Dr. Kannan Sivaprakasam, Chemistry and Dr. Plamen Miltenoff, Library reflect on their findings during a MinnState grant on microcredentialing

1. Digital Badging
and
Microcredentialing
Kannan Sivaprakasam
Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry
Plamen Miltenoff
University Library

2. Grant Team
Kannan Sivaprakasam (PI)
Plamen Miltenoff (co-PI)
Gail Ruhland (co-PI)
Melanie Guentzel (co-PI)
Eugenia Paulus (co-PI, North Hennepin Community College)
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Thanks to Minnesota State for funding
Special thanks to Stephen Kelly

3. Plan
Who we are
What is microcredentialing and why we seek to implement
Challenges
Career Preparation and use of modern means to prepare and promote
Value in cross-departmental use of microcredentialing
Value for the profession
Summary
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4. Challenges
• Keep the curriculum up-to-date
• Collaboration – across the
department/institution/industry
• Offer multiple electives
• Organically develop, market a new
course/program
• Revenue stream
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Role of
digital
badges in
higher
landscape
Facilitate
students
career
preparednes
s
Collaboration
among
educators
Diversity
and student
success
Organic way to
launch new
courses/progra
m
Enrich
curriculum

5. Career Preparation
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• CHEM 491 (Credits – 2) – Senior Thesis Students
• Student Success: An opportunity for collaboration across members of
SCSU Department of Chemistry, SCSU Career Services and Boston
Scientific to support to better prepare SCSU senior students in a
competitive job market.
• Strong and polished resume is the first critical step in any career
preparation process and it can open a variety opportunities for the students.

6. Scheme of Library Badges
to receive
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7. Library
badges
received
by students
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8. Video tutorial library badges
• https://mediaspace.minnst
ate.edu/media/microcrede
ntialing+%28badges%29+
explianed-
+February+5th+2020%2C
+11A32A45+am/1_zk2mr9
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• https://youtu.be/
Svk0F10anKA
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9. Microcredentialing
• The interchangeable badges
• Across courses
• Across departments
• Across institutions
• Across the industry
• The structure of micro credentials
• The role of faculty
• The role of the administrative process
• The role of the industry
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10. American Chemical Society (ACS) –
accredited program
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DUCK –
Diagnostic of
Undergraduate
Chemistry
Knowledge
• Student
success/motivation
• Unlike ACT / SAT/
GRE – exams, the
scores of these
exams are not
public

11. Credly and D2L Badges
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12. Currently…
Course Digital
Badges
Total
number of
eligible
students
Total number of
qualified students
SCSU CHEM 491 – Senior
Thesis*
Career
Prep
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SCSU CHEM 491 – Senior
Thesis
ACS DUCK
Exam
12 4a
(National norm, mean =
31/60)
SCSU CHEM 491 – Senior
Thesis*
Library
badges
12 2b
SCSU CHEM 210 –
General Chemistry I
ACS Final
Exam
42 23c
(National norm, mean =
39/70)
NHCC CHEM 2062 –
Organic Chemistry II
ACS Final
Examd
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*- collaborative digital badges
a-number of students with scores
above 31/60
b-since the badges were introduced
late in Nov (Nov-18) during the fall
2019, not many student had the time
to
complete the badges. The last day of
classes for the senior students was
Dec. 6th.
c-number of students with scores
above 39/70
d-is to be undertaken in spring 2020.

13. Directions to follow
• Establish a standard process to award digital badges
• Get External Advisor Board Feedback
• Create a community of digital badgers
• Credit/fee-based digital badges
• Create a database
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14. Contact and Q&A
• Kannan Sivaprakasam
(ksivaprakasam@stcloudstate.edu )
https://www.stcloudstate.edu/chemistry/faculty-
staff.aspx
• Plamen Miltenoff (pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu )
http://web.stcloudstate.edu/
pmiltenoff/faculty
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