Employability ePortfolios with Mahara for Educational Assistants
1. Employability ePortfolios
with Mahara
Transition to the workplace for Educational
Assistants
Red River College
September 12, 2012
Don Presant
2. Human Capital Technology
• eSourcing/eRecruitment tools
– Résumé Importing/Exporting/Searching
– Assessments & Applicant Screening
– Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
• 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
4. Web 2.0, social software
“Publish yourself”
Sarah Stewart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t2dXPb9Wc8&feature=related
Theo Ramsey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT1XYjZcmck
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
– Career advancement, performance management
• Recognition of Prior Learning
– Challenge for credit
• Continuing Professional Development
• Knowledge portfolios
• Life portfolios
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
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
• Templates
– Copyable pages and collections
• Job Match Summary
• Fictional exemplar
• Extensive use of Web 2.0
– YouTube, Screenr, LinkedIn…
– Embed.ly as the glue
13. Next Steps
• Self Directed Essential Skills ePortfolio
– Online version
• 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/DonPresant_ePortfolio
Editor's Notes
About Learning Agents About Don Presant
Employer managed Human Capital tool… like ePortfolio, but without learner ownership Bell, Alcan
Digital identity…. How many are on Facebook How many use YouTube…have uplopaded? Anyone can be a publisher
Organizational ITC systems: LMS, corporate eRecruitment, HR systems and Job Banks
Ie NOT an educational institution…community-based learning funds are flowed to this committee for projects annually Coordinated by Industry Training Partnerships, Manitoba Competitiveness Training and Trade – Sandi Howell
3,000,000 citizens ePortfolio for the country Start in HS, take through life
Like Careers Wales Online, eFolio Minnesota Inspiration from MOSEP