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Extending the Credential EXTENDING THE CREDENTIAL Support provided by Support provided by Extending the Credential Today’s postsecondary students are learning in ers. Today, we are partnering with innovative more ways than ever before, challenging college institutions and registrars, taking orders for and and university administrators to communicate delivering extended credentials and working to a more complete educative experience. To meet build these extensions into our core service. this need, forward-thinking schools are begin- ning to document leadership experiences and In a knowledge economy, where individuals are competency achievements along with academic defined by their credentials, we are going beyond accomplishments. The official transcript is evolv- courses, grades and credits to show the full im- ing in both form and substance. From paper sent pact of a postsecondary education. through the mail to electronic images or stan- dardized data exchanged online and extended to include: 1 in 4 adult Americans • • Competency-based transcripts that com- have a certificate or municate what was taught and what was license learned • • Experiential transcripts that verify co-cur- ricular experiences and accomplishments Our members are extending digital credentials • • Data-enabled electronic transcripts with and storing them in one place—online—where embedded links to introduce more levels of they can be easily displayed. Allowing learners to detail quickly show what they know. We live in a “credential society.” In fact, the U.S. As we move forward, we hope these essays will Census Bureau reports that one in two adults has help further illustrate the new generation of some form of postsecondary credential, and one credentialing and that we can work together to in four has a certification or license. This calls for extend the transcript, helping more learners turn a new era of academic credentialing, aligned with more credentials into even more opportunities. our digital and mobile culture, to make student outcomes more easily understood and actionable. MATTHEW PITTINSKY CEO At our core, Parchment understands that creden- Parchment [email protected] tials matter—to learners, educators, and employ- www.parchment.com EXTENDING THE CREDENTIAL INTRODUCTION College degrees have, for years, been defined by credits earned in courses – with certain combinations of credits necessary (in the major, general education and so forth) to earn a degree. Increasingly though, credentials are being viewed in new and different ways. Some experts say that existing models don’t say enough about the capabilities graduates possess. Some favor enhancing the credential and others would like to eliminate it. Competency-based education is central to this debate, but so are such topics as badging, internships, experiential education, testing and more. The articles in this booklet examine some of these trends, with opinion pieces providing additional perspective. Inside Higher Ed will continue to cover these important topics, and welcomes your reactions to these pieces, and your ideas for future coverage. --The Editors [email protected] INSIDE HIGHER ED P3 Full Color, High Res PDF. 8.5x 5.5 booklet Content will need to be a work in progress and I will start posting on on Google Drive. I would like to see a layout and design for the 11/4 date with nal details plugged in before. Here is an outline of what I envi- sion for content/layout-- 1- Cover- Conference theme/logo/graphics. Should include date/location/ hashtag 2- Inside Cover - About the conference / goals of the conference #EveryStudent IS MORE THAN HER GRADES 3- page 1-Matt P Welcome Letter/Note 4- page 2- Ad / Promotion Page ( TBD) 5- page 3 - Agenda at a glance 6- page 4-6 - full agenda with session descriptions 7 - page 7 - Opening Keynote picture and Bio 8- page 8 - Ad / Promotion Page ( TBD) 9- page 9- Closing Keynote picture and Bio 10- page 10- PAB recognition page/ organizations/ pictures 11- page 11- ank you to attendees 12 - pages 12-14 - Notes pages "The education our students receive is more than just credit 13 - Inside back cover - 2015 UC announcement hours. Pairing an Experiential Transcript with an Academic Transcript illustrates the real education 14- backcover - match cover. with perforated ticket to underneath the numbers." University Registrar pull o for evening event — is is just a rough dra to help focus on the design and layout of these pieces - I am sure as content is created items will shi too. Partnering to make a difference for #EveryStudent. exchange.parchment.com EXTENDING THE CREDENTIAL NEWS A selection of articles from Inside Higher Ed and is the program's chair. “We went from pilot to permanent, immediately.” The certificate was part of phase one of an experiment by a handful of Washington’s 34 community and technical colleges. The next phase, which began in January 2015, is the creation of a fully online, competency-based associate MOVING AHEAD degree in business. The degree will be a transfer WITH COMPETENCY credential, meaning students should be able to move easily to four-year institutions. The courses will feature only free and open content. And Lumen Learning, an Oregon-based company, BY PAUL FAIN is designing the material to be adaptive, meaning it will respond to each student’s prior knowledge. Competency will replace grades in the degree track, with the equivalent of a B being the Eight Washington State community colleges will minimum mark students must offer an online, competency-based business meet. “They keep trying until they’re degree, as emerging form of higher education wins done,” said Connie Broughton, fans -- and some critics -- in the state. who works at the Washington State Board for Technical and he online, competency- Washington State decided to drop Community Colleges and directs T based certificate Bellevue its conventional online version. the project. College offered in 2014 was a hit “The train has left the station at Columbia Basin College, which with students. In fact, the certificate Bellevue,” said Suzanne Marks, is the system’s lead institution for in business software was so a faculty member who teaches the business degree, received popular that the two-year college in business technology systems approval from its regional INSIDE HIGHER ED P5 EXTENDING THE CREDENTIAL accreditor for the program. It has begun marketing the degree, which, although linked to the credit- hour standard, includes elements of self-pacing. The program will also feature assessments that students can take and pass without completing course material. Seven other two-year colleges in Washington, including Bellevue, plan to sign on and begin offering the competency-based associate degree, according to Broughton. A key reason for the degree’s creation was research showing that there are 1 million people in the state with some college credits and no degree. Broughton Bellevue College said many of those people need a flexible form of higher education to not always acknowledged the The nonprofit university in 2013 go back and earn their degree. new responsibilities competency- began working with 11 community “We saw that we need to serve based credentials create for colleges in 5 states -- including learners who are not with us now,” instructors. She also said faculty the 4 in Washington -- to help she said. “The goal is, eventually, members were concerned about those institutions design their own every college can do this.” how the programs "disaggregate" competency-based credentials in Washington’s two-year colleges the faculty role. They break apart information technology. The Bill & have joined more than 200 other the degree track with a canned Melinda Gates Foundation and the institutions around the country curriculum and modularized course U.S. Department of Labor chipped that are giving competency-based content, she said, which can be in funding for the project. education a whirl. However, some offered by a different college than WGU ran workshops in those faculty groups at the Washington the one where instructors work. five states to expose faculty and colleges have criticized the move. "It's a generic degree from administrators to the emerging form They said the competency-based another college," said Strickland. of higher education. Attendees credentials were created without "What we oppose is corporatization in Washington ranged from vice adequate faculty input, and that of the learning process." presidents to online instructors and the programs will create more work Tapping Expertise registrars. for faculty members. The sessions “started to get Karen Strickland, president The project in Washington the idea of competency-based of the American Federation of began with a hand from Western education into the cultural soup,” Teachers of Washington, a faculty Governors University, a pioneer said Rich Cummins, president of union, said administrators have in competency-based learning. Columbia Basin College. INSIDE HIGHER ED P6 EXTENDING THE CREDENTIAL Soon four colleges in the laborious, said Marks. But there the general education side of the state began offering short-term, was a payoff for instructors as well degree track. competency-based certificates in as students, she said. “It makes you Cummins said the program will business and I.T. pay more attention to instructional need about 400 students to break As part of those programs, design, your outcomes and your even. Other colleges can then join students take a pretest at the assessments.” by creating their own online portals beginning of each course to identify Other faculty members at for the degree track, which should their strengths and weaknesses. Bellevue were less enthusiastic. be fairly simple. They can use those results to And some have expressed concern “We don’t believe it’s going to move faster through material they about the college’s attempt to join fail,” he said. understand, earning credits when the Columbia Basin pilot group. A key innovation of the program, instructors deem the students Several signed a letter expressing said Cummins and others, is that competent.
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