Enhancing Employability Skills with the St George's University of London Award
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Enhancing Employability Skills with the St George's University of London Award
- 1. www.myshowcase.me | @myshowcaseme Enhancing Employability Skills with the St George’s, University of London Award Ellie Cole, Marketing Manager at MyKnowledgeMap Tom Holland, Product Manager at MyKnowledgeMap
- 2. www.myshowcase.me | @myshowcaseme Agenda • Introducing St George’s, University of London • Aims & Existing Challenges • Research Outcomes • The Vision for the St Georges Award • How Myshowcase.me Supports the Award • Demonstration • Q&A
- 3. Introducing St George’s, University of London • The UK’s only university dedicated to medicine, healthcare and science with over 5,500 students • Pioneering and innovating in the field for over 250 years • A core value and objective to develop life- long learners and empower students to contribute to, influence and improve societies and communities
- 4. www.myshowcase.me | @myshowcaseme SGUL Award Aims • Revamp existing Award Scheme and increase participation • Help students get involved in extra-curricular activities & boost employability • Ensure the award is inclusive to all • Develop life-long learners • Equip students with the resources to excel in their careers • Enhance Graduate Outcomes Survey results
- 5. Existing Challenges • Low participation rates • The award focused only on activities that took place on campus • Administration was very manual and there were errors with the technology with evidence sometimes not coming through • The award wasn’t widely promoted • Students could submit activities without evidence • Alumni were making enquiries to ask about the Award and verify it’s status
- 6. 01 02 0403 05 Students liked the points system & gamification worked well to drive student engagement Points System Liked how students displayed experience and university endorsement of activities & experience Employer’s Engaged There was no one particular platform that other universities were using to administer the award No one platform All award schemes had an employability focus and didn’t just focus on participation Employability Focus All schemes required fewer points and activities to achieve the award in the end Achieving the Award What the Research Said… *Courtesy of Royal Holloway University, University of Birmingham and Goldsmiths, University of London
- 7. www.myshowcase.me | @myshowcaseme Plus… 11 Skills Digital Badges 1 Skills Master Digital Badge Complete a reflection form within your ePortfolio STEP 02 Attach evidence of the activity alongside reflection form and submit for a Skills Badge STEP 03 Automatically receive the Skills Badge upon submitting evidence FINAL Get involved in an activity on or off campus STEP 01 The Vision George’s Skills & Recognition Award Digital Badge
- 8. Introducing Myshowcase.me • A life-long ePortfolio designed and developed my learning technology experts, MyKnowledgeMap • Nearly 20 years working with higher education institutions across the world • Committed to innovative student-centred technology that makes a difference • Long-standing partnerships with our customers is important to us, supporting them in achieving their goals
- 9. How Myshowcase.me Supports… Automatically Award Digital Badges Digital badges are automatically awarded to students when they fulfil the criteria for a Skills Badge. Free ePortfolio for Alumni SGUL Alumni can take away and continue to use their Myshowcase.me ePortfolio for free after they graduate. Reflect on Experience SGUL create and deploy STAR reflection forms for students to reflect on their activity and experience at any time. Display Evidence in a Unique Way Students can customise a range of templates to display their reflections and evidence in their own way. Everything, All in One Place All reflections, evidence and digital badges reside in the student’s ePortfolio , private to them unless they share it. Recognise Skills Students can use a vast array of evidence types enabling all skills and experiences to be recognised.
Editor's Notes
- Objectives: To review all aspects of the St George’s Award to ensure its value and usefulness to students and their employability For the administration of the award to be as little automated as possible To increase the student participation of the St George’s Award To ensure that the award is inclusive of all students no matter their background or personal circumstances and easily accessible To equip students with the resources they can use to excel in the careers, so it’s more about skills development and reflection and not participation. Institution strategic priority this project addresses: The provision of an Award that offers all students the chance to reflect on their extra-curricular activity inside and outside SGUL contributes to several institutional strategic priorities: OfS Positive Outcomes for All theme, a critical aspect of the Access and Participation strategy. The My Showcase software will enable students to collect and upload evidence from across their experiences, rather than just those centred on SGUL as at present. This will show students from all backgrounds, and all living arrangements that we value their experience. The current scheme privileges students who achieve the bulk of their extracurricular experience through SGUL based activity. Employability and Careers Education, leading to enhanced Graduate Outcomes Survey outcomes, a key TEF metric. The new Award will require students to reflect on how their experiences have contributed to their employability. The new award aims to enable the Careers Service to develop electronic, personalised responses to students’ inputs so that students are directed to the range of resources and opportunities the Careers Service offers. (ED23) Developing lifelong learners Education and Students strategic aim. The potential software has multiple benefits beyond the George’s award. Experience of a portable electronic portfolio will encourage students to recognise and reflect on learning and development opportunities, contributing to their development as lifelong learners.
- Current issues: Only 55 students are currently (Oct 2018) participating in the St. George’s award of those only 28 are active; a further 6 have already achieved Gold so technically are inactive The award focuses on activities that take place on campus – therefore, isolating commuter students or students that are fulfilling activities in their local communities or have caring responsibilities that limit their time on campus They can’t get rewarded for paid work, they can exchange their hourly wage for points – this is problematic and not very inclusive The administration is very manual, including very onerous for the assessors The award has not been widely publicised There are errors with the technology – sometimes evidence isn’t coming through in the right format Students can currently submit activities for approval without evidence – just a waste of time for the approvers Alumni are getting back in touch wanting letters to explain the George’s Award and verify its status
- Research for the new award Research from other institutions (November 2019) – summary of the most helpful responses Royal Holloway Well established passport scheme Only 80 points to complete the passport and over 250 activities that the student can take part in To complete the students must to a completion session with a careers adviser – can’t get the award without it What Royal Holloway said: Students liked the points and the certification, they created a gold level at the student’s request - Gamification worked well to drive student engagement Employers thought it was a good idea but were more interested in how students presented their experience than the details of the award itself. The fact that it was verified by the institution gave it some extra value compared to freeform co-curricular activity. Stakeholders had unrealistic ideas of how much employers would recognise a specific award. University of Birmingham Personal Skills Award built into the curriculum – mixture of taught modules, online courses, skills sessions, on campus activities and any external non-credit bearing work experience or volunteering Various levels of award A lot of resource in place to administer this scheme that is embedded into the curriculum Goldsmiths Must complete 6 elements to achieve the award The elements are made up of participating in activities, writing a personal development plan, attending careers workshops, including a creative element, completing your linked in profile and also giving a presentation Conclusions We also found through our own research that staff and students were unrealistic about the value of an award like this. Therefore, work was needed to show students that the award should be for them to develop a plan and apply stages of the employability cycle There is no set technology that everyone is using to administer their awards, mixture or canvas and in-house purpose-built technologies. They are all careers and employability focus with a variety of elements included, not just participation They all have more resource to administer the various elements e.g. 1-2-1 workshops All require fewer points and activities to achieve their award
- Requirements They can tick as many skills as they want but they have to fill in each box to say how they developed the skill They need to submit a minimum of 3 activity tasks They need to develop 7/10 skills across the whole award to achieve the George’s Award – Once they have ticked a skill and submitted an activity task they can be awarded a skills badge. E.g. communication skill badge, team work skill badge Once they have 7 different badges AND have submitted at least three different activity tasks, they will have achieved the ‘George’s Award’. There will be a ‘Skills master’ badge or equivalent for people who achieve all 10.