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MATTHEW MORIN: I'm really
excited about the ACES program.

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ACES stands for
academic, community,

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and employability skills.

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The ACES program definitely
will help students get jobs.

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There's no question about that.

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Our main focus with
the ACES program

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is to make visible all
of the learning that

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happens in the
classroom that students

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do with their faculty
that will help them

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in their professional
careers and bring it out

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at the point of
competency demonstration

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so that when a student
does an assignment that,

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that assignment immediately
can be recognized

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in the form of a
digital micro credential

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that, that student can put
on their LinkedIn account.

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They can put it on their resume.

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A micro credential
is recognition

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of learning that occurs
before the final degree, which

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means that a student
can see their progress

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either within a class or
after a series of classes.

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Whereas normally students
only get something

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from their college
experience when

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they complete their degree.

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So what we're doing is
we're showing demonstration

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of skills of mastery of
some kind of accomplishment

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for the student before they
get to that actual degree.

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In our case, we've termed
them tokens and badges,

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and there's 40 different
tokens that a student can earn.

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And after a student earns
four tokens in any skill area,

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then they earn the master
skill badge for that area.

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But all of these are
micro credentials.

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The skills used in
the ACES framework

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were based on
extensive research done

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across the country about
what employers value most

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from students after they
graduate, communication,

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collaboration, entrepreneurial,
mindset, empathy,

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digital fluency,
and some others.

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SHANNON JESSEN: The
digital framework

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allows us to be responsive
to evolving needs

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in the community.

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So as our employer's
needs change,

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we can also change
the digital ecosystem

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and keep our students
skills current

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and also provide that
service to the community.

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MATTHEW MORIN: What faculty
love about this program

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is that in less
than 5 minutes they

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can connect the assignments
that they already

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have in Canvas to these
skills so that students

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can earn the tokens and
badges for what they learn.

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SHANNON JESSEN: And a
simple click of a button

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allows them to add that
outcome to the rubric,

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and the students can see
it as well as the faculty.

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And then when the faculty
grade the assignment,

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they grade the student's
performance on that outcome.

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How fun is it to just be
able to click on your portal

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and see all of these skills that
have beautiful colors attached

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to them and see these pathways,
right, that are directly

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connected to your learning?

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They provide a really clear
and concrete connection

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between the assignments
that they're

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completing in their
courses and the skills

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that they are building for
their future academic and career

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pathways.

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LISA MALONEY: Currently I am
pursuing my associate's degree

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in law, public policy,
and society for transfer.

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My goal is to go to
Laverne University

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and obtain my bachelor's and
then go on to law school.

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And ultimately,
my career dream is

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to become a district attorney.

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So for the first
time last night,

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I got badges from my
previous professors.

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And I'm hoping
that with your help

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that I can continue to improve
on these and be successful.

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SHANNON JESSEN: All right.

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LISA MALONEY: So I've
mastered one so far already,

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but I have a total of 13
that I'm now working on.

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So I've actually been invited to
another pathway for resilience,

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so that means I've
started this badge.

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And I'm 25% complete.

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SHANNON JESSEN: How do
you think resilience plays

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into your plans to be
a district attorney?

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LISA MALONEY: Oh
my goodness, you

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can't give up no matter what.

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This past semester my
mom was really sick

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and was in the
hospital, and I still

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managed to get all
of my work done.

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And I still managed
to do everything

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right from in the
hospital room with her.

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So as long as you
never give up and you

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keep on trying and
pursuing things,

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your resilience is going to
pay off at the end of the day.

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SHANNON JESSEN: So what happens
when you click from here

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when you click my badges?

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LISA MALONEY: So this
is going to take me

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to all of my badges
that I've earned so far

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and that I'm working
on, which was a--

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SHANNON JESSEN: You have a lot.

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LISA MALONEY: --great
surprise I have 13 so far.

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And I was very grateful
because at the end of the day,

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these are your
professors recognizing

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the work that you've
done and recognizing you.

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And your hard work and
dedication is what earned this.

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You can then speak to that.

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And you're like I can do
this, and I can speak to this.

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And I absolutely did this.

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And it just motivates you to
just want to do even more.

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So as soon as I got them, I
wanted to shout to the world

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that I got them.

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And I was wondering how I could
go about actually doing that.

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So I went to the social tab, and
it said add this to my profile

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on LinkedIn.

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And under my licenses
and certifications,

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I now have 13 badges that
Chaffey College has given

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me to show my proficiency.

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It was just an overwhelming
sense of accomplishment

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and achievement.

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Just having that
overall picture window

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into what it is that
you can bring to a table

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as far as your skill sets
out in the real world,

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it's an invaluable tool.

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MATTHEW MORIN: So
in our first year,

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we've awarded over
6,500 badges, 6,500.

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SHANNON JESSEN: We're
changing the emphasis

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so that the focus is now on
the experiential learning

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and the skills that the
students are developing

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during their course of study.

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MATTHEW MORIN: The ACES
program for faculty

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will make visible the great
teaching and learning of skills

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that they've always been
doing but they've never

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been able to show
the world in any kind

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of transparent digital format.

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SHANNON JESSEN: I feel
like my students really

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do understand why we're
doing these assignments,

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what skills they are expected
to get out of the assignments.

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And it gives them that
sense that this assignment

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isn't just a academic
thing they're

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doing that's far removed
from their future career

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but rather that it has some
connection to the types

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of skills that they're
going to be expected

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to have when they move on in
their future program of study.

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