4. Benefits of “e”
• Information Management capabilities
– Collecting, archiving, making different versions
• Integration with Internet skills
– Online research: documents, networks
– Internet literacy
• Easy to share
– “one to many”, digital copies, links to specific pages
• Collaboration
– Easy to add comments, edit, mentor, coach
• Measurement
– Link to frameworks, rubrics, track learning over time
• Easy to illustrate/demonstrate with multimedia
• Can integrate with other ICT systems
• Builds personal network, grooms digital identity
5. ePortfolio: product and process
• Digital archive
• Showcase: celebration & assessment of learning
– Education
• Acceptance/advanced standing, course requirement,
graduation requirement
– Workplace
• Hiring, HR development, professional development, project
team selection
FuturEd 2004
6. ePortfolio: product and process
• Assessment for learning (e.g. CLPA)
• Reflection, self-assessment
• Transferring skills, making transtions
• Coaching, collaborative learning
• Learning plans
• Knowledge Management
7. 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”
8. 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
10. Career Portfolio Manitoba
Provincewide solution for adults in transition
• Based on Essential Skills
– Not a straitjacket - a focus for employability
• User friendly
– For individuals and employers
– Can be “simple and easy” or “rich and deep”
• Well supported
– Hands-on portfolio building program
– Exemplars, step by step video tutorials, ongoing user support
• Complementary to other programs
– e.g. Collaborative Language Portfolio Assessment (CLPA)
• Open source and global: always improving
– Flexibility & sustainable continuous improvement
12. Benefits for employment support
(Employment & Enhanced Language Learning)
• Web 2.0 social media tool
– Complementary to job boards
• Overseas potential
– Start addressing gaps earlier
• Capstone project for programs
– Show training outcomes & workplace readiness
• Ongoing support tool
– Self-directed learning, career advancement
• Service continuity
– Smooth hand-off after Year 1
13. Benefits for regulatory bodies
Supporting fairness, providing utility
• Visibility, transparency
– (esp. with exemplar case studies)
• Holistic view of applicant
– Authentic valorization of experience
• Overseas engagement?
• Value-added service to candidate
– Process & product supports career development
– Tool for ongoing PD
• Ongoing services for registered members
– Showcase, Continuing Professional Development (e.g. CME)
14. Benefits for employers
Electronic recruitment tool
• Scaffolded solution for the Manitoba workplace
– Works with LinkedIn, job boards & other solutions
already used for electronic recruitment
– Candidate evaluation can begin overseas
• Professional Page = quick, easy dashboard
– Links to further detail and downloadable resume
• Deeper, richer “Web CV” rewards closer study
– More complete picture of the candidate
– Authentic demonstrations of skills and knowledge
• Job Match Summary simplifies assessment
– Rubric aligns with employer’s original job description
15. Options for
English for Specific Purposes
• Refer learners to WEM’s Career Portfolio
Manitoba program
• Advocate for a solution that can directly
interoperate with ESP programs
16. Phyllis Mann
Program Coordinator for Essential
Skills for Immigrants
Workplace Education Manitoba
1000 Waverley Street
Tel: 272-5044
PMann@wem.mb.ca
Don Presant, President
Producer of Career Portfolio Manitoba
Tel: 219-5933
don@learningagents.ca
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