Ohio's Credit Flexibility program allows students to earn credits in flexible ways beyond traditional courses. The document outlines plans to raise awareness of the program through student and teacher engagement, developing online course options and badge systems for skills-based learning, and refining the branding and digital presence to appeal to today's students. It also discusses helping individual students understand how to turn skills badges into high school credits.

1. Credit Flexibility
Road Map
to
Radically Personalized Learning
Few are aware of the potential of Ohio's Credit Flexibility. Let's help them build
a vision of broader, deeper learning.
Build awareness at the
same time we refine the story and branding.
What does creditflex mean to students? How do
they see it? How do they view the opportunities?
Our current videos are
awesome, yet this digital generation could do
better. Let’s get them in on telling the story.
Any good initiative needs a
brand. What will Ohio students design?
Visit education schools,
teacher gatherings, students. Tell the credit flex
story at Rotary meetings, etc.
How can we incentivize our best
students and teachers to design new course plans?
Each credit flex 'course' begins with a student plan of work. We're building up a set
of these for students to use and build on.
We use Mozilla Open Badges to represent the course plans and the student's work.
Work with online courses and Ohio programmer groups
to develop a free or low=cost path toward credit for computer sci. Several online coding
tutorials offer skills‐based badges. We'll bundle these for HS credit.
Many Ohio organizations want to see youth learn more
entrepreneur basics. For example, we're working with an Akron‐area startup expert
who is designing a hands‐on course for local high school students.
Work with a new school which is going nearly
all competency and project‐based.
An Ohio group teaches drawing and creative skills via online lessons.
Design a badge/work‐plan for MIT's Massive Multi‐player
Online game. Students learn biology, algebra, geometry, probability, and statistics.
Complete changing homepage to more social approach. Complete coding of ideas feed
and challenges wizard. Test with users. Should we think about a smartphone app?
‐‐with the community’s help. Is the current approach really
the best way to grab students, teachers, parents, mentors? What should we change to make it more so?
other?
How can we prompt students and teachers to challenge each
Jada got several badges for learning to program. How can she
turn them into high school credit? Or, Hayden wants to find credit‐worthy badges. How can he find them?
As we design this, how can we mind the potential to scale these options for students across the US?
Seek entrepreneurial and design/UI/UX input, while advancing the software and marketing concept. Find
partners, identify sponsors, and work out a long‐term revenue model.
Creditflexibility.org
@creditflex
creditflexibility@gmail.com