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Kirstie Coolin: We are all individuals! knowledge exchange, open data, portfolios and discovery in an accessible employabiity ecosystem
1. We are all Individuals!
Knowledge exchange, open data,
portfolios and discovery in an accessible
employability ecosystem
Future Learners, New Opportunities and Technology
Nottingham 11th December 2012
Kirstie Coolin
Head of the Centre for International
ePortfolio Development (CIePD)
Libraries and Research and Learning
Resources
www.nottingham.ac.uk/eportfolio
2. Yes. We are
all individuals
I’m not
12/10/2012 Event Name and Venue 2
3. Are we heading toward homogenisation?
League tables/Rankings
Globalisation
Shrinking of subjects
Fees? Students as consumers?
Targeted/corporate research
Funding squeeze/
greater competition
What about
Personalisation, Lifelong 3
4. How can innovation and enterprise be
realised in this space?
How can we encourage opportunity and
develop a wide-ranging skills-base?
Won’t this be expensive?
How can we harness technology to
underpin learner journeys?
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5. Employability Ecosystem
Locating linked functions to support a
personalised “lifelong learning journey”
Linking: learner-centred ePortfolio functionality
with regional learning communities, connecting
employers, learners, education institutions and
careers services. Facilitating the networks and
communities required for learning and
progression.
Using: open standards, security, web
services, open data, semantic technology
6. These are the tools we have
Information
Content
Connections
People
Open data
Open standards
Web services
Mobile tech
Semantic web
OER
APIs
7. What does the infrastructure look like?
Data layer
Open data
Institutional/open Other available
Personal data E.g. Maps/transport
data data
Social networking Government
E.g. courses data E.g. OER
Profiles data/stats
Analytics social/profession
ePortfolio / Labour market
learning outcomes al networks
skills/competence Competences
Research/journals MOOC/courses
Badges Businesses
Grad destinations
Service layer – linked data/semantic, combined data sets, open standards, services
XCRI LEAP2A
Learner at
Competence LTI RSS HR-XML
the heart New data created via system use –
sent back to the service layer
Application layer
education course Any Other Consuming
research careers business Networks
institutions finders services / mobile
Richer personal connections, course
data, career information, business
intelligence, CRM, marketing, employer Kirstie Coolin
engagement, alumni, graduate University of Nottingham
December 2012
destination, employability etc.
8. Potential Outcomes?
• Richer knowledge & transparency
• Targeted and lightweight apps
• Better analytics
• Accessibility of data/information/knowledge
• Direct relationships between students/employers
• Better understanding of skills gaps and employer
requirements
• Networking for employability
• Find employment opportunities/placements
• Access to informal educational opportunities
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9. Thank You
Kirstie Coolin
Head of the Centre for International ePortfolio
Development (CIePD)
Libraries and Research and Learning Resources
www.nottingham.ac.uk/eportfolio
@ciepd
@kirstie_c
Notas do Editor
Sharon – talk about new projectKirstie – talk about open data / tech bit
The Centre for International ePortfolio Development at the University of Nottingham is developing the concept of an Employability Ecosystem. This describes a loose network of lightweight systems and services, flexibly joined through web services and open interoperability to provide individuals with access to information, content and the personal connections they need to manage their access to career/learning information, learning, transition into and out of education and employment. This concept has evolved through project work implementing ePortfolio and open standards with regional groups, connecting employers, learners, education institutions and careers services via a web-service enabled set of functions and interfaces.
The growth in open data initiatives, open standards, semantic web, webservice enabled websites and applications, mobile technology and applications means that there are opportunities to be creative with IT used for learning. These tools are available for individuals (with access to the web). How can these best be utilised to support implicit or explicit “lifelong learning”?Open data is a growing initiative worldwide, and more and more holders of data are becoming aware of the benefits of opening up their information in machine-readable formats. Education lags behind the pace of mobile app development, but there is a lot to be learned from this approach in terms of ‘hooking’ people into ultra-usable systems.
Common themes running through all this work include opening up data silos through use of open standards (such as Leap2A and XCRI) and web-service technology, and making use of seemingly peripheral open data sources available on the web. Educational institutions and government departments contain vast amounts of knowledge-related data, including learner-owned content. These data sources include courses information, ePortfolio-related data, research expertise, competence profiles and learner-destination data.Opening these up and applying open standards and service-oriented techniques and combining these through common vocabularies and ontologies with open data sources such as geographical positioning services, labour market information and trends, employment opportunities, transport and business information allows a powerful, and empowering, sub-strata of related information to be aggregated in numerous and unpredictable ways.