National STEM Consortium A Comprehensive Model for Boosting Student Completion and Job Attainment Kelly Koermer, NSC Principal Investigator Susan Gallagher, NSC Project Director
Dec 25, 2015
National STEM Consortium A Comprehensive Model for Boosting
Student Completion and Job Attainment
Kelly Koermer, NSC Principal InvestigatorSusan Gallagher, NSC Project Director
What is the National STEM Consortium?
Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland
College of Lake County in Illinois
Clover Park Technical College in Washington State
Cuyahoga Community College in Ohio
Florida State College at Jacksonville
Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana
Macomb Community College in Michigan
Northwest Arkansas Community College
Roane State Community College in Tennessee
South Seattle Community College in Washington State
What is the Role of the NSC?
Design and deliver Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
(STEM) programs:
• Nationally portable
• High-quality certificate-level
• Responsive to labor market needs
• Embed contextualized remediation – “STEM Bridge”
• Build a national model for multi-college cooperation
One Year STEM Certificates
Mechatronics Technology
Cyber Technology
Composites Technology
Electric Vehicle Technology
Environmental Technology
Partners
• Public workforce agencies• Identify industry trends
• Refer candidates; placement
• Employers• Identify industry needs – learning
outcomes
• Provide input on curricula
• Hire our completers!
• Community colleges• Prepare curricula
• Identify “bridge” components
• OLI, CAST
Need – Employers
• Pipeline of qualified new workers for immediate and future openings• Hands-on skills• Industry credentials• Essential core skills• Linked to industry-vetted KSAs
• Upskill incumbent workers to fill key positions• Fast, fluid and flexible
Need - Students
• A stable career pathway • Family-sustaining wages• Marketable skills• Industry certifications
• Academic Credential• Accelerated time to completion• Higher likelihood of successful completion• Affordable
Need - Colleges
• Innovative approaches to teaching and learning in response to emerging academic challenges• Declining enrollments• Declining student retention and completion• Declining budgets and resource availability
• Proven methods to accelerate completion and meet immediate employer needs• Address developmental academic needs• Program and student success (completion, retention, job
placement)• Student and faculty support to promote student success
• Reputation for excellence and innovation
The Value Proposition
What if Community Colleges could quickly prepare students for high demand employment opportunities in programs with completion rates of 69% , and a 69% rate of employment?
Y CyberElectric Vehicle MechatronicsComposites Environmental
STEM Bridge
A Comprehensive Model
NSC Treatment Model
NSC Treatment Model
• Technical curricula• STEM Bridge curricula:
embedded, contextualized remediation• Cohort enrollment• Block scheduling• Embedded student supports:
navigation services
NSC Technical Curricula
• 30+ Credits per pathway
• All course materials available as an Open Educational Resource on Platform+ >
• Additional interactive “sticking points”
• Comprehensive Program Guides providing information on all aspects of program adoption
*Conversion to OER in progress: to be completed by 5/30/15
Curriculum Hosted on OLI
Employer Outcome Driven
Programs
Five STEM Certificate Programs
NSC Curriculum
Program Guides
STEM Bridge Courses
Comprehensive Program Materials
NSC OER Available On OLI Spring 2015
Program Guide
Course
Toolkit
Syllabus
Lesson Plans
Instructional Materials
Labs
For each program, the Guide Provides:• Overview of the Industry• Description of the Certificate
Program• Program Infrastructure• How to Adopt the Program• The Role of Employers• Student Success Strategies• Sustainability• Boosting Job Placement
Program Guides
For each course in every program:
• Instructor Toolkit• Syllabus• Lesson Plans• Labs• Quizzes/Assessments• Handouts• PowerPoints• Links to External Materials (including industry content)• Images• Videos
Course Materials
“Sticking Points”/Mini-Lessons
“Sticking Point”: Known troublesome concept for students, difficult concept to learn
Solution• Online mini-lesson (module) designed to reinforce and
remediate these topics • Self-paced• Completed as homework and/or instructor led
Two Modules/Mini-Lessons (Sticking Points) Per Course
STEM Bridge
STEM Bridge is a two-part strategy to provide support to learners in the STEM certificate programs.
Certificate Ready: “STEM Readiness” CourseEmbedded, contextualized, online course to quickly refreshes key skills in math, communications, critical thinking and professional skills.
Lower-Level Learners: “STEM Foundations” CourseModularized set of curriculum “bundles” that can be adapted and inserted as needed to support foundational skills in Math and Workplace Communication before entering the credit certificates
STEM Readiness Curriculum
Math
• Placement Test• Arithmetic• Measuring Systems• Charts and Graphs• Basic Algebra• Triangle Geometry• Cartesian Plane
• Summarizing• Oral & Written
Communication• After-Action
Reporting• Troubleshooting
Critical Thinking & Workplace
Communication• Customer Service• Confidentiality• Organizational
Skills• Time Management• Teamwork• Resume Writing• Cover Letters• Interviewing
ProfessionalSkills
15 hours 15 hours 15 hours
• Reading Strategies for Comprehension
• Writing Skills• Writing Structure• Listening and Speaking Skills• Time Management
STEM Foundations Curriculum
Math
• The Number Line and Integers• Multiplying and Dividing Integers• Order of Operations (MDAS)• Fractions • Conceptual Equality• Signed/Negative Values
Workplace Communications
12-15 Hours Total Instruction Time
OER Content
• STEM Bridge Content – Fully Available and Free:• Open Learning Initiative (OLI) website: http://oli.cmu.edu
• Sign Up on main page • STEM Readiness use Course Key: ALL-STEM4 • STEM Foundations use Course Key: STEMBASIC2
• Technical Content – available by 5/30/15• http://tinyurl.com/NationalSTEM
• Sign up to receive a notification when content is available
Benefits: Employers
• Pipeline of qualified workers• decreased training costs• decreased job vacancy time
• Access to credentialed workers with relevant hands-on skills
• Enables employer to establish and support career ladders
• Well-prepared workers enhance revenue through increased quality, efficiency and volume
• Training available for employers to use for OJT
Benefits: Students
• Prepares students for higher paid jobs• Gets students to work more quickly• Increases students’ success mindset and confidence• Decreased frustration levels and drop-out rates• Allows students to work and/or handle other personal
responsibilities while quickly completing credentials• Enables student access to technical curricula without
delay of developmental prerequisites
A Student’s Perspective
• https://www.\youtube.com/watch?v=uMG34JCDsAA
Benefits: Colleges
• Increased revenues through tuition and fees• Increased state funding in performance/completion-based funding• Credibility with employers• Enhanced reputation and job outcomes result in increased
enrollments• High-quality, effective curricula, modifiable and customizable to
additional programs• Saves time and resources through use of NSC OER• Reduces time to completion• Increased number of academic certificates and industry credentials
earned in support of completion agenda• Content and approach can be adapted for entrepreneurial activities• Collaborative process can be replicated for other grants and projects• Successful project enhances competitive advantage• Collaboration reduces costs because tasks are shared among
institutions• Collaboration increases value, efficacy and richness of product
Retention ROI: 100 Students in a 30
Credit Program, College Earns
$167,289 MORE Using NSC Model
Return on Investment
Competition/Barriers
• Faculty resistance• Cost/resources to scale and sustain within our own institutions• Proprietary training institutions• Existing less-successful developmental curricula• Available virtual advising systems• Other institutions of higher education• Our own institutions - resistance against change• Employer in-house training• Block scheduling and cohort enrollment is inconvenient to
implement and manage alongside traditional scheduling and offerings
• NSC Website: www.NationalSTEM.org
• Facebook: • https://www.facebook.com/AACCMechatronics• https://www.facebook.com/MCCEVCert
• PBS Feature: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/economy/certifiably-employable/16901/
• Pathway videos:• Mechatronics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBqkQ_pRm54&feature=youtu.be• Cyber: http://www.nwacc.edu/web/stem/cyber-technician-certificate• Composites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KA9ZzcewX0• Electric Vehicle Development: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMO0unlzGCE • Electric Vehicle Repair: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW2ZY94lO0w
National STEM ConsortiumResources
National STEM ConsortiumResources
• NSC Website: www.NationalSTEM.org
• NSC Policies and Sample NSC Curriculum Documents• Available via Dropbox:
• https://www.dropbox.com/sh/sru3t4iz8dyds04/rHfmhJunz4
• STEM Bridge Access: Open Learning Initiative (OLI) website: http://oli.cmu.edu • Sign Up on main page • STEM Readiness use Course Key: ALL-STEM4 • STEM Foundations use Course Key: STEMBASIC2
National STEM ConsortiumContent Availability
Complete this electronic form to be notified of National STEM Consortium curriculum content availability:http://tinyurl.com/NationalSTEM
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Questions?Susan Gallagher Kim Law Kelly KoermerNSC Project Director NSC Cyber Technology Coordinator NSC Principal [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 410-777-2124 410-777-2387 410-777-7432
• Composite Materials Technology• Cyber Technology• Electric Vehicle Development and Repair
• Environmental Technology
• Mechatronics• STEM Bridge (math, communications and professional
skills)