Roadmap Videos

In this podcast Shields talks about how this roadmap closed the gap between a project’s initial budget and its real cost. Now let’s join Gerald Shield, senior vice president and CIO of Alfac. Who would think that TV commercial featuring the antics of a wisecracking duck could improve a company’s brand recognition by 90 percent? That’s what a few quacks did for Aflac, a Fortune 500 disability insurance company. Now, Aflac associates have no trouble getting accepted into new business accounts. The payoff has meant a double digit annual growth rate since 2003, and there’s no end in sight. For 2008, Aflac had revenue of about $16.5 billion and more than 8,000 employees. The company insured more than40 million people in North American and Japan.Of course, Aflac isn’t resting on Nielsen ratings from the TV commercials to stay competitive. Accelerating growth continue to drive IT to find ways key departments can provide better value and services to external customers. In fact, in 2008, Gerald Shields, Aflac’s senior vice president and CIO, received an InfoWorld CTO 25 for adding a future IT projects roadmap into the company’s existing IT governance process. Shields says that this roadmap has helped to close the gap between a project’s initial budget and its real cost.” During Shield’s tenure, both Computerworld and InformationWeek 500 have consistently named Aflac as one of the Best Places to Work in IT. Meanwhile, he was also selected as one of Computerworld’s 100 Premier CIOs for 2006.In this podcast, Shields talks about the following: · How the future IT projects roadmap has helped to improve IT’s relationship with the CIO,· What payoffs the company has received from doing this type of roadmap,· How the future IT projects roadmap has changed the governance process,· What other CIOs can learn from the Aflac experience,· How Shield’s measures and communicates the business impact of IT to Aflac’s constituents.

To access the accompanying handout: http://www.scribd.com/full/20963840?access_key=key-tjhoooneoyc6p12igkx Abstract: The VET ePortfolio Roadmap was released in June 2009 to provide guidelines, specifications, and strategies for implementing ePortfolio initiatives. The Roadmap was published, in part, as a response to the increasing interest in the potential of ePortfolios to improve the Recognition of Prior Learning process, and expedite work-based learning, apprenticeships, and traineeships. Previous research studies into learners' use of ePortfolios endorse this response, suggesting that their levels of engagement, creativity, and feelings of empowerment are enhanced, thereby increasing retention and success. It all sounds extremely promising...but what does it actually 'look' like for students and educators? How are learners, practitioners and other stakeholders actually engaging with ePortfolios? In this paper I have three main aims. The first is to provide some background by referring to an early initiative that was implemented between 2003 and 2006 with Foundation students at Dubai Men's College (DMC) where the students created a Career ePortfolio as part of an integrated Computer, Research Skills and Projects Course. The ePortfolios, however, were not interactive, were rather 'static', and the final artifact was primarily produced for assessment rather than self-reflection and development. Since this and similar early initiatives, the introduction of Web 2.0 social software elements to ePortfolios has helped realise additional benefits, including improved reflective practice, augmentation of the quality of final artifacts, and a heightened awareness of purpose and audience. As such, the second aim is to explore recent work with Web 2.0 ePortfolios with students and faculty at Unitec NZ (a multi-sector education institution in NZ), and some of the associated findings and implications. Finally, I will draw the threads together to discuss a number of key strategies and recommendations for the effective implementation of Web 2.0 ePortfolio initiatives, including targeted Professional Development for staff, and scaffolding and guidance to assist the students with self-reflection, collection and selection of evidence of achievements, while also fostering their personalised and creative life-long learning journeys. Please cite as: Owen, H. (2009, October 16). Web 2.0 ePortfolios that work for both students and educators: Strategies and recommendations. Paper presented at the VET E-portfolios Showcase 09 - learning for life.

With the upcoming release of ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine,' we thought you might like to brush up on your mutant history and get a roadmap of where the movie might take you.

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