Associate Degree for Manufacturing Technicians: Institutionalizing Change in Technician Education by Expanding a "Work in Progress"

约翰霍普金斯政策研究所与全国五个社区学院联盟合作，建立了一项全国性的努力，为教师提供他们需要的工具，向社区大学生教授通用的制造业工作场所能力。其结果是根据扫描能力编制了五个光盘只读存储器模块。该项目的第二阶段将通过广泛的教师发展、评估、扩展和改进cd - rom，以自我维持的方式将目前经过测试的概念变为现实。用于指导项目的技术人员教育模式是集成的（或混合的）、基于项目的、协作的、评估指导的和技术密集型的。尽管ATE一直在资助具有部分或全部这些特征的技术人员培训模式，并且这些模式已经开始改变某些机构的社区学院教学，但仍然存在四个挑战：(1)完善模式；(2)使模式制度化，使变化持续；(3)建立一个不断扩大的学院网络，不仅利用这个项目的成果，也利用科技学院其他成功项目的成果；(4)将网络连接到高中（通过Tech Prep）、其他大学和雇主。

Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, in partnership with five consortia of community colleges across the nation, have established a nationwide effort to equip faculty with the tools they need to teach generic manufacturing workplace competencies to community college students. The outcome has been the development of five CD-ROM modules based on the SCANS competencies. The second phase of this project will bring the now-tested concept to reality in a self-sustaining manner through extensive faculty development, assessment, and extension and enhancement of the CD-ROMs. The model of technician education being used to guide the project is Integrated (or blended), Project-based, Collaborative, Assessment-guided, and Technology-intensive. While ATE has been funding models of technician training with some or all of these characteristics, and these models have begun to change community college teaching in selected institutions, four challenges remain: (1) Refine the models; (2) Institutionalize the models so that the changes are sustained; (3) Build an expanding network of colleges that will use the results of not only this project but of ATE's other successful projects as well; and (4) Connect the network to high schools (via Tech Prep), other colleges and employers.