ePortfolio, Professional Identity, and Twenty-First Century Employability Skills

• Published in: Catalyst in Action pp. 154 - 171
• Main Authors: Goodwin, Jill Tomasson, Lithgow, Katherine
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2018; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: HIPs; ePortfolio Practice; Extracurricular; Capstone Courses; Waterloo; Skills Articulation; Learning Core; Quadrant III; Student Engagement; Learning Community Instructors; Star; Agnostic; Digital Artifact; Basso; ePortfolio Reflection; Final Semester; Learning Intervention; Basso Continuo; Employability Skills; ePortfolio Platform; PD; ePortfolio Project; Advancing Student Success; Social Pedagogy; Final Data Collection
• ISBN: 9781620368664; 1620368668; 9781620368671; 1620368676
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003443384-12

The "Waterloo Curriculum Vitae" (WatCV) ePortfolio initiative is a research project and a teaching and learning intervention. It is a high-impact ePortfolio practice addressing the issue of student employability upon graduation. For students and instructors, WatCV's intended goals align with Catalyst Value Proposition 1 (enhancing student success and engagement) and Proposition 2 (making student learning visible and supporting reflection, integration, and deep learning). The WatCV PD program offers a series of structured engagements to mentor faculty who wish to foster their students' learning to articulate employability skills in an ePortfolio. The principles of Inquiry, Reflection, and Integration (I-R-I) inform the design of WatCV's implementation for students and instructors. WatCV relies on technology to support its teaching and learning goals. WatCV aims to reframe the purported "skills gap" crisis as a remediable "articulation of skills" gap, one that all higher education institutions can address.