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Career Portfolio
Manitoba
Community-based ePortfolio for Adult
Employability
CAPLA
November 2011
Don Presant
E-learning resources & services
Learning community support
Consulting
Learning Agents Accelerated 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 transitions
• Coaching, collaborative learning
• Learning plans
• Knowledge Management
Personal Planning and Learning Online Locker, Interactive Workbook
• Online archive
– Personal & downloaded documents
– Links to useful websites
• Resources for self-directed learning
– Webinars, videos, self-assessment surveys
• Learning plans and tracking tools
– Set goals and track progress to them (Learning Plans)
– Keep records of learning activities over time (CPD)
• Personal journal
– Reflect on goals and alternative futures
– Keep ad hoc “notes to self”, prepare agendas, etc.
• Ongoing Personal Learning Environment (PLE)
Employment & related purposes Demonstrate, assess & improve Human Capital
• Qualification Recognition
– Initial, formative, summative assessment
• Academic recognition
– PLAR/RPL for courses and programs )
• Career Development
– Gap analysis, exploration of alternatives, building pathways
• Employment (Web CV)
– Hiring, career advancement, team building tool for employers
• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
– Tracking ongoing learning activities and reflection on practice
– Recertification
ePortfolio & industry-based PLAR Small “r” recognition
• A workforce development strategy based on: – Recognizing learning regardless of where it was acquired
– Actively seeking evidence of learning in individuals to enhance their opportunities
• Specific applications: – Recruitment
– Process/role/workstation qualification, team building
– Training needs identification
– Internal promotion
– Regulatory and certification compliance
– Performance management
– Talent management, succession planning
RPL around the world
UK: QCF, WBL, PDP, CPD...
Professional Example Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Regional solutions Inspiration for Manitoba
Career Portfolio Manitoba Current 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 Skills Contextualized by workplace occupation…
1. Reading 2. Document use 3. Writing 4. Numeracy 5. Digital technology 6. Oral communication 7. Thinking skills
– Problem Solving, Decision Making, Critical Thinking, Job Task Planning and Organizing, Significant Use of Memory, Finding Information
8. Working with others 9. 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” factor Advantages 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 ePortfolio Program overview
• Beyond the paper portfolio
• Leverage the “e” factor
• Embed authentic ICT skills – Useful software, accessible hardware
– Digital identity literacy
• Short and modular – 6 x 3 hours
• Provide support, ongoing learning opportunities – Email, telephone support
– Refresher clinics, master classes
Vision for Career Portfolio Manitoba Career 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 owners”
• Globally aware, locally relevant
Implementation Online tour (careerportfolio.mb.ca)
Choosing the platform The “Mahoodle” ecosystem
Archiving
Collect, Select, Reflect… Artefacts, commentary, dialogue Networks
Peers, mentors
Mahara tools Blog, forum, views
USER DRIVEN
INSTRUCTOR LED
Other Web 2.0 tools
Human capital
development Employability
Skills transfer
KSA asset building
Lifelong learning
Presenting
Benefits for adults in transition “Career companion”
• 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”
Benefits for unengaged employers Electronic recruitment tool
• Scaffolded solution for the Manitoba workplace
– Works with LinkedIn, job boards & other solutions
already used for electronic recruitment
– Candidate evaluation can begin overseas
• Professional Page = quick, easy dashboard
– Links to further detail and downloadable resume
• Deeper, richer “Web CV” rewards closer study
– More complete picture of the candidate
– Authentic demonstrations of skills and knowledge
• Job Match Summary simplifies assessment
– Rubric aligns with employer’s original job description
Benefits for engaged employers Recruitment and beyond
• 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
Open source alternative to... Electronic human capital management
• Visibility, transparency – (esp. with exemplar case studies)
• Holistic view of applicant – Authentic valorization of experience
• Overseas engagement?
• Value-added service to candidate – Process & product supports career development
– Tool for ongoing PD
• Ongoing services for registered members – Showcase, Continuing Professional Development
Benefits for regulatory bodies Supporting fairness, providing utility
Open Badges Essential Skills and...
Mahara as a “thin hub” Dynamic interoperability via web services, etc.
Professional
Bodies
(CPD)
Online
Credential
Verification
Job Boards,
Recruitment
Sites
Personal
Networks
Online
Mentoring
Services
Localized
Labour Market
Information
Employer HR
Management
Systems
Thin
Mahara
Hub Web 2.0 YouTube
Twitter…
Government
Information
Portals
HE
Learning
systems
Larger Online
Communities TBA
Career Portfolio Manitoba Provincewide solution for adults in transition
• Based on Essential Skills
– Not a straitjacket - a focus for employability
– Plenty of space for individual attributes,
positive attitudes, speciality skills and knowledge
• User friendly
– For individuals and employers
– Can be “simple and easy” or “rich and deep”
• Well supported
– Hands-on portfolio building program
– Exemplars, step by step video tutorials, ongoing user support
• Open source and global: getting better...and better...
– Flexibility & sustainable continuous improvement
