Mahara (software)
Mahara is a free and open-source web-based electronic portfolio 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]
Screenshot of a Mahara e-portfolio dashboard | |
Original author(s) | Catalyst IT Limited and contributors |
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Initial release | 1 April 2008[1] |
Stable release | 20.04.0
/ 29 April 2020[2] |
Repository | git |
Written in | PHP |
Type | Electronic portfolio system |
License | GPLv3+[3] |
Website | mahara |
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 Maraha 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
- "1.0.0_RELEASE tag". Retrieved 25 March 2019.
- "Mahara 20.04 series". LaunchPad. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- "Mahara COPYING license file". Retrieved 25 March 2019.
- Darren, Cambridge (2012). E-Portfolios and Global Diffusion: Solutions for Collaborative Education: Solutions for Collaborative Education. IGI Global. pp. 46–48. ISBN 9781466601444. Retrieved 8 April 2019 – via Google Books.
- Ebner, Martin; Erenli, Kai; Malaka, Rainer; Pirker, Johanna; Walsh, Aaron E. (2015). Immersive Education: 4th European Summit, EiED 2014, Vienna, Austria, November 24–26, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Springer. p. 56–57. ISBN 9783319220178. Retrieved 8 April 2019 – via Google Books.
- Hämäläinen, Harri; Ikonen, Jouni; Nokelainen, Ilkka (25–26 August 2011). "The status of interoperability in e-portfolios: Case Mahara" (PDF). 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. Retrieved 8 April 2019 – via Semantic Scholar.
- 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.
- 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" [Patterns of ICT-Based Learning (Moodle and Mahara 2.0) for Contents of Anatomy, Physiology and Health in Scholar Physical Education Lessons] (PDF). International Journal of Morphology (in Spanish). 33 (1): 375–. ISSN 0717-9367. Retrieved 8 April 2019 – via Semantic Scholar.
- [4][5][6][7][8]
- Moorfield, John C. "mahara". Te Aka Online Māori Dictionary. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
verb: ‘to think about, consider’ and ‘to remember, recollect, bear in mind’; noun: ‘recollection, thought, memory, reasoning’
- "About Mahara". Mahara. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- Brown, Mark; Anderson, Bill; Simpson, Mary; Suddaby, Gordon (2007). Showcasing Mahara: A new open source eportfolio (PDF). Proceedings of ASCILITE, Singapore. pp. 82–84. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- "Contributors". Mahara Wiki. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
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.
- Stanley, Adam (18 November 2014). "Technology that puts the classroom in students' laptops". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
- "Mahara language packs: Series 18.10". translations.launchpad.net. Retrieved 8 April 2019.