eportfolios for educational assistants

Employability ePortfolios with

Mahara

Transition to the workplace for Educational AssistantsRed River College

September 12, 2012

Don Presant

Human Capital Technology• eSourcing/eRecruitment tools

– Résumé Importing/Exporting/Searching– Assessments & Applicant Screening– Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)

• Onboarding (orientation) tools• Performance/Talent Management Systems

– Workplace learning, human capital development

• Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS/HRIS)

Adapted from http://www.recruitersnetwork.com/software/index.htm

EmployersHuman Capital Management

Web 2.0, social software“Publish yourself”

Sarah Stewarthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t2dXPb9Wc8&feature=relatedTheo Ramseyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT1XYjZcmck

One page version…

http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/e-portfolios

ePortfolios and resumes

(Courtesy FuturEd)

Benefits of “e”

• Information Management capabilities– Collecting, archiving, making different versions

• Integration with Internet skills– Online research: documents, networks– Internet literacy

• Easy to share– “one to many”, digital copies, links to specific pages

• Collaboration– Easy to add comments, edit, mentor, coach

• Measurement– Link to frameworks, rubrics, track learning over time

• Easy to illustrate/demonstrate with multimedia• Can integrate with other ICT systems• Builds personal network, grooms digital identity

Applications for Adults

• Pre-employment– Getting hired

• Workplace development– Career advancement, performance management

• Recognition of Prior Learning– Challenge for credit

• Continuing Professional Development• Knowledge portfolios• Life portfolios

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

Regional solutionsInspiration for Manitoba

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

Featured elements

• Portfolio building course– Video tutorials, support

• Templates– Copyable pages and collections

• Job Match Summary

• Fictional exemplar• Extensive use of Web 2.0

– YouTube, Screenr, LinkedIn…– Embed.ly as the glue

Next Steps

• Self Directed Essential Skills ePortfolio– Online version

• Mobile ePortfolio• ePortfolio Gallery• Open Badges

How to enrolCareer Portfolio Manitoba is a free service

http://careerportfolio.mb.ca

Contact Information:Phyllis MannProgram CoordinatorWorkplace Education Manitoba1000 Waverley Street, Winnipeg, MB Tel: 204-272-5044PMann@wem.mb.ca

don@learningagents.caTwitter: donpresant

Skype: dpresant

Don Presant

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