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RE: Job Descriptions

Posted By Michael Barbour 11-28-2023 10:56:25 AM
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Kelly, I saw your email and yes it seems you did follow-up at the time. I had neglected to thank Noah in the forum (much thanks Noah), which is why I didn't think to go checking through my different inboxes. Appreciate the quick follow-up and apologize for the repetition of your efforts. MKB --- ...

RE: Job Descriptions

Posted By Michael Barbour 11-28-2023 10:41:20 AM
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Sorry, I lost track of this thread for a bit. Yes, that would be wonderful! I noticed someone posted this one - https://www.higheredjobs.com/admin/details.cfm?JobCode=178616055 - on a different thread earlier today (or maybe yesterday). MKB ------------------------------ Michael Barbour Coordinator, ...

Job Descriptions

Posted By Michael Barbour 09-18-2023 02:28:00 PM
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For folks that have a formal office or unit attached to micro-credentials, so that they have a formal lead (i.e., coordinator, director, dean, whatever)... Do you have a job description for your [lead] of micro-credentials? If so, can you share it with us? MKB ------------------------------ Michael ...

RE: Course Naming Practices

Posted By Michael Barbour 09-05-2023 06:43:08 PM
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Interesting... Just for one my sanity, if the non-credit is based on a for credit offering I use the for credit offering with a -0 at the end (to indicate 0 credits). The others I have just decided to use descriptive terms for naming conventions. ------------------------------ Michael Barbour Coordinator, ...

Course Naming Practices

Posted By Michael Barbour 07-17-2023 04:06:00 PM
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Colleagues, For our credit bearing offerings, most universities have specific labels for those. For example, an introduction course in education might be EDUC-100 or EDU-100. Within our SIS and our LMS, we might incorporate that course code into the naming convention. However, much of our badging ...

RE: Question About Possibilities

Posted By Michael Barbour 05-29-2023 10:55:48 PM
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Josephine, thanks for this lead! I really like the video on the main page and am going to try and recreate our own version of it. :) MKB ------------------------------ Michael Barbour Coordinator, MicroCredentials@Touro Touro College ------------------------------

RE: Question About Possibilities

Posted By Michael Barbour 05-23-2023 11:33:12 AM
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Mary, I did see that one. I am also planning to pull information from: https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2023/02/23/employers-are-all-microcredentials-survey-show https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/deliver/9c4b7b68-en.pdf?itemId=/content/paper/9c4b7b68-en&mimeType=pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.n ...

Question About Possibilities

Posted By Michael Barbour 05-23-2023 11:21:00 AM
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Colleagues, As my own institution is working away at the challenge of creating badging and micro-credential programs, I've been asked to help put together a short presentation around the question... What is the potential / demand for microcredentials? I'm wondering if any of you have any thoughts ...

RE: What are folks using as their badging platform?

Posted By Michael Barbour 02-17-2023 03:43:22 PM
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Kent, interestingly enough we have been exploring the use of Catalog for our non-credit offerings too. I believe that we are going to be including it in our upcoming renewal with Instructure (fingers crossed). MKB ------------------------------ Michael Barbour Coordinator, MicroCredentials@Touro ...

RE: Gamified Issues

Posted By Michael Barbour 02-16-2023 01:48:17 PM
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Thank you Brenda! That worked. MKB ------------------------------ Michael Barbour Coordinator, MicroCredentials@Touro Touro College ------------------------------

RE: Micro-Credentials vs. Certificates

Posted By Michael Barbour 02-16-2023 01:45:13 PM
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Interesting... Thank you Sasha! MKB ------------------------------ Michael Barbour Coordinator, MicroCredentials@Touro Touro College ------------------------------

RE: Gamified Issues

Posted By Michael Barbour 02-16-2023 09:18:23 AM
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Brenda, the link to the white paper isn't working. MKB ------------------------------ Michael Barbour Coordinator, MicroCredentials@Touro Touro College ------------------------------

RE: Micro-Credentials vs. Certificates

Posted By Michael Barbour 02-16-2023 09:09:36 AM
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Ahhh... I finally get a chance to contribute and not just ask questions... Lee, we've done it a couple of ways. So our setup is (or will be soon) Banner, Canvas LMS, Badgr Pro (becoming Canvas Credential), and Canvas Catalog (this is he one we're getting in July, so we don't have it yet). So right ...

RE: Micro-Credentials vs. Certificates

Posted By Michael Barbour 02-16-2023 08:54:34 AM
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Alexandera, The information at https://online.lsu.edu/newsroom/articles/certificate-vs-microcredential-whats-the-difference/ is very helpful. I had a followup question for you. I noticed under the certificate section portion of the content it mentioned a PLA, do you have any documentation online about ...

RE: Micro-Credentials vs. Certificates

Posted By Michael Barbour 02-16-2023 08:52:06 AM
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Thank you Stephanie! This is helpful! MKB ------------------------------ Michael Barbour Coordinator, MicroCredentials@Touro Touro College ------------------------------

RE: Gamified Issues

Posted By Michael Barbour 02-14-2023 12:15:54 PM
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Noah, I note your position at UC Boulder. Do you have any of your micro-credential policies online? I'd love to size up some more established programs. As I mentioned in my response to Dan, on so many issues we have started our implementation and are now trying to create the policies around that implementation. ...

RE: Gamified Issues

Posted By Michael Barbour 02-12-2023 10:07:42 PM
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Dan, I saw this resource you posted on one of the earlier entries in this forum. As I scanned through, it seemed to me that most of the work was focused on implementation and use. Were there any pieces that specifically focused on institutional policies? MKB ------------------------------ Michael ...

RE: Non-Credit to For Credit

Posted By Michael Barbour 02-09-2023 05:51:22 PM
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Justin, you raised an interesting unrelated question about naming. Between our initial task force that we had several years ago, to the first year of the initial when it sat on the side of an administrators desk, to the last few years that I've been the coordinator, we've had a heck of a time just trying ...

RE: Non-Credit to For Credit

Posted By Michael Barbour 02-09-2023 04:56:51 PM
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Justin, this looks kind of similar to the PLA that SUNY uses - which is definitive a model to consider. I know of a couple of institutions that are much more restrictive in their policies. For example, I came across one where the non-credit course had to have the same content and level/nature of assessment ...

Gamified Issues

Posted By Michael Barbour 02-09-2023 11:09:00 AM
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I know I'm full of questions this week, but we have been developing out our micro-credential and badging program over the past couple of years and we are getting to the point where we are starting to tackle issues that go beyond my knowledge base (or where I have existing opinions on). So... If faculty ...