eportfolios for employability and human capital development - wplar 2012
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Employability ePortfolios with
Mahara
A Community-Based Solution for Adults WPLAR
July 26, 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
Sourcing - just use Google?
Sourcing on a BudgetGlenn Gutmacher 2007 Arbita02
Mining the Internet
Arbita01 p2
Changing models of learning
Bersin & Associates © July 2009 Bersin03 p4
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
RESEARCH PROJECT ePortfolio for Skilled
Immigrants and Employers
Pan Canadian Employer Focus Groups
Jan-Feb 2006
Benefits of ePortfolio
• Pre-employment
• Recruitment
• Human Capital Development– Employee Development– Performance Management– Talent Management– Succession Planning
Employer feedbackePortfolio as a tool to describe skills and knowledge
• Majority in favour– “digital matching service, living document, screening
tool, digital evidence of credentials and experience”
• Benefits:– Accessible documents of work accomplishments vs.
credentials– Pre-employment bridging tool, linked to LMI– Help standardize the language of competencies
• Acceptance Factors– Accuracy, consistency, ease of use
• Potential Issues– Time for creation and processing, privacy, content
maintenance, system integrity, overall responsibility...
• Good timing– Rising skills shortages, immigration levels
• Current examples– Job Banks and PSC system
• Benefits– Good potential: niche sectors, skill sets, countries– Transparent tool for diversity and equity– Early adopters could have hiring advantage– Ease/improve recruitment, reduce wrong hires
• Potential Barriers – Cost, regulatory body acceptance/validation, privacy,
ownership, process inertia, consistency
Employer feedbackOn the advisability of a broad ePortfolio system
• Acceptance Factors– Simplicity, accessibility, usefulness as a screening tool,
trust, confidentiality, standards, integration, flexibility, extensibility, government support, marketing, training
• Solutions– Fit eP into existing interviewing and hiring practices– Incremental approach with action research to measure
benefits– Make eP mandatory (!) with allowed exceptions for
inclusiveness
Employer feedbackOn the advisability of a broad ePortfolio system
Featured elements
• Portfolio building course– Video tutorials, support
• Templates– Pages (soon collections)
• Job Match Summary
• Fictional exemplar• Extensive use of Web 2.0
– YouTube, Screenr, LinkedIn…– Embed.ly as the glue
ADDITIONAL SLIDES
The “Mahoodle” ecosystem
Export artefacts(learning products)
“Single Sign On”
USER DRIVEN
INSTRUCTOR LED
Submit for recognitionLinks to artefacts & views; assignments, evidence for outcomes
The “Mahoodle” ecosystem
Export artefacts(learning products)
Blended learning•Synch/asynch, in class/online•Exposition•Assess for comprehension •Build knowledge
Collect, Select, Reflect…Artefacts, commentary, dialogueNetworks
Peers, mentors
Mahara tools:Blog, forum, views
“Single Sign On”
USER DRIVEN
INSTRUCTOR LED
Other Web 2.0 tools:
Human capitalEmployabilitySkills transferKSA asset building
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Submit for recognitionLinks to artefacts & views; assignments, evidence for outcomes
Showcase and assessment
Lifelong journey ownership“Small pieces, loosely joined”
StudentRecords
OnlineCredentialVerification
Job Boards, Recruitment
Sites
PersonalNetworks,
Communities
OnlineMentoringServices
LocalizedLabour Market
Information
Employer HRManagement
Systems
GovernmentInformation
Portals
ePortfolio
Web 2.0YouTubeLinkedInTwitter…
LMS Moodle,
D2L, etc.
On the horizon
• Self directed course, mobile access• Spin-offs• Open Badges
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
• Mahara User Group Canada– http://mahara.org/group/view.php?id=1008
• This presentation– http://bit.ly/aaeebl2012_dp
Adults in TransitionUse cases
• Immigrants• Twenty-somethings• Return to workers• Displaced workers• Career shifters• Mature workers
Different learning needs of adults?
• Relevance• Assessment, accreditation• Intervention window• Urgency• Vulnerability
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
Essential Skills ePortfolioProgram overview
• Adapt an existingpaper curriculum
• Leverage the “e” factor• Embed authentic ICT skills
– Useful software, accessible hardware– Digital identity literacy