Employability ePortfolios with Mahara for Educational Assistants
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
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
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