Independent Learner Energy Education Design project

Lane Community College（LCC）能源管理计划（EMP）在培养学生在商业建筑节能工作方面有着悠久而丰富的历史。虽然LCC EMP培养了许多毕业生，他们在整个能源效率行业就业，但对能源效率教育的预期需求持续增长。此外，虽然在线学位在高等教育的许多部门相当普遍，但职业技术教育落后于部分原因是这些计划的实际实地工作要求。出于对能源管理人才的需求，该项目将LCC EMP教育与在线教育结合在一起。 其结果是独立学习者能源教育设计（ILEED）的努力，它提供了一个可扩展的解决方案，将当前的LCC EMP传统课堂模式改变为在线混合选项，将能源效率教育机会扩展到传统和非传统学生，以及太平洋西北地区更广泛，更多样化的人口。该项目还将开发、管理和支持一个公用事业指导合作伙伴网络，该网络将在多个偏远地区提供基本的能源相关实地工作。西北公用事业和公用事业专业协会已同意为这个创新的教育项目提供导师。为了增加更广泛的潜在学生的参与，并覆盖更广泛的地理范围，ILEED更新现有的在线课程，并通过当地，公用事业和行业联系（类似于实习或合作教育）将其与实地工作经验相结合。通过这种高等教育和行业合作伙伴关系的模式，能源管理教育将提供给目前在当地以外的学生。ILEED教师仍将教学和评估，但也与行业导师协调，使ILEED学生可以完成他们的教学实地工作的组成部分，无论他们的地理位置。参加的学生将能够通过在线课程获得完整的两年制应用科学副学士学位，或者在职工人可以选择参加一些课程来增加他们目前的职业（例如，建筑师、工程师）。

The Lane Community College (LCC) Energy Management Program (EMP) has a long and rich history of preparing students for jobs in the commercial building energy efficiency workforce. While LCC EMP has produced many graduates who are employed throughout the energy efficiency industry, the projected demand for energy efficiency education continuous to grow. Further, while online degrees are fairly commonplace in many sectors of higher education, career-technical education lags behind in part due to the hands-on fieldwork requirements of such programs. Motivated by the demand for an energy management workforce, this project brings together the LCC EMP education with online education. The result being the Independent Learner Energy Education Design (ILEED) effort, which provides a scalable solution of changing the current LCC EMP traditional classroom model into an online hybrid option that expands energy efficiency educational opportunities to traditional and nontraditional students, but also a broader and more diverse population across the Pacific Northwest. This project also serves to develop, manage, and support a network of utility mentor partners that will provide the essential energy-related fieldwork at multiple remote locations. Northwest utilities and utility professional associations have agreed to provide employee-mentors for this innovative education project.To increase participation of a wider sector of potential students, and to cover a broader geographic range, ILEED updates the existing online coursework and couples it with fieldwork experiences through local, public utilities and industry connections (similar to that of an internship or cooperative education). With this model of higher education and industry partnerships, energy management education will be available to students who are currently outside the local area. ILEED faculty will still teach and assess, but also coordinate with industry mentors so ILEED students can complete their field-work component of instruction, regardless of their geographic location. Students who participate will be able to earn a full, two-year Associate of Applied Science degree through the online offerings, or an incumbent worker could choose to take a few classes to augment their current profession (e.g., architects, engineers).