Distance-Enabled Industry-Led Data Analytics Technician Pathway (ILDAP)

该项目旨在通过创建远程行业主导的数据分析技术员路径(ILDAP)来服务于国家利益，以填补西部山区农村地区信息技术和制造业部门熟练数据技术员的严重短缺。数据正在改变所有行业的经济和社会。所有类型的企业都需要能够收集、清理、分析、理解和可视化数据的技术人员。由于经济的大幅增长和数据分析领域的新近，山间西部地区正在努力满足对中等技能数据技术人员的极端需求。该项目将为在职工人提供获取数据分析技能的途径，并改变在家工作的妇女如何获得高需求的分析技能，以便重新进入劳动力大军。该项目有可能产生关于技术学院如何与当地行业合作制作高效、吸引人和有效的远程数据分析教学的知识，以同时为参与者的职业发展和/或大学之路做好准备。在强有力的行业投入的推动下，ILDAP项目旨在通过以下方式解决西部山区对中等技能数据分析技术人员的需求：(1)发展数据分析业务行业领导团队，(2)通过专业发展增加教师专业知识(3)开发远程数据分析课程，以接触到国内现有的工人和女性，以及(4)招聘和留住女性进入数据分析领域。通过强有力的行业合作，该项目将开发一套完善的课程和方案资源，可以在当地和全国范围内共享。项目小组计划分享拟议的课程和招收代表人数不足群体的学生的做法。项目成果将在当地向产业界和三个当地学区分享。项目组计划通过一年一度的实践社区会议，在区域范围内向7所州内的技术学院传播成果。为了广泛接触到感兴趣的各方，项目团队将在各种会议上展示他们的工作，并在atecental.net上分享项目产品。该项目由高级技术教育计划资助，该计划专注于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。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。

This project aims to serve the national interest by creating a Distance-Enabled Industry-Led Data Analytics Technician Pathway (ILDAP) to fill the critical shortage of skilled data technicians in information technology and manufacturing sectors in the rural Intermountain West. Data is transforming the economy and society across all sectors. Businesses of all types need technicians who can collect, clean, analyze, understand, and visualize data. Due to dramatic economic growth and the recency of the data analytics field, the Intermountain West is struggling to meet the extreme demand for middle-skilled data technicians. This project will create an avenue for incumbent workers to gain data analytics skills and transform how women at home will gain high demand analytical skills in order to reenter the workforce. The project has the potential to generate knowledge of how technical colleges can partner with local industry to produce efficient, engaging, and effective data analytics instruction at a distance to simultaneously prepare participants for job advancement and/or a pathway towards college.Driven by robust industry input, the ILDAP project intends to resolve the need for middle-skilled data analytics technicians in the Intermountain West by: (1) developing a Data Analytics Business Industry Leadership Team, (2) increasing instructor expertise through professional development (3) developing distance-enabled data analytics courses to reach incumbent workers and women at home, and (4) recruiting and retaining women into data analytics. Through robust industry collaborations, this project will develop a refined curriculum and programmatic resources that can be shared locally and nationally. The project team plans to share the proposed curriculum and practices in recruiting students from underrepresented groups. The project results will be shared locally to industry and three local school districts. The project team plans to disseminate results with seven in-state technical colleges regionally through the yearly community of practice meeting. In order to reach the wide breadth of interested parties, the project team will present their work nationally at various conferences and share project products at atecentral.net. 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.