Competency-Based, Open Entry, Open Exit Biotechnology Education (CBOE-Biotech)

盐湖社区学院（SLCC）将为他们的生物技术证书开发新的以能力为基础的、开放式的、开放式的课程，并在延长的晚上和周末时间开设开放式实验室。这将使SLCC为学生和在职工人提供灵活安排和加速完成课程的机会。对学生的好处将是降低成本和提高福利，特别是对有家庭和工作的学生。补充该项目的是有针对性地征聘得不到充分服务的人口。通过咨询委员会与当地生物技术行业合作，课程将根据当地雇主的需要量身定制，以确保为不断发展的行业提供受过良好教育的技术人员。作为该项目的结果，SLCC将开发基于能力，开放式入学，开放式退出教学和交付的新做法，增加学生获得生物技术教育的机会，并帮助他们获得证书。这种灵活性将节省学生的钱，并支持家庭生活。该项目利用了教育部现有的第三章拨款。新的课程将通过DACUM过程提供信息，该过程涉及当地工业的投入。这将确保它满足犹他州生物技术公司不断变化的需求，与当地的学士学位课程衔接，并培养行业所需的学生技能。通过积极主动的指导和建议，使用学生分析和项目评估，该项目将确定有效的做法和潜在的陷阱，以能力为基础的教育计划在技术人员教育。通过ATE社区的传播，该项目将成为为有类似需求的学生提供服务的其他项目的典范。

Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) will develop new competency-based, open-entry, open-exit program for their biotechnology credentials, complemented by an open lab during extended evening and weekend hours. This will allow SLCC to offer students and incumbent workers opportunities for flexible scheduling and accelerated program completion. The benefits to students will be reduced costs and enhanced well-being, especially for students who have families and jobs. Complementing the project is a targeted effort to recruit underserved populations. Working with the local biotechnology industry through an advisory board, the curriculum will be tailored to the needs of local employers to ensure it provides well-educated technicians for a growing industry. As a result of this project, SLCC will develop new practices in competency-based, open-entry, open-exit instruction and delivery that increases student access to biotechnology education and helps them earn a credential. This flexibility will save students money and support family life. This project leverages an existing Title III grant from the Department of Education. The new curriculum will be informed by a DACUM process that involves input from local industry. This will ensure that it meets the evolving needs of Utah biotechnology companies, articulates with local baccalaureate degree program, and develops the student skills needed by industry. Through proactive mentoring and advising, use of student analytics, and project evaluation, this project will identify effective practices and potential pitfalls of competency-based education programs in technician education. Through dissemination via the ATE community, this project will become a model for other programs serving students with similar needs.