Scaling Elements of a Competency-Based Hybrid Instructional Model into Advanced Manufacturing Courses

全国范围内合格制造技术人员的短缺，以及对与快速变化的技术保持同步的培训需求，推动了教育和行业合作伙伴之间的合作。为了满足对合格制造技术人员的需求，西北州立社区学院(NSCC)将与各行业合作，改进基于能力的先进制造计划，并促进其更广泛的采用。NSCC计划通过由俄亥俄州、密歇根州、印第安纳州和北卡罗来纳州四个州的合作大学及其当地行业组成的网络改进社区(NIC)来广泛实施其教学模式。通过指导、专业发展和有重点的合作，该项目将提高先进制造课程的有效性，增加获得技术教育计划的机会，并培养具有雇主所需技能的技术人员。在更广泛的范围内，该项目将通过增加服务不足的人群在技术劳动力中追求高需求、家庭维持的职业的机会来促进多样性。该项目的目标是：提供更容易获得的教学方法，为现有和潜在的大学生消除障碍，使学生的技能获得与工作场所的需求保持一致，并增加对高级制造课程实施基于能力的混合教学模式的知识。NSCC将演示将两门传统课程转换为新模式的过程，NIC中的合作学院将确定该模式的哪些要素最适合在其课程中进行调整。然后，NSCC将与合作伙伴合作，将该模式纳入特定课程。此外，NSCC将为NIC合作伙伴全州网络中的其他大学的技术教师举办9个为期两天的专业发展研讨会，这些研讨会可能会影响90所大学。NSCC将继续指导教师将模型的元素扩展到他们所在机构的项目中，并将为实施工作提供帮助。该项目由高级技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域的技术人员进行教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

A nationwide shortage of qualified manufacturing technicians and the demand for training that keeps pace with rapidly changing technology has driven collaboration between education and industry partners. To fill the need for qualified manufacturing technicians, Northwest State Community College (NSCC) will work with industries to improve a competency-based advanced manufacturing program and promote its broader adoption. NSCC plans wide-spread implementation of its instructional model through a Networked Improvement Community (NIC) of partner colleges and their local industries across four states: Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and North Carolina. Through mentorship, professional development, and focused cooperation, this project will improve the effectiveness of advanced manufacturing courses, increase access to technical education programs, and prepare technicians with the skillsets that employers require. On a broad scale, this project will promote diversity by increasing opportunities for underserved populations to pursue high-demand, family-sustaining occupations in the technical workforce.The goals of this project are to: provide a more accessible method of instruction, remove barriers for existing and potential college students, align students' skills attainment with workplace demands, and increase the knowledge of implementing a competency-based hybrid instructional model for advanced manufacturing courses. NSCC will demonstrate the process of converting two traditional courses to the new model, and partner colleges in the NIC will determine which elements of the model are best suited to adapt within their programs. NSCC will then work with the partners to incorporate the model into specific courses. In addition, NSCC will administer nine, two-day professional development workshops for technical faculty from additional colleges in the state-wide networks of the NIC partners, with the potential to impact ninety colleges. NSCC will continue to mentor faculty on scaling elements of the model into programs at their institutions and will provide assistance with implementation efforts.This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.