As presented in Winnipeg November 21, 2012

1. Don Presant Phyllis Mann
Career Portfolio Manitoba
Essential Skills ePortfolio
for Employability
Let’s Get to Work
November 22, 2012

2. Workplace Education Manitoba
& WPLAR
• Nonprofit partnerships of Government,
Business and Labour
• WEM: workplace education in Essential
Skills
• WPLAR: workplace Recognition of Prior
Learning
wem.mb.ca
wplar.ca

3. Learning Agents
Technology-enhanced learning
Video & multimedia learning resources
E-learning services
Consulting

4. Agenda
1. Why an ePortfolio?
2. An Essential Skills ePortfolio
3. Career Portfolio Manitoba today
4. Next steps / On the horizon

5. Why an ePortfolio?

6. @timbuckteeth http://scoop.intel.com/what-happens-in-an-internet-minute/ 20120313

7. Social Media and Recruiting

8. LinkedIn statistics: Jan 2012
• Started 2003
• Currently 175m+
• 2 new members per second
• 5m+ in Canada (+39.5% 2011->2012)
• 2m+ companies have LinkedIn pages
• Includes executives from 100% of Fortune 500
• 85% of Fortune 100 use its hiring solutions
• Acquired Slideshare in May 2012

9. Managing your digital identity

10. Employer feedback
ePortfolio as a tool to describe skills and knowledge
• Majority in favour
– “digital matching service, living document, screening tool,
digital evidence of credentials and experience”
– “Good timing with rising skills shortages, immigration levels”
• Potential benefits:
– Accessible documents of work accomplishments vs. credentials
– Pre-employment bridging tool, linked to LMI
– Help standardize the language of competencies
– Transparent tool for diversity and equity
– Ease/improve recruitment, reduce wrong hires
– Early adopters could have hiring advantage
2006

11. Human Capital Management
A competitive marketplace

12. Human Capital Technology
• eSourcing/eRecruitment tools
– Résumé Importing/Exporting/Searching
– Assessments & Applicant Screening
– Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
• Onboarding (orientation) tools
• Performance/Talent Management Systems
• Human Resource Management Systems
(HRMS/HRIS)
Adapted from http://www.recruitersnetwork.com/software/index.htm

13. Video
ePortfolio at LaGuardia

14. What is ePortfolio?
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/e-portfolios

15. Personal Planning and Learning
Online Locker, Interactive Workbook
• Online archive
– Personal & downloaded documents, links
• Resources for self-directed learning
– Webinars, videos, self-assessment surveys
• Learning plans and tracking tools
– Set goals and track progress to them (Learning Plans)
– Keep records of learning activities over time (CPD)
• Personal journal
– Reflect on goals and alternative futures
– Keep ad hoc “notes to self”, prepare agendas, etc.
• Ongoing Personal Learning Environment (PLE)
– “Continuous Learning Environment”

16. Employment & related purposes
Demonstrate, assess & improve Human Capital
• Qualification Recognition
– Initial, formative, summative assessment
• Academic recognition
– PLAR/RPL for courses and programs
• Career Development
– Gap analysis, exploration of alternatives, building pathways
• Employment (Web CV)
– Hiring, career advancement, team building tool for employers
• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
– Tracking ongoing learning activities and reflection on practice
– Recertification

17. Post-secondary RPL
Model example: Athabasca

18. An Essential Skills
ePortfolio

19. Essential Skills ePortfolio
Program overview
• For Adults in Transition
• Leverage the “e” factor
• Accessible and authentic ICT
– Free software
– Accessible multimedia hardware
• Provide ongoing learning support
– Gap training / PD for SMART goals using Moodle

20. Vision for Career Portfolio Manitoba
Lifelong development
• All Manitobans
• Learner owned
• Personal and public purposes
• 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

21. Career Portfolio Manitoba
today

22. Featured elements
• Portfolio building course
– Video tutorials, support
• Templates
– Pages (soon collections)
– Job Match Summary
• Extensive use of Web 2.0
– YouTube, Screenr, LinkedIn…
– Embed.ly as the glue
• Fictional exemplar
• Growing gallery of real examples

23. Demonstration

24. Notes for Demo
• Rommuel
– Profile, Professional, MM, Essential Skills worksheet,
Job Match Summary
• Gallery
– Elevators, showcases
• Course
– Run-through
– Essential Skills
– Enhancing
– Using your ePortfolio

25. Next steps &
on the horizon

26. Next Steps
• Self-directed online course
• Google Apps
• Mobile
– MaharaDroid, PortfolioUp

27. On the horizon
• Skills marketplace
• Self assessment tools
• Open Badges
• Recursive learning
– Mahoodle

28. Skills marketplace
“Finnishing School”

29. The Open Badges Initiative
Accessibility and transparency
Richard Wyles, Totara LMS at MaharaUK12
http://maharauk.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=117

30. Open Badges
Capturing the learning path
• Illustrates the learning path rather than
aggregated assessments
• Badges can be more granular, aligned to a
specific achievement
• Portable, alternative certification model
Wyles, 2012

31. Open Badges
Visual recognition of achievement
• Perceived value will differ based on the “use
case”, or community. A wide variety of badge
systems will emerge;
– Formal education
– Professional bodies
– Peer to peer recognition
– Corporate, workplace learning
• Infrastructure to support diversity of contexts
with better robustness and connection to Issuer.
Wyles, 2012

32. http://neilhammond.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/open-bad
Open Badges
Potential for a new skills economy
•
 Evolve, affect formal education
 Employers & learners may prefer it to standard CV structures
Wyles, 2012

33. What is ePortfolio?
Where we started
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/e-portfolios

34. careerportfolio.mb.ca
pmann@wem.mb.ca
don@learningagents.ca
PRESENTATION SUPPORT PAGE
bit.ly/ep4work