Exploring how Open Badges and ePortfolios can help immigrants learn and demonstrate their skills in language learning and employability. Part of a series.
Link to support page: bit.ly/openbadges4immigrants
Moved from a duplicate account (http://www.slideshare.net/donpresant9)
3. The long and winding road…
Pre-arrival to full integration
4. The long and winding road…
Pre-arrival to full integration
5. Needs of immigrants
Learning and Recognition
• Learning and experience not recognized
– Foreign universities, experiential work learning not valued
(lack of “Canadian experience”)
• Individualized assets/gaps….but instruction in cohorts
– Language skills, soft skills, workplace culture
– Keeping the job, advancing in career
• Retention issues over long process of integration
– Discouragement, distraction, financial pressures
• Slow progress thru QR hurdles & higher CLB levels
• Handoff gaps between agencies, advisors
– Completely fixed with Correlate? Depth of data?
– Tracking longer term outcomes beyond Y1
6. Research
Information Practices of Immigrants
Nadia Caidi, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, 2009
http://www.slideshare.net/settlementatwork/information-practices-of-immigrants
8. Key Message:
ePortfolios can be FOR and OF Learning
FOR Learning OF Learning
focused on process focused on product
intrinsic extrinsic
supports learning demonstrates learning
private workshop public shop window
learning environment learning showcase
learning activities learning outcomes
formative assessment summative assessment
lower stakes higher stakes
9. Personal Planning and Learning
Online Locker, Interactive Workbook
• Online archive
– Personal & downloaded documents, links
• Resources for self-directed learning
– Webinars, videos, self-assessment surveys
• Learning plans and tracking tools
– Set goals and track progress to them (Learning Plans)
– Keep records of learning activities over time (CPD)
• Personal journal
– Reflect on goals and alternative futures
– Keep ad hoc “notes to self”, prepare agendas, etc.
10. Employment & related purposes
Demonstrate, assess & improve Human Capital
• Qualification Recognition
– Initial, formative, summative assessment
• Academic recognition
– PLAR/RPL for courses and programs
• Career Development
– Gap analysis, exploration of alternatives, building pathways
• Employment (Web CV)
– Hiring, career advancement, team building tool for employers
• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
– Tracking ongoing learning activities and reflection on practice
– Recertification
12. www.issbc.org
Helping immigrants build a future in Canada
Employability ePortfolios for
Immigrants: Arrival to
Employment
Cannexus – Ottawa 2014
www.issbc.org
13. Immigrant Services Society of BC
ePortfolio – Cooperative Framework
• LINC and employment staff working together
• Clients develop language, career planning and
job search skills as a package
www.issbc.org
Employment
Facilitator
ESL
Teacher
Skills,
ePortfolio
Evidence
16. Contribution to PLAR
Previously, simple referral to Employment Facilitator
Now provide:
– Evidence of
hard skills
experience
language ability
soft skills
– More skills to better represent themselves to employers and
professional associations
www.issbc.org
19. ePortfolios: leveraging the “e”
The “Flexible Binder” for the 21st Century
• Information Management capabilities
– Collecting, archiving, sharing, multiple versioning
– Quick links to cross-reference evidence
– Accessible multimedia with free Web 2.0 tools
– Align to frameworks, rubrics, track learning over time
• Social learning, digital identity
– Building professional profile, Personal Learning network
• Digital technology skills, Internet literacy
– Demonstrated by and within the ePortfolio
• Learning and collaboration integration
– Online research: documents, networks
– Easy to add comments, edit, mentor, coach
20. New service: savvyfolio.net
Multi-institution ePortfolio community
Professional Body Workplace Trainer
College
Employer Industry Sector Body
University
Adult Learning Centre
Employability Agency
23. Open Badges and Badge Passports
“Micro credentials in a modular eportfolio”
Richard Wyles, Totara LMS at MaharaUK12
http://maharauk.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=117
24. A picture + descriptive words…
Simple data structure for easy sharing
bit.ly/ePIC2013_Belshaw
31. Recent productivity trends
Social enterprise and process gamification
joshbersin.com/2011/07/17/badges-swarm-the-internet-and-soon-intranet/
http://www.cornerstoneondemand.com/connect
33. Enterprise Gamification
Consulting overview
“One trend we are seeing is
enterprises seeking to instill a more
proactive attitude about career
development among the workforce.”
Download PDF
34. Gamification of language learning
Duolingo – scaffolded text translation
youtu.be/WyzJ2Qq9Abs
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duolingo
35. Gamification of language learning
busuu.com – Farmville for language?
Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR):
40. Pearson Acclaim (VUE)
If Pearson are getting into badges.…
Acclaim’s unique
approach…is to work with
academic institutions and
high-stakes credentialing
organizations to offer
diplomas, certificates and
other professional
credentials as Open Badges.
blog.youracclaim.com/
43. Benefits
Open Badges & Digital Certification
• Visually efficient and appealing
– Fun, motivating to earn (gamification)
– Visualize progress for advising
– Automatically / manually awarded
• Individual learning pathways
– Modular, flexible, diverse, portable, shareable
– Personal goal setting, achievement for self-directed learning
– Builds confidence
– Blend and ladder from multiple sources in badge passports & ePortfolios
– Progress in incomplete programs can still be recognized and recombined
• Transparent, “trustable”
– Criteria, evidence, issue/expiry date
– Ongoing connection to issuer
– Report outcomes
– Issuer is validated and branded by the badges it issues, along with 3rd party
endorsement (coming)
44. Badges and Immigrants
Ideas for EAL (to be validated)
• FORMATIVE
– Portfolio Based Language Assessment (PBLA) progress tracking
– Course activities and assignments
– Self-directed learning achievements
– # books/articles read, docs written, grammar/vocab quizzes (self-assessments)
& exercises, journal reflections and other portfolio inventory tasks completed
– Recognize/aggregate achievements from external language programs
• Rosetta Stone, Tell Me More, busuu.com, etc.
– Enhance with Essential Skills, workplace culture learning
• Digital Technology, Working with Others, problem solving, etc.
– Real world badge “missions”
– # “stretch” assignments in the real world (e.g. conversations with strangers)
• SUMMATIVE
– Internal: CLB levels in progress reports: e.g. Reading: Developing 7
(linked to evidence as appropriate)
– External: IELTS scores?
45. Badges and Immigrants
Ideas for Employability (to be validated)
• FORMATIVE
– Workshop program/job search milestones, achievements
• CV, cover letter, elevator speech, employability portfolio
– Real world badge “missions”
– # “stretch” assignments in the real world (e.g. # cold calls, # informational
interviews…)
• SUMMATIVE
– For service providers and funders
• Learner achievements: CVs, interviews, placements, hirings, etc.
– For Employers
• Essential Skills assessments (TOWES, Prove It, Microsoft, etc.)
– Computer, Document Use, etc.
• Job-related language assessments (e.g. IELTS)
• Courses/workshops taken
• Affiliations (e.g. Toastmasters, professional associations)
• Volunteer service, other experiential learning
• Summary credentials (“work ready”, etc. if available)
46. Badging Kirkpatrick
For EAL (to be validated)
Kirkpatrick Level Affordances & Indicators
5: ROI (Phillips) Badge reports of outcomes linked to budgets
4: Results Badge trails, aligned to CLB, by date?
Badges linked to PBLA evidence.
Badges from subsequent language learning.
NB: Follow-up and learner cooperation required
3: Transfer Badge collections: sequencing, laddering, clustering
Badges from multiple sources curated in badge passports &
channeled to goals
Badges in eportfolios enhanced with reflection
2: Learning Badges with embedded skills outcomes
1: Reaction Visual appeal, gamification, completion
47. Badging Kirkpatrick
For employability (to be validated)
Kirkpatrick Level Affordances & Indicators
5: ROI (Phillips) Badge reports on longer term employment outcomes
4: Results Badges for interviews, placements?
Badges for permanent hires (in their field)?
Badges for retention: still working after 1 year?
NB: Follow-up and learner cooperation required
3: Transfer Badge collections: sequencing, laddering, clustering
Badges from multiple sources curated in badge passports &
channeled to goals
Badges in eportfolios enhanced with reflection
2: Learning Badges with embedded skills outcomes
1: Reaction Visual appeal, gamification, activity completion
48. Badges for PD?
Ideas for EAL and Employment Professionals
• Conference badges
– Participant, Presenter, “Networker”, “Reflector”, etc.
• Online community badges
– As above, other activities (e.g. link sharing) + peer assessments
• Non-formal learning
– Workshops, lectures, ConEd programs, Special Interest Groups, reading
logs, MOOCs
• Awards and recognition
– Including “honourable mentions” and short lists
• Professional affiliations and volunteer service
… arranged/curated in a professional eportfolio or “badge passport”
with other evidence
49. Badges for EAL PD
English Online
Criteria: Attended webinar
training/preparation session,
presented online, contributed to
the resource page and discussion
thread)
Evidence: <link to webinar
recording>
Upcoming for 2015: “Contributor”
myenglishonline.ca/for-teachers/realize/
50. Open Badge Factory
Centralized badge management
bit.ly/ePIC2013_Rousselle