Previewing CanCred's Micro-credentialing Implementation Playbook at TESS 2019

1. #TESS2019
November 18, 2019
Implementing Micro-credentials
at Sheridan
Previewing CanCred’s
Micro-credentialing Implementation Playbook

2. sheridancollege.ca
Marcela Velez-Pulgarin, MSc
Associate Director, Continuing Education
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Nazlin Hirji, RN, MN, MSc, CHE
Executive Director, Continuing and Professional Studies
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Don Presant
CanCred by Learning Agents
INTRODUCTIONS

3. CONTEXT
Getting into the game

4. sheridancollege.ca
• Public, community college
• 3 campuses / 3 cities
• ~ 24,500 full-time and 4,000 part-time students
• ~ 17,000 Continuing and Professional Studies (CAPS) enrollments
• Known for: creative campus philosophy; expertise in creative problem solving;
sustainability; mechatronics and skilled trades; animation and arts (Disney),
etc.
• 2019 Oscar – Best Animated Short – Domee Shi – Bao
(“nerdy girls…”)
ABOUT SHERIDAN
Quick facts

5. sheridancollege.ca
4 priority areas of impact:
- Exceptional teaching, research and creativity
- Boundless opportunities:
Establish Sheridan as the epicentre for a new kind of education that enables the most flexible opportunities for open-ended,
lifelong learning and success in an emerging economy. A Sheridan degree, diploma, apprenticeship program or certificate will open
up diverse options for work and enable a seamless transition to ongoing education.
- Agility and potential:
Sheridan will be known for a signature palette of capabilities designed to foster lifelong learning, critical thinking, initiative, agility,
collaboration, equity and creativity. This palette will guide truly unique, learner-centric experiences that position everyone to navigate
an unpredictable, possibility-filled world with confidence.
- Reciprocal work-learn relationships:
Engage with communities and employers to strengthen learning-integrated work, locally and globally, co-creating new
approaches for hands-on learning, continual development and interdisciplinary innovation. Everyone at Sheridan – learners, faculty
and staff – will continually build expertise, knowledge and experience through innovative work-learn possibilities.
SHERIDAN 2024
Galvanizing Education for a Complex World

6. sheridancollege.ca
- Adopt the eCampus Ontario structure and framework
- Focus on employment-related skills
- Employer lens
- No duplication with transcript
- Within Continuing and Professional Studies
MICRO-CREDENTIALS
At Sheridan

7. PAVING THE ON-RAMP
Helping institutions get started

8. Micro-credentials are going mainstream in Ontario…

9. Your
Institution
PACE / CPS
Faculties,
Departments
Governments
Apprenticeship
Authority
Accreditation
Organizations
ConEd, CPD
Contract Training
Professional
Education
Undergraduate
Studies
Post-Graduate
Studies
Post-Secondary
Preparation
Community
Organizations
Private Educators
& Trainers
Employers
Business
Associations
Sector
Bodies
PSE as a hub for learning ecosystems
High
Schools
Other
Institutions
Student
Bodies
Student
Services
Professional
Bodies
PACE / CPS

10. Why ConEd / Extension as a starting point?
Externally facing: community connections, partnerships
At the edge of the institution…
Cross-discipline, cross-sector
Non-credit AND credit programs
Entrepreneurial, market driven
More autonomous, agile
“A place to try things out”
But how to start?

11. Beyond the high level advice…
based on: MichaelBoll.me, Madison College
Early hands-on exploration
Immerse yourself as
issuer AND earner
Brainstorm the “why”?
Gaps, opportunities, vision
Avoid under/over thinking
Be “agile”
Start small, build on success &
feedback to improve/scale over time
Plan ahead as you grow
Test your business model(s)
for sustainability, scalability
Tap professional resources
Instructional, technical
& creative support
Leverage internal, enrich with external
Communicate! Market!
Formal, informal
Internally, externally
Online, event-based – social!
Engage stakeholders early
Talk AND listen to
Employers, Workers, Stakeholders
Seek out “low hanging fruit”
Early adopters, easy wins?
Be clear about your badges
Transparent purpose, criteria, weight
Appropriate rigour & quality
Build in portable recognition
Align to frameworks, ask for endorsements
Build/join community networks

12. Need details!

13. Our working solution…
Available December 2019
CC BY-SA

14. Building on the experience & insights of others…

15. Steeped in the principles of #openrecognition

16. Digital
Credentials
Digital
Badges
Open
Badges
Micro-credentialsCredentials
(summative assessment)
(displayed
as image)
Aligning with emerging consensus on micro-credentialing…

17. Fit for the institution and the broader ecosystem…
assuringgraduatecapabilities.com

18. Supporting flexible recognition
Program/course/module completion
Assessment-based or participation-based certificates of learning;
eLearning or Face to Face; professional development or compliance
Competency certification
Can be flexible assessment: exams, portfolios, evidence packages,
skills demonstrations, etc. Also compliance. Time-delimited.
Membership
Associations, organisations,
professional and industry bodies
Experience, expertise, service, achievements
Experiential learning, WIL, Co-curricular, Extra-curricular
Values, interests, goals
Self-issued, endorsable by others

19. In sync with eCampusOntario’s evolving recognition strategy

20. 5 steps with tools to support
STEP 1: Lay the foundation
Do some early reading | Recruit your core working group | Build up your badge strategy
Summarize in a Badge Strategy Development Framework
STEP 2: Find an early target
Research, network and prioritize | Scan broad trends
Examine some popular early choices
STEP 3: Design your pilot system
Reach inside your institution | Reach outside to the community | Design your badge system
STEP 4: Build awareness and launch your pilot
Soft Launch or “Splash” Launch? | Communicate with Stakeholders
STEP 5: Evaluate, improve and expand
Monitor and Evaluate | Analyze and improve your model | Iterate
Expand your scope appropriately | Operationalize your micro-credentialing initiative
Badge
Strategy
Development
Framework
Badge System
Design Workbook
Badge Creation
Worksheet
Visual Design
Guidelines
SOON:
User Info Sheet
FUTURE:
Micro-credential Proposal
Submission Form
Presentation deck
Standards-based
badge templates
Bibliography
FUTURE: Evaluation Template
FUTURE: FAQ
Badge Canvas for workshops
Earner tutorials
FUTURE: Policy Template

21. Example: adaptable Word templates

22. Example: Badge Canvas for workshops – tied to recognition tasks

23. Example: Visual Design Guidelines

24. Standards-based badge templates - copyable, editable
Copied from CanCred to the “Partner” institution…
… adapted to institutional context, adding more templates if needed…
… copied as scaffolded starting points for new badge creation:
Sample of scaffolding…

25. Adaptable video tutorials for earners

26. Appendices
Glossary
Badging with CanCred
Micro-credential
Credit-bearing
micro-credential
Open badge
Certificate
Certification
Validity
Authenticity
Competency
Bibliography
Multilingual badges
Badge sharing
Badge applications LMS Integrations
Endorsement AlignmentPartner networks
Hosted or standalone

27. Hands-on Exercise – Start designing a badge system

28. MICRO-CREDENTIALS AT SHERIDAN
Getting started

29. Current Status at Sheridan - Areas of implementation
Employment
-Related
Continuing
Education
Students
Partnerships
Employee
Engagement
Faculty
Professional
Development

30. Employment-Related - Continuing Education Students
Python
Background Information
Sheridan CE currently has Python Foundations training.
Badge goal
Clear recognition of industry needs.
Badge creation
Levelled - Through a consultative process with industry experts, subject matter experts
and job posting analysis we determine to create 2 levels.
Type of credential – Assessment-based

31. Employment-Related - Continuing Education Students
Python Developer
– Essentials
Python Developer
– Web Solutions
Python Developer
– Data Analytics
Solutions• Version Control Systems with
GitHub
• Test-driven development
• Advanced Data Structures
• Distribute Python projects
Criteria/Skills
• Cloud-based application
• Usage of Django Framework
• Database management
• HTML content and web
requests
• REST API
Criteria/Skills
Criteria/Skills
• TBD

32. Employment-Related - Continuing Education Students
Python
Next Steps
Pilot Implementation – Spring 2020
1. Badge Design
2. Final Project and rubric redesign
3. Final refinement of Badge Criteria

33. Employment-Related - Partnerships
Sheridan Continuing and Professional Studies has a number of partnerships for Corporate
Training or “Partnered Training” for employment opportunities.
Partnered Training
• ACCES Employment – HR Connections
Seven-week employment program that assists internationally-trained Human Resources
professionals obtain employment in their field.
• NTN, Tsubaki, Continental and BDI - Industrial Distribution
Learn key concepts relevant to distribution and give students the opportunity to link theory with
hands-on training in a company within the industrial machinery segment.
Badge goal
Recognition of Work-Integrated Learning experience
Next Steps
1. Consultation with partners
2. Determine Badge type and criteria.
3. Design and implementation plan

34. Employee-Engagement – Faculty Professional Development
Adult Education Instructor – Sheridan CAPS
Background Information
As part of Sheridan Continuing and Professional Studies’ Faculty Engagement Strategy we
would like to offer our instructors an incentive and recognition on the development of
knowledge and skills.
Badge goal
Faculty recognition of skills and knowledge development of teaching and learning for adult
learners.
Badge creation
Levelled
Type of credential – Participation-based

35. Employee-Engagement – Faculty Professional Development
Adult
Educator-
Fundamentals
Adult
Educator -
Advanced
Adult
Educator -
Mentor
Next Steps
1. Badge Design
2. Definition of Badge Criteria
3. Design and implementation plan

36. Questions?