This document discusses using ePortfolios to help educational assistants transition to the workplace. It provides an overview of ePortfolios and their benefits, such as collecting documents, sharing content easily, and illustrating skills with multimedia. Examples are given of how ePortfolios can be used for pre-employment, workplace development, and continuing education. The vision for a Career Portfolio Manitoba is outlined, which would provide lifelong career development for residents through partnerships between organizations. Features like portfolio building courses and templates are described.

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

2. 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

3. Employers
Human Capital Management

4. Web 2.0, social software
“Publish yourself”

5. One page version…
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/e-portfolios

6. ePortfolios and resumes
(Courtesy FuturEd)

7. 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

8. 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”

9. Career Portfolio Manitoba
Current stakeholders: WEM & WPLAR
• Nonprofit partnerships of Government,
Business and Labour
• WEM: workplace education in Essential Skills
• WPLAR: workplace Recognition of Prior
Learning
wem.mb.ca
wplar.ca

10. Regional solutions
Inspiration for Manitoba

11. Vision for Career Portfolio Manitoba
Career 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

12. 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…

13. Coming down the pike…
• Mobile ePortfolio
• ePortfolio Gallery
• Open Badges

14. How to enrol
Career Portfolio Manitoba is a free service
http://careerportfolio.mb.ca
Contact Information:
Phyllis Mann
Program Coordinator
Workplace Education Manitoba
1000 Waverley Street, Winnipeg, MB
Tel: 204-272-5044
PMann@wem.mb.ca

15. Don Presant
don@learningagents.ca
Twitter: donpresant
Skype: dpresant
bit.ly/eport4ea