Dr Michael Malone (Director of Curriculum and Information Services) and Paula Philpott (Head of Learning Academy) at the South Eastern Regional College have written a short case study entitled “Get the Edge – enterprise week”: Summary Giving our students the edge is a key priority as we seek to provide students with a range of … Read more
Ian Deamer and Emma Purnell of Plymouth University have written a case study for our blog, entitled “Working Together: Enhancing Employability through ePortfolio Based Authentic Assessment”: Summary A second year module within the Faculty of Business at Plymouth University uses ePortfolios to support both individual and group assessments to enhance student’s employability skills. One of … Read more
In our recently published report “Technology for Employability“, we proposed a 7-dimensional model to describe the “employable student” covering: Basic work readiness Professional skills and knowledge High level capabilities Key student attributes Authentic learning experiences Lifelong employability in a digital world Lifelong learning capabilities We thought it would be useful to take this a stage … Read more
For those of you attending Jisc’s DigiFest 2016, we would like to invite you to come along to our workshop “Working in Partnership to develop students’ employability”. We’ll be exploring the twin themes of developing student employability and partnership working between students, staff and employers. James Kieft, Group Learning and Development manager at Activate Learning … Read more
Lisa, Geoff and myself were a bit daunted when we found out that we had 400 registrations for our Webinar on the 25 January, but when everyone started introducing themselves in the text chat, it was so exciting to see people from so many different roles and from across the HE, FE and skills sectors. … Read more
We had a large number of participants in our Webinar on the 25 January and there were many questions asked – we were not able to respond to all of them in the time available, so I’ve put together some brief responses to the questions asked in the text-chat and if anyone would like to … Read more
Report The “Technology for Employability” report has now been officially launched and can be downloaded from the Jisc study web-site https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/developing-student-employability As well as the full report, you can also download the following: Quick read version of the report – http://bit.ly/employability-summaryreport A document with just the HE case studies – http://bit.ly/employability-HE-casestudies A document with just … Read more
The UniversitiesUK Efficiency Exchange has just published an article by Dr Dilly Fung of UCL on their approach to implementing connected curricula in a research-intensive institution and linked to real-world student projects – see Dr Dilly Fung: making connections at UCL The article also describes how they are involving students as partners in leading curriculum enhancement, through their UCL … Read more
The previous blog posting (23 September 2015) described our “connected curricula” theme, comprising three essential elements: T-Profile curricula (for a digital world) Employer engagement (including digital engagement) Assessment for learning (discipline and employability) We referred to this theme in two of our workshops at ALT-C 2015 entitled: “Connecting students, staff and employers together for shaping … Read more
We recently ran two workshops at ALT-C 2015 in Manchester, entitled: “Connecting students, staff and employers together for shaping the future of learning” and “Barriers and new participatory approaches for adopting e-portfolios in delivering employability benefits for students in FE and HE” …. which drew on our “Technology for employability” study as well as two … Read more