Monthly Summary
The month of November saw the finish of developing the 13th QEP microcredential, Advanced PowerPoint. Four more to go! Work was also started in creating a template for how all the microcredentials will look when migrated over to BlackBoard Ultra (by Fall 2025).
Highlights
Outreach
- November 6 – Linda Smarzik, Karina Hernandez, and Pamela Saez presented at the Distance Education Symposium.
- November 7th – Linda Smarzik attended the Badging Subcommittee.
- November 13 – Linda Smarzik, Karina Hernandez, and Pamela Saez presented at the CBExchange in Colorado Springs
- A digital poster was made to promote microcredentials to ACC faculty.
- November 5th, Met with Nonprofit Austin, Barry Silverberg, Blu (Damon Bunton), Rosalind Guitierrez, and Nancy Hernandez to discuss offering the Digital Fluency microcredentials through their website at approximately $100 per microcredential.
- November 7th – Linda Smarzik presented for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating board on a panel with Chih-Wei Wang (Texas A & M), Heather Gate (Connected Nation),Sidury Christiansen(UTSA), Tara Carlisle (Texas A & M Corpus Christi), and Wes Kerr (Connected Nation). The panel was moderated by Gwen Morel from THECB.
- November 7th – Linda Smarzik attended the Badging Subcommittee.
- November 13th – Kara Buckner presented a storyboard and script for an animated, orientation video.
- November 20th – Met with Keri Moczgemba, Dean of Library Services to discuss indexing all of the video and articles in the microcredentials.
- November 21st – Linda Smarzik presented the new AI badges to the Badging Subcommittee. The badges were approved unanimously.
- November 22nd, Linda Smarzik and Karina Hernandez presented the scope of Digital Fluency and Innovation to Associate Vice President of Workforce at ACC, Brandon Whatley.
- November 22nd, Linda Smarzik, Nancy Hernandez, Kimberly Weller, and Ann Kennedy met with Ninghua Han to discuss issues in Blackboard Ultra. .
Microcredentials
- Completed development of the Advanced PowerPoint microcredential and loaded it into the LMS.
- Kimberly and Nancy started recreating Problem Solving with AI in the new Blackboard Ultra shell to assess what changes would be required for the QEP microcredentials. ACC is requiring DFI to move all the microcredentials over to Blackboard Ultra by Fall 2025. DFI may be able to use ACC Instructional Designers to assist with the migration, once we figure out all the changes.
Data
- Total enrollment for Fall 2024 is 789 for a total of 2,817 learners.