Building online employability in academic settings

Presentation to the Employability and Work Integrated Learning Symposium University of Wollongong 27th November

By Tristram Hooley (Reader in Career Development)

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What we are going to try and cover

How can new technologies support work-integrated learning?

What is online employability (or digital career literacy) and how can we build it into programmes?

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What we are going to try and cover

How can new technologies support work-integrated learning?

What is online employability (or digital career literacy) and how can we build it into programmes?

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Learning cycle
Experience

Experiment

Reflect

Theorise

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Learning cycle: Single loop

Work experience

Make an action plan

Talk it over

Write an assignment

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Learning cycle: Ongoing

Integration

Network building

Feedback

Reflection

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Social reflective practice

Do something Think about it

Respond and rearticulate

Write about it

Think some more

Feedback from others

Key tool: Blogs

Reflection Portfolio building Communication Feedback Digital career literacy

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What we are going to try and cover

How can new technologies support work-integrated learning?

What is online employability (or digital career literacy) and how can we build it into programmes?

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Opportunities and pitfalls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EzNll1U2N8

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Digital skills

Career management and employability skills

Academic skills

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Changing

Curating

Collecting

Creating

The 7 Cs of digital career literacy

Critiquing

Communicating

Connecting

From Longridge, D., Hooley, T. & Staunton, T. (2013). Building online employability: A guide for academics. Derby: International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby.

Bibliography
Hooley, T. (2011). Careers work in the blogosphere: Can careers blogging widen access to career support. In: Barham, L. & Irving, B.A. (eds) Constructing the Future: Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice. Stourbridge: ICG. Hooley, T. (2012). How the internet changed career: framing the relationship between career development and online technologies. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC). 29. Hooley, T., Hutchinson, J. & Watts, A. G. (2010). Enhancing Choice? The Role of Technology in the Career Support Market. London: UKCES. Hooley, T., Hutchinson, J. & Watts, A.G. (2010). Careering Through The Web. The Potential of Web 2.0 and 3.0 Technologies for Career Development and Career Support Services. London: UKCES. Longridge, D. & Hooley, T. (2012). An experiment in blended career development: The University of Derby's social media internship programme. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling. 29. Longridge, D., Hooley, T. & Staunton, T. (2013). Building online employability: A guide for academics. Derby: International Centre for Guidance Studies, University of Derby.

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Tristram Hooley
Reader in Career Development International Centre for Guidance Studies University of Derby http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs t.hooley@derby.ac.uk @pigironjoe
Blog at http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com

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