This document discusses Ivy Tech Community College's efforts to implement competency-based education (CBE) across its statewide system. It provides background on Ivy Tech, which serves over 100,000 students across Indiana. It outlines Ivy Tech's initial CBE efforts from 2013-2014 through certificate programs. It details current plans to develop a statewide CBE program in information technology leading to a software development certificate. The goal is to have this program available statewide by Fall 2017.

1. State and Campus
Challenges and
Opportuni4es
Paul
Addison,
Ivy
Tech
Community
College
Mark
Jenkins,
Washington
State
Board
for
Community
and
Technical
Colleges
Linda
Smarzik,
Aus<n
Community
College

2. Implementing CBE at a
Statewide Community
College System
Paul Addison
Department Chair, School of Computing and Informatics
Ivy Tech Community College

3. Ivy Tech: A Statewide
Community College System
• Created by Indiana General Assembly in 1963 as “Indiana
Vocational Technical College”
• Acronym IVTC, or IV Technical College, thus the nickname
“Ivy Tech”
• Accredited in 1991 as a single college
• Became Ivy Tech State College in 1995
• Became Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana in 2005
• End-of-term Fall 2014: Headcount 103,864, FTE 53,145

4. CBE Efforts to Date
• January 2013: Workshop at WGU in Salt Lake City
• Attended by Fort Wayne and Lafayette
• Summer/Fall/Spring 2013-2014: CBE courses offered
• Towards Web Management Certificate
• Courses offered from Fort Wayne and Lafayette
• April 2014: Workshop at Gates Foundation in Seattle
• Fall 2015: Office Administration Certificate
• Microsoft Office Specialist Certificate: CBE only

5. CBE Plans: Now and Beyond
• Spring 2015 : Breakthrough Models Incubator Grant
• Develop Statewide program in Information Technology
• Most Likely: Technical Certificate in Software Development
• 10 courses, 32 credit hours
• Ready for public offering Fall 2017

6. Implementing CBE at a
Statewide Community
College System
THANK YOU!
Paul Addison
Department Chair, School of Computing and Informatics
Ivy Tech Community College

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Mark Jenkins, Director | eLearning & Open Education
mjenkins@sbctc.edu

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Columbia Basin
Mark Jenkins, Director | eLearning & Open Education
mjenkins@sbctc.edu
SBCTC

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Puyallup
Centralia
Columbia Basin
Mark Jenkins, Director | eLearning & Open Education
mjenkins@sbctc.edu
SBCTC