Msu engineering graphics badges presentation final
1. The Legitimacy of Badges &
Micro-credentials in Today’s
Workplace
Metropolitan State University Engineering and Engineering Technology
2. Fragmented, multi-layered, complex “system” that
doesn’t work well for employers, individuals or educators
Highly diverse and decentralized
Many actors:
• Schools
• Industry groups
• Occupational groups
• Licensing boards
• Accreditors
• and more
Many types of credentials
Different:
• purposes
• quality assurance mechanisms
• metrics for awarding
Difficult to understand
Credentialing
Marketplace
Public and employer policies struggle to keep pace with new developments
The challenge …
3. Traditional Learning Credentials
• As a community we have
given information on a
transcript implicit meaning
• Grades, certificates and
degrees are a visual
representation of mastery
4. Potential attributes of a “new” system
• All learning matters wherever it’s obtained
• All credentials are based on learning outcomes (competencies)
• Credentials are portable, transferrable, transparent, useful and
easily understood by learners, workers, employers
• Increases access and equity for all learners
• Helps learners, workers and employers make informed choices about their
investment in and value of the credential they’re purchasing
• Helps employers better qualify employees and reduce recruiting time,
employee turn-over, and cost of retraining
• Builds a competitive, highly skilled workforce
• Dynamic system – agility to be relevant in rapidly changing labor markets
Learning-
Based
&
Learner-
Centered
5. Archetypes of Digital Badges
Two archetypes of digital badges are
emerging: participatory and skill based
Each archetype:
• Captures how learning is acquired in various learning settings
(formal or informal, online or traditional classroom)
• Is a validated indicator of an accomplishment, skill, quality or
credentialing skills/competences (either hard or soft skills)
• Provides verifiable stories about their skill level, competency and
accomplishments.
6. Colorado’s Vision…..
Create a series of digital
badges which are:
• Competency and skill
based
• Industry driven
• Community centered
• Learner focused
Provides enhancement of:
current certificates and degrees while
highlighting workforce demanded
competencies not evident in courses,
certificates, degrees
Evidence of value is based on
recognition of the demonstrated
mastery
Evidence includes:
• Assessments
• Testing
• Portfolio of work
• Certifications
• Field work in real time documented
with images, video
Allows a person to
differentiate themselves
within a competitive
workforce
7. Digital Badge Potential
Every badge issued or accepted is
tied to a specific standard or
competency with evidence of micro-
learning valued in the workforce.
8.
9. Biggest Challenges to Digital Badges As Main Stream Micro-Credentials
Lack of
awareness
10. Badges Can Be Used for…..
• matching job requirements with applicant skills and abilities
• onboarding (mapping orientation paths)
• team building and internal resourcing (micro-assignments)
• regulated compliance training (e.g. health and safety) clear
training/development paths
• recognizing/aggregating training sourced externally
• bridge building between learning providers and employment
requirements
• managing your employees better (performance management, talent
management tool)
• better initial 'fit' - "I know I/you have the skills to do this job"
• reduction of churn rate/turnover at specific positions
11. Institutions or Companies actually badging
Home Depot
eBay
Amazon
Bank of America
Fossil
Deloitte
City of New York
NYC Department of Corrections
Samsung
IBM
Cisco
US Military
Adobe
US State Department
National Park Service
Microsoft
Museums
Colorado Advanced Manufacturing Association
Walmart
12. CCCS Badges
Technical Math
6 Mastery
19 Competency based
Machining Level I
11 Industry requested
badges based on National
Institute of Metalworking
Skills Certifications
Engineering Graphics
9 Industry requested
badges based on Colorado
business advisory input
Faculty Development
8-9 badges to ensure a
mastery skill level for
instructors teaching
online and hybrid courses
14. Drill Press Skills
This badge validates the skills and knowledge to
successfully complete process planning, basic drilling
applications, machine set ups, operations, inspection
techniques and safety standards.
Competencies:
• Compute SFM to RPM conversions
• Ability to use manufactures technical data
references to set cutter applications, features and
attributes
• Correct use of reaming and tapping to ensure parts
produced with counterboring, countersinking and
drilling are within specified tolerances
19. CCCS Engineering Graphics
• Additive Manufacturing vs. Subtractive
Manufacturing
• 3D and Additive Manufacturing Software
• SolidWorks—Certified SolidWorks Associate
• AutoCAD
• ReVit
• 3D and Additive Manufacturing Technologies
• 3D Scanning
• 3D and Additive Manufacturing Decision Making
• 3D and Additive Manufacturing Processes and
Workflows
20. Metropolitan State University Digital Badge Proposed
Additive Manufacturing
What competencies do
you need highlighted
from applicants or
current employees?
21. MSU Additive Manufacturing Badges
What competencies do you need
highlighted in applicants or in
your current employees?
23. Creative Commons Attribution
Workforce Development presentation by Brenda M. Perea is licensed under a Creative Commons
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available at CCCS.edu/CHAMP.
This workforce solution was funded by a grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and
Training Administration. The solution was created by the grantee and does not necessarily reflect the
official position of the U.S. Department of Labor. The Department of Labor makes no guarantees, warranties,
or assurances of any kind, express or implied, with respect to such information, including any information
on linked sites, and including, but not limited to accuracy of the information or its completeness,
timeliness, usefulness, adequacy, continued availability or ownership.
Editor's Notes
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Creative Commons Attribution
Workforce Development presentation by Brenda M. Perea and Larry Good is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://www.cccs.edu/partnering-for-success/trade-adjustment-assistance/taa-champ/.
This workforce solution was funded by a grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration. The solution was created by the grantee and does not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Labor. The Department of Labor makes no guarantees, warranties, or assurances of any kind, express or implied, with respect to such information, including any information on linked sites, and including, but not limited to accuracy of the information or its completeness, timeliness, usefulness, adequacy, continued availability or ownership.