Discussion at MinnState SharkTank grant opening

1. Digital Badging and
Microcredentialing
Kannan Sivaprakasam (SCSU)
Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry
Plamen Miltenoff (SCSU)
University Library
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Eugenia Paulus (NHCC)
Department of Chemistry

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

3. 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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Roles of
digital
badges in
higher Ed
Student
career
preparedness
Launch new
courses/programs
Collaboration
across
educators
Diversity and
Student success
Enrich
curriculum

4. Administrative Support
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• Minnstate support –
Shark Tank Innovation –
Stephen Kelly
• SCSU President Wacker –
• Fall 2020 Convocation
• SCSU COSE – 2022 Strategic plan
• https://www.stcloudstate.edu/cose/about-college/cose-cspr.pdf

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.
Resume reviewed
by Kannan
Resume reviewed
by Andrew (SCSU
Career Services)
Resume reviewed
by Boston
Scientific
Recruiter
Award of Career
Prep Digital
Badge

6. Scheme of Library Badges to receive
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7. Library badges received
by students
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8. 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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9. 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

10. Credly and D2L Badges
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11. So far…
Course Digital Badges Total number of eligible students Total number of qualified
students
SCSU CHEM 491 – Senior Thesis* Career Prep 12 11
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 future

12. 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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13. Contact and Q&A
Kannan Sivaprakasam
ksivaprakasam@stcloudstate.edu
Plamen Miltenoff
pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu
Eugenia Paulus
Eugenia.Paulus@nhcc.edu
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