Monthly Summary
The month of October saw a significant focus on Social Media outreach with the development of a DFI Instagram account and hundreds of assets that could be used to create posts. A poster promoting the Problem Solving with AI microcredential was also created and distributed to all ACC campuses, as well as a slide for the general assembly promoting data-focused DFI microcredentials. Linda and Karina did a lot of outreach. Finally, a hybrid version of the Problem Solving with AI microcredential was well-received by 25 participants, opening the possibility of offering the hybrid model in the future to target groups.
Highlights
Outreach
- Created a student-focused poster about how the Problem Solving with AI microcredential could help them. The poster was distributed to all campuses.
- Created an ACC faculty and staff-focused slide for the General Assembly to promote microcredentials related to the management, analysis, and visualization of data.
- Launched the DFI Instagram account and created 100+ assets to be used in posts. Started posting.
- Created a digital poster to include in newsletters and communication targeted toward faculty, about recommending, embedding, and taking DFI microcredentials.
- October 1 – Met with Melissa Mahoney and Joanna Han (D2L LMS) to discuss further alignment with D2L and their Course Merchant product.
- October 1 – Met with Mary Kohls to review proposed AI Level One Certificate and proposed AI DFI MCs.
- October 3 – Met with Mary Kohls, Fred Lover (CSIT Professor), Jon-Mikel Pearson (CSIT Asst. Chair and Professor), and La Tasha Roberts (CSIT Coordinator BAS CyberSecurity) to review proposed AI Level One Certificate and proposed AI DFI MCs to the CSIT Taskforce.
- October 4 – Presented above to CSIT Taskforce.
- October 7 – Met with Laura Lucas to discuss the progress of working with an attorney regarding the intellectual property of content in DFI MCs.
- October 10 – Met with Grant Potts (Interim Dean of Curriculum and Programs) to discuss policies and procedures of the Badging Committee
- October 14 – Met with Mary Kohls to discuss the Advisory Committee meeting about proposed AI Level One Certificate and proposed AI DFI MCs.
- October 15 – Met with ACC GROW Student Kara to review animation and orientation video.
- October 15 – Met with Melissa Mahoney, Joanna Han, and Martin Broughton (D2L) to review a demo of their Course Merchant product.
- October 25 – Karina presented a hybrid version of the Problem Solving with AI microcredential for the Office of College Relations & Marketing professional development day, at the Highland campus. There were about 25 participants and they were engaged and the response was very positive. The hybrid version covered Start Here and Competency 1 in person, and gave participants the option to complete the rest of the microcredential on their own. Since we have observed that students are a little over 70% more likely to obtain a badge in a microcredential if they complete Competency 1, we are curious if this hybrid version could be a delivery model that would increase completion rates, and if so, how we might adopt it on a broader scale.
Microcredentials
- Work was continued on developing the Advanced PowerPoint microcredential and loading it into the LMS.
- Nancy and Kimberly created attention-getting, animated GIFs to put in emails to registrants of microcredentials to remind them of their upcoming session. The purpose of the reminder emails will be to decrease dropout rates and late starts due in part to registering months in advance.
Data
- Fall session #2 enrolled 201 opt-in students.