{"id":141,"date":"2025-02-04T14:50:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T14:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/2025\/09\/10\/november-2024-qep-update\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T20:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:47:07","slug":"november-2024-qep-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/2025\/02\/04\/november-2024-qep-update\/","title":{"rendered":"November 2024 QEP Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"141\" class=\"elementor elementor-141\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-58c583e1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"58c583e1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18982047 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"18982047\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c47c729 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c47c729\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Monthly Summary<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-47836d2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"47836d2a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The month of November saw the finish of developing the 13th QEP microcredential, Advanced PowerPoint. Four more to go! Work was also started in creating a template for how all the microcredentials will look when migrated over to BlackBoard Ultra (by Fall 2025).<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-47f29691 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"47f29691\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79f0f083 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"79f0f083\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Highlights<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-659900e1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"659900e1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Outreach<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 6 &#8211; Linda Smarzik, Karina Hernandez, and Pamela Saez presented at the Distance Education Symposium.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 7th &#8211; Linda Smarzik attended the Badging Subcommittee.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 13 &#8211; Linda Smarzik, Karina Hernandez, and Pamela Saez\u00a0 presented at the CBExchange in Colorado Springs<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A digital poster was made to promote microcredentials to ACC faculty.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 5th, Met with Nonprofit Austin, Barry Silverberg, Blu (Damon Bunton), Rosalind Guitierrez, and Nancy Hernandez to discuss offering the Digital Fluency microcredentials through their website at approximately $100 per microcredential.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 7th &#8211; Linda Smarzik presented for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating board on a panel with Chih-Wei Wang (Texas A &amp; M), Heather Gate (Connected Nation),<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\" data-rich-links=\"{&quot;per_n&quot;:&quot;Sidury Christiansen&quot;,&quot;per_e&quot;:&quot;Sidury.Christiansen@utsa.edu&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;person&quot;}\">Sidury Christiansen<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(UTSA), Tara Carlisle (Texas A &amp; M Corpus Christi), and Wes Kerr (Connected Nation). The panel was moderated by Gwen Morel from THECB.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 7th &#8211; Linda Smarzik attended the Badging Subcommittee.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 13th &#8211; Kara Buckner presented a storyboard and script for an animated, orientation video.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 20th &#8211; Met with Keri Moczgemba, Dean of Library Services to discuss indexing all of the video and articles in the microcredentials.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 21st &#8211; Linda Smarzik presented the new AI badges to the Badging Subcommittee. The badges were approved unanimously.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 22nd, Linda Smarzik and<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\" data-rich-links=\"{&quot;per_n&quot;:&quot;Karina Hernandez&quot;,&quot;per_e&quot;:&quot;karina.hernandez@austincc.edu&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;person&quot;}\">Karina Hernandez<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">presented the scope of Digital Fluency and Innovation to Associate Vice President of Workforce at ACC, Brandon Whatley.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">November 22nd, Linda Smarzik, Nancy Hernandez, Kimberly Weller, and Ann Kennedy met with Ninghua Han to discuss issues in Blackboard Ultra. .<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><b>Microcredentials\u00a0<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Completed development of the Advanced PowerPoint microcredential and loaded it into the LMS.<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kimberly and Nancy started recreating Problem Solving with AI in the new Blackboard Ultra shell to assess what changes would be required for the QEP microcredentials. ACC is requiring DFI to move all the microcredentials over to Blackboard Ultra by Fall 2025. DFI may be able to use ACC Instructional Designers to assist with the migration, once we figure out all the changes.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><b>Data<\/b><\/p><ul><li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Total enrollment for Fall 2024 is 789 for a total of 2,817 learners. <\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-615cb4bd e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"615cb4bd\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c9997e elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3c9997e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Implementation Committee Meetings<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3611f074 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3611f074\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Add meeting date and link to Google Drive<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b148b9d elementor-post-navigation-borders-yes elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-navigation\" data-id=\"1b148b9d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"post-navigation.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation\" role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"Post Navigation\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation__prev elementor-post-navigation__link\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/2025\/02\/04\/december-2024-qep-update\/\" rel=\"prev\"><span class=\"post-navigation__arrow-wrapper post-navigation__arrow-prev\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-angle-left\" viewBox=\"0 0 256 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M31.7 239l136-136c9.4-9.4 24.6-9.4 33.9 0l22.6 22.6c9.4 9.4 9.4 24.6 0 33.9L127.9 256l96.4 96.4c9.4 9.4 9.4 24.6 0 33.9L201.7 409c-9.4 9.4-24.6 9.4-33.9 0l-136-136c-9.5-9.4-9.5-24.6-.1-34z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"elementor-screen-only\">Prev<\/span><\/span><span class=\"elementor-post-navigation__link__prev\"><span class=\"post-navigation__prev--title\">December 2024 QEP Update<\/span><\/span><\/a>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation__separator-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation__separator\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post-navigation__next elementor-post-navigation__link\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/instruction.austincc.edu\/digital-fluency\/2025\/02\/04\/october-2024-qep-update\/\" rel=\"next\"><span class=\"elementor-post-navigation__link__next\"><span class=\"post-navigation__next--title\">October 2024 QEP Update<\/span><\/span><span class=\"post-navigation__arrow-wrapper post-navigation__arrow-next\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-angle-right\" viewBox=\"0 0 256 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M224.3 273l-136 136c-9.4 9.4-24.6 9.4-33.9 0l-22.6-22.6c-9.4-9.4-9.4-24.6 0-33.9l96.4-96.4-96.4-96.4c-9.4-9.4-9.4-24.6 0-33.9L54.3 103c9.4-9.4 24.6-9.4 33.9 0l136 136c9.5 9.4 9.5 24.6.1 34z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"elementor-screen-only\">Next<\/span><\/span><\/a>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The month of November saw the finish of developing the 13th QEP microcredential, Advanced PowerPoint. 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