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Embedding Personal and Professional Development Into Higher Education Programmes

The workplace is changing: Employers want graduates with the right skills & competences

For example:

• Critical and creative thinking
• Communication skills
• Collaboration skills
• Entrepreneurial mindset
• Global outlook
• Socially, ethically and environmentally aware
• Digital skills
• Media literacy
• Leadership
• Future work skills…

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A degree is no longer enough - the rise of employability

• In an increasingly competitive job market, a degree is no

longer enough.

• Students needs to evidence that they have excellent soft

skills, and engage in Continuous Professional Development (CPD).

• The modern (mass-) university system struggles to equip

students with these skills within the curriculum structure

• The ‘Humboldt Bildungsideal’ - 'developing mind and

character’ is staging a comeback via ‘employability’ programmes.

The Big-Picture Problem

Personal development is a highly individual learning journey, as each student has different professional development needs. How can we support 10,000s of students in their individual professional development? How can we engage students according to their strengths and development needs at scale?

The challenge:

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Why personal development?

Personal development describes activities that develop a person in a self-directed way, including for example activities that improve:

• Self-awareness and self-knowledge
• Ability to develop your strengths and talents
• Ability to learn new skills
• Ability to form social relations
• Emotional intelligence
• Career planning

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Introducing

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Intuitive platform optimised to help universities design and embed scalable CPD and employability programmes

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Bringing all elements of independent learning/CPD/employability together:

• Increase self-awareness with diagnostics and

self-evaluation tools

• Discover CPD opportunities/ events/

resources at institution, personalised to every learner

• Reflect on personal development and get it

validated/ accredited with badges

• Get nudged along to complete learning goals
• Automatically keeps a record of personal

development that can be shared (folio)

For the institution: Encourage and enable personal and professional development across campus

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For students: The place for your personal and professional development

• Promote and increase engagement with CPD
• Embed effective coaching and mentoring

programmes

• Personalise the student experience around

personal development

• Design innovative personal effectiveness

programmes with digital awards and badges

• Work with employers on placements and

student challenges

• Track CPD with learner analytics

• Introduce students to CPD, employability

development and graduate attributes

• Increase engagement with CPD and

employability by personalising resources to each student automatically based on their needs

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Help students discover resources, events and courses for their professional development

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Create new resources

• Direct students to your existing resources

and events on your LMS or other systems

• Easily create new courses, learning

activities and events with a highly intuitive authoring tool

• Add videos, images, forms, reflection

exercises and short self-assessments that can be automatically validated by the system and enable independent student learning

Launch effective Employability awards

• Set up Employability awards programmes
• Include reflections, logging of volunteering hours,

completion of online courses, attendance at workshop and events

• Easily configurable to individual programmes and

to your process

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Let students earn digital credentials/ badges for their CPD/ employability engagement.

Digital Credentials/ badges

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• A key element of CPD/ employability is

reflection

• Potentially makes it simple for students to

document their informal learning

• Set up effective process

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Placement years, years abroad, Internships, volunteering

• All CPD and employability activity the

student undertakes is automatically collected in the ‘folio’ - the students’ personal showcase and digital employability record.

• The folio can be easily shared with

employers and can be connected to Linkedin.

folio

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Build awareness of strengths and development areas

• Built-in psychometric tools optimised for

personal development and coaching

• Quick and engaging identification of

personal strength and stretch areas.

• Questionnaire developed over 3 years with
• ver 14,000 students, builds on scientific

Five Factor model

• Core, comfort stretch trait model - ideal for

mentoring and coaching

• Mapped to Belbin team roles & Jungian

types

• Questionnaire only take 15-20 min to

complete

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Critical and Creative Thinkers A Critical thinker ... A Creative thinker .... Lifelong learning Entrepreneurial Enterprising and entrepreneurial attitude and

• utlook

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

The system can be easily customized to the institution’s own development framework and process.

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Track employability of cohorts with Learner

• Analytics. Target specific

student cohorts for activities and events.

• Activity participation
• Engagement
• Achievements
• Badges awarded
• Events booked into / attended
• Progress made
• Metrics by cohorts
• Social mobility

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Tutor dashboards help to keep track of tutees in one place.

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What partners say:

Potentially is an exciting new online system […] that helps to make personal development and employability activity interesting, fun and rewarding.

Potentially challenges our students to reflect

• n their strengths and weaknesses, perhaps

for the first time. We see this early learning point as providing them with a stimulus for further personal growth that can be nurtured through tutors and colleagues.

Professor Gunter Saunders
 Internet and Education Technology Services

Luke Millard 
 Head of Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching

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Jisc Digital Discovery tool

• Jisc.ac.uk is the UK’s national innovation agency for the Higher

Education sector

• The Jisc Digital Capabilities framework sets national standards for

digital competences of academic staff and students

• potential.ly is proud to have been chosen by Jisc as the delivery

platform for the Digital Discovery tool, helping students and staff at

• ver 100+ colleges and universities to identify their digital skills

needs.

• This includes the initial self-evaluation questionnaire, as well as

recommendations and delivery of online resources, personalised for every participant.

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Contact Dr Norbert Morawetz

norbert@potential.ly Tel: +44 (0) 7872414948 Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship Henley Business School Office 167, Edith Morley building Whiteknights University of Reading, RG6 6UD n.morawetz@henley.ac.uk

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The life-long learning platform.

Founder Potentially Ltd 4-5 Bonhill Street | London EC2A 4BX norbert@potential.ly

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