Digital Badges & 2-Year Colleges: Serving the Community
- 1. Digital Badges and 2-Year Colleges: Serving the Community #badgescc Kate Radionoff Madison College Jeanette Chian Santa Barbara Community College Sharon O’Reilly Gateway Technical College Linda McGee Gateway Technical College
- 2. Are you curious? Who is in the audience? #badgescc
- 4. #badgescc
- 5. Digital Badges and 2-Year Colleges: Serving the Community Kate Radionoff Madison College Jeanette Chian Santa Barbara Community College Sharon O’Reilly Gateway Technical College Linda McGee Gateway Technical College #badgescc
- 6. Non-Credit Student Needs • Student characteristics • Workforce needs • Role of lifelong learning #badgescc
- 7. Badge Goals • Moving non-credit programming from seat-time to assessed learning • Improve curriculum rigor • Improve assessment • Non-credit transcript to verifiable credential #badgescc
- 8. Building a Non-Credit Badge 1.1. Define your company’s purpose for digital badgesDefine your company’s purpose for digital badges 2.2. Determine required/supplemental course materialDetermine required/supplemental course material 3.3. Review current/create new curriculumReview current/create new curriculum 4.4. Identify course learning objectivesIdentify course learning objectives 5.5. Align learning objectives with national/employerAlign learning objectives with national/employer standardsstandards 8 #badgescc
- 9. Digital Badge HierarchyDigital Badge Hierarchy #badgescc
- 10. Career Skills Institute •Classes are offered in business, design, technology, and career education •Career Skills Institute = Employment Elevation. •Tuition-free and repeatable. Same amount of funding as SBCC’s credit-bearing classes. •Bundled classes form a digital badge = noncredit certificate of completion. #badgescc
- 11. Skills Gap • In 2014-2015, the AACU held tandem surveys. • Employers indicated that employees were lacking in both soft and hard skills: • accountability, • working together on a team, • staying current on technologies, and • critical thinking and decision-making skills. • Employees rated their skillset higher than their employer. • In 2015, the Career Skills Institute was ‘born’ to bridge this gap. #badgescc
- 12. Two Types of Students 1.Employers a) Large Organizations: Government / Education / Healthcare b) Small Organizations: 1500 nonprofits with 100K population 2.Individuals looking to enter, re- enter, or upskill within the job market. #badgescc
- 13. CSI by the numbers •350 •120 •3000 •2019 #badgescc
- 14. Gateway Technical College Badge Initiative Goals for our students: Help students gain a competitive edge seeking employment after graduation or while in school Student Motivation Student Retention Student Recognition Program Recognition & Recruitment #badgescc
- 15. Program Growth • Began work in May 2016 • Badges first issued January 2017 for Fall 2016 Accounting Program • All Business programs as of December 2017, IT badges in process • It takes a team! #badgescc
- 16. Business and IT Digital Badges Correspond to Curriculum Pathway Certificates Technical Diploma Internal Certificates • Small Business Accounting • Advanced Income Tax Accounting • Sustainability Certificate • Personal Financial Planning #badgescc
- 17. • Leveraging LinkedIn • Profile building • LinkedIn group for current student and alumni • Profile polish in Career Readiness Aiming for Career Readiness #badgescc
- 18. By clicking on See Certificate potential employers and others can see more about the badge. #badgescc
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- 20. From the Earner: • The badges have helped verify the skills that I have obtained within my schooling. In LinkedIn you can add whatever skill sets you feel you possess but the badges help verify that you actually have earned those skills. • Another aspect that I enjoy about the badges is that they help add skills to your LinkedIn profile. When you earn certain badges they suggest skills that go along with those badges I think this is helpful because when choosing your skill sets on LinkedIn sometimes you don't always think of the most appealing and accurate skills. • I feel like I've gotten more job offers since adding the badges to my LinkedIn profile and I think they will be helpful when I'm looking into advancing my career. #badgescc
- 22. Reactions From the Business Community #badgescc
- 26. Questions from the Audience Drop them in the chat! #badgescc
- 27. Digital Badges and 2-Year Colleges: Serving the Community Kate Radionoff [email protected] Jeanette Chian [email protected] Sharon O’Reilly [email protected] Linda McGee [email protected] #badgescc
Editor's Notes
- #2: Susan: Welcome to today’s webinar. Thank you for joining us and taking a moment to complete the poll questions as you enter the meeting space. There are two questions to answer Before we get things started we wanted to take care of a few things (house keeping) I’d like to introduce our Panelists today: Kate Radionoff, Jeanette Chian Brooks, Sharon O’Reilly and Linda McGee If you want to follow along with the conversation on twitter, use the hashtag #badgescc
- #3: Role: faculty, instructional designer, faculty support, other Size institution: small, medium, large, national brand, public, private, 2 year, 4 year, for-profit
- #4: Opening comments about 2 year schools 2 year schools are by their very nature best able to serve the community It is in their mission Employers look for graduates Employers look for training and development opportunities Students are connected to the community already; not likely to travel far
- #6: Transitioning to each panelist describing her program
- #10: When planning out our badge system, we needed to think about how these badges would play into one another as they are bigger than just a class yet they need to remain rigorous. These classes, or series of classes make up certification – making these badges stackable, but also unstackable is essential Allowing individuals the choice as to how they wish to portray their skills is vital to the success of the program. Each job has its’ own unique set of skills, this will allow potential applicants the opportunity to tailor their profile as needed.
- #11: Interesting fact: Classes provide skills that enable students to enter, re-enter, or upskill within job market. Even though we are housed in noncredit, the majority of our students have a Bachelor’s degree.
- #12: Note: Of the 4 sub-bulletpoints of skills, interesting that all but one of them are soft skills.
- #18: Digital badge initiative complements LinkedIn initiative Students start LinkedIn profiles in our Accounting Orientation Course (1st semester) Students are encourage to join our Accounting Program LinkedIn group for job opportunities, announcements, articles and networking Students are encouraged to post their digital credentials to LinkedIn throughout their time at Gateway LinkedIn profiles are polished in our Career Readiness Course (usually last semester)
- #22: Kate: Talk a little more about your explicit outreach to employers. Jeanette: Your programs also started based on needs analysis. What are some ways you continue to track the pulse?
- #23: Jeanette: What are you planning in the future?
- #24: Sharon and Linda: You decided to give badges after courses are completed but before a degree. Talk about student motivation and badges.
- #25: Where were some of the unforeseen benefits?
- #26: Kate: Is it easier to badge for credit or noncredit and why?