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Mahara in the Community
Employability ePortfolio for Adults& Professional Community of Practice
Mahara UK 11June 2011
Don Presant
E-learning resources & services
Learning community support
Consulting
Learning AgentsAccelerated learning systems
Agenda
• Career Portfolio Manitoba• The Centre Online• On the horizon
Manitoba & CanadaSmall province in a small country
• Challenging geography• Diverse demographics
– French/English, Aboriginals, Immigrants
• Federal political structure• Manitoba: “Canada’s social science laboratory”
Regional solutionsInspiration for Manitoba
Career Portfolio ManitobaCurrent stakeholders: WEM & WPLAR
• Nonprofit partnerships of Government, Business and Labour
• WEM: workplace education in Essential Skills• WPLAR: workplace Recognition of Prior
Learning
wplar.ca
wem.mb.ca
Canada’s Essential SkillsContextualized by workplace occupation…1. Reading text2. Document use3. Writing4. Numeracy5. Computer skills6. Oral communication7. Thinking skills
– Problem Solving, Decision Making, Critical Thinking, Job Task Planning and Organizing, Significant Use of Memory, Finding Information
8. Working with others9. Continuous learning
The Essential Skills Portfolio Origins and character
• First immigrants, now “general”– Career changers (younger, older..)
• Reflection on life-wide learning of Essential Skills for employability
• Build confidence, improve “skills dialogue”– Make resumes & cover letters clearer, more credible– Preparation tool for interviews
• More than ES: attitudes, specialized skills• Product: ring binder, from electronic templates• 18 hours class time + c. 18 hours of homework
The “e” factorAdvantages and opportunities• Information Management
– Collecting, archiving, making different versions• Measurability
– Frameworks, rubrics, summative tracking• Interoperability
– Communication with other ICT systems via APIs, open standards• Sharing
– “One to many”, digital copies, links to specific pages• Multimedia
– Video, audio, digital images, online presentations…and scanned docs
• Internet skills– Online research: documents, networks, Internet literacy
• Collaboration– Easy to add comments, edit, mentor, coach
• Personal Learning Environment– Integrated learning environment, professional network, digital identity
Essential Skills ePortfolioProgram overview
• Adapt the paper curriculum• Leverage the “e” factor• Embed authentic ICT skills
– Useful software, accessible hardware– Digital identity literacy
• Provide ongoing support
Vision for Career Portfolio ManitobaCareer 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
Choosing the platformThe “Mahoodle” ecosystem
Archiving
Collect, Select, Reflect…Artefacts, commentary, dialogueNetworks
Peers, mentors
Mahara toolsBlog, forum, views
USER DRIVEN
INSTRUCTOR LED
Other Web 2.0 tools
Human capital developmentEmployabilitySkills transferKSA asset buildingLifelong learning
Presenting
ImplementationOnline tour (careerportfolio.mb.ca)
Moving forwardMake it more usable
• Shorten curriculum, customize delivery– Retire Moodle (for now)– Full vs. accelerated versions
• Improve worksheet methodology• Stream learners
– Computer skills gap training
• Add more exemplars– Caucasian, Aboriginal...
• Document more fully– Manual, more/updated videos
Community of communities“Small pieces, loosely joined”
StudentRecords
OnlineCredentialVerification
Job Boards, Recruitment
SitesPersonalNetworks,
Communities
OnlineMentoringServices
LocalizedLabour Market
Information
Employer HRManagement
Systems
GovernmentInformation
Portals
MahoodleHub
Web 2.0YouTubeLinkedInTwitter…
eGovernmentSingle Window
Service
The Centre OnlineProfessional Community of Practice
Centre for Workplace Skills• Federal NGO - partnership of business & labour• Employers, labour reps, academics, literacy
advocates, trainers, consultants• Commissioned research, dialogue &
dissemination– e.g. Work Related Informal Learning
• Pragmatic: “Find out what works and share it”
Online Community of Practice“More a coffee shop than a library”
• Private corner– A secure place to observe and absorb current practice in order to
build knowledge and competence
• Public salon/tradeshow– Present your skills and knowledge in a “virtual booth”– Find peers and mentors, build a professional network – “Sip from the stream”: gather filtered insights
• Best practices, lessons learned• Emergent practices, promising initiatives, “foreign” insights from other fields
• Private/public workshop– Performance support tools, ad hoc forum for quick questions– Discussion, collaboration workspace for larger issues, projects
Why Mahara?• Online profile: introduction, skills, interests• ePortfolio: professional marketing showcase
– Web 2.0 friendly
• Group forums: discussion• Group files: sharing• Group views: collaboration• Open source for future development
Demo
Community of communities“Small pieces, loosely joined”
TBA
TBA
MemberOrganization
WebsitesHRSDC
& other govt.websites
TBA
TBA
Other Online
Communities
Centre forWorkplace Skills
website
TheCentreOnline
Web 2.0YouTubeLinkedIn
FacebookTwitter…
ExternalNewsfeeds
On the horizonMahara as digital Swiss Army knife
• Multimedia project tool for high school students– National charity: “science of agriculture”
• Digital Identity Management Project– Pilot project
• Athabasca University• Mahara as “thin hub”
– With Moodle?
• Mahara User Group Canada – On mahara.org
Useful links
• Career Portfolio Manitoba– http://careerportfolio.mb.ca– http://bit.ly/eP_example
• Workplace Education Manitoba– http://wem.mb.ca
• WPLAR– http://wplar.ca
• The Centre Online– http://online.workplaceskills.ca
• Mahara User Group Canada– http://mahara.org/group/view.php?id=1008
