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Digital capability - Connected U: developing professional presence on LinkedIn
1. Digital Capability
Connected U
developing professional presence on LinkedIn
Sue Beckingham & Andrew Middleton
@andrewmid@suebecks
Faculty of ACES Annual LTA Conference, Sheffield Hallam University
2. Common ground
Employability as a lifelong
challenge and commitment
to professional development
and establishing good
standing
4. Digital identity and wellbeing
A strategic approach to
building digital capability
(Jisc 2015)
5. Connected U
HEA funded - Employability SEP
“Re-imagining PPDP”
Enabling Remaining in Good Standing
Challenge: to make PPDP and RIGS real
Relevant for staff and students
6. Connected U - The ‘LinkedIn University’
How and why we should establish and maintain
our professional profiles using social media
Personal & Professional Development Planning (PPDP)
for students
Professional Recognition for staff
Helen Beetham's work
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/thriving-in-a-connected-age-digital-capability-and-digital-wellbeing-25-jun-2015
Habits
Personal & Professional Development Planning (PPDP) for students
Professional Recognition for staff
establishing their professional profiles using social media
how the HEA funded LinkedIn University project
How should/do we actually go about managing this?
Solution: Establishing and maintaining their professional presence using social media
Developing our social capital - our worth to ourselves and others
Habitus - continuous improvement and continuous reflection and profiling, (a form of experiential learning)
Hence, PPDP and Professional recognition - managing oneself …
The purpose of the LIU project is to inspire students and staff and to refresh thinking about personal and professional development planning (PPDP) and professional recognition. The project’s rationale is to foster engagement in PPDP by creating and managing evidence informed professional profiles.
Reverse engineering
From the concrete representation of ourselves we create a context that develops our profiling habit
“LinkedIn is a familiar social networking site, already used by students and staff, but often not fully appreciated as an effective active portfolio space.”