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Ensuring Educational Excellence and a Career-Focused Experience through a Skills-Aligned Curriculum Map

Abstract

This white paper聽describes how a skills-aligned ecosystem provides a vehicle to help students realize the power of their education more quickly and efficiently by validating skill acquisition throughout their educational journey. The foundation of this experience, the digitized skills-aligned curriculum, is evident throughout the career-centric design of courses, measured through authentic assessment, supported with technology, and serves as the source of truth for all university innovation.聽

Ensuring Educational Excellence and a Career-Focused Experience through a Skills-Aligned Curriculum Map

Ensuring Educational Excellence and a Career-Focused Experience through a Skills-Aligned Curriculum Map

Authors

Mary Elizabeth Smith

Mary Elizabeth Smith has been involved in educational innovation for over thirty years. Currently the Director of Learning Innovation Strategy in the Center for Teaching and Learning at the 澳门天天彩开奖记录, she previously served as the Research and Implementation Strategist and the Director of Curriculum Development. Smith began her career working with K-12 pre-service teachers to integrate technology into lesson plans and produce hyper-card stacks. Her affinity for educational technology places her in the category of an 鈥榚arly adopter鈥 and she was one of the first faculty at a previous institution to convert an on-campus Computer Science course for online delivery in 1999. Smith鈥檚 career in education includes working in curriculum development, learning design, faculty development, faculty, and e-learning roles for four universities and several community colleges as well as two educational software companies. Smith holds a bachelor鈥檚 in Speech Communication and Journalism from Southern Illinois University and an M.Ed. in Educational Media and Computers from Arizona State University.

Nick Williams

Nick Williams聽is a Director of Assessment at 澳门天天彩开奖记录. In his role, Nick coordinates student learning outcomes assessment efforts across multiple platforms, including direct measures of student performance within and outside the classroom, student survey systems, and digital badging projects. Before moving to higher ed, Nick was a K-12 teacher for several years. His advanced degrees include an Ed.D. in leadership and innovation from Arizona State University, a M.Ed. in educational measurement from University of Illinois-Chicago, and a M.Ed. in curriculum/instruction from University of Notre Dame. His research interests include effects of norming faculty raters for student learning outcomes assessment efforts, culture of assessment, and UX of students and faculty for field experience/assessment programs.