Potential.ly intuitive employability platform for universities and colleges
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potential.ly Intuitive employability platform for universities & colleges Dr Norbert Morawetz Student Experience Expert meeting
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potential.lyIntuitive employability platform
for universities & colleges
Dr Norbert MorawetzStudent Experience Expert meeting
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Employability?
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Employability drives…
•Rankings •Student choice •Fee income
The development of graduates with relevant attributes, skills and knowledge has placed graduate employability at the centre of the Higher Education agenda.
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• Graduate attributes describe qualities, skills and understandings a university community agrees its students should develop during their time with the institution.
• Attributes go beyond disciplinary expertise or technical knowledge
• Attributes describe desired outcomes, they are aspirational in nature and are difficult to assess in a quantitative way
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Graduate attributes
Attributes
Preferences Abilities
Graduate attributes combine two key concepts:
Preference & Ability
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• Patterns of behaviour, thought and emotion that are the most natural to a person.
• Preferences play an important role in guiding and shaping our daily behaviour. People are likely to behave in line with their preferences most of the time, but they are not determined by them.
• Preferences tend to be relatively stable over time , and we cannot change who we are and our way easily from one day to the next.
• Taken together, the sum of our preferences can be described as our ‘personality’.
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Preferences (Personal qualities, traits, personality factors)
Ability (Competencies, skills, capabilities)
• Abilities describe knowledge, skills and competencies that can be learned and improved.
• For example, in order to give a good presentation you need to know about structure, communication skills, body language, digital skills to prepare impressive slides, etc.
• Proficiency can be assessed
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How preferences and ability relate: Example: ’Creative Problem Solving’
Imagination, Open-mindedness
• Creativity and critical thinking techniques learned
• Opportunity to exercise, experience & develop creative problem solving skills as part of curriculum / extracurricular activity
Creative problem solving
Individual’s personal preference
Acquired competency Graduate Attribute
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PreferencesAbilities
Build self-awareness
• Preferences
• Ability
Engage in Personal Development
• Curricular
• Student-led CPD
• Extra-curricular
• Reflection/Monitoring
Personalised Support
• Embedded: Personal tutoring
• End-of-Programme: Careers
Developing employability/ attributes
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Collaborative learning Personal Development Tutoring/ Support
Providing the personalised support needed at scale is resource and time intensive.
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The potential.ly platform makes it simple for HEs & FEs to embed employability and personal development in a highly engaging and scalable way.
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Quick and engaging identification of strengths and stretch areas.
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Building self-awareness
Step 2: Give students ownership of their CPD.
Explore attributes
Development prompts
Mapping of progress
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Visualisation help students to reflect in a structured way and
engage them in personal development.
Enriching student-tutor relationships
Potential.ly gives insight into a student’s personal strengths and development needs, and provides a record of what they have done for their personal development.
Giving personal tutors access to this rich information enables highly effective development discussions.
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Connect & Communicate
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• Increase student-tutor trust, rapport and
understanding
• Understand the student beyond their degree
• Empower collaborative communication and
develop student confidence
Plan, map and track development
• Identify focus areas
• Link actions/resources to focus areas
• Monitor student engagement with resources
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Build and share professional identity
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• Cohort-level data can be exported for Learner Analytics
• What events, courses, resources should the university offer to address wider development needs?
• Measure learning gain and the impact of education on personal development
• How do students differ across study programmes?
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Measuring learning gain
We support the full student-university lifecycle, from pre-arrival to alumni
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Personal Development Plan
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Pre-Arrival Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 End of Programme
Critical and Creative Thinkers A Critical thinker ...
A Creative thinker ....
Lifelong learning
Entrepreneurial Enterprising and entrepreneurial attitude and outlook Active Problem Solver
Teamwork, collaboration
Leadership (leading people)
Initiative (not explicit)
Planning/Organisation skills
Self-awareness, self-evaluation, self-management
Management of digital identities
Global Outlook and Community Engaged Valuing diversity
Cross-cultural Experience
Community engaged
Literate and effective communicators Verbal communication
Written communication
Visual communication
Information Literacy
Digital literacy
Numeracy
Socially, ethically and environmentally aware
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Customisation to the institution’s graduate attributes
Some of our clients and partners
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June 2015 Selected for the Young Academy 2015 - the programme for social entrepreneurs tackling inequality in education.
July 2015
Selected by Jisc for education technology startup programme.
Feb 2015 Supported through the highly competitive o2/Telefonica startup programme wayra
Collaborative learning
Team-builder helps create balanced learning teams!
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Teaching collaboration skills
Potential.ly utilises key theories of personality, teamwork and management in an experiential way; resulting in transferrable learning of “soft skills” for the work place.
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We are a young technology startup focusing on making learning of soft skills and personal development more scalable, collaborative and measurable.
Our expertise lies in psychometrics, user experience design and software development.
About us - who is potential.ly?
Norbert Morawetz, PhD Founder, Research Lecturer at Henley Business School, 10 years XP in research & teaching
Abdul Waheed Co-Founder & Developer 10 years experience in designing complex web applications for academic publisher Springer.
Jeremy Townson Co-Founder & Developer 18 years XP developing software for companies such as Logica, Springer & Orange.
Trevor Bezzina, MBA Co-Founder, Partner Management 10 years delivering web solutions for talent management (Goldman Sachs) and charities (the Scouts)
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