Mahara UK 2011

Addressing Employability:Making the interoperable integrated

Dr Barbara Lee, Roger Emery & Sam Moss

In the beginning, we conducted a study where we gave 9 students the same instructions and asked them to

follow them.

What we found was that there were two types of students…

Those that got on with it…

…and those that needed a little more help!

Interoperability: Systems

Interoperability: People

Learning Technology

Unit

Academic Staff

Careers & Employability

Academic Staff: Creative uses

• Embedding employability

• Early adopters

• Re-writing assessments

http://mycourse.solent.ac.uk/myportfolio

Learning Technology Unit

• Developed ‘Help Site’http://mahara.solent.ac.uk/user/view.php?id=1

• Workshops for academic staff

• In-class training for students

• Hands-on sessions at internal events

• Awareness

• Tech support & system development (Moodle, Mahara & CareerBox)

Careers & Employability

• Careers/CV Thursday

• Employability Audit

• Welcome week

• Staff/Course workshops

Feedback: Journalism students 2011

• “I was shocked at how easy it was to use and to navigate (once I got used to it of course!) and that it was so easy to put together an online package.”

• “Because myPortfolio can be accessed on any computer with an internet connection it enabled me to complete my work in the comfort of my own home, without the added stress of having to venture into the uni library and attempt to find a computer. ”

• “Myportfolio is ideal for people completing media based courses like myself. Its simple layout makes it user friendly and unlike many computer programs it doesn’t require hours of training in order to grasp the basics.”

Interoperable environment to Integrated student experience

Learning Technology

Unit

Academic Staff

Careers & Employability

Thank you