CAPHIA Forum 18 th -19 th September 2014 UWA

1. CAPHIA Forum 18th-19th September 2014UWA Eportfolio and engaging with Industry partners: A flexible approach for work ready graduates. Anne Polley, Edith Cowan University, WA. Jill Darby, Edith Cowan University, WA.

2. Strengths, Challenges, Future Our Approach - agenda Employability activities scaffolded in first year and capstone unit . • Agency Interviews • Agencies engaged to conduct mock interviews. • Career and Heath agency Showcase. • E Portfolio • Practicum integration and reflection

5. First Year Unit: Student • Learn how to use Pebblepadeportfolio • Start collecting evidence • Start to think about themselves as health professions • Think about how to present themselves • Consider possible working roles and future careers in Public Health.

6. Capstone Third Year Unit: Student • Reflect on their ‘Ethical perspective’. • Undertake Career planning - All about me! • Prepare for apply to work in public health • Industry interview • Pitch to potential employers showcasing their webfolio/ Eportfolio.

7. Learning Outcomes Workplace principles Professional competencies Job Application Workplace interview Pitch to an employer

9. Industry Partners

10. Student feedback: Voxpop teaching tools • I now know what specific skills, experiences needed and to be undertaken to get a job in industry. • Allows us to establish a baseline in our particular industry and produce an insight into different roles and experiences within our area or major. • I absorb the experiences, knowledge and ideas they have presented. Provides an insight into health professionals and their companies expectations or criteria aspects to assist undergraduates into their speciality. • It opened up my view on job opportunities and where I can go. • Straight to the point, short and sweet.

11. Student industry interviews

12. Reflections on the Interview Process

13. EPortfolio Showcase and networking

14. An eportfolioprovides a scaffolded opportunity for students to achieve higher order thinking: • Allow and encourage student autonomy • Empower students to take responsibility for their own learning Use of an ePortfolio system requires a “considerable level of learner autonomy and initiative, of learner responsibility for their learning and of opportunities to refine their learning based on feedback from the teacher.” (Stefani, Mason & Pegler, p.12)

15. First year unit: A simple, personal approach. • A structured assessment and EP activity (workbook) populated by the student with their information. • Activity is simple and closely links to unit learning outcomes.

16. ‘All about me’ page in a Structured Workbook

17. Reflection activities and goal setting

18. Feedback Provided through the Pebblepad system, using Rubrics.

19. Third year Capstone Unit • Students pitch themselves to a potential employer. • Use of JING, online software video recording.

20. Pebblepad Support • 5 ‘How to’ Videos. • BB, Pebblepad tools and announcements. • TLD Support Officer. • Adobe Connect Pro Online meetings with Tutor.

21. Challenges to overcome Strengths, Challenges, Future

22. Strengths • Student career planning initiated early in the course • Assessment of career based competencies was effective. • Innovation of eportfolio for potential employers

23. Challenges • Technical - software, access, with IT • Embracing new practice – Pebblepad ‘literacy’ • Teaching and learning support • Valid assessment tools • Clear assessment submission process • Investment in time Vs innovation in teaching • Students not maximising the potential of eportfolio post unit.

24. Student Reflections on Unit It has increased my professional level for jobs with use of resume and skills. STAR actually has to do this in class – Gives examples to the rest of the class, peer review of skills, practical computer work. It is very, very good and it has been helpful. I feel a lot more confident to go out in the workplace / workforce now Interesting to understand and recognise the skills required for employability. It shows concepts, structures that we can utilise in the future • ‘Good to be forced out of our comfort Zone. Maybe have a practical placement to enhance knowledge.

25. Opportunities • Course wide implementation - Scaffolding is essential across a course. • Student submission early in semester to engage • Support staff training, create own eportfolio • Strengthen support for online students • Integrate a practicum placement

26. Student Feedback: embedding Practicum ‘It could be useful to link learning material of the unit to a practicum placement.’ ‘Not sure how that would work. I find a long practicum to be time consuming if its a third year unit maybe that could work.’ ‘Practicum would be beneficial to students, however I don't believe there is enough unit content to cover a whole year.’ ‘I think this will enhance the value of this unit- putting into practice what one has learned!’ ‘Would be amazing, great idea.’

27. Reflective Logs and journals Reflective practice… ‘a form of practice that seeks to problematise many situations of professional performance so that they can become potential learning situations so the practitioner can continue to learn, grow and develop in practice.” (Jarvis, 1992 p.180).

28. Future Marketing package to incorporate student practicums into future unit • Preparation for Practicums to Health Science Students in 2015 unit. • ‘Selling’ practicum opportunities to industry.

29. How have you used portfolios to support the development of employability skills? 2. Have you considered transferability of eportfolios to post graduation?