e-skills passports at Eastleigh College:

Identifying skills gaps and targeting

training

Robert Walker

Customer Support Services Manager

Emma MacAulay

E-Learning Facilitator

• Why e-skills passports?

• What are e-skills passports?

• Creating the Eastleigh College profile

• Implementation at Eastleigh College

• Results and follow-up activity

Overview

Why e-skills passports?

• Weakness identified in Ofsted Inspection May 2006:

“little use of ILT in teaching and learning”

• Internal /external SAR process January 2007:

e-learning downgraded to a 4

• Serious need to improve e-learning at Eastleigh

• Improve recording of usage of e-learning

e.g in SoW, lesson observations, curriculum SARs

• Purchase additional hardware and software

e.g projectors, laptops, Sympodium, Qwizdom

• Develop role of E-Learning Facilitator

Actions taken to improve e-learning

• Need to identify skills gaps and target training

• EM and RW attended briefing on e-skills passports

at JISC RSC SE SELN meeting in October 2006

• Decided e-skills passports just the ticket!

• N.B. Eastleigh not involved in first wave of

passports

• N.B. 150 free passports as part of Provider for the

Future initiative

e-skills passports atEastleigh College

• National scheme developed by e-skills UK

(Sector Skills Council for IT and Telecoms industries)

• Self-assessment of IT/ILT skills

• 17 preset skills

• 5 levels of competence within each skill

• Self-checking questions within each level of

competence

What are e-skills passports?

• 17 preset skills to choose from

• Possibility of adding own skills

• EM, RW and Artie V-N discussed and decided skills

• Teacher’s profile consisting of 10 skills: 8 preset, 2

bespoke

Creating the EastleighCollege teacher’s profile

Operate a computer Word processing software

Specialist/bespoke software

IT troubleshooting for users

Spreadsheet software Make selective use of IT

IT maintenance for users

Database software Evaluate the impact of IT

IT security for users Website software Use IT systems

Internet and intranets Artwork and imaging software

Use IT to exchange info

E-mail Presentation software

The 17 preset skills

Word processing software

IT troubleshooting for users

Spreadsheet software

IT maintenance for users

Use IT systems

Artwork and imaging software

Use IT to exchange info

Presentation software

The 8 we chose…

• None of the preset skills specific to e-learning

• Added 2 bespoke skills

– Moodle

– Using e-learning tools

The 2 bespoke skills

Setting the levels for theteacher’s profile

• Mass roll-out to teachers on INSET Day March 2007

• Presentation to staff about rationale and how to

complete

• Staff taken to computer rooms to complete their

passports

• Each room supervised by a briefed IT Technician

• EM, RW and Nick Sweetman from e-skills UK on

hand

Implementing e-skillspassports at Eastleigh

• Over 100 passports completed on the day

• Line Manager approval built into the system

• Line Managers briefed about approval process

• Non-attendees and new starters chased up

• Now 150+ e-skills passports completed

Implementing e-skillspassports at Eastleigh

Completing an e-skillspassport

Teacher’s profile

Five levels of competence

Self-checking questions

Results – skills capabilities

Results –skills gap ranking

Results –skills gap ranking for one area

• Identifying skills gaps was the first step

• Targeting training is the real purpose

• Part of the new CPD log for all teaching staff

• Part of the performance management system(lesson observation, probation, appraisal)

Using e-skills passports

• EM able to use passports as focus of training

• Individual training sessions

• Group training sessions

• Training logged and passports amended

• Booklets to supplement face-to-face training

• Certificates for those achieving the full profile!

Follow-up activity

• Identify skills gaps

• Provide focus for training

• Simple to set up and use

• Contribute towards overall culture of e-learning

Benefits of e-skills passports

Thank you for listening

Any questions?

Robert Walker and Emma MacAulay