Curricula Review of E-Technology Career Clusters

Meeting # 1 Agenda – Feb 5, 2004

Miami Dade College

Miami, Florida

8:00 – 8:30Continental breakfast

8:30 – 8:40Introductions and meeting objectives

Meeting objectives:

  • Review project proposal
  • Review project objectives
  • Discuss current education and industry needs
  • Create committees and roles
  • Review project timeline and action plan
  • Review deliverables and target dates

8:40 – 10:00Review Original Project Proposal and Project Objectives

  • Refer to Tab-1 for Project Proposal
  • Refer to Tab-2 for Project Objectives
  • Addendum to original project proposal
  • Other Frameworks:(for complete list see Appendix D)

Web Programming Services (Denise Brown will explain briefly the proposed curriculum)

10:00 – 10:15Break

10:15 – 11:40Discuss current education and industry needs

  • Identify jobs for which industry needs trained workers
  • Identify areas where workers are lacking competency
  • Technical Skills
  • Non-Technical Skills
  • Review Soft Skills Survey (See Appendix B)
  • Identify limitations for workers or company getting the appropriate training
  • Discuss existing curricula that educational institutions are using to provide workforce training in the targeted programs
  • Discuss current long distance learning programs
  • Accelerated Workforce training in the specified areas

11:40– 12:00Identify committees and roles

  • Curriculum

Information and Internet Technologies Committee

Colleges & Universities

Information Technology

Information Studies

Secondary

Academy of Information Technology

Community Colleges

Internet Services Technology

Web Programming Services

E-Business/E-Commerce/Databases

Colleges & Universities

E-Business Tracks

Secondary

Academy of Database and Programming Essentials

Community Colleges

IT Project Management

Database Technology

Database/E-Commerce Security

Digital Media

Colleges & Universities

Digital Arts/Digital Media

Graphic Design

Graphic Communications

Postsecondary vocational

Digital Design

Printing and Graphic Arts

Multimedia Design

New Media Technology

Web Design Services

Digital Printing Technology

Secondary

Digital Design

Web Design Services

New Media Technology

Community Colleges

Digital Media/Multimedia Technology

Digital Television and Media Production

Graphic Arts Technology

Graphics Technology

  • Reading Skills
  • Best Practices/ Academic Excellence
  • Marketing Initiatives/ Budget Implementation

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:30Breakout groups.

The following items need to be addressed by the committees:

(Refer to Refer to Tab-2 Project Objectives)

Academic committees:

  • Technical competencies
  • Academic Requirements
  • Articulation Agreements
  • Soft Workplace skills
  • Distance Programs
  • Accelerated Workforce Education
  • Instructor qualifications
  • Hardware and software requirements

Industry committees:

  • Technical competencies
  • Academic Requirements
  • Soft Workplace skills
  • Needs for distance learning
  • Needs for accelerated Workforce Education

Other committees:

  • Reading Skills
  • Best Practices/ Academic Excellence
  • Marketing Initiatives/ Budget Implementation

2:30 – 2:45Break

2:45 – 3:45Group reports back to consortium

1)Results from discussion

  • Soft Workplace skills
  • What are the technical competencies
  • Instructor qualifications
  • What are the existing articulation agreements
  • Current long distance programs
  • What are the instructor qualifications for each program
  • Hardware and software requirements
  • Academic Requirements
  • Needs for distance learning
  • Needs for accelerated Workforce Education
  • Reading Skills
  • Best Practices/ Academic Excellence
  • Marketing Initiatives/ Budget Implementation

2) Committee action plan

3:45 – 4:30Summary, action plan and deliverables