Brief summary of content from the annual conference organized by EIfEL (http://www.epforum.eu/)

1. Learning Forum
London 2010
Review for CAPLA 2010
November 9, 2010

2. Learning Agents
Accelerated learning systems
E-learning resources & services
Learning community support
Consulting

3. Learning Forum London 2010
European Institute for E-learning (EIfEL)
http://www.epforum.eu/

4. General impressions
Issues and Developments
• Projects rather than plans
• Holistic approaches
• User data as an asset
• Health applications
• Community portfolio
• Mobile access

5. General impressions
Technology
• Open Source
– Mahara/Moodle/Sakai/Drupal/WordPress
• Open Standards
– Leap2A, Europass, HR-XML, XCRI
• Shared architectures
– SAMSON, TAS3 EU
• Web 2.0 and social software
– YouTube, Twitter, Delicious
• Mashups and combo platters
– Mahoodle, Gahoodle,

6. General impressions
A plethora of ePortfolios...

7. General impressions
Educational applications
• Reflective learning
• Capstone ePortfolio
– University of Technology, Australia
• Student Guidance, Orientation
– Universite de Bretagne Sud, France
• Student language learning
– 3 Chinese universities
• Student health awareness
– Capilano University/BCIT
– University of Tasmania, Australia
• Teacher education

8. General impressions
Employability and workplace
• School to work
– University of Newcastle, Australia
• Accrediting workplace learning
– European Initiative for the Promotion of Informal
Learning (EIPIL)
• Workforce Adjustment, regional strategies
– Limburg Province, The Netherlands
• Adult employability
– Career Portfolio Manitoba

9. Conference tour
• Health
• Internet of Subjects
• Interoperability
• Web 2.0
• International developments
• Europe, Australia, United States, Canada

10. ePortfolios for Health
Increasing uptake
• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
• Revalidation
• Pharmacy, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing...
• SkillSure in Ontario
– 6 regulated health bodies
• Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
• Royal College of Surgeons of England

11. ePortfolios for Health
Dr. Harry Owen, Flinders University

12. ePortfolios for Health
Reflection on action

13. Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland
Detail

14. Internet of Subjects
PAOGA

15. Interoperability
• Leap2A
• Web Services Simon Grant
• HR-XML
http://www.leapspecs.org/

16. Europe
EIPIL-PAN, ALPS

17. Web 2.0 http://electronicportfolios.org
Helen Barrett

18. Australia
Flexible Learning Framework
Gen Y vs. Gen X & Boomers
http://epcop.net.au
www.flexiblelearning.net.au/content/e-portfolios

19. United States
The Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL)
• July 25-28, 2011 “World Portfolio Summit”
AAEEBL Annual Conference, Boston, MA
http://www.aaeebl.org/

20. United States
Community portfolio for Augusta, Arkansas

21. Canada
Career Portfolio Manitoba
• Adults in transition
• Community based
• Open source, open standards
• Life stories and assessment
• Socially aware
• Globally inspired...locally relevant

22. Don Presant Linda Maxwell
Career Portfolio
Manitoba
Essential Skills ePortfolio
for Employability

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

24. The Essential Skills Portfolio
Origins and character
• First immigrants, now “general”
– Career changers (younger, older..)
• Reflection on life-wide learning of
Essential Skills for employability
• Build confidence, improve “skills dialogue”
– Make resumes & cover letters clearer, more credible
– Preparation tool for interviews
• More than ES: attitudes, specialized skills
• Product: ring binder, from electronic templates
• 18 hours class time + c. 18 hours of homework

25. Building the ES portfolio
Extracting value from experience
1. Identify life experiences
2. Reflect to draw out human capital
• “KSAs”: Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes
3. Write outcome statements for your KSAs
4. Group into areas of expertise
5. Put it all together in a portfolio
• Title page, table of contents, introduction
• Lists: skills, examples & outcomes statements
• Evidence-demonstrations, documentation
• Resumes and cover letters
• Goals and plans (SMART goals)

26. The “e” factor
Advantages and opportunities
• Information Management
– Collecting, archiving, making different versions
• Measureability
– Frameworks, rubrics, summative tracking
• Interoperability
– Communication with other ICT systems via APIs, open standards
• Sharing
– “One to many”, digital copies, links to specific pages
• Multimedia
– Video, audio, digital images, online presentations…and scanned docs
• Internet skills
– Online research: documents, networks, Internet literacy
• Collaboration
– Easy to add comments, edit, mentor, coach
• Personal Learning Environment
– Integrated learning environment, professional network, digital identity

27. Essential Skills ePortfolio
Program overview
• Adapt the paper curriculum
• Leverage the “e” factor
• Embed authentic ICT skills
– Use relevant software applications
– Use accessible multimedia hardware
• Provide ongoing learning support
– Gap training / PD for SMART goals using Moodle

28. Vision for Career Portfolio Manitoba
Career development for life
• 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

29. Mahara
Open Source ePortfolio

30. The “Mahoodle” ecosystem
INSTRUCTOR LED
Export artefacts
(learning products)
“Single Sign On”
Submit for recognition
Links to artefacts & views;
assignments, evidence for outcomes
USER DRIVEN

31. The “Mahoodle” ecosystem
Blended learning
•Synch/asynch, in class/online
•Exposition
•Assess for comprehension
•Build knowledge
INSTRUCTOR LED
Export artefacts
(learning products)
“Single Sign On”
Submit for recognition
Links to artefacts & views;
assignments, evidence for outcomes
USER DRIVEN
Mahara tools:
Blog, forum, views
Human capital Collect, Select, Reflect…
Employability
Networks Artefacts, commentary, dialogue
Skills transfer
Peers, mentors
KSA asset building Other Web 2.0 tools:

32. International connection
The Development Manager (TDM)

33. Implementation http://careerportfolio.mb.ca
Online tour

34. Next steps
• Pilot
• Train the trainer
• Iterate, adapt
– Audiences, delivery formats
• More business planning
• Build partnerships
• Grow

35. Community of communities
“Small pieces, loosely joined”
Government Student
Information Records
Portals
eGovernment Employer HR
Single Window Management
Service Systems
Online Localized
Credential
Mahoodle
Labour Market
Verification Hub Information
Web 2.0 Job Boards,
YouTube Recruitment
LinkedIn Sites
Twitter…
Online Personal
Mentoring Networks,
Services Communities

36. Don Presant
don@learningagents.ca
(204) 219-5933