Monthly Summary
Several team members took vacation time in June, however, Linda and Karina met with several people for outreach, and updates were made to micro-credentials before the start of the Summer session on June 10th.
In addition, micro-certificate maps were created to show pathways from micro-credentials to micro-certificates/credit courses. The micro-credential and registration pages on the website were updated to show the micro-certificate groupings and to encourage students to build on their digital fluency by taking multiple micro-credentials.
As the two-year anniversary of the program approached, planning began to create a Data Dashboard to share data visualizations of the DFI program’s accomplishments.
Highlights
Outreach
- June 14 – The Badging Subcommittee (of which Linda is a member) met to review ongoing development of badging materials.
- June 17 – Met with Chris Davis of Acadeum to discuss the possibility of offering micro-credentials to other colleges.
- June 18 – DFI Navigator Share and Learn Focus group.
- June 24 – Met with Barry Silverberg of NonProfit ACC Center to discuss offering micro-credentials to his clientele.
- June 28 – Met with Economic Growth Business Incubator to discuss offering micro-credentials to their clientele and doing a presentation on October 18 for their one-day summit.
Micro-Credentials
- Updates to the Spreadsheet micro-credential were finished in time for the Summer session.
- Fall Session #2 opened for registration on June 5th with 13 micro-credentials being offered.
- BB Ultra shells have been set up for all DFI micro-credentials so that preliminary testing could begin for Fall 2025 conversion from BSL to BB Ultra.
- Micro-certificate program maps were created to show pathways from micro-credentials to credit.
- Website Micro-credential and Registration pages updated to show micro-certificate groupings.
Data
- Internal and outward facing Data dashboard development in planning stage utilizing Domo.
- Eleven of 16 micro-credentials have launched with enrollments in the combined co-curricular and opt-in sections (since inception) of 2303 learners. The milestones of year two enrollment for the QEP has been met and now counting towards year three. Currently, the micro-credential sessions are embedded in English, Technical Writing, Intro to Law, English (High School), EDUC (early college), Web Design Tools, Fashion and Marketing, and Electronics. In addition, the goal of hiring 20 Digital Navigators for year two has been met for year two.
- Data continues to be gathered and documented in multiple areas such as milestones, deliverables, micro-credential performance indicators, and student learning outcomes.
- Currently for Fall 2024, there are 99 enrollments for a total of 2303 enrollments since inception of September 2022.
- Summer Session began June 10th with 16 Opt-In sections, and 3 Co-Curricular sections, and a total of 375 students.
- The completion rate and badges awarded to date, of active student enrollments, has been 70.21%.