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Transform Learning Process Working Group
Co-Chairs | Project Teams | Become a Member | Get Engaged | Meeting Information
Focus:
This Working Group will focus on the NICE Strategic Plan goal to Transform Learning to Build and Sustain a Diverse and Skilled Workforce. The group will conduct an ongoing environmental scan of programs, projects, and initiatives related to this strategic plan’s goals and objectives to assess the scope and sufficiency of efforts. The group will also identify gaps where more attention and effort is needed. The group will identify strategies and tactics to implement the corresponding objectives to this goal. The group will also develop corresponding metrics to measure progress and success. Transform Learning Process Working Group charter coming soon.
This is a new working group established under the NICE Community Coordinating Council. Working group co-chairs and meeting schedules are provided below. Working Group charter will be established soon.
This group will focus on the following NICE Strategic Plan goal and objectives:
Goal: Transform Learning to Build and Sustain a Diverse and Skilled Workforce
Objectives:
- Foster proven learning methods and experiences shown to effectively build and sustain a diverse, inclusive, and skilled cybersecurity workforce
- Advocate for multidisciplinary approaches that integrate cybersecurity across varied curricula and support diverse learners from a variety of backgrounds and experiences
- Improve the quality and availability of credentials (e.g., diplomas, degrees, certificates, certifications, badges) that validate competencies
- Facilitate increased use of performance-based assessments to measure competencies and the capability to perform NICE Framework tasks
- Encourage the use of Learning and Employment Records to document and communicate skills between learners, employers, and education and training providers
- Champion the development and recognition of teachers, faculty, and instructors as part of the in-demand workforce
Co-Chairs
Richard Spires
Principal
Richard A. Spires Consulting
Dr. Donna Schaeffer
Professor
School of Technology and Innovation
Marymount University
NICE Program Office staff liaison: Rodney Petersen, NICE Director
Project Teams
Project Teams will execute upon items contained in the Implementation Plan for the NICE Strategic Plan. Project Teams are expected to have a 6 month duration with deliverables due by the Summer of 2022.
Improve the Quality and Availability of Cybersecurity Credentials Project Team
This project team will seek to implement Objective 2.3 to “improve the quality and availability of credentials (e.g., diplomas, degrees, certificates, certifications, badges) that validate competencies.”
Project Leads: Nancy Austin and Jeremy Rabson
To join, send an e-mail to NICECredentials+subscribe [at] list.nist.gov.
Incorporating Cybersecurity Into A Public Service Education Project Team
This project team will seek to implement Objective 2.2 to “advocate for multidisciplinary approaches that integrate cybersecurity across varied curricula that support diverse learners from a variety of backgrounds and experiences.” View project charter.
Project Leads: Andre Artz, Jenee Saunders, and Randy Trzeciak
To join, send an e-mail to NICEPublicServiceEducation+subscribe [at] list.nist.gov.
Become a member
Members of this Working Group are part of the broader NICE Community Coordinating Council and will be added to it automatically. Google Groups is used for this group as a resource for communication.
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