Displaying Transformation to the World: Global Learning Micro-credentials and Digital Badges
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Measuring Effectiveness
| Wednesday, May 29, 2019 |
| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM |
| HUM 1044 |
Speaker
Dr. Susan Jagendorf-Sobierajski
Executive Director
SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill
Displaying Transformation to the World: Global Learning Micro-credentials and Digital Badges
9:30 AM - 10:00 AMFull Abstract
The Displaying Transformation to the World: Global Learning Micro-credentials and Digital Badges project seeks to map standards of global learning competencies to a systematic and rigorous process and
infrastructure for issuing micro-credentials and digital badges. Global learning deepens students’ knowledge of interconnectedness of issues, trends, relationships, and systems across the globe. Equipping students with global learning competencies is a critical need in today's world. Students who can think critically about how their own lives and local
communities are connected to the wider world are poised to be more effective contributors to society.
Led by SUNY Cobleskill, a consortium of colleges and universities of the SUNY Council on International Education (CIE), together with the Office of Global Affairs (OGA) and the Center for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL Center), have proposed a micro-credential and digital badge program to recognize and empower students who have achieved global learning competencies. The team
has built on the 2013 IITG TIER III Project International Cross-Cultural Experiential Learning Evaluation Toolkit summarized below:
Original assessments were created to measure holistic thinking and knowledge of global issues. Faculty measured attainment of student learning outcomes through classroom assignments. To measure
cross-cultural skills, an existing tool for the workplace was modified. Assessment of student learning demonstrated an increased knowledge of global issues and strengthened holistic thinking
skills, but did not show evidence of changes in cross-cultural skills. Therefore, it was determined that the existing tools did not adequately measure the attainment of cross-cultural skills in the academic context. To address this gap, the project investigators developed a new assessment tool to measure the attainment of international cross-cultural skills from curriculum initiatives, Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) courses, education abroad, and other efforts to internationalize the curriculum. As a result of this work, an assessment rubric, activity guide, faculty guide, technology guide, and other resources are housed on a SUNY commons website
(http://www.crossculturetoolkit.org/).
infrastructure for issuing micro-credentials and digital badges. Global learning deepens students’ knowledge of interconnectedness of issues, trends, relationships, and systems across the globe. Equipping students with global learning competencies is a critical need in today's world. Students who can think critically about how their own lives and local
communities are connected to the wider world are poised to be more effective contributors to society.
Led by SUNY Cobleskill, a consortium of colleges and universities of the SUNY Council on International Education (CIE), together with the Office of Global Affairs (OGA) and the Center for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL Center), have proposed a micro-credential and digital badge program to recognize and empower students who have achieved global learning competencies. The team
has built on the 2013 IITG TIER III Project International Cross-Cultural Experiential Learning Evaluation Toolkit summarized below:
Original assessments were created to measure holistic thinking and knowledge of global issues. Faculty measured attainment of student learning outcomes through classroom assignments. To measure
cross-cultural skills, an existing tool for the workplace was modified. Assessment of student learning demonstrated an increased knowledge of global issues and strengthened holistic thinking
skills, but did not show evidence of changes in cross-cultural skills. Therefore, it was determined that the existing tools did not adequately measure the attainment of cross-cultural skills in the academic context. To address this gap, the project investigators developed a new assessment tool to measure the attainment of international cross-cultural skills from curriculum initiatives, Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) courses, education abroad, and other efforts to internationalize the curriculum. As a result of this work, an assessment rubric, activity guide, faculty guide, technology guide, and other resources are housed on a SUNY commons website
(http://www.crossculturetoolkit.org/).
