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Career Portfolio Manitoba
Community-based ePortfolio for Adult Employability
British ColumbiaJuly 2011
Don Presant
E-learning resources & services
Learning community support
Consulting
Learning AgentsAccelerated learning systems
What is ePortfolio?
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/e-portfolios
ePortfolio: product and process• Digital archive
• Showcase: celebration & assessment of learning– Education
• Acceptance/advanced standing, course requirement, graduation requirement
– Workplace• Hiring, HR development, professional development, project
team selection
FuturEd 2004
ePortfolio: product and process
• Assessment for learning (e.g. CLPA)
• Reflection, self-assessment
• Transferring skills, making transtions
• Coaching, collaborative learning
• Learning plans
• Knowledge Management
Potential for ePortfolio• Recognition of Prior Learning
– Record of education, work experience, knowledge of the field– Workplace Essential Skills, challenge readiness– Certifications, validations, skills demonstrations– Career counselling, career transition, workforce adjustment
• Online Learning Workbook– Self-directed “Personal Learning Environment”
• Open curricula, custom learning plans, JIT /continuous learning, benchmarking, building confidence
– Online coaching/mentoring, quicker formative feedback, quality monitoring– Video as a learning capture/reflection/demonstration tool
• Employment, career advancement, skills marketing– Web CV, Job Match Summary, being a “findable” resource (passive recruiting)– Professional branding, self-employment/small business marketing
• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)– Log learning activities, knowledge building, reflection, new ideas– Collect evidence of professional accomplishments– Learn with others in professional Communities of Practice
Regional solutionsInspiration for Manitoba
Career Portfolio ManitobaCurrent stakeholders: WEM & WPLAR
• Nonprofit partnerships of Government, Business and Labour
• WEM: workplace education in Essential Skills• WPLAR: workplace Recognition of Prior
Learning
wplar.ca
wem.mb.ca
Canada’s Essential SkillsContextualized by workplace occupation…1. Reading text2. Document use3. Writing4. Numeracy5. Digital skills6. Oral communication7. Thinking skills
– Problem Solving, Decision Making, Critical Thinking, Job Task Planning and Organizing, Significant Use of Memory, Finding Information
8. Working with others9. Continuous learning
The Essential Skills Portfolio Origins and character
• First immigrants, now “general”– Career changers (younger, older..)
• Reflection on life-wide learning of Essential Skills for employability
• Build confidence, improve “skills dialogue”– Make resumes & cover letters clearer, more credible– Preparation tool for interviews
• More than ES: attitudes, specialized skills• Product: ring binder, from electronic templates• 18 hours class time + c. 18 hours of homework
The “e” factorAdvantages and opportunities• Information Management
– Collecting, archiving, making different versions• Measurability
– Frameworks, rubrics, summative tracking• Interoperability
– Communication with other ICT systems via APIs, open standards• Sharing
– “One to many”, digital copies, links to specific pages• Multimedia
– Video, audio, digital images, online presentations…and scanned docs
• Internet skills– Online research: documents, networks, Internet literacy
• Collaboration– Easy to add comments, edit, mentor, coach
• Personal Learning Environment– Integrated learning environment, professional network, digital identity
Essential Skills ePortfolioProgram overview
• Adapt the paper curriculum• Leverage the “e” factor• Embed authentic ICT skills
– Useful software, accessible hardware– Digital identity literacy
• Provide ongoing support
Vision for Career Portfolio ManitobaCareer development for life
• For all Manitobans• Learner owned• Lifelong• Lifewide: home, community, school, work...• Based on (not restricted to) Essential Skills• Built through partnerships of stakeholders, with
WEM and WPLAR as “anchor tenants”• Globally aware, locally relevant
Choosing the platformThe “Mahoodle” ecosystem
Archiving
Collect, Select, Reflect…Artefacts, commentary, dialogueNetworks
Peers, mentors
Mahara toolsBlog, forum, views
USER DRIVEN
INSTRUCTOR LED
Other Web 2.0 tools
Human capital developmentEmployabilitySkills transferKSA asset buildingLifelong learning
Presenting
ImplementationOnline tour (careerportfolio.mb.ca)
Benefits for workers• Self-assessment, personal reflection• “Digital evidence bank” to support
professional goals and consideration of alternative goals
• Personal space for learning and building knowledge
• Develop communication skills• Build business network, personal “brand”
Relevance to employers Similar needs, different labels...
• eSourcing/eRecruitment tools– Résumé Importing/Exporting/Searching– Assessments & Applicant Screening– Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
• Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS/HRIS)
• Onboarding (orientation) tools• Talent Development• Performance Management• Workforce Adjustment
Benefits for regulatory bodies• Visibility, transparency of process
– (esp. with exemplars)
• Holistic view of applicant– Authentic valorization of experience
• Potential for overseas engagement• Provide value-added service to applicant
– Process & product supports career development– Tool for ongoing PD
• Ongoing services for registered members:– Showcase, Continuing Professional Development
Mahara as “thin hub”Dynamic interoperability via web services, etc.
ProfessionalBodies(CPD)
OnlineCredentialVerification
Job Boards, Recruitment
Sites
PersonalNetworks
OnlineMentoringServices
LocalizedLabour Market
Information
Employer HRManagement
Systems
ThinMahara
HubWeb 2.0YouTubeLinkedInTwitter…
GovernmentInformation
Portals
HELearningsystems
Larger OnlineCommunities TBA
