Summary

We learned a lot in this chapter about why Mahara ePortfolios are useful and what will be involved in making a Mahara site work.

Specifically, we understood what an ePortfolio essentially is and looked at possible uses of Mahara. We also looked at some real-life Mahara sites and learned what is so special about the Mahara ePortfolio. Hopefully, you became a member of the Mahara community by joining at http://mahara.org. If you did, you'd have browsed around mahara.org and looked at some of the useful features. Finally, some of you will have gotten an initial feel for Mahara by clicking around in the demo area http://demo.mahara.org and also in http://mahara.org itself.

In this chapter, we also discussed the importance of personalized, reflective, and collaborative learning.

Now that we've learned about the big picture as to why Mahara matters, you're probably keen to start working in your live Mahara environment? First of all, you will need to start practically entering data, uploading and setting up some stuff that you can use in the system—which is the topic of the next chapter.