Digital badges and Microcredentialing
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This document discusses digital badging and microcredentialing in higher education. It describes a grant project led by Kannan Sivaprakasam, Plamen Miltenoff, and Eugenia Paulus to implement digital badges across courses and institutions. The badges are aimed at improving student career preparedness, enriching curriculum, and facilitating collaboration. So far badges have been awarded in chemistry courses for skills like resume writing and exam scores. The project aims to standardize the badge process, get advisor feedback, create a badge community, and explore credit/fee options. Digital badges can help address challenges in keeping curriculum updated and developing new programs.
Digital badges and Microcredentialing
- 1. Digital Badging and Microcredentialing Kannan Sivaprakasam (SCSU) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Plamen Miltenoff (SCSU) University Library 1 Eugenia Paulus (NHCC) Department of Chemistry
- 2. Grant Team • Kannan Sivaprakasam (PI) • Plamen Miltenoff (co-PI) • Eugenia Paulus (co-PI, North Hennepin Community College) • Gail Ruhland (co-PI) • Melanie Guentzel (co-PI) 2 Thanks to Minnesota State for funding Special thanks to Stephen Kelly
- 3. Challenges • Keep the curriculum up-to-date • Collaboration – across the department/institution/industry • Offer multiple electives • Organically develop, market a new course/program • Revenue stream 3 Roles of digital badges in higher Ed Student career preparedness Launch new courses/programs Collaboration across educators Diversity and Student success Enrich curriculum
- 4. Administrative Support 4 • Minnstate support – Shark Tank Innovation – Stephen Kelly • SCSU President Wacker – • Fall 2020 Convocation • SCSU COSE – 2022 Strategic plan • https://www.stcloudstate.edu/cose/about-college/cose-cspr.pdf
- 5. Career Preparation 5 • CHEM 491 (Credits – 2) – Senior Thesis Students • Student Success: An opportunity for collaboration across members of SCSU Department of Chemistry, SCSU Career Services and Boston Scientific to support to better prepare SCSU senior students in a competitive job market. • Strong and polished resume is the first critical step in any career preparation process and it can open a variety opportunities for the students. Resume reviewed by Kannan Resume reviewed by Andrew (SCSU Career Services) Resume reviewed by Boston Scientific Recruiter Award of Career Prep Digital Badge
- 6. Scheme of Library Badges to receive 6
- 7. Library badges received by students 7
- 8. Microcredentialing • The interchangeable badges • Across courses • Across departments • Across institutions • Across the industry • The structure of micro credentials • The role of faculty • The role of the administrative process • The role of the industry 8
- 9. American Chemical Society (ACS) – accredited program 9 DUCK – Diagnostic of Undergraduate Chemistry Knowledge • Student success/motivation • Unlike ACT / SAT/ GRE – exams, the scores of these exams are not public
- 10. Credly and D2L Badges 10
- 11. So far… Course Digital Badges Total number of eligible students Total number of qualified students SCSU CHEM 491 – Senior Thesis* Career Prep 12 11 SCSU CHEM 491 – Senior Thesis ACS DUCK Exam 12 4a (National norm, mean = 31/60) SCSU CHEM 491 – Senior Thesis* Library badges 12 2b SCSU CHEM 210 – General Chemistry I ACS Final Exam 42 23c (National norm, mean = 39/70) NHCC CHEM 2062 – Organic Chemistry II ACS Final Examd 11 *- collaborative digital badges a-number of students with scores above 31/60 b-since the badges were introduced late in Nov (Nov-18) during the fall 2019, not many student had the time to complete the badges. The last day of classes for the senior students was Dec. 6th. c-number of students with scores above 39/70 d-is to be undertaken in future
- 12. Directions to follow • Establish a standard process to award digital badges • Get External Advisor Board Feedback • Create a community of digital badgers • Credit/fee-based digital badges • Create a database 12
- 13. Contact and Q&A Kannan Sivaprakasam ksivaprakasam@stcloudstate.edu Plamen Miltenoff pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu Eugenia Paulus Eugenia.Paulus@nhcc.edu 13