If you haven't heard, Mahara in an up and coming open platform for electronic portfolio and social networking. Sure, there are tons of social networking "web 2.0" doo-dads out there but this one is angled toward the e-Learning industry and grew out of the same general community as the excellent [and also free] Moodle LMS. There are even plans to integrate the two complementary packages.
I asked Penny Leach, one of the Mahara developers in New Zealand, what she envisions as potential applications for the platform: read more »
