{"id":16088,"date":"2025-02-04T13:30:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T19:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/?p=16088"},"modified":"2025-11-25T10:29:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:29:43","slug":"nov-2024-qep-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/nov-2024-qep-update\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2024 QEP Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"16088\" class=\"elementor elementor-16088\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c709ada e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5c709ada\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42a99e2a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"42a99e2a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79c4d36a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"79c4d36a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Monthly Summary<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-283e2f34 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"283e2f34\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The month of November saw the finish of developing the 13th QEP micro-credential, Advanced PowerPoint. Four more to go! Work was also started in creating a template for how all the micro-credentials will look when migrated over to BlackBoard Ultra (by Fall 2025).<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-81f375c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"81f375c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ba5b8c6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7ba5b8c6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Highlights<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ca49935 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ca49935\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Outreach<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 6 &#8211; Linda Smarzik, Karina Hernandez, and Pamela Saez presented at the Distance Education Symposium.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 7th &#8211; Linda Smarzik attended the Badging Subcommittee.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 13 &#8211; Linda Smarzik, Karina Hernandez, and Pamela Saez\u00a0 presented at the CBExchange in Colorado Springs<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A digital poster was made to promote micro-credentials to ACC faculty.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 5th, Met with Nonprofit Austin, Barry Silverberg, Blu (Damon Bunton), Rosalind Guitierrez, and Nancy Hernandez to discuss offering the Digital Fluency micro-credentials through their website at approximately $100 per micro-credential.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 7th &#8211; Linda Smarzik presented for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating board on a panel with Chih-Wei Wang (Texas A &amp; M), Heather Gate (Connected Nation),<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\" data-rich-links=\"{&quot;per_n&quot;:&quot;Sidury Christiansen&quot;,&quot;per_e&quot;:&quot;Sidury.Christiansen@utsa.edu&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;person&quot;}\">Sidury Christiansen<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(UTSA), Tara Carlisle (Texas A &amp; M Corpus Christi), and Wes Kerr (Connected Nation). The panel was moderated by Gwen Morel from THECB.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 7th &#8211; Linda Smarzik attended the Badging Subcommittee.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 13th &#8211; Kara Buckner presented a storyboard and script for an animated, orientation video.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 20th &#8211; Met with Keri Moczgemba, Dean of Library Services to discuss indexing all of the video and articles in the micro-credentials.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 21st &#8211; Linda Smarzik presented the new AI badges to the Badging Subcommittee. The badges were approved unanimously.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 22nd, Linda Smarzik and<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\" data-rich-links=\"{&quot;per_n&quot;:&quot;Karina Hernandez&quot;,&quot;per_e&quot;:&quot;karina.hernandez@austincc.edu&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;person&quot;}\">Karina Hernandez<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">presented the scope of Digital Fluency and Innovation to Associate Vice President of Workforce at ACC, Brandon Whatley.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 22nd, Linda Smarzik, Nancy Hernandez, Kimberly Weller, and Ann Kennedy met with Ninghua Han to discuss issues in Blackboard Ultra. .<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><b>Micro-C<\/b><b>redentials\u00a0<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Completed development of the Advanced PowerPoint micro-credential and loaded it into the LMS.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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 micro-credentials. ACC is requiring DFI to move all the micro-credentials 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.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><b>Data<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Total enrollment for Fall 2024 is 789 for a total of 2,817 learners. <\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55e0ba7e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"55e0ba7e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-530351e3 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"530351e3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Implementation Committee Meetings<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4706468b elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4706468b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Add meeting date and link to Google Drive<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-51c3d9cf elementor-post-navigation-borders-yes elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-navigation\" data-id=\"51c3d9cf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"post-navigation.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation__prev elementor-post-navigation__link\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/october-2024-qep-update\/\" rel=\"prev\"><span class=\"post-navigation__arrow-wrapper post-navigation__arrow-prev\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span class=\"elementor-screen-only\">Prev<\/span><\/span><span class=\"elementor-post-navigation__link__prev\"><span class=\"post-navigation__prev--title\">October 2024 QEP Update<\/span><\/span><\/a>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation__separator-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation__separator\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation__next elementor-post-navigation__link\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/dec-2024-qep-update\/\" rel=\"next\"><span class=\"elementor-post-navigation__link__next\"><span class=\"post-navigation__next--title\">December 2024 QEP Update<\/span><\/span><span class=\"post-navigation__arrow-wrapper post-navigation__arrow-next\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span class=\"elementor-screen-only\">Next<\/span><\/span><\/a>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The month of November saw the finish of developing the 13th QEP micro-credential, Advanced PowerPoint. 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