Institution-Level Reform of Technician Education at a Two-year Technical College

新的和融合的技术需要技术人员能够灵活地适应跨学科的知识和技能。特定的职业课程必须提供创造性的交叉链接，以应对不断变化的工作性质，并以教与学的发现为基础。这项计划拨款加速了麦迪逊地区技术学院重新制定、简化和更新科学、技术、工程和数学相关课程的努力，以满足雇主的需求。体制一级的改革也为重新考虑目前的征聘做法提供了机会。该规划创建了技术学院、大学教师和雇主的学习社区，以评估工作场所变化对学院当前和未来学习系统的影响，建立教师在融合技术方面的专业知识，并为其中的教学提供论坛。该学院是威斯康星技术学院系统改革的试点，该系统控制着课程。

New and converging technologies require technicians who can flexibly adapt their knowledge and skills across disciplines. Specific occupational programs must provide creatively cross-linked offerings that respond to the changing nature of work and are grounded in the findings of teaching and learning. This planning grant accelerates Madison Area Technical College's effort to reformulate, streamline and update the science, technology, engineering and mathematics related programming to meet the needs of the employers. Institutional level reform also provides an opportunity to rethink current recruitment practices. The planning creates learning communities of technical college and university faculty and employers to assess the impacts of the changes in the workplace on current and future learning systems at the college, to build faculty expertise in the converging technologies and to provide a forum for teaching and learning in them. The College is a pilot for changes in the Wisconsin Technical College System, which controls curricula.