This was a presentation by Dr. Greg Williams at the eLearning Guild's "Learning Solutions" conference in Orlando, FL on March 26, 2010. For more information on the presenter visit www.gregwilliams.net

1. “Competency-Based ePortfolios:Career Passport of the Future?” eLearning Guild March 26, 2010 Greg Williams, Ed.D. www.gregwilliams.net

2. How Teaching Online is Different Why This Presentation?

3. Why This Presentation? It’s personal Don’t learn the hard way Unpredictable future

4. Career Tool

5. What’s a Career Portfolio? Career tool Documentation of performance Range of skills & competencies Increasingly important

6. Artifacts

7. Why HaveaPortfolio?

8. Why have a Portfolio? More employers & clients requiring Telling vs. demonstrating Communicates competence uniquely Marketing & evaluation tool Meet Ciaran

9. Start With a Career Goal What job do you want Identify KSAs Skill or experience gap?

10. Why Do I Need Goals?

11. Different Goals Different Portfolios

12. Aligning Competencies withProfessional Standards Identify standards Professional Associations Company or organization

13. Competencies Career planning & talent mgt. Coaching Delivering training Designing learning Facilitating organizational change

14. Competencies Improving human performance Managing organizational knowledge Managing the learning function Measuring and evaluating

15. Missing Competency? Missing Competency?

16. Technology Competencies Technology Authoring tools eLearning development & delivery Employers defer to tech skills

17. Anticipating Needs

18. Think Like a Hiring Manager Problems to be solved Results, not activity Multiple roles & skills Project mgt. Business results

19. Choosing What Goes Inside

20. Selecting Portfolio Items Consistent with your goals Address a business need Results oriented Measurable Think like a hiring manager

21. OK to Be Different

22. Creating Artifacts Top Ten Career Accomplishments Documenting accomplishments Existing artifacts Organize by competency

23. Linking Artifacts to Results Linking artifacts to org results Alignment : Org>Dept>You Measurable results Similar to drafting objectives

24. Portfolio Issues Not organized well Artifacts not labeled Viewers don’t understand

25. C-CAR

26. C-CAR Competency Context Action Results

27. C-CAR Format Competency: Identify the competency Context : Describe situation Action: Describe what you did & why Results: Describe outcomes, use measurable results if possible

28. C-CAR Format Example 1 Competency: Designing Learning Context : Sales revenue down after hiring new sales reps Action: Created company’s first online sales training course Results: Sales revenue rose 24.7% Qtr. after course implemented

29. C-CAR Format Example 2 Competency: Delivering Learning Context : Remote staff can’t get training. New employees making 27% more errors processing claims Action: Taught company’s first online course in claims processing Results: Claims processing errors reduced by 17% after course implemented

30. Portfolios in Job Search & Interviews Link to resume Interview predictions Select appropriate artifacts C-CAR method Follow-up with artifacts

32. Portfolios in Employee Evaluations Way to document your performance Solicit feedback & documentation Annual goals – create 2-3 artifacts

33. ManagingYourCareerPortfolio

34. Creating an ePortfolio Not Hard?

35. ePortfolios Why have one? Uses Public or private Expertise, time, money Available Tools

36. Visual CV

37. Summary Y C T B

38. Hot Competencies Authoring tools eLearning experience Instructional design SME industry experience versatility

40. Adobe Acrobat Pro

41. ePortfolio – Acrobat Pro No Website needed No programming skills PDFs Can add video and audio

42. Acrobat Pro Screenshot

43. Acrobat Pro Screenshot

44. Acrobat Sample Layout

45. Add Multi-Media

46. Managing Large Files Mail Big File Drop Send You Send It Google Documents

47. Don’t Leave Your Career to Chance

48. Should I Do This?

49. No Silver Bullet

50. Final Thoughts 30 yr gold watch is gone Manage your career Be a futurist Adapt, learn, grow Take action

51. Greg Williams, Ed.D. Assistant Professor Univ. of Maryland greg@gregwilliams.net www.gregwilliams.net