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ePortfolios and Badges - Who Needs a Co-Curricular Record?
1. ePortfolios and Open Badges:
Who Needs a Co-Curricular
Record?
Modified from a (more polite)
university presentation
January 9, 2014
Don Presant
PRESENTATION SUPPORT PAGE:
bit.ly/ep_ccr
3. New service: savvyfolio.net
Multi-institution ePortfolio community
Professional Body
Workplace Trainer
Employer
College
Industry Sector Body
Adult Learning Centre
University
Employability Agency
6. Diverse pathways
Learners and their lives
Advancement
in field
Career
change
Entry
in field
Survival
job
Further
education
Internship
Travel
Seek employment
“Retool”
Exit
workforce
7. Employability (Trent U 2013)
“Employer Responses to the Co-Curricular Record”
• Top Skills or Qualities
– Problem Solving Abilities, Adaptability/Flexibility,
Enthusiasm/Dedication, Communication (Written & Verbal), Personable
Nature, Ability to Learn, Reliability
• Types of activities
– Longer-term commitments demonstrate a greater level of student
investment; leadership roles are valued.
• Interest in CCR as a document: minimal
– “Students should use the document as a tool for reviewing their cocurricular experiences and reflecting on what skills/learning
achievements were gained from each.”
– “Any relevant co-curricular experiences should be incorporated into the
resume, and potentially referenced in the cover letter.”
– “Reference the skills identified in the job posting….accuracy and
conciseness are valued in applications.”
bit.ly/TrentU_CCR
8. Questions and comments
• Good:
– Portal for engaging students in co-curricular activities
– Evidence of key roles, especially in leadership
• But:
– Why the focus on a piece of paper?
– Why only a laundry list of “approved” activities, with
superficial reflections?
• Isn’t that a lot of work? Can’t students find learning in many
activities, off and on campus? Let them do the work!
• Why not an ePortfolio?
– Enhanceable, remixable, sharable, reflected on and aligned to
relevant outcomes or competencies (e.g. Essential Skills)
– Authenticated where appropriate with Open Badges
14. Your “Accidental ePortfolio”
Tracking your digital footprints – recent study
Employers who would…
Monitor the candidate’s activity on
Twitter
Research the candidate on Facebook
Use Google or other search engines to
research candidates
Some of the search activity
happens before candidates are
even called for a job interview
0%
10%
n = 2,775 US/Canada July 2013 cb.com/18xbgez
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
15. AAEEBL 2013 in Boston
“It Takes More than a Major”
• 2013 survey of 318 employers for AAC&U
(The Association of American Colleges & Universities)
– Findings:
• 93%: candidate’s demonstrated capacity to think critically,
communicate clearly, and solve complex problems is more
important than their undergraduate major
• >75%: 5 key learning outcomes: critical thinking, complex
problem-solving, written and oral communication, and
applied knowledge in real-world settings
• >80%: an electronic portfolio would be useful to them in
ensuring that job applicants have the knowledge and skills
they need to succeed in their company or organization.
bit.ly/AAEEBL13_AACU
16. Confirmation from Notre Dame
Employer Focus Group
Employers would…
Click on ePortfolio link in email
View relevant part of ePortfolio on
tablet at career fair
Click on ePortfolio link in résumé
View relevant part of ePortfolio on
tablet in interview
Click on ePortfolio link in sig file or cover
letter
0%
Data from G. Alex Ambrose, April 2013
http://t.co/FeoVokOQv2
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
n=11
17. Australia 2013 Eportfolio Forum
Keynote: Employers Needs and ePortfolios
http://bit.ly/AUS2013_LongAndMcAlpine
18. What are ePortfolios?
Electronic portfolios (ePortfolios) are collections
of digitally represented artifacts that:
• document practice
• include reflection
• integrate experience
• map to goals and/or standards
• promote deep learning and knowledge transfer
Tracy Penny Light, CAPLA 2013
19. Key Message:
ePortfolios can be FOR and OF Learning
FOR Learning
OF Learning
Focused on process
Focused on product
Supports learning
Demonstrates learning
Private environment
Public showcase
Goals
Achievements
Learning activities
Learning outcomes
Formative assessment
Summative assessment
Lower stakes
Higher stakes
Forward looking, expansive
Retrospective, targeted
21. Is LinkedIn enough?
• PRO
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Awareness, workplace focus (esp. North America)
Evidence: Slideshare, Infographics, Videos, Recommendations (?)
Social network: “Friend of a Friend”
Personal Learning Network: LinkedIn Groups, Timelines
• CON
– Flexibility
• Customization, segmentation, alignment to requirements/outcomes
• Interoperability: feeding to/from other sites
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Archiving: file storage
Private modes: reflection, formative assessment, mentoring
Learning frameworks: self-assessment, plans, rubrics, etc.
Audience: beyond white collar, older worker? (79% are 35+)
Ownership : Terms of Use, business model
With ideas from: Does LinkedIn work as an ePortfolio?
22. Critical mass
52% US undergraduates use ePortfolio
Campus Computing 2013 (n=451)
23. Folio Thinking: Reflection for
Learning
•Reflection is what makes us learners; we need to
practice, assess and perfect it.
•Four criteria characterize the concept of
reflection:
▫ Reflection is a meaning making process
▫ Reflection is systematic, rigorous and disciplined; with
roots in scientific inquiry
▫ Reflection needs to happen in community
▫ Reflection requires attitudes that value personal and
intellectual growth
From: Carol Rodgers, “Defining Reflection: Another Look at John Dewey and Reflective
Thinking,” Teachers College Record, 104, 4 (June 2002): 842-866
24. Australia 2013 Eportfolio Forum
Keynote: Learner Driven Pathways
http://bit.ly/AUS2013_LongAndMcAlpine
25. University of Notre Dame
Career Services Skill List
Integrated from the following
sources:
*National Association of Colleges
and Employers (NACTE) Top 10 list
* University Notre Dame Outcomes
*University Notre Dame Employer
Surveyed list of Skills (2005)
*Literature Review by Annie Selak
& Rose Kopec (2012)
G. Alex Ambrose, CAPLA 2013
Top 10 Skills:
1. Ethical Conduct/Integrity
2. Critical Thinking/Analytical
Ability
3. Team Work
4. Verbal and Written
Communication
5. Initiative/Motivation Towards
Goals
6. Visionary/Innovative
7. Decision Making/Problem
Solving
8. Globally and Diverse Minded
9. Research/Project
10. Technical/Scientific
29. RPL at Athabasca University
From paper to electronic
bit.ly/AU_ePortfolio
30. Open Badges
(micro credentials)
Badging “can help speed the shift from credentials that simply measure seat
time, to ones that more accurately measure competency.”
Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, 2011
Inside Higher Ed, Jan 2014
34. ePortfolio and Badges
University of California - Davis
• “media-rich, tiled portfolios”
UCD article: bit.ly/1cvvfW0
Presentation: bit.ly/KyDdrx
Inside Higher Ed article: bit.ly/UCDbadges
41. Overarching themes
Assessment for learning, assessment for life
• Graduate outcomes
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employability
Digital identity = “accidental” ePortfolio
Hiring and promotion = RPL
ePortfolios are FOR and OF learning
ePortfolio learning is reflective and social
ePortfolio learning = personal pathway
ePortfolios support RPL and REL
– Recognition of Prior Learning
– Recognition of Emergent Learning
Federal corporation, HQ in ManitobaMultimedia learning resources for career development, workplace learning and professional developmentSpecialty: facilitating, packaging & disseminating insights of learners, practitioners and subject matter expertsProducer of “Career Destination” solutions through community partnerships since 2001Opened Learning Agents eStudiosin 2007multimedia & video facility for learning resource production, ePortfolio development and webcastingActive voluntary role in communityCareer Trek and “Let’s Get to Work” conferenceDon Presant: Chair of Manitoba PLA Network (MPLAN) Community Telecentre COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT: technology literacy, engagement, expression, workVideo-conference (in development)job interviews , online learning e.g. classes for prospective immigrants overseas, workplace trainingOther community learning events (subscribe to other networks)Collaborative Workshop EnvironmentHands-On ePortfolio and related workshopsDigital Production StudiosPhotos, objects, actions, interviews, simulationsImages, audio, video, textQuick set-up, quick turnaround (photo vs. scan, permanent lighting setup, direct to disk recording, etc.)Multimedia Post Production Facility :career profiles, ePortfolio resources, training videosProduction and Facilitation Support Services: staff, freelance & partners
24 campuses in networked inquiry on the impact of eportfolios on student learning and the strategies necessary for institutionalizing campus eportfolio initiatives.
On April 26, 2013 the Notre Dame ePortfolio Engagement Program (nDEEP) offered a presentation for the ND Career Center Employer Advisory Board, consisting of 11 recruiters from companies such as AT&T, Accenture, Boeing, General Mills, General Electric, Johnson and Johnson, P&G, and Stryker. Campus ePortfolio initiatives and trends with student examples were discussed. The ND Employer Advisory Board was interviewed and surveyed as a focus group to confirm these recent AAC&U findings (above) and explore how students can best share their ePortfolios with potential employers.
TPL – 10-10:30
Importance of mentoring; community; advising (preview of what’s to come in Alex’s section)
I know this is getting to you much later than I had hoped. Our group came up with the following list of skills. We pulled from 4 sources:NACE Top 10 list (National Association of Colleges and Employers), 2. ND University Outcomes (we tried to integrate all of those), 3. Annie Selak research (pulled from several sources) – annie is a Rector but works in our office part time because she is very interested in Vocational Discernment & 4. ND Employer Surveyed list of skills from 2005