HAMK – professionally oriented higher education

WORKSHOP Finland/Portugal

Students’ perspective

Employers’ perspective

Teachers’ and organizationalperspectives

Leuven 20.2.2018

HAMK – professionally oriented higher education

Leuven 20.2.2018

HAMK – professionally oriented higher education

• Students need to be aware of the benefits for theirprofessional and personal growth - find the engagementand meaningfulness

• Students emphasize that ePortfolio creation need to beintegrated into the curriculum (e.g. allocation of time, resources)

• Students need competences - reflection, collaboration, communication, organization and digital skills

Leuven 20.2.2018

Students’ perspective

HAMK – professionally oriented higher education

• Employers give value to concise and formulatedpersonal evidence of competences

• Employers want to see the person behind the CV

• Employers emphasize the selection of evidence/materials (needs to match the specific workprofile)

Leuven 20.2.2018

Employers’ perspective

HAMK – professionally oriented higher education

Why does employer perspectivematter?

5 Reasons Why Your Online Presence WillReplace Your Resume in 10 years:

1. Social networking use is skyrocketingwhile email is plummeting

2. You can’t find jobs traditionally anymore3. People are managing their careers as

entrepreneurs4. The traditional resume is now virtual and

easy to build5. Job seeker passion has become the

deciding factor in employment

Your online presencecommunicates, or should

communicate, what you’retruly and genuinely passionate

about… I firmly believe thatyou won’t be able to obtain

and sustain a job withoutpassion anymore.

Dan Schawberl, Forbes”personal Branding guru”

HAMK – professionally oriented higher education

• Eportfolio creation need to be embedded in thecurriculum

• Teachers’ need to be able to support the ownershipof students

• Teachers’ need to understand the assessment as a continuous process, where students play the key role

• Teachers’ need to give space for students’ creativity, collaboration and networking with the world of work

• Teacher collaboration needed in the program-level

Leuven 20.2.2018

Teachers’ and organizationalperspectives

HAMK – professionally oriented higher education

•Eportfolio as an integrated guidance and assessment tool in competence development

•Students understand the meaning and have the ownership

•Students develop their skills in demonstrating their competences digitally

•Teachers have a shared and agreed idea how their collective work is organised to support ePortfolios

Learning space -process ePortfolio

•Teachers encourage students to demonstrate their competences in innovative ways utilizing multimedia

•Teachers facilitate peer working and collaboration

•Teachers give and organize feed forward

•Teacher reserve time for students to prepare their ePortfolios

Showcase ePortfolio

•Students demonstrate their competences in the world of work

•Students utilize ePortfolios in building their professional identity and career

•Students utilize ePortfolios in professional networking

Empowerment for continuous reflection of professional

development

PERSPECTIVES OF

TEACHERS AND HIGHER EDUCATION INSITUTION

HAMK – professionally oriented higher education

ePortfolio in PracticeBioeconomy-ICT –students

Johanna Salmia, HÄME University of Applied Sciences

20.2.2018

HAMK – professionally oriented higher education

8 weeks modules

1 study year

= start working w / ePortfolio

= time to update ePortfolio

In modules students• work in teams• do work related projects

Bioeconomy-ICT program

HAMK – professionally oriented higher education

ePortfolio course

Five phases1. What’s an ePortfolio2. Working portfolio3. Professional profile4. Showcase portfolio5. Thesis as an

ePortfolio

• learning material• examples

HAMK – professionally oriented higher education

Needs and development ideas

Students need

• guidance

• how to reflect

• team meetings together with the team and teachers -> discussion in the end of module

Development

• to update ePortfolio in teams

• to reflect each project properly

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Examples

• ePortfolio in Padlet: https://padlet.com/jiri_luojukoski/1700

• Personal internet pages: https://sites.google.com/view/jiriluojukoski/home?authuser=0

Common for Bioeconomy engineering students:• Internet pages:

https://sites.google.com/view/biotaloudeninsinoorit/etusivu

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Biotalousinssit/• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/biotalousinssit/