Associate Degree for Manufacturing Technicians: Institutionalizing Change in Technician Education by Expanding a "Work in Progress"

约翰·霍普金斯政策研究所与全国五个社区大学联盟合作，在全国范围内开展了一项努力，让教职员工掌握向社区大学学生传授通用制造工作场所能力所需的工具。结果是根据扫描能力开发了五个光盘模块。该项目的第二阶段将通过广泛的教师发展、评估以及光盘的推广和改进，以一种自我维持的方式将目前经过检验的概念变为现实。用于指导项目的技术人员教育模式是集成(或混合)、基于项目、协作、评估指导和技术密集型的。虽然ATE一直在资助具有部分或全部这些特点的技术人员培训模式，这些模式已经开始改变选定机构的社区大学教学，但仍然存在四个挑战：(1)改进模式；(2)使模式制度化，以使变化持续下去；(3)建立一个不断扩大的大学网络，不仅将使用该项目的成果，还将利用ATE其他成功项目的成果；以及(4)将网络连接到高中(通过Tech Prep)、其他大学和雇主。

Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, in partnership with five consortia of community colleges across the nation, have established a nationwide effort to equip faculty with the tools they need to teach generic manufacturing workplace competencies to community college students. The outcome has been the development of five CD-ROM modules based on the SCANS competencies. The second phase of this project will bring the now-tested concept to reality in a self-sustaining manner through extensive faculty development, assessment, and extension and enhancement of the CD-ROMs. The model of technician education being used to guide the project is Integrated (or blended), Project-based, Collaborative, Assessment-guided, and Technology-intensive. While ATE has been funding models of technician training with some or all of these characteristics, and these models have begun to change community college teaching in selected institutions, four challenges remain: (1) Refine the models; (2) Institutionalize the models so that the changes are sustained; (3) Build an expanding network of colleges that will use the results of not only this project but of ATE's other successful projects as well; and (4) Connect the network to high schools (via Tech Prep), other colleges and employers.