career portfolio manitoba - moodlemoot.de 2011 elmshorn, germany
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Community-based employability ePortfolio. As delivered online April 14, 2011TRANSCRIPT
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Career Portfolio Manitoba
Essential Skills ePortfolio for Employability
Moodle Moot ElmshornApril 14, 2011
Don Presant
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German connection1967 -> 2007
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Manitoba,CanadaSmall province in a small country
• Challenging geography– 650,000 sq km (UK x 2)
• Diverse demographics– 1.18 m (712K in Winnipeg)– Aboriginals, immigrants
• Diverse economy• Federal political structure• “Canada’s social science laboratory”• A bit damp...
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Stakeholders:WEM & WPLARWorkplace Education Manitoba, Workplace PLAR
• Nonprofit partnerships of Government, Business and Labour
• WEM: workplace education in Essential Skills
• WPLAR: workplace Recognition of Prior Learning
wplar.ca
wem.mb.ca
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Canada’s Essential SkillsContextualized by workplace occupation…
1. Reading text2. Document use3. Writing4. Numeracy5. Computer skills6. Oral communication7. Thinking skills
– Problem Solving, Decision Making, Critical Thinking, Job Task Planning and Organizing, Significant Use of Memory, Finding Information
8. Working with others9. Continuous learning
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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
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Building the ES portfolio Extracting value from experience
1. Identify life experiences 2. Self reflect to draw out human capital
• “KSAs”: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes
3. Write outcome statements for your KSAs4. Group into areas of expertise5. 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)
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Building your portfolio- one step at a time
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The “e” factorAdvantages and opportunities
• Information Management– Collecting, archiving, making different versions
• Measureability– 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
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Vision for Career Portfolio ManitobaCareer development for life
• 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
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Choosing the platformThe “Mahoodle” ecosystem
Archiving
Collect, Select, Reflect…Artefacts, commentary, dialogueNetworks
Peers, mentors
Mahara tools:Blog, forum, views
USER DRIVEN
INSTRUCTOR LED
Other Web 2.0 tools:
Human capital developmentEmployabilitySkills transferKSA asset buildingLifelong learning
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Presenting
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Essential Skills ePortfolioProgram overview
• Adapt the paper curriculum• Leverage the “e” factor• Embed authentic ICT skills
– Useful software applications– Accessible multimedia hardware
• Provide ongoing support
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ImplementationOnline tour
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ImplementationWorksheets
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ImplementationJob match summary
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Early steps
• Pilot– Learners– “Train the trainer”
• Rework curriculum
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Current stateLessons learned and learning
• Make it more usable– Shorten curriculum, customize delivery
• Full vs. accelerated versions
– Improve worksheet methodology– Triage learners
• Computer skills gap training
– More exemplars• Caucasian, Aboriginal...
– Document more fully• Manual, more/updated videos
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Next steps
• Explore more ways to extend Mahara – Framework for Moodle 2.0, LinkedIn,
GoogleApps– But keep it accessible...
• Polish the business plan– Scope provincewide user support needs – other
data?
• Build partnerships
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• Other non-profits• Sector Councils • Post secondary institutions• Provincial government departments• Federal departments/agencies• Individual employers
Potential partners
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Community of communities“Small pieces, loosely joined”
StudentRecords
OnlineCredentialVerification
Job Boards, Recruitment
Sites
PersonalNetworks,
Communities
OnlineMentoringServices
LocalizedLabour Market
Information
Employer HRManagement
Systems
GovernmentInformation
Portals
MahoodleHub
Web 2.0YouTubeLinkedInTwitter…
eGovernmentSingle Window
Service
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Further reading• Presentations about Career Portfolio
Manitoba– http://bit.ly/CPMBpresentations
• MyPortfolio http://myportfolio.ac.nz/ – Report: http://bit.ly/g8JLLQ
• MOSEP http://www.mosep.org/– Toolbox (curr/report): http://bit.ly/MOSEP_toolbox
• EIfEL - www.epforum.eu/• ePortfolio Community of Practice (AUS)
– http://epcop.net.au
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Useful links• Career Portfolio Manitoba
– http://careerportfolio.mb.ca– http://bit.ly/eP_example
• Workplace Education Manitoba– http://wem.mb.ca
• WPLAR– http://wplar.ca
• Contact emails:– Don Presant, Learning Agents Inc.
• [email protected] (Twitter: donpresant)
– Linda Maxwell, Keystone Adult Education Services Inc.• [email protected]
– Phyllis Mann, Workplace Education Manitoba• [email protected]