July 2023 QEP Update

Outreach

• Collaborated with C. Jason Vidrine and Susan Meigs to create two one-pagers for outreach to English and Speech faculty: 1) Introduction to Digital Fluency and 2) Intro to Being a Digital Navigator. A survey, created by Jason, will accompany the email. 
• Collaborated with C. Jason Vidrine and Susan Meigs to create two videos for outreach to English and Speech faculty: 1) Intro to Being a Digital Navigator and 2) Introduction to Microcredentials. A survey, created by Jason, will accompany the email. 
• Met with Vanessa Errico about participating in an ACC Resource Fair with the Army Future Command/Software Factory as presenters on August 11th, 2023
• Met with the Librarians on July 7th to overview Microcredentials. 
• Worked with Lindee Knowles on the third of a four series for developing a Social Media plan to target learners at ACC and industry partners. 
• Held a Microcredential Information Session July 12th for 17 people Met which included Jessica Gonzalez from Foundation Communities, the new Digital Literacy Equity Office for Education Pathways. 
• Working lunch with Jessica Gonzales on July 18th, to learn more about a 5-year grant Foundation Communities has received for the area of teaching Digital Literacy for their clientele. 
• Met with the Health Sciences Division Department Chairs on July 14th for an Information Session with approximately ten in attendance.
• Met with Josiah Spence on July 14th to discuss how the Introduction to Computing will assist his students with a lack of basic computing skills. Discussed building a mini-Microcredential of 10 to 12 hours that just includes basic computing skills. 
• Met with Ascender on July 18th via Susan Meigs, Alejandra Polcik, Ann Pamela Fant-Saez, C. Jason Vidrine, Diana Gorostieta Martinez, Karina Hernandez, and Linda Smarzik. 
• Met with Mario Aguilar on July 18th, to pilot a Microcredential in a ParaLegal course.
• Disseminated the Summer Newsletter, “The Spark,”  to 500 recipients of faculty, students, and staff on July 18th. 
• Designed and hung two large posters (8’ x 6’) at the South Austin campus in the display windows for on-going promotion. Build your Digital Fluency Skills and What To Do with Digital Fluency Skills. 
• On July 25th, met with Charesse L. Evans, Senior Advisor for the US Patent and Trademark Office, Valencia Martin-Wallace, also from the US Patent and Trademark Office; Luis Rincon, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Acadeum, and Chris Davis, representing DigiTex to explore the possibilities of providing microcredentials for a new IP education course sharing consortium.
• Provided a Digital Navigator Training to the following adjunct faculty from Adult Ed on August 2nd, Mieca Johnson, David Garcia, Jennifer Mansourm Kendra Perales, Nicholas Starkweather, and Nicholas Bryant. 
• Info session to be held on August 3rd for 35 signups on Eventbrite consisting of students, faculty, and staff.

Microcredentials

• First training of two for LuAnn Preston to become a Digital Navigator for Fall, 2023 in which she will offer the Word Processing Microcredential within her English course for High School students.
• Provided a drill down presentation for Microcredentials and on being a Digital Navigator for: Mariposa McGriffy, David Garcia, Jennifer Mansour, Kendra Perales, Mieca Johnson, Nicholas Bryant, and Vaaron Juarez  from Adult Ed.
• Continued refinement of five microcredentials to support requests from Digital Navigators. 
• Started building Web Analytics Microcredential in Brightspace Leap to be offered in the Fall 
• Started building a curriculum for the Photoshop Microcredential.  
• Revised and enhanced assignments on Spreadsheets and Presentation software to ensure clear and concise instructions for students.
• Aligned capstone project rubrics for Spreadsheet microcredentials with the revised project tasks to ensure accurate assessment and evaluation.
• Conducted thorough grading and delivered comprehensive feedback to students enrolled in Spreadsheets (session 001 and 002) and Presentation software microcredentials, supporting their learning and growth.
• Brightspace Leap workshop, for DFI Core staff to examine organization setup and understand how to configure Brightspace Learning Repository to meet identified organization needs.
• Continued build of the Photoshop Microcredential. Web Analytics and HTML/CSS are being input into Brightspace Leap. 
• Ongoing improvement of the current summer pilots for Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Introduction to Computers, Presentation Software, and Data Management.
• ACC Grow Student has completed the assets for an interactive, learning video for Introduction to Computing. 
• Six Summer microcredentials will complete on August 7th.

Data 

• Summer registration of 156 opt-in and co-curricular learners into eight sections. 
• Continued refinement of three surveys in collaboration with OIRA targeted to students, department chairs, and faculty. Refinement of two surveys (pre-assessment and post-assessment)  to be embedded into each microcredential that will ascertain skill level for both professional and technical competencies. 
• Continuing the build of an Excel spreadsheet for data capture of milestones, core indicators, student learning outcomes, and more. 
• Ongoing gathering and build of spreadsheet to include Milestones, Performance Indicators, and Student Learning Outcomes.
• Total Fall registration to date including Opt-In and Co-curricular enrollments is 257 (33% filled) with a potential of 772.
• Fall registration has 109 opt-in learners into 18 sections. The enrollment to date for Fall Session One is 87 or 39% filled. The enrollment to date for Fall Session Two is 22 or approximately 10% filled. 
• The most popular microcredentials are Spreadsheets and Data Management followed by Web Builder.