TAACCCT Highlights: Instructional Design Part II

Individualized Learning with Performance-Based Objectives

Transitioning to a competency-based approach with its Welding Program, Henry Ford College is giving students control of their education. 

Institutional Policy in Support of Open Initiatives

 Although the video doesn’t actually mention TAACCCT, Tidewater Community College is the lead college for the Virginia RETHINKS Health Sciences Education consortium and they used TAACCCT funds to develop the Z-degree program that is discussed in the video. 

Open at Scale: Lesson Learned in the TAACCCT Program

This segment spotlights the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) Grant Program as a prime case of OER policy implementation on a national scale.

Performance-Based Objectives Transform Welding Program

The use of Performance-Based Objectives (PBOs) in the Welding Program at Henry Ford College is helping ensure students can successfully perform the skills today's employers need.

TAACCCT Standouts

Profiles 9 TAACCCT consortiums through infographics, video interviews and written vignettes. All written pieces and videos include discussion of the value of OER, how TAACCCT grantees have contributed and how students are impacted by its use.

TAACCCT Standouts: NATIONAL STEM CONSORTIUM

Student-centered approach that include competency-based instruction in programs designed to be completed within a year. Discussed in an interview and in written profile.

TAACCCT Standouts: Partnership for Accelerated Learning through Engagement, Visualization & Simulation (PAVES Alabama consortium)

 Interview with grant staff discussing prior learning assessment. 

A User’s Manual for Awarding College Credit for Military Training

PM Peg Caliendo describes how the CASE TAACCCT grant developed process and procedures for awarding college credit for military training.

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• Resource Publication Date: 2017
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