ePortfoliosfor Adults

(and Other Humans)

Manitoba Adult Secondary Education Council (ASEC)

October 25, 2013

E-learning resources & services

Learning community support

Consulting

Learning AgentsAccelerated learning systems

http://bit.ly/DonPresant_ePortfolio

Why are we talking about ePortfolios?

http://blog.qmee.com/qmee-online-in-60-seconds/

TheRead-Write Webhas changed the Internet from:

• a shopping mall

• an encyclopedia

• a television

To a place where we personalize our experience and leave our footprints behind

Résumés and CVs on Job Boards become…

Xelcise, Creative Commons/Flickr

Human Capital ManagementeSourcing, Applicant Tracking, Talent Management

eSourcing is SocialEmployers want to find you

techvibes.com

Digital Dirt…

Developing Digital Citizens Alex Couros 2012

Digital Identity

Sage on the Stage…

Photo Credit: US Mission Geneva via Compfight cc

Personalized LearningFlipped Classroom and the Read/Write Web

YouTube and Facebook in Nursing Education by Laura Killam on Prezi

Digital Technology: the air we breatheThe New Essential Skill

Defining Essential Digital Skills in the Canadian Workplace

PIAAC: PS-TREProblem Solving in Technology Rich Environments

• Digital technologies have transformed the way we communicate, learn and work (and solve problems)

• Many of us lack the skills to use them effectively

• “Enabling technologies” also become part of the problems we have to solve

http://bit.ly/PS-TRE

OK, but what ISan ePortfolio?

ePortfolio = your Personal SpaceFor formal, non-formal and informal learning

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

What is ePortfolio?Process vs. Product

http://electronicportfolios.org/balance/Balancing.jpg

Key Message:ePortfolios can be FOR and OF Learning

FOR Learning OF Learning

focused on process focused on product

supports learning demonstrates learning

private workshop public shop window

a learning environment a showcase of learning achievements

learning activities learning outcomes

formative assessment summative assessment

lower stakes higher stakes

ePortfolio OF LearningSubmission for credit: Athabasca

Link to site

ePortfolio FOR LearningHigh School project, New Zealand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpizeSoeNT0

Learner OwnershipTaking control of the story of your life

Helen Barrett

http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/11873587

Virtual companion for 21C learning

http://www.slideshare.net/4nitsirk/mahara-open-source-eportfolio-application

Lifelong, lifewide

• K-12– Primary, Middle, High School

• PSE and beyond– College, university, professional development

• Workplace– Sourcing, hiring, developing, grooming

• Community– Volunteering

• Personal– Interests, experiences

ePortfolio and ALFIePortfolios are Adult Learning “Friendly”

• Outreach– Overcome barriers in time, place, and tradition in order to create lifelong access

• Life & Career Planning• Financing• Assessment of Learning Outcomes

– Knowledge, skills, and competencies – from the curriculum and life and work experience

• Teaching-Learning Process– Multiple methods to connect curriculum to useful knowledge and skills

• Student Support Systems– Enhance students’ capacities to become self-directed, lifelong learners

• Technology– Enhance the learning experience

• Strategic Partnerships– Employers and other organizations

• Transitions– Guided pathways

More than paper: Benefits of “e”The “Flexible Binder” for the 21st Century

• Information Management capabilities– Collecting, archiving, sharing, multiple versioning– Quick links to cross-reference evidence – Accessible multimedia with free Web 2.0 tools– Align to frameworks, rubrics, track learning over time

• Social learning, digital identity– Building professional profile, Personal Learning network

• Digital technology skills, Internet literacy– Demonstrated by and within the ePortfolio

• Learning and collaboration integration– Online research: documents, networks– Easy to add comments, edit, mentor, coach

My take on PIAAC: PS-TREHow ePortfolios can help learners

Use technology, including the read-write web to:• Create a Personal Learning

Environment to set goals and develop your knowledge and skills to achieve those goals

• Connect with others to build your personal learning network

• Develop a positive digital identity

• Solve problems, learn, work and live an effective happy life

Multiple MediaFor authentic assessment

Eportfolios as flexible learning spaces - Allison Miller 2012

ePortfolio for High SchoolsSample activities and projects• Showcase, repository of artefacts and achievements

– Private/Shared/Public

• “Walled garden” for:– Reflection, critical thinking– Digital skill building, social skills and identity

• Assignment submission tool– Multimedia inquiry-based projects, group projects– Scaffolded knowledge construction– Incremental, monitored, commented

• Experiential learning tool– Work experience, community / volunteer

• Tool for transition– University entrance, employment, career advancement

Early Steps with Learners“Tell me about yourself” - Template

Our Lady’s Preston (UK)

Early Steps with Learners “Tell me about yourself” – Real example

Our Lady’s Preston (UK)

ePortfolio FOR and OF LearningAdmission to post-secondary

Summary Portfolio

Workbook

More examples and commentaryFrom my own “assignment page”

• John Creighton video– Class projects excerpt

• Teachers in training in the US:– Ecosystems by Christina Rosario– Differentiating Using 21st Century Tools by Kery– Multi-Step Equations and Inequalities by Brian Johnson

• Articles from New Zealand:– ePortfolios in High School English– Inquiry Based Learning (Google Apps and Mahara)– Constructivism in Year 11 Geography

Open BadgesThink: “online micro credential”

Richard Wyles, Totara LMS at MaharaUK12http://maharauk.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=117 Video: Chicago Summer of Learning

But wasn’t this supposed to be about

Career Portfolio Manitoba?

Career Portfolio ManitobaCommunity-based ePortfolio

• Nonprofit partnerships of Government, Business and Labour

• WEM: Workplace Education in Essential Skills

• WPLAR: Workplace Recognition of Prior Learning

wplar.ca

wem.mb.ca

Essential Skills ePortfolioProgram overview

• For Adults in Transition– Based on paper program

• Leverage the “e” factor

• Accessible and authentic ICT– Free software, accessible hardware

• “Lifelong”

Adults in TransitionUse cases

• Immigrants• Twenty-somethings• Return to workers• Displaced workers• Career shifters• Mature workers

Building the ES portfolio Extracting value from experience

1. Identify life experiences

2. Reflect to draw out human capital• “KSAs”: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes

3. Write outcome statements for your KSAs

4. Group into areas of expertise

5. Put it all together in a portfolio• Title page, table of contents, introduction• Lists: skills, examples & outcomes statements• Evidence-demonstrations, documentation• Resumes and cover letters• Goals and plans (SMART goals)

Demonstration

• Content tabs tour

• ePortfolios for Employability– Rommuel– Carol– David

• Course tour

Why did you choose Mahara?

Why Mahara?Personal Learning Environment

• Free Open Source Software (FOSS)– Free (like a puppy)– Controllable, predictable– Extendable, “clusterable” (Mahoodle, Google

Apps…)

• Designed for schools– National school implementation in NZ:

“MyPortfolio”

• Personalized– Flexible to varied purposes, not a one-size-fits-

all “tick the box” form

Why Mahara?Private social media network

Multi Mahara ExamplesSo far, all educational…

• MyPortfolio Schools (Kineo Pacific)– 1,211 institutions (201301), 85,575 users, 9,976 groups

• MyPortfolio Tertiary (Kineo Pacific)– 14 institutions, 13,381 users,1160 groups – Massey University: 9,000 users

• kyvyt.fi (Discendum)– >100 institutions, 25,000 users, 1,000 groups

• CLEO (One Connect Limited)– 154 institutions, 23,000 users, 874 groups

• Bute/Argyle Education Authority (EdICT)– 92 institutions, 7,081 users, 50* groups

MyPortfolio SchoolsThe largest community so far

Jan 2013: 1,211 institutions, 85,575 users, 9,976 groups

Hang on, let mereflect on this for a bit

DiscussionApplications for Adult Learning Centres?

• RPL?• Learning portfolio for courses?• Work placement tracking?• Transition planning?

– Further education? Employment?

• Complementary strategies?– Résumés and cover letters? Social media?

• Other alternatives?• Are the students ready?• What about the teachers?

Lifelong career development Revisiting the vision

• All Manitobans• Community-based, learner owned• Personal and public purposes• Lifewide: home, community, school,

work...• Based on (not restricted to) Essential Skills• Not by WEM/WPLAR alone

– Built through partnerships of stakeholders

Co-working spaces…Working side by side to co-inspire

uuushh.comCC deskmag

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Dojo spaces…Building Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes

Photo Credit: :: shodan :: via Compfight cc

Career Portfolio MB -> co-dojo.caAn inclusive co-working, co-learning space

Career Portfolio Manitob

a(WEM / WPLAR)

EducationalInstitutions

Other TrainingOrganizations

Other Stakehol

ders: Employe

rs, Regulators, etc.Learners

A new ePortfolio environmentFrom standalone ePortfolio system to…

Space in the dojoFrom one institutional space to…

co-dojo.ca

Many institutional spaces…

co-dojo.ca

In a learning community…

co-dojo.ca

Connected through the cloud…

co-dojo.ca

To the world outside

co-dojo.ca

co-dojo.caA learning community of communities

“Software as a Service” approach:• While institutions kick the tires:

– easier to explore and pilot ePortfolios for learning, alone and with others

• If institutions go forward:– lower cost, effort and risk to implement and

sustain

• Once an institution is up and running:– participation in a broader learning community– critical mass for employers and other

stakeholders– students keep their ePortfolios after graduation

OK, time’s up!Can you put it all together

now?

ePortfolio learningFormal, non-formal and informal

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

Personal Planning and LearningOnline Locker, Interactive Workbook

• Online archive– Personal & downloaded documents, links

• 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.

Employment & related purposesDemonstrate, 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

ePortfolios for credit?Example: Douglas College, BC

Disability & Community Studies (DACS) DepartmentDraft 2013

Personal Learning Environments

Eportfolios as flexible learning spaces - Allison Miller 2012

Don Presantdon@learningagents.ca

Twitter: donpresantSkype: dpresant

PRESENTATION SUPPORT PAGE:bit.ly/ep4adults