Work-based Learning: Preparing Incumbent Workers for Advanced Manufacturing Careers

未来工作（JFF）与欧文斯伯勒社区技术学院（OCTC）和WGBH教育基金会合作，为缺乏副学士学位的在职生产工人开发并测试了一种基于工作的学习（WBL）方法，用于制造技术人员教育。新的WBL课程，改编自现有的OCTC课程和国家制造标准协会证书标准，在OCTC制造技术部门进行试点。在试点项目中，在职工人可以获得6到12个学分，以获得先进制造副学士学位，并提高他们在先进制造技术方面的技能和知识。为其他学院的教师和雇主开发了一套专业开发工具和多媒体资源，并发布到PBS LearningMedia数字平台上，以支持在制造技术人员教育中更广泛地采用WBL设计。教育发展中心？儿童技术中心对项目进行形成性评估和总结性评估。该项目建立在“未来工作”组织在17所社区大学实施的“从工作到职业”护理项目的成功基础上。WBL与OCTC课程的能力相一致；支持教师设计WBL课程；加强雇主将工作场所纳入工作场所的能力；45名在职员工的工作成果得到改善。项目产品和成果通过专业制作的多媒体工具包传播。评估确定了WBL对参与者的影响，并将他们与校园课程的学生进行比较。它还决定了其他教师使用该工具包时的有效性。ATE项目资助了各种形式的基于问题的学习，将工作场所带入课堂。这个项目测试了将课堂带到工作场所的有效性。

Jobs for the Future (JFF) partners with Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) and the WGBH Educational Foundation to develop and field test a work-based learning (WBL) approach for manufacturing technician education for incumbent production workers lacking an Associate degree. New WBL courses, adapted from existing OCTC courses and National Institute of Manufacturing Standards credential standards, are piloted within the manufacturing technology department at OCTC. In the pilots themselves, cohorts of incumbent workers earn six to twelve academic credits towards an advanced manufacturing Associate degree, and improve their skills and knowledge in advanced manufacturing technology. A suite of professional development tools and multimedia resources are developed for faculty and employers at other colleges and posted to the PBS LearningMedia digital platform to support wider adoption of a WBL design in manufacturing technician education. The Educational Development Center?s Center for Children & Technology conducts both the formative and summative evaluation of the project.The project builds on the success of the Jobs to Career program in nursing implemented by Jobs for the Future at 17 community colleges. WBL is aligned to competencies in OCTC courses; faculty are supported in designing the curriculum for WBL; the capacity of employers to integrate WBL into the workplace is strengthened; outcomes for 45 incumbent workers are improved. The project products and outcomes are disseminated through a professionally produced multi-media toolkit. The evaluation determines the impact of WBL on participants and compares them to students on campus-based courses. It also determines the effectiveness of the toolkit when used by other instructors. The ATE program has funded the development of various forms of Problem-Based Learning that bring the workplace to the classroom. This project tests the effectiveness of bringing the classroom to the workplace.