{"id":9402,"date":"2023-05-04T15:50:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T20:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/?p=9402"},"modified":"2025-11-25T08:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:56:36","slug":"april-2023-qep-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/april-2023-qep-update\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2023 QEP Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9402\" class=\"elementor elementor-9402\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2da0f56 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2da0f56\" 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-61db8323 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"61db8323\" 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-44103068 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"44103068\" 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-4afa5c25 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4afa5c25\" 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>April was very productive. Three more micro-credentials were finished, uploaded into BrightSpace Leap, and will be piloted in the Summer. Additional student feedback was collected, evaluated, and, where appropriate, changes were made. Outreach included meeting with several deans to share the QEP program details, and creating a DFI newsletter. Progress was also made toward the awarding of digital badges to students who have successfully completed the Web Builder micro-credential.<\/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-1492a44b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1492a44b\" 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-72adeea9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"72adeea9\" 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-7aa7ba3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7aa7ba3\" 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><strong>Outreach<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>DFI Core Team set up a series of three virtual information sessions on the website to RSVP on Eventbrite to recruit learners into four, five-week test pilot micro-credentials that will launch in June (Introduction to Computing, Work Processing, Presentation Graphics, Spreadsheets. Also included in the launch is the new micro-credential that is now out of pilot: Web Builder.\u00a0<\/li><li>Updates were made to the website, including building out an Innovation page.<\/li><li>Linda Smarzik, Karina Hernandez, and Ann Pamela Saez met with the following for outreach and collaboration:\u00a0<strong>Perry Crafton,<\/strong>Dean of Arts and Digital Media;\u00a0<strong>Giao Phan,\u00a0<\/strong>Dean of Public and Social Services;\u00a0<strong>Grant Potts,<\/strong>\u00a0Interim Dean of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Communications;\u00a0<strong>DeShaunta Stuart,<\/strong>\u00a0Dean of Liberal Arts, Social and Behavioral Sciences, and\u00a0<strong>Brandon Whatley,\u00a0<\/strong>Dean of Design, Manufacturing, Construction, &amp; Applied Technology. Meetings have been set with Deans:\u00a0<strong>Nina Almasy\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Lorlie Ellis,\u00a0<\/strong>Dean of Business for May. In addition, Linda, Karina, and Pamela met with\u00a0<strong>Mary Kohls,<\/strong>\u00a0Chair of Computer Science and Information Technology and\u00a0<strong>Linnea Fletcher,<\/strong>\u00a0Chair of Biotechnology.\u00a0<\/li><li>A One-Pager\/Executive Brief is in the process of being created for external communication with potential industry partners.\u00a0<\/li><li>A Newsletter,\u00a0<em>The Spark<\/em>is in the process of being created for internal and external communication purposes, and the first edition will be released May 15th.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><p><strong>Micro-Credentials\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>Three new micro-credentials have been uploaded into BrightSpace Leap (Intro to Computers &amp; Internet Search, Word Processing, and Presentation Software) and are ready to pilot in Summer 2023.\u00a0<\/li><li>The DFI Core Team has made significant refinements to the micro-credential \u2013 Web Builder, based on substantial survey and focus group feedback from learners in the test pilots. Significant refinements were also made to the student experience for all micro-credentials on the BrightSpace Leap platform.<\/li><li>DFI Core Team has collaborated with the Teaching and Learning Excellence Division (TLED) to test pilot Suitable \u2013 an application that will award micro-credential badges to students. The pilot included designing and uploading badges, providing information for each badge to TLED, testing the application, and meeting with Matthew Evins, Sara Schulz, and Angela Hersch (Suitable) for questions. Once the process is complete, ACC will be able to award Digital Badges to its first five approved micro-credentials: Introduction to Computing, Work Processing, Presentation Graphics, Spreadsheets, and Web Builder. It is estimated in June, 57 badges will be awarded to learners who have completed Web Builder with an 80 or above.\u00a0<\/li><li>DFI Core Team participated in a PackBack demonstration (instructional AI) which led to meeting with a PackBack representative to begin the process of utilizing the application within the micro-credentials.\u00a0<\/li><li>DFI Core team in collaboration with Student Affairs and TLED participated in a workshop with Apple at the Apple Campus to review innovations such as Augmented Reality.\u00a0<\/li><li>Linda Smarzik participated in an Honor Education demonstration and review.<\/li><li>Tim Self organized a meeting with Signal Vine to\u00a0ascertain whether the application has potential for collecting data.<\/li><li>DFI Core Team continued to refine the HR process for hiring digital navigators.\u00a0<\/li><\/ul><p><strong>Data<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>A data plan has been revised and vetted through several groups (Data Subcommittee, Implementation Committee, DFI Core Team, to gather data within the college. At this time, three surveys will be conducted for students (Fall, 2023), Department Chairs (Summer, 2023), and Faculty (Summer, 2023). In addition, two surveys will be inserted into each micro-credential, one at the beginning and one at the end to gather baseline data from students about perceptions about their digital skill set.\u00a0<\/li><li>Met with several students to obtain feedback for the Web Builder micro-credential.<\/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-528e7215 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"528e7215\" 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-130b7cf8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"130b7cf8\" 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-3aee5e33 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3aee5e33\" 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 id=\"docs-internal-guid-c788add7-7fff-f8ce-3bef-5901bd95119c\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;color: #000000;vertical-align: baseline\">04\/27\/2023 Meeting \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1l7OQaGws3OrOJ63zbCtCP7RPuU4ve5xY?usp=sharing\">Minutes and Presentation<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/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-35d8e196 elementor-post-navigation-borders-yes elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-navigation\" data-id=\"35d8e196\" 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\/march-2023-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\">March 2023 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\/may-2023-qep-update\/\" rel=\"next\"><span class=\"elementor-post-navigation__link__next\"><span class=\"post-navigation__next--title\">May 2023 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>April was very productive. Three more micro-credentials were finished, uploaded into BrightSpace Leap, and will be piloted in the Summer. Additional student feedback was collected, evaluated, and where appropriate, changes were made. Outreach included meeting with several deans to share the QEP program details, and creating a DFI newsletter. Progress was also made toward the awarding of digital badges to students who have successfully completed the Web Builder micro-credential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qep-monthly-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}