Becoming the LinkedIn University

Andrew Middleton & Sue Beckingham

@andrewmid @suebecks #SHULT15

Managing Our Professional Presence

Student StaffIdentity

Being & BecomingPPDP and Employability

Establishing our standingOur practice is our profile

social media profiles are a common currency for all aspiring and developing professionals

Update your status!

Who and where are your contacts?

Peers Employers

Alumni Publics

Clients Associations

Update your status!

Focusing on the “Presentation Layer”strategic Professional Profiling

“What’s happening?...(nothing*?*!)

from small acorns...

Update your status!

Promoting and modelling employability and PPDP

Being Professional, demonstrating reflective, connected and curated practice

You and LinkedIn?

1. I am not aware2. I am aware, but I have no profile yet3. I am aware with a basic profile4. It’s important to me5. It’s my key networking tool

Learning ecologies

Valuing lifewide learning and

developing lifelong habits

We are at the centre of our learning

“A learning ecology is defined as the set of contexts found in physical or virtual spaces that provide opportunities for learning.

Each context is comprised of a unique configuration of activities, material resources, relationships, and the interactions that emerge from them.”

Barron (2006, p.195)

“An environment that fosters and supports the formation of communities and networks.If ecologies are the spaces of learning, then networks are the structures of learning. Networks do not occur in a vacuum.Knowledge is networked and distributed, and the act of learning is the creation and navigation of networks.”

Siemens 2008

Ecologies and networks

Providing students opportunities to develop professional digital and social media skills to enhance meaningful engagement with personal and professional development.

Available on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/suebeckingham/providing-students-opportunities-to-develop-professional-digital-and-social-media-skills-for-ppdp

Introducing activities that allow students to:

★ explore and experiment with multimedia to personalise their own reflective blogs and professional portfolios

★ use inquiry to observe, listen, interact and learn within professional social media spaces

★ capture feedback from tutors, peers, employers and the wider public using innovative ways chosen by themselves

★ prepare in a safe space for their public professional portfolio which could be a blog, website, LinkedIn profile or digital CV

The project

12 case study videos and written artefacts :★ Students★ Staff★ Alumni★ Employers

and★ Guidance

So, is this where we do PPDP?

How does it fit in with other PPDP approaches?

LinkedIn University Presentation Layer

Formal Learning Activity

Informal Learning Activity

Work Experience

Activity

Life Experience ...

The habit of Reflection on Learning

Other formal and self defined tools

What next?

★ The project will be delivered to the HEA next Tuesday★ We will then construct a Toolkit using WordPress to host and

develop the collection★ https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/profiles

★ Q: What would you like to see in the toolkit?