Web conferencing to boost employability in the 21st C

‘Student4WebES’

Ellen Lessner

e-Learning Coordinator

Emma Procter-Legg

Project Manager

The role of web conferencing to boost employability

• Quick activity:What experience do you have of webinars [video conferencing] ?

• 1 None or very few• 2 I have participated in a number of

webinars• 3 I have presented in a webinar

[Circle the number and hold up your paper]

What were our aims?

Student4WebES

Student webinar skills = employability

Evolution of our recognition of employability skills for the 21st century

Employers involved in the project:

What did we learn from the initial project?

What did the students think?

Over to you, Mamps

What are we doing now?

Embedding what we learned

• Highlight the key employability skills identified in webinars by the employers who took part in our first project & create easy to use video clips.

• Produce a well structured and resourced blended learning course to teach students the skills of setting up and running a webinar as a 21st century digital employability skill.

How you can help

• Follow our progress (blog and website) and complete the poll located on the blog

• Help us evaluate the webinar skills training course that we create (L3)

• Consider piloting the course

ellen.lessner@ abingdon-witney.ac.uk

Questions?

For more information:

Blog: http://students4webes.blogspot.co.uk/

Google Site: https://sites.google.com/site/students4webes/

Project Leader: Ellen.Lessner@Abingdon-witney.ac.uk