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Career Portfolio Manitoba Essential Skills ePortfolio for Employability Moodle Moot Elmshorn April 14, 2011 Don Presant
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Community-based employability ePortfolio. As delivered online April 14, 2011
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Career Portfolio Manitoba
Essential Skills ePortfolio for Employability
Moodle Moot ElmshornApril 14, 2011
Don Presant
German connection1967 -> 2007
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...
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
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
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
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)
Building your portfolio- one step at a time
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
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
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
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
ImplementationOnline tour
ImplementationWorksheets
ImplementationJob match summary
Early steps
• Pilot– Learners– “Train the trainer”
• Rework curriculum
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
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
• Other non-profits• Sector Councils • Post secondary institutions• Provincial government departments• Federal departments/agencies• Individual employers
Potential partners
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
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
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]
