Independent Learner Energy Education Design project

Lane社区学院（LCC）能源管理课程（EMP）在培养学生从事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，但预计对能源效率教育的需求将持续增长。此外，尽管在线学位在高等教育的许多领域都相当普遍，但职业技术教育却落后了，部分原因是此类课程需要动手实地工作。受能源管理劳动力需求的推动，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LCC EMP的传统课堂模式转变为在线混合选择，为传统和非传统学生提供了能源效率教育机会，同时也为太平洋西北地区更广泛、更多样化的人口提供了机会。该项目还用于开发、管理和支持公用事业顾问合作伙伴网络，这些合作伙伴将在多个偏远地区提供基本的能源相关现场工作。西北公用事业和公用事业专业协会已同意为这一创新教育项目提供员工导师。为了增加更多潜在学生的参与，并覆盖更广泛的地理范围，ILEED更新了现有的在线课程，并通过当地，公用事业和行业联系将其与实地工作经验相结合（类似于实习或合作教育）。有了这种高等教育和行业合作的模式，目前不在当地的学生也可以接受能源管理教育。iled的教师仍将进行教学和评估，但也将与行业导师协调，以便iled学生无论身在何处都能完成教学的实地工作部分。参加课程的学生将能够通过在线课程获得一个完整的、为期两年的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强他们目前的职业（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).