Module Descriptors
SKILLS PORTFOLIO AND CAREER PLAN (BLENDED LEARNING)
COIS51093
Key Facts
Digital, Technology, Innovation and Business
Level 5
30 credits
Contact
Leader: Robin Oldham
Email: Robin.Oldham@staffs.ac.uk
Hours of Study
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: 12
Independent Study Hours: 288
Total Learning Hours: 300
Sites
- Stoke Campus
Assessment
- Coursework 1 - a reflection (4000 minimum words) weighted at 60%
- Coursework 2 - A career action plan (minimum 2000 words) with related career evaluation paperwork and job collateral. weighted at 40%
Module Details
Module Resources
You will need access to these resources:
The VLE
An ICT Workplace environment. A Work-Based Learning Agreement will be completed for this module to ensure that the student will have access to the required resources in the workplace.
The Internet and office software
Staffordshire University has subscriptions to electronic book services such as Safari Tech Books, Ebrary and Netlibrary. There are titles in each of the collections that will support students studying this module.
The VLE
An ICT Workplace environment. A Work-Based Learning Agreement will be completed for this module to ensure that the student will have access to the required resources in the workplace.
The Internet and office software
Staffordshire University has subscriptions to electronic book services such as Safari Tech Books, Ebrary and Netlibrary. There are titles in each of the collections that will support students studying this module.
Module Learning Strategies
During the first year of your course, your academic coach will work with your workplace mentor to ensure that you supplement your academic skills with related workplace experience. In your second year, your coach and mentor will help you to select some key examples of your work as an apprentice, enabling you to demonstrate how you have applied your knowledge and understanding in a real-work environment to achieve your real-work objectives.
Using a standard reflection technique, you will reflect on how what you have achieved meets the apprenticeship standard that you are working towards. Specifically, you will be provided with a list of work place outcomes that you need to evidence in the portfolio.
This reflection will form the basis for a detailed career plan. The taught component of this module will be delivered during your induction day and will cover aspects of IT professionalism and the industry to give you a broad idea of what is out there.
Your academic coach will have a meeting with you during the induction session (1 hour) and will set up at least six further sessions with you throughout the year. (6 hours)
The induction session will comprise presentations and activities around the indicative content (5 hours)
Using a standard reflection technique, you will reflect on how what you have achieved meets the apprenticeship standard that you are working towards. Specifically, you will be provided with a list of work place outcomes that you need to evidence in the portfolio.
This reflection will form the basis for a detailed career plan. The taught component of this module will be delivered during your induction day and will cover aspects of IT professionalism and the industry to give you a broad idea of what is out there.
Your academic coach will have a meeting with you during the induction session (1 hour) and will set up at least six further sessions with you throughout the year. (6 hours)
The induction session will comprise presentations and activities around the indicative content (5 hours)
Module Indicative Content
• Professional, legal, social issues and ethics
• Professional Bodies
• Entrepreneurship, Enterprise and Employability in the ICT Industry - what's out there?
• Global issues in the digital world
• Lifelong Learning
• Models of reflection
• Reflective writing revisited
• Building portfolios
• Career planning
• Employability
• Reflective practice models
• Analysis methods SWOT, PESTEL
• Professional Bodies
• Entrepreneurship, Enterprise and Employability in the ICT Industry - what's out there?
• Global issues in the digital world
• Lifelong Learning
• Models of reflection
• Reflective writing revisited
• Building portfolios
• Career planning
• Employability
• Reflective practice models
• Analysis methods SWOT, PESTEL
Module Additional Assessment Details
Coursework 1: weighted at 60% Learning outcomes 1, 2 and 3
A reflection (minimum 4000 words) on how your work practice has enabled you to meet your workplace objectives and those of this module.
This will be supported by an e-portfolio of evidence.
The evidence can be supplemented with the following
• performance reports
• expert witness testimony
• customer feedback
NOTE FOR THOSE TAKING THIS MODULE AS PART OF AN APPRENTICESHIP: The portfolio of evidence is not graded. However, apprentices must demonstrate that they meet the core apprenticeship outcomes that are specified in the apprenticeship handbook. The portfolio of evidence will be assessed through a viva with the academic coach, workplace mentor and line manager. Feedback from both the mentor and coach will highlight any areas of concern. These must be made good before the apprenticeship can be awarded.
Coursework 2: weighted at 40% Learning outcome 4
A career action plan (minimum 2000 words) with related career evaluation paperwork and job collateral.
A reflection (minimum 4000 words) on how your work practice has enabled you to meet your workplace objectives and those of this module.
This will be supported by an e-portfolio of evidence.
The evidence can be supplemented with the following
• performance reports
• expert witness testimony
• customer feedback
NOTE FOR THOSE TAKING THIS MODULE AS PART OF AN APPRENTICESHIP: The portfolio of evidence is not graded. However, apprentices must demonstrate that they meet the core apprenticeship outcomes that are specified in the apprenticeship handbook. The portfolio of evidence will be assessed through a viva with the academic coach, workplace mentor and line manager. Feedback from both the mentor and coach will highlight any areas of concern. These must be made good before the apprenticeship can be awarded.
Coursework 2: weighted at 40% Learning outcome 4
A career action plan (minimum 2000 words) with related career evaluation paperwork and job collateral.
Module Texts
Roffey-Barentsen, Jodi ; Malthouse, Richard (2009) Reflective practice in the lifelong learning sector [electronic book] Publisher:Exeter : Learning Matters, ISBN: 0857253344 (e-book); 9780857253347 (e-book).
Module Special Admissions Requirements
None
Module Learning Outcomes
1. DEMONSTRATE THROUGH REFLECTION A DEEP KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF PROFESSIONAL, ETHICAL, LEGAL AND GLOBAL ISSUES SURROUNDING THE PRODUCTION AND USE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
Knowledge & Understanding
Learning
2. DEMONSTRATE A CRITICAL LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF MODELS OF REFLECTION AND THEIR APPLICATION AS PART OF REFLECTIVE PRACTICE AND PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT Knowledge & Understanding
Application
3. EVIDENCE SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION IN THE WORKPLACE OF THE RANGE OF KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS LEARNT THROUGHOUT THE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMME
Reflection
Communication
4. USE A RANGE OF METHODS OF ENQUIRY TO INVESTIGATE CAREER OPPORTUNITIES, DEVELOP AND CRITICALLY EVALUATE CAREER PLANS/ACTION PLANS TO IMPROVE FUTURE EMPLOYABILITY.
Enquiry
Analysis
Application
Knowledge & Understanding
Learning
2. DEMONSTRATE A CRITICAL LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF MODELS OF REFLECTION AND THEIR APPLICATION AS PART OF REFLECTIVE PRACTICE AND PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT Knowledge & Understanding
Application
3. EVIDENCE SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION IN THE WORKPLACE OF THE RANGE OF KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS LEARNT THROUGHOUT THE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMME
Reflection
Communication
4. USE A RANGE OF METHODS OF ENQUIRY TO INVESTIGATE CAREER OPPORTUNITIES, DEVELOP AND CRITICALLY EVALUATE CAREER PLANS/ACTION PLANS TO IMPROVE FUTURE EMPLOYABILITY.
Enquiry
Analysis
Application