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Employability ePortfolios with Mahara Transition to the workplace for Educational Assistants Red River College Updated December 7, 2012 Don Presant
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Employability ePortfolios with Mahara for Educational Assistants

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Page 1: Employability ePortfolios with Mahara for Educational Assistants

Employability ePortfolios with

Mahara

Transition to the workplace for Educational AssistantsRed River CollegeUpdated December 7, 2012

Don Presant

Page 2: Employability ePortfolios with Mahara for Educational Assistants

Human Capital Technology• eSourcing/eRecruitment tools

– Résumé Importing/Exporting/Searching– Assessments & Applicant Screening– Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)

• applytoeducation.com

• Onboarding (orientation) tools• Performance/Talent Management Systems

– Workplace learning, human capital development

• Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS/HRIS)

Adapted from http://www.recruitersnetwork.com/software/index.htm

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EmployersHuman Capital Management

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Web 2.0, social software“Publish yourself”

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One page version…

http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/e-portfolios

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ePortfolios and resumes

(Courtesy FuturEd)

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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

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Applications for Adults

• Pre-employment– Getting hired

• Workplace development– Performance management, career advancement

• Recognition of Prior Learning– Challenge for credit

• Continuing Professional Development– Maintain professional standing

• Knowledge portfolios• Persistent Personal Learning Environment

(PLE)– Performance support, memory, analysis, reflection

• Life portfolios: “reporting out”

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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

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Regional solutionsInspiration for Manitoba

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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

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Featured elements

• Portfolio building course– Video tutorials, support– 2 modes of delivery:

• Computer lab facilitated• Online self-directed

• Templates– e.g. Job Match Summary

• Fictional example portfolio• Extensive use of Web 2.0

– Embedded content:• YouTube, Screenr, LinkedIn…

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Coming down the pike…

• Mobile ePortfolio• ePortfolio Gallery• Open Badges

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How to enrolCareer Portfolio Manitoba is a free service

http://careerportfolio.mb.ca

Contact Information:Phyllis MannProgram CoordinatorWorkplace Education Manitoba1000 Waverley Street, Winnipeg, MB Tel: [email protected]

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