Eportfolio in the community - ePIC 2011
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Career Portfolio Manitoba Community-based ePortfolio for Adult Employability ePIC 2011 July 2011 Don Presant
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Career Portfolio Manitoba
Community-based ePortfolio for Adult Employability
ePIC 2011July 2011
Don Presant
E-learning resources & services
Learning community support
Consulting
Learning AgentsAccelerated learning systems
Agenda
• Framing the initiative• Demo• Future steps and related Mahara
projects
Manitoba & CanadaSmall province in a small country
• Challenging geography• Diverse demographics
– French/English, Aboriginals, Immigrants
• Federal political structure• Manitoba: “Canada’s social science laboratory”
Regional solutionsInspiration for Manitoba
Careers Wales OnlineDetail page - ePortfolio Achievements
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
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
The “e” factorAdvantages and opportunities• Information Management
– Collecting, archiving, making different versions• Measurability
– 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
Essential Skills ePortfolioProgram overview
• Adapt the paper curriculum• Leverage the “e” factor• Embed authentic ICT skills
– Useful software, accessible hardware– Digital identity literacy
• Provide ongoing support
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
Choosing the platformThe “Mahoodle” ecosystem
Archiving
Collect, Select, Reflect…Artefacts, commentary, dialogueNetworks
Peers, mentors
Mahara toolsBlog, forum, views
USER DRIVEN
INSTRUCTOR LED
Other Web 2.0 tools
Human capital developmentEmployabilitySkills transferKSA asset buildingLifelong learning
Presenting
ImplementationOnline tour (careerportfolio.mb.ca)
Moving forwardMake it more usable
• Shorten curriculum, customize delivery– Retire Moodle (for now)– Versions: Full/accelerated/modular
• Improve skills inventory methodology• Stream learners
– Computer skills gap training
• Add more exemplars– Return to work, mature worker, Aboriginal...
• Document more fully– Manual, more/updated video tutorials
Next steps, over the horizonMahara as digital Swiss Army knife
• New Maharas for new needs– Professional Community of Practice– Multimedia project tool for high school students
• National charity: “science of agriculture”
– Digital Identity Management Project
• Partnerships– Athabasca University: “Portable pathways to
accessible futures”
• Mahara User Group Canada – Find it on mahara.org
Mahara as “thin hub”Dynamic interoperability via web services, etc.
ProfessionalBodies(CPD)
OnlineCredentialVerification
Job Boards, Recruitment
Sites
PersonalNetworks
OnlineMentoringServices
LocalizedLabour Market
Information
Employer HRManagement
Systems
ThinMahara
HubWeb 2.0YouTubeLinkedInTwitter…
GovernmentInformation
Portals
HELearningsystems
Larger OnlineCommunities TBA
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
