Schedule

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