“Competency-Based ePortfolios:Career Passport of the Future?”

eLearning GuildMarch 26, 2010

Greg Williams, Ed.D.

www.gregwilliams.net

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Expcectations

How Teaching Online is Different

Why This Presentation?

Why This Presentation?

• It’s personal • Don’t learn the hard way • Unpredictable future

Career Tool

What’s a Career Portfolio?

• Career tool• Documentation of performance • Range of skills & competencies • Increasingly important

Artifacts

Why Have

aPortfolio?

Why have a Portfolio?

• More employers & clients requiring• Telling vs. demonstrating• Communicates competence uniquely• Marketing & evaluation tool• Meet Ciaran

Start With a Career Goal

• What job do you want• Identify KSAs • Skill or experience gap?

Why Do I Need Goals?

Different GoalsDifferent Portfolios

Aligning Competencies withProfessional Standards

• Identify standards• Professional Associations• Company or organization

Competencies

• Career planning & talent mgt.• Coaching• Delivering training• Designing learning• Facilitating organizational change

Competencies

• Improving human performance• Managing organizational knowledge• Managing the learning function• Measuring and evaluating

Missing Competency?

MissingCompetency?

Technology Competencies

• Technology• Authoring tools• eLearning development & delivery• Employers defer to tech skills

Anticipating Needs

Think Like a Hiring Manager

• Problems to be solved• Results, not activity• Multiple roles & skills• Project mgt.• Business results

Choosing What Goes Inside

Selecting Portfolio Items

• Consistent with your goals• Address a business need• Results oriented• Measurable• Think like a hiring manager

OK to Be Different

Creating Artifacts

• Top Ten Career Accomplishments• Documenting accomplishments• Existing artifacts • Organize by competency

Linking Artifacts to Results

• Linking artifacts to org results• Alignment : Org>Dept>You• Measurable results• Similar to drafting objectives

Portfolio Issues

• Not organized well• Artifacts not labeled• Viewers don’t understand

C-CAR

C-CAR

C ompetency

C ontext

A ction

R esults

C-CAR Format

C ompetency: Identify the competency

C ontext : Describe situation

A ction: Describe what you did & why

R esults: Describe outcomes, use measurable results if possible

C-CAR Format Example 1

C ompetency: Designing Learning

C ontext : Sales revenue down after hiring new sales reps

A ction: Created company’s first online sales training course

R esults: Sales revenue rose 24.7% Qtr. after course implemented

C-CAR Format Example 2

C ompetency: Delivering Learning

C ontext : Remote staff can’t get training. New employees making 27% more errors processing claims

A ction: Taught company’s first online course in claims processing

R esults: Claims processing errors reduced by 17% after course implemented

Portfolios in Job Search & Interviews

• Link to resume• Interview predictions• Select appropriate artifacts• C-CAR method• Follow-up with artifacts

Portfolios in Employee Evaluations

• Way to document your performance• Solicit feedback & documentation• Annual goals – create 2-3 artifacts

ManagingYour

CareerPortfolio

Creating anePortfolio

Not Hard?

ePortfolios

• Why have one?• Uses• Public or private• Expertise, time, money • Available Tools

Visual CV

Summary

• Y• C• T• B

Hot Competencies

• Authoring tools• eLearning experience• Instructional design• SME • industry experience • versatility

Adobe Acrobat Pro

ePortfolio – Acrobat Pro

• No Website needed• No programming skills• PDFs• Can add video and audio

Acrobat Pro Screenshot

Acrobat Pro Screenshot

Acrobat Sample Layout

Add Multi-Media

Managing Large Files

• Mail Big File• Drop Send• You Send It• Google Documents

Don’t Leave Your Career to Chance

Should I Do This?

No Silver Bullet

Final Thoughts

• 30 yr gold watch is gone• Manage your career• Be a futurist• Adapt, learn, grow• Take action

Questions & Discussion

Greg Williams, Ed.D.

Assistant ProfessorUniv. of Maryland

greg@gregwilliams.net

www.gregwilliams.net