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Wentworth of TOMORRROW

Wentworth of TOMORRROW. Transformation For The Next Century. Improving Student Social Business Skill Sets Through ePortfolio Development and Utilization. Cindy P. Stevens, Ph.D. Boston, MA. Management Department. Bachelor's of Science (BSM) Current total BSM students: approximately 280

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Wentworth of TOMORRROW

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  1. Wentworth of TOMORRROW Transformation For The Next Century

  2. Improving Student Social Business Skill Sets Through ePortfolio Development and Utilization Cindy P. Stevens, Ph.D. Boston, MA

  3. Management Department • Bachelor's of Science (BSM) • Current total BSM students: approximately 280 • Two concentrations: • Entrepreneurship • Technology Project Management • ePortfolio required • ICABE accreditation tool

  4. Electronic Career PortfolioAssessment Tool and Requirement Report • Core Required Items: • Professional Picture • Brief Student Summary • Professional Resume • Design and Organization: • Organized • Working Links • Artifacts are Identifiable • Process: • Freshman Year Developed • Activity Editing/Adding Content Sophomore through Senior Year • Concentration Advisor Signs off Senior Year • Advisor Signs Off Senior Year • Students Issued an S or U. (will become letter graded item 2016!) • Six Proficiency Areas Required: • Writing and Research • Example: Newspaper, Research paper • Professional Service • Example: Student Organization, Committee • Team Leadership • Example: Mentor, Conduct Meetings • Consulting, Management Skill Development • Example: Plan or Design a Project, Evaluator • Career and Life Planning • Example: Resume, References, Co-op • Communication • Example: Presentation, Speech

  5. ePortfolio for Co-op • We encourage students to submit eportfolio(s) along with resume to Co-op employers.

  6. WIT Co-op Optional Co-op #1 (Sophomore) Mandatory Co-op #1 (Junior) Mandatory Co-op #2 (Senior) Cooperative education (Co-op) aims to provide practical experience while applying classroom learning at a work site; to enhance professional skills; to experience personal growth. Co-op is a full-time work experience. Enrollment in this course maintains full time student status.

  7. Sample BSM Co-op Employers • Akamai Technologies • American Fortune Real Estate Corp. • Boston Engineering • Boston Red Sox • Intel Massachusetts, Inc. • John Hancock • McGrath Companies • My Happy Planet • Raytheon Technical Services • Mission Hill Main Streets • Sunguard Higher Education • Trinity Properties • Uphams Corner Main Street • Windsor Capital Mortgage

  8. What Platform? • Switched to WordPress.com for 2011 & 2012 Seniors. • Now allowing students to also use Weebly2013.

  9. Why Did We Switch? WordPress & Weebly more graphical and not just an online Resume. WordPress & Weebly easier to use. Weebly easier to use than WordPress.

  10. Samples

  11. Samples

  12. Conducted a Survey! • Were students more motivated? • Did they enjoy the experience more? • Where they more satisfied? • Did they learn anything new? • About themselves? • Technical skills? • Organizational skills? • Time management? • Where they able to reflect back over the last four years?

  13. ePortfolio Skill Sets Source: Stevens, Cindy. “Social Capital: Determining A Student’s E-Portfolio Net Worth" Volume 5 of The Journal of Human Capital Development. (June, 2012).

  14. Negative

  15. Positive

  16. Net Worth • An assumption is that eportfolio net worth (NW) is: • The sum of human capital (HC) and social capital (SC) *In other words, ePortfolio NW = HC + SC.

  17. What Does That Mean? • Human capital represents technologicalskills, organizational skills, writing skills, critical thinking skills, and self-knowledge skills. • These skills are either utilized or gained during the eportfolio process from freshman to senior year. • Social capital represents the ability of students to communicate, work with others, including faculty members, and create and maintain networks as a result of their eportfolio. • Social capital is also considered a non-cognitive trait development and that these social capital skills are transferable skills in the workplace, in school, and personally.

  18. Are Social Business Skill Sets Similar?

  19. Social Business Skills Sets • Interpersonal Communication (Burrus; Pereira, Vera, Miller; Foux) • Collaboration (Burrus; Pereira, Vera, Miller) • Group Learning (Pereira, Vera, Miller) • Creative Problem Solving (Pereira, Vera, Miller; Foux) • Analyzing Complex Processes (Pereira, Vera, Miller; Foux) • Vast Technology Skills (Pereira, Veraand Miller) • People Skills (Foux) • Leadership (Golla) • Ethical Decision Making (Golla) • Knowledge Building (Burrus; Golla) • Knowledge Management (Burrus; Golla)

  20. Making A Connection: Social Business • Another assumption is: • Social Business (SB) Skill Sets = Net worth of the eportfolio • Or, in other words: NW ± SB • The lower net worth of a student’s eportfolio the lower his/her reflected social business skills sets. • The higher net worth of a student’s eportfolio the higher his/her reflected social business skills sets.

  21. What’s Next • A grading rubric that measures the NW of an eportfolio. • The rubric will correlate to several, if not all the BSM/IACBE program learning outcomes. • The learning outcomes will in turn assess: NW ±SB.

  22. stevensc@wit.edu http://cindypstevens.com Questions or Comments

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