Thursday, February 27, half day*
12 – 1:30 p.m.Welcome & lunch
2 p.m.Panel session 1: Establishing the context: What’s the opportunity and urgency in BC?
- Jacqueline Storen, Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills
- Loc Dao, DigiBC
- Chad Doerksen, Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills
3 p.m.Speaker session 1: Incremental Credentialing & the Importance of Recognition
- Nan Travers, SUNY Empire State University | Incremental Credentialing & the Importance of Recognition
- Terry Dillon, Skills Development Scotland | Competency Alignment in the Scottish Context
4 p.m.Speaker session 2: Skills and performance in the workplace (HINT: more than courses)
- Don Presant, Learning Agents
- David Porter, DP Associates
5 p.m.Social activity – Ventura Room
Friday, February 28, all day*
8:30 a.m.Coffee & Welcome
9 a.m.Speaker Session 3: The Messy Middle
- Margo Griffith, Edalex | Developing the Blueprint for Success – Data Plumbing and Your Microcredential Strategy: Implementation, Scale and Sustainability
- Wendy Palmer, Lifelong Learning Practice | The Messy Middle: Lessons from the Australian context
10 a.m.Break
10:15 a.m.Speaker Session 4: What’s in it for industry?
- Katie Fitzmaurice, Invest Vancouver
11:30 a.m.Speaker Session 5: Responding to Community Needs
- Ashleigh Presenger, Ontario Northern First Nations Health Authority | Using micro credentials to support and acknowledge other Ways of Knowing
- Susan Forseille, Thompsons River University | Recognition with Indigenous Communities
12:30 p.m.Lunch
1:30 p.m.Speaker Session 6: Inclusion and Recognition at Scale
- Tom Farrelly, MTU/N-TUTORR | Enabling micro-credential provision in the technological university sector
- Peter Scott, Commonwealth of Learning | Towards Universal Credit in the Commonwealth: Micros and Recognition at Scale
2:30 p.m.Synthesizing Discussions into Action
3:45 p.m.Concluding remarks
4:30 p.m.Symposium ends
*Subject to change