Accelerated certificates embedding industry credentials retrain for STEM Careers

Kim LawCyber Technology Coordinator

National STEM Consortium

Janet M. Paulovich Director English Language Learning and Adult Education

STEM Bridge Team Lead, National STEM Consortium

NATIONAL STEM CONSORTIUM

The TAACCCT Grant Program

• U.S. Department of Labor

• U.S. Department of Education• Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and

Career Training (TAACCCT) Grant Program

• NSC awarded $19.7 Million on October 1, 2011

What is the National STEM Consortium?

• Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland• College of Lake County in Illinois• Clover Park Technical College in Washington State• Cuyahoga Community College in Ohio• Florida State College at Jacksonville• Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana• Macomb Community College in Michigan• Northwest Arkansas Community College• Roane State Community College in Tennessee• South Seattle Community College in Washington State

What is the Role of the NSC?

Design and deliver Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs that are:

• Nationally portable

• High-quality certificate-level

• Responsive to labor market needs

• Embed contextualized remediation – “STEM Bridge”

• Build a national model for multi-college cooperation

NSC Industries

• Composite Materials

• Cyber Technology

• Electric Vehicle Development and Repair

• Environmental Technology

• Mechatronics

Who are the Participants?

• Workers Eligible for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA)

• Dislocated workers

• Other unemployed workers

• Under-employed workers

Other workers in need of updated skills:

Strategies

• Accelerated cohort models of instruction

• Embedded industry credentials

• “Stackable” certificates that lead to degrees in career pathways

• Partnerships with industry advisors to ensure that students master skills that are relevant to industry in their area.

Industry-Recognized Credentials

• Composites: considering • Certified Production Technician (Manufacturing Skills

Standards Council)• Certified Composites Technician (American Composites

Manufacturers Assn.)• Cyber: A+, Network+, and Security+ from CompTIA and

CCNA from Cisco• Electric Vehicle: SAE International’s Vehicle Electrification

Fundamentals and Safety Certificate of Competency• Environmental: OSHA – including HAZWOPER• Mechatronics: SIEMENS Certification, Solidworks Associate

What is the STEM Bridge?

Anne Arundel Community College National STEM Consortium Technical Proposal “Each of the STEM pathways will include a STEM Bridge. The STEM Bridge will be programmatically consistent across the five fields and transferable to other colleges, and will integrate basic skills, workforce skills, computer skills, and job readiness training, contextualized within the pathway.”

Co-Development Partners

• National STEM Consortium – STEM Bridge Team• Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative (OLI)• CAST – addresses learner variability through Universal

Design for Learning and accessibility. • Industry partners• Offered assistance in developing realistic scenarios and

provided company name and images – ARINC

• Industry experts offered experience in developing realistic scenarios but company names are fictitious.

Two Part Strategy

STEM Bridge is a two-part strategy to provide support to learners in the STEM certificate programs

Part 1: “STEM Readiness” Course• Embedded contextualized online course built in OLI’s Platform+ system that

quickly refreshes key skills for learners entering the credit certificates directly.

Part 2: “STEM Foundations” Course• Modularized set of curriculum “bundles” that can be adapted and inserted by

colleges wherever needed to provide support for lower level learners who need to build foundational skills in Math and Workplace Communication before entering the credit certificates.

Learning Outcomes-Based Curriculum

The STEM Bridge Team surveyed all five technical teams to determine what key skills were needed in each of the five

pathways.

The team developed a master set of learning outcomes that were common to most of the technical pathways:

ESSENTIAL SKILLSMath

Critical Thinking and Workplace CommunicationProfessional Skills (Customer Service, Teamwork etc.)

ARINC Scenario: Technician in Training

ARINC Flow Chart With Decision Points

Learn By Doing Activities

Learner Analytics

• Students - instant feedback from the Learn By Doing and Did I Get This? activities and end of module quizzes.

• Instructors - view student mastery of learning outcomes in the instructor dashboard and tailor face to face instruction to help students who are having challenges with specific parts of the course.

• Colleges/Administrators – track usage and other data

Unit 2 - Critical Thinking and Workplace Communications

http://youtu.be/nFMRaG4p8mM http://youtu.be/S0OOlThhU90

Present introductory story Present contextualized challenges

STEM Readiness Course

Assessment: End of Module Quizzes

• Summary provided for all modules

• Extra Practice Problems available

• Assessment questions tied to objectives

• Assessments feed gradebook and Instructor’s Dashboard

Flexible Delivery

• Hybrid format with face to face instruction to support.• Online only in class or in attached lab.• Delivered up front in first term or spread across

multiple terms as needed by each team.• Inserted into key points in the technical curriculum.• Delivered as credit or (0 credit) credit equivalent

modules.

Adaptable for Other Programs

• Modularized units can be inserted as needed to support credit, non-credit or technical curriculum.• Embed modules into the credit courses where they are needed:

Teamwork module might help students learn how to collaborate more effectively in labs.

• Adapt and contextualize for other career pathways using the same learning outcomes:• Analyze information from multiple sources and determine appropriate actions

for a given situation.• Listen to a conversation and compose an effective summary of the information.

• ARINC Air Operations Center• Hospital Emergency Room • Police Emergency Dispatch

STEM Foundations: Lower Level Learners

Twenty-two short modules focusing on the development of key skills that are lacking in lower level learners will be built in the Platform+ system.

Examples:• Identify main idea and supporting ideas and summarize• Build a paragraph and write a short essay• Prepare and deliver an effective presentation• Apply Order of Operations in math• Explain concept of a variable

STEM Foundations

NSC Technical Courses

Sticking Points

Additional short, modular lessons, focused on areas of known student challenge and difficulty. These lessons are

being created in the Platform+ system.

Sustainability and Scaling

• January 2014: Over 3,700 users across the nation

• Over 2,600 on OLI site

• All 10 NSC Community colleges

• At least one High school

• At least one Middle School

• Industry - professional development

Beyond the Grant

Impact

• Higher education

• New nationally-portable programs

• Contextualized remediation

• Accelerated program completion

• Open education resources

• Changing the culture of higher education

To Learn More

• NSC Website: www.NationalSTEM.org

• Open Learning Initiative (OLI) website: http://oli.cmu.edu

• Sign Up on main OLI course page and log in• STEM Readiness – Course Key: ALL-STEM3• STEM Foundations – Course Key: STEMBASIC

For More Information

Kim LawCyber Technology Coordinator, National STEM Consortiumkplaw@aacc.edu410-777-2387

Janet M. Paulovich STEM Bridge Team LeadDirector, English Language Learning and Adult Education410-777-1192jmpaulovich@aacc.edu

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