ATE Impacts 2020-2021

CTC's Bill Model Provides Process for Innovation At the request of its national Business Industry Leadership Team (BILT), CTC developed an employer-led course that uses hybrid cloud business problems to teach high-demand technical and employability skills. At the BILT's suggestion CTC staffers also developed e-portfolio exercises for existing IT courses. In fall 2019, 62 students at six colleges were testing the e-portfolios' value for demonstrating expertise at job interviews. CTC's Convergence College Network (CCN), a community of practice, continues to gather information about institutional challenges to implementation of the "BILT model" in order to formulate strategies to overcome them. CTC developed the BILT and promotes its use for engaging business leaders as co-leaders of academic programs through quarterly meetings and annual job skills updates. CTC has disseminated information about the BILT model - Students practice wireless networking skills in a CTC-supported cloud classroom lab. to more than 1,000 people at 22 education conferences since 2015. Colleges are now using BILTs to strengthen existing programs, to develop new programs, or to align curricula with workforce needs. CTC Working Connections Outcomes 2016-2018 BILT adopters include Maricopa Community College (AZ); Northeast Iowa Community College; Luzerne County Community College (PA); Central Community College (NE); and Forsyth Technical Community College (NC). Courses Impacted New Programs Created Working Connections professional development events have directly influenced information technology classroom instruction and creation of new programs. 73