Tools for career & educational planning and evaluating my.pPlan
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Dear Instructional Designers and others interested in this area,
Career and educational planning is often referred to in English (UK) Higher Education as PDP – Personal Development Planning. And institutions find different tools, practices and approaches to support students with this planning, thinking and strategizing. An out-of-the-box online tool I felt was not available on https://www.eduappcenter.com (?) to students or intuitions was one that:
- provides a structure to support the planning process and conversation with assigned mentors/coaches
- providing a structure that facilitates a more organic visual (planning - Kanban board like) way of thinking and planning - where inline feedback can be given at different points in the process
- Makes use of SMART criteria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria to help the student think in an objective way (Note Action-steps replace Assignable/Achieveble)
- Allows the breakdown of each broad goal into many SMART plans (i.e. a system that supports many to many relationships)
- a lower cost tool (than say an ePortolio which may have to store and manage many digital assists for long periods)
To start exploring a tool that would provide these features I’ve built an online prototype anyone can currently Sign into, so feedback from this community would be very useful. Below is link to a survey and more information on the tool:
The tool: https://my.pplan.xyz
Survey: https://goo.gl/forms/uozgRwr8Ja0ZfT8t1
Quick overview of tool/backend post: https://goo.gl/3kRH3M
How to use the tool: https://goo.gl/CNTZwT
Step-by-step user guidance: https://jago.active-studio.com/pplan-user-guide/
Note, this prototype is not an LTI tool provider (yet), but it was to LTI tools that we initially looked to provide these kinds of features at my college.
Jago Brown