OB3 – Beautiful Study for Lifelong Learning is a personal learning environment for creating and sharing content as part of informal, non-formal, and formal learning. Within minutes, individuals with basic technological skills (i.e. users of MS Office, internet browsers, and email applications) can author and share media-rich documents including hyperlinks, embedded discussions, videos, and/or audio-recordings. In the last two years, OB3 has been used to build ePortfolios for reflective practice in an MBA programme, and professional certification in a Midwifery programme. During the workshop, attendees will learn how to build an OB3 reflective practice portfolio. They will learn how to 1) capture their thoughts in writing, audio recordings, video, photos, hyperlinks, etc. to reflect on development areas; 2) keep private and personal records of their reflections as they happen; 3) email content and any attachments from their mobile devices directly to their portfolio; and 4) share selected sections of their reflections with other people as part of a course or co-creation for understanding project.

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 ePortfolio Australia Forum
Dr Gloria Gomez | Rodney Tamblyn | OceanBrowser Ltd.
gloria@oceanbrowser.com | rodney@oceanbrowser.com

2. Welcome to our Interactive Workshop on
making OB3 Reflective Practice Portfolios
Objective:
• Participants will experience
the process of creating
media-rich documents for
ePortfolio activities
supporting individual and
collective educational
lifelong learning experiences
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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
(privately or to the room)
• Rodney will issue your account and
send you a chat message and
email with a link to activate your
account.

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 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 content as part of
informal, non-formal, and formal
learning.
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Pain/Need
• Time-starved academics with no
time to update teaching
documents
• Students not engaging in
discussion forums
• Educational designers having
difficulties in updating teaching
materials for different courses
against deadlines

5. Digital ethics and
digital literacy
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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 (data
ownership).
Within minutes, individuals
with basic technological skills
(i.e. users of MS Office,
internet browsers, and email
applications) can author and
share media-rich documents
including hyperlinks,
embedded discussions,
videos, and/or audio-
recordings.

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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.

7. Cases in formal
learning:
• Reflective Practice ePortfolios
in an MBA programme at a
New Zealand University
• ePortfolios for professional
certification as part of a
bachelor in Midwifery1
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A case in non-formal
learning:
• Using OB3 in the
development of a
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)
A case in informal
learning:
• An academic using OB3 to
gather information,
capturing experiences to be
used in formal, non formal
or informal learning

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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