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Technology to supportYoungWorkforce Development
Jisc Scotland presents…13 Nov
2015

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Our agenda for today
Jason Miles-Campbell – An introduction
Celeste McLaughlin –Technology for Employability
Margaret McKay – An inclusive approach toYoungWorkforce
Development
Lynn McHugh – Any questions
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Head of Jisc Scotland and Jisc Northern Ireland
Jason Miles-Campbell

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Find out more…
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Jason Miles-Campbell
Jason.miles-
campbell@jisc.ac.uk
T: @jasonjisc
Tel: 07468 727314

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Subject specialist (teaching, learning and assessment)
Scotland
Celeste McLaughlin

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Technology to support young workforce
development

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Technology for Employability
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Challenges include …
Making use of technology to help
student employability is under-exploited
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5 key ways technology is being used:
1. Technology-enhanced authentic and simulated learning
experiences.
2. Digital communications and engagement with
employers.
3. Technology-enhanced lifelong learning and
employability.
4. Technology-enhanced employability and skills
development.
5. Employer-focused digital literacy development.

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Wikis Simulations / games VLE / cloud collaboration
tools / social media
• Student cohorts working
with employers to
collaboratively develop
knowledge.
• Help to address real
employer issues.
• Case study: Glasgow
Caledonian University wiki
used to collaborate with
employer.
• Creation of “real”
environments to represent
authentic working
environments.
• Case study: S&B Autos
provide training to
apprentices using a
simulation paint spray shop
to teach panel painting skills.
• Tools to support
collaboration, document
management and project
management.
• Use of LinkedIn andTwitter
to make contact with
prospective employers.
• Case study: Dumfries and
Galloway College use of
Facebook to facilitate
student engagement with
employers.
Authentic and simulated learning

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Social media / multi-media Mobile devices e-Portfolios
• Tools can help engage and
build relationships with
employers.
• Develop students digital
identify and reputation
• Showcase their digital
resources.
• Case study: Borders College
students created short films
and made them available to
local employers.
• Support capturing of
evidence.
• Can help students showcase
their skills.
• Case study: Reading College
rolled out personal
technologies (Google Apps)
for all students.
• Capture and showcase skills
learned on work placements.
• Showcase their
employability skills to
employers.
• Case study: Birmingham
City University use of e-
Portfolios on a Personal
Development module to
showcase skills to
employers.
Digital Communications & engagement with employers

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e-Portfolio: showcasing skills to employers
http://shareville.bcu.ac.uk/bsvideo/portfolio01/views/Employer-View/index.html
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Lifelong learning and employability
E-Portfolios / personal learning spaces Open Badges
• Tools such as e-Portfolios, blogs & wikis
support self-directed, personal and
professional learning.
• Good for reflecting on actives such as
work placements, and for capturing
extra-curricular activities.
• Feedback can be capture from different
stakeholders.
• Case study: City of Glasgow College
where e-Portfolios were used to support
stonemason apprenticeships.
• Provide evidence of skills.
• Good way to capture informal learning
which evidences employability skills
• Could work with employers to endorse
badges.
• Case study: Borders College awarded
Open Badges to students for engaging
with technology and showcasing digital
literacy skills.

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Online diagnostics /Technology-
enhanced Assessment / Open Badges /
Careers Services
• Technologies such as online diagnostic
tools can be used to identify gaps in skills
and to support students identifying their
employability skills.
• Technology enhanced assessment can help
identify employability skills.
• Awarding bodies including SQA and City &
Guilds are aware of the potential of Open
Badges to evidence student skills.
• Case Study: University of London Careers
Group have developed a careers and
employability MOOC.
Employability skills development
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Digital literacy development
» Developing student technology-
enhanced employability skills.
» Developing ‘digital
entrepreneurialism’.
The six elements of digital capabilities
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Useful resources
»Technology for employability report (and associated case studies)
due to be published December 2015.
»Technology for employability blog -
http://employabilityproject.jiscinvolve.org
»Jisc e-Portfolio Guide - https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/e-portfolios
»Jisc Developing students’ digital literacy quick guide -
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/developing-students-digital-literacy
»JiscTransforming assessment and feedback with technology guide -
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/guides/transforming-assessment-and-
feedback

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Find out more…
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Celeste McLaughlin
Celeste.mclaughlin
@jisc.ac.uk
T: @celeste_mcl
Tel: 0203 819 8201

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Subject specialist (accessibility and inclusion) Scotland
Margaret McKay

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Inclusive approaches for young workforce development
Images: Pixabay and Microsoft
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Disabled people in Modern Apprenticeships in Scotland
» Disability disclosure rates for Modern
Apprenticeships in Scotland for year 14/15 was
0.4% compared to between 8 and 11%
elsewhere in the UK,
» Low disclosure rates do not mean that
apprentices do not have learning or support
needs that should be accommodated in the
context of their learning,
» Is the word ‘disability’ deceiving? Why are
people reluctant to disclose?
» Ironically work/vocational based training can
often be more appropriate or suit learners
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Assistive EnablingTechnologyTimeline
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Accessibility
Personalisation
Productivity
Now free, often portable
or web based

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Preferred way of accessing information
Vision Loss Dyslexia
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Preferred way of accessing information
Hearing Loss Learning Difficulty
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All together now…
Images
Text
Audio
Video
Interactivity
© Alistair McNaught Jisc

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Do we compartmentalise the way we view technology?
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Workplace
learning
Social/leisure
College

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Images from Pixabay
Exploiting ‘mundane’ technologies in the workplace

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Resilience in the workplace
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Making sense of text
» Listening to text using free add-ons for Microsoft Office and
Adobe Reader,
» Listening to text using tools likeTexthelp Read andWrite Gold,
Balabolka and Orato,
» Listen to text on mobile devices using free built in speak
features,
» Listen to Firefox webpages using GoogleText to Speech add on,
» Personalise the way Firefox webpages are viewed by adjusting
the colour contrast and text size and magnification,
» Remove distracting content on cluttered webpages using the
Clearly add on,
» Reading summaries of written text to understand it better.

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Supporting writing
» Dictating information on a mobile device e.g. Apple or
Android voice recognition,
» Dictating using a web plugin such asVoiceNote2,
» Dictating using Dragon Naturally Speaking or the built
inWindows Speech Recognition,
» Word prediction onApple devices using Quicktype,
» Word prediction usingTexthelp Read andWrite Gold or
other free and portable alternatives,
» Proof reading written work using the text to speech
tools mentioned previously,
» Recording information using mobile apps.

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Remembering
» Capturing video on mobile devices,
» Using built in voice recorders to capture
spoken information,
» Using audio note or similar apps to record
information and augment by adding text
and audio for review and revision,
» Using text to speech to listen rather than
reading it,
» Watching instructional videos again and
again.

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Planning, organising and searching
» Searching using voice based
‘personal assistance’ tools such as
using Siri or OK Google,
» Using mind mapping software to
plan projects, document things to
do or visually plan a structure for a
written project,
» Using web/app based planning
management tools.

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Inclusive approaches for young workforce development
Augmented reality (AR)
» Borders College incorporatedAR into their college
prospectus to provide additional media rich information,
» Shuttleworth College used AR for animal welfare
placements,
» Hopwood Hall using AR to learn anatomy,
» DoncasterCollege UCanCook augmented reality
cookbook showing step by step instructions to cook
meals,
» Maths content coasters in refectory atWalsallCollege,
» Augmented reality for education - http://tiny.cc/AR2learn
Brickwork AR at South Staffordshire College

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Inclusive approaches for young workforce development
eBooks
» Redbridge college are planning to develop
interactive iBooks for hospitality and catering
students,
» Nash college are creating a Watch and Learn video
modelling project with students who have autism,
» UCL and Leeds Beckett are developing a
Timestretcher app to help with time management,
» St John’s College use ibook creation apps and near
field communication (NFC) to create multi-sensory
and portable information and prompts.

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References
» Making sense of text - http://tiny.cc/Sense-of-Text
» Supporting writing and notetaking - http://tiny.cc/writing-
notetaking
» Remembering information - http://tiny.cc/remembering
» Planning, organising & searching - http://tiny.cc/planning-
searching
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Find out more…
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Margaret McKay
Margaret.mckay@jisc.ac.uk
T: @Mags_McKay
Tel: 0203 8198205

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Community Engagement Officer
Any questions?
Lynn McHugh

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