Potential.ly intuitive employability platform for universities and colleges

potential.lyIntuitive employability platform

for universities & colleges

Dr Norbert MorawetzStudent Experience Expert meeting

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Employability?

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Employability drives…

•Rankings •Student choice •Fee income

The development of graduates with relevant attributes, skills and knowledge has placed graduate employability at the centre of the Higher Education agenda.

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• Graduate attributes describe qualities, skills and understandings a university community agrees its students should develop during their time with the institution.

• Attributes go beyond disciplinary expertise or technical knowledge

• Attributes describe desired outcomes, they are aspirational in nature and are difficult to assess in a quantitative way

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Graduate attributes

Attributes

Preferences Abilities

Graduate attributes combine two key concepts:

Preference & Ability

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• Patterns of behaviour, thought and emotion that are the most natural to a person.

• Preferences play an important role in guiding and shaping our daily behaviour. People are likely to behave in line with their preferences most of the time, but they are not determined by them.

• Preferences tend to be relatively stable over time , and we cannot change who we are and our way easily from one day to the next.

• Taken together, the sum of our preferences can be described as our ‘personality’.

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Preferences (Personal qualities, traits, personality factors)

Ability (Competencies, skills, capabilities)

• Abilities describe knowledge, skills and competencies that can be learned and improved.

• For example, in order to give a good presentation you need to know about structure, communication skills, body language, digital skills to prepare impressive slides, etc.

• Proficiency can be assessed

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How preferences and ability relate: Example: ’Creative Problem Solving’

Imagination, Open-mindedness

• Creativity and critical thinking techniques learned

• Opportunity to exercise, experience & develop creative problem solving skills as part of curriculum / extracurricular activity

Creative problem solving

Individual’s personal preference

Acquired competency Graduate Attribute

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PreferencesAbilities

Build self-awareness

• Preferences

• Ability

Engage in Personal Development

• Curricular

• Student-led CPD

• Extra-curricular

• Reflection/Monitoring

Personalised Support

• Embedded: Personal tutoring

• End-of-Programme: Careers

Developing employability/ attributes

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Collaborative learning Personal Development Tutoring/ Support

Providing the personalised support needed at scale is resource and time intensive.

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The potential.ly platform makes it simple for HEs & FEs to embed employability and personal development in a highly engaging and scalable way.

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Quick and engaging identification of strengths and stretch areas.

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Building self-awareness

Step 2: Give students ownership of their CPD.

Explore attributes

Development prompts

Mapping of progress

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Visualisation help students to reflect in a structured way and

engage them in personal development.

Enriching student-tutor relationships

Potential.ly gives insight into a student’s personal strengths and development needs, and provides a record of what they have done for their personal development.

Giving personal tutors access to this rich information enables highly effective development discussions.

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Connect & Communicate

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• Increase student-tutor trust, rapport and

understanding

• Understand the student beyond their degree

• Empower collaborative communication and

develop student confidence

Plan, map and track development

• Identify focus areas

• Link actions/resources to focus areas

• Monitor student engagement with resources

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Build and share professional identity

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• Cohort-level data can be exported for Learner Analytics

• What events, courses, resources should the university offer to address wider development needs?

• Measure learning gain and the impact of education on personal development

• How do students differ across study programmes?

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Measuring learning gain

We support the full student-university lifecycle, from pre-arrival to alumni

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Personal Development Plan

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Pre-Arrival Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 End of Programme

Critical and Creative Thinkers A Critical thinker ...

A Creative thinker ....

Lifelong learning

Entrepreneurial Enterprising and entrepreneurial attitude and outlook Active Problem Solver

Teamwork, collaboration

Leadership (leading people)

Initiative (not explicit)

Planning/Organisation skills

Self-awareness, self-evaluation, self-management

Management of digital identities

Global Outlook and Community Engaged Valuing diversity

Cross-cultural Experience

Community engaged

Literate and effective communicators Verbal communication

Written communication

Visual communication

Information Literacy

Digital literacy

Numeracy

Socially, ethically and environmentally aware

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Customisation to the institution’s graduate attributes

Some of our clients and partners

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June 2015 Selected for the Young Academy 2015 - the programme for social entrepreneurs tackling inequality in education.

July 2015

Selected by Jisc for education technology startup programme.

Feb 2015 Supported through the highly competitive o2/Telefonica startup programme wayra

Collaborative learning

Team-builder helps create balanced learning teams!

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Teaching collaboration skills

Potential.ly utilises key theories of personality, teamwork and management in an experiential way; resulting in transferrable learning of “soft skills” for the work place.

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We are a young technology startup focusing on making learning of soft skills and personal development more scalable, collaborative and measurable.

Our expertise lies in psychometrics, user experience design and software development.

About us - who is potential.ly?

Norbert Morawetz, PhD Founder, Research Lecturer at Henley Business School, 10 years XP in research & teaching

Abdul Waheed Co-Founder & Developer 10 years experience in designing complex web applications for academic publisher Springer.

Jeremy Townson Co-Founder & Developer 18 years XP developing software for companies such as Logica, Springer & Orange.

Trevor Bezzina, MBA Co-Founder, Partner Management 10 years delivering web solutions for talent management (Goldman Sachs) and charities (the Scouts)

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Contact Dr Norbert Morawetz [email protected] +44 (0) 7872414948