hasmukh Lal
• Director
• Pacific TAFE
Pasirio Kitione
• Coordinator
• Pacific TAFE
Parijata Moeava
• Facilitator – Hospitality Operations
• Pacific TAFE

20. Conclusion
 This project is a WIP
 We would appreciate others to share
experiences in this area.

21. The end
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