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

3. Employers
Human Capital Management

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

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
– 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

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
• 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. Don Presant
don@learningagents.ca
Twitter: donpresant
Skype: dpresant
bit.ly/DonPresant_ePortfolio