Mahara

Short description: Free and open-source web-based electronic portfolio management system

Mahara

Screenshot of a Mahara e-portfolio dashboard

Original author(s)| Catalyst IT Limited and contributors
Initial release| 1 April 2008[1]
Stable release|

20.04.2 / 22 October 2020; 5 years ago (2020-10-22)[2]

Repository| git.mahara.org/mahara/mahara
Written in| PHP
Type| Electronic portfolio system
License| GPLv3+[3]
Website| mahara.org

Mahara is a free and open-source web-based electronic portfolio (eportfolio) management system written in PHP and distributed under the GNU Public License.[3][9] The Māori language word mahara means "to think about or consider".[10][11]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Language support
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## History

Mahara began in 2006 as a collaboration between Massey University, Auckland University of Technology, the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand and Victoria University of Wellington, funded by the New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission.[12] Mahara was initially developed by Catalyst IT Limited, a New Zealand open-source software company, and first released in April 2008.[1] Development of Mahara has since expanded to include a community of contributors, including the New Zealand Ministry of Education.[13]

The software was designed to be an open-source electronic portfolio platform to support the student learning and personal learning environment goals of educational institutions.[12] Mahara allows students to select their own work and prepare an online portfolio, to both share in a university classroom context and show to future employers.[14]

## Language support

Mahara supports translation into different languages using language packs, and contributions of complete or near-complete coverage have been provided for Japanese, Basque, French, Māori, Slovenian, German, Czech, and Danish languages.[15]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "1.0.0_RELEASE tag". https://git.mahara.org/mahara/mahara/commit/d077fe1b. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
2. ↑ "Mahara 20.04 series". https://launchpad.net/mahara/20.04. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Mahara COPYING license file". https://git.mahara.org/mahara/mahara/blob/master/COPYING. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
4. ↑ Darren, Cambridge (2012) (in en). E-Portfolios and Global Diffusion: Solutions for Collaborative Education: Solutions for Collaborative Education. IGI Global. pp. 46–48. ISBN 9781466601444. https://books.google.com/books?id=pplsT9EOHLkC&pg=PA46. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
5. ↑ Ebner, Martin; Erenli, Kai; Malaka, Rainer; Pirker, Johanna; Walsh, Aaron E. (2015) (in en). Immersive Education: 4th European Summit, EiED 2014, Vienna, Austria, November 24–26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Springer. pp. 56–57. ISBN 9783319220178. https://books.google.com/books?id=K9lJCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA56. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
6. ↑ Hämäläinen, Harri; Ikonen, Jouni; Nokelainen, Ilkka (25–26 August 2011). "The status of interoperability in e-portfolios: Case Mahara". Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Learning and the Knowledge Society. Bucharest, Romania: Academy of Economic Studies. pp. 64–69. ISBN 978-606-505-459-2. http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4981/3ccbc1ad009255a83432dadbb6451d66daf9.pdf. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
7. ↑ Kennedy, Eileen; Neumann, Tim; Rowett, Steve; Strawbridge, Fiona (2017). "Digital education and the Connected Curriculum: Towards a connected learning environment". Developing the Higher Education Curriculum (UCL Press): 188–202. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1xhr542.19.
8. ↑ Granero-Gallegos, Antonio; Baena-Extremera, Antonio (March 2015). "Diseños de Aprendizaje Basados en las TIC (Moodle 2.0 y Mahara) para Contenidos de Anatomía, Fisiología y Salud en las Clases de Educación Física Escolar" (in Spanish). International Journal of Morphology 33 (1): 375–. doi:10.4067/S0717-95022015000100059. ISSN 0717-9367. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/60b1/6538d0ff6c36428e356b8294d62ca8c2fa50.pdf. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
9. ↑ [4][5][6][7][8]
10. ↑ Moorfield, John C.. "mahara". Te Aka Online Māori Dictionary. https://maoridictionary.co.nz/search?&keywords=mahara. "verb: ‘to think about, consider’ and ‘to remember, recollect, bear in mind’; noun: ‘recollection, thought, memory, reasoning’"
11. ↑ "About Mahara". https://mahara.org/view/view.php?id=2. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Brown, Mark; Anderson, Bill; Simpson, Mary; Suddaby, Gordon (2007). "Showcasing Mahara: A new open source eportfolio". Proceedings of ASCILITE, Singapore. pp. 82–84. http://www.ascilite.org/conferences/singapore07/procs/brown-poster.pdf. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
13. ↑ "Contributors". Mahara Wiki. 31 December 2018. https://wiki.mahara.org/wiki/Contributors. "Mahara is developed by a world-wide team of programmers, translators, designers and enthusiastic amateurs. Many individuals and groups have contributed to Mahara so far."
14. ↑ Stanley, Adam (18 November 2014). "Technology that puts the classroom in students' laptops". The Globe and Mail. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/technology-that-puts-the-classroom-in-students-laptops/article21627186/.
15. ↑ "Mahara language packs: Series 18.10". translations.launchpad.net. https://translations.launchpad.net/mahara-lang/18.10/+translations.

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