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Network Chair

Terence Ma, PhD

Terence Ma is a trained anatomist and basic scientist. He presently serves as Professor and Chair of Terence Ma, Professor and Chair, Biomedical Sciences at Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine where he is developing innovative curricula for the new medical school. He has been a funded research scientist, faculty member, and Assistant and Associate Dean at allopathic (MD) and osteopathic (DO) schools. He has also served as Chief Information Officer at a health sciences university. His career has focused on the intersection between health sciences education and educational technologies, particularly how we use technologies to track students’ progress toward learning goals and program outcomes. He serves as Co-Chair of the Research Alignment Group of MedBiquitous and serves on the Competencies Working Group, the CAP Leadership & Governance Working Group, and CAP Data Standards Working Group. He is a member of the IEEE Standards Association and of the work groups on competency standards: IEEE P1484.20.2, P1484.20.3, integrated learner records (P1484.2), and adaptive instructional systems (P2247). He actively participates with the T3 Innovation Network’s pilot projects and with Data Standards United.

Charter & Meetings

The Open Competencies Network (OCN) collaborates across all T3 Networks and follows the (Current) T3 Guidelines Updated March 2022 (Deprecated) Pilot Period T3N² Guidelines (May 2021)

• OCN Network Charter
• Master Calendar
• Member Roster
• Workgroups:
  • Requirements Workgroup on Skills and Competencies Wikispace
  • Technical Advisory Workgroup Wikispace

As of May 2022, this Wikispace is the source or all meeting materials and running notes. Prior to may, the running notes Google Document is linked below.

Standing Items

1. Please mark yourself as present in the Roster. To be eligible to vote a participant must have attended at least two of the last four meetings, not including the current meeting.

2. Ensure you are familiar with the current T3 Network of Network Guidelines, in particular:

§5.5 Network of Networks Legal and Intellectual Property - “In particular, by discussing, distributing, or otherwise disclosing any content, materials, or other information (collectively “Disclosed Content”) through participation with the T3 Network, participants represent and warrant that: (i) they own all rights in and to the Disclosed Content, or, if the Disclosed Content is subject to third-party intellectual property rights, the participant has all necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to share the Disclosed Content; (ii) the participant is legally entitled to post the Disclosed Content, and (iii) the Disclosed Content does not violate any law. To the extent that any Disclosed Content is subject to any form of intellectual property or proprietary rights, by disclosure through participation with the T3 Network, the participant provides a license to the T3 Network and all participants for use of such Disclosed Content pursuant to the CC BY 4.0 Creation Commons license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The T3 Network’s policy is to comply fully and strictly with relevant international, national, and state antitrust laws.”

3. Meetings are recorded, recordings are made publicly available.

March 29, 2023

Meeting Archive

The March 29, 2023 Open Competencies Network Meeting discussed the following topics. The meeting's Google Slides, chat, video and audio recordings are saved in the 29-03-2023 Google Drive Folder. Meeting follow up is posted here.

Meeting Agenda

1. Complete the Standing Items
   • Mark yourself as "present" on the Roster
   • Review required reading from T3 Guidelines Section 5.5 (above).
2. Welcome and Housekeeping - Terence Ma, OC Network Chair
3. Summary of Accomplishments
   • Advancing Open Competencies Workgroup (AOCW) - Naomi Boyer, AOCW Chair and Jeanne Kitchens AOC Facilitator
     • Draft Framework for Competency Explorer: Practices, Policies and Governance Recommendations
   • Technical Advisory Workgroup (TAW)—Steve Gance, TAW Chair & Phil Barker, TAW Facilitator
   • Data Ecosystem Schema Mapper Tool Pilot Report
   • Competency Explorer Network
4. Open Competencies Network (OCN) - Terence Ma
   • Competency Explorer: 5-Star Open Competency Data
   • Online Decision Making Form for 5-Star Competency Data
   • What's Next

Next Steps

• Complete the Online Decision Making Form for 5-Star Competency Data by April 12th.

November 30, 2022

The November 30, 2022 Open Competencies Network Meeting discussed the following topics. The meeting's Google Slides, chat, video and audio recordings are saved in the 30-11-2022 Google Drive Folder. Meeting follow up is posted here.

Meeting Agenda

1. Complete the Standing Items
   • Mark yourself as "present" on the Roster
   • Review required reading from T3 Guidelines Section 5.5 (above).
2. Welcome and Housekeeping - Terence Ma, OCFC Network Chair
3. Advancing Open Competencies Workgroup (AOCW) - Naomi Boyer, AOCW Chair and Jeanne Kitchens AOC Facilitator
   • C3 Connecting Competency Communities Webinar Series
   • Current activity, drafting a Competency Explorer Framework for practices, policies and governance
     • Initiated ideas using Padlet
4. Technical Advisory Workgroup (TAW)—Steve Gance, RWSC Chair & Phil Barker, RWSC Facilitator
   • Data Ecosystem Schema Mapper Tool Pilot Update
   • TAW Activity: Drafting Use Cases for Potential Uses of DESM Outputs
   • Competency Explorer Development Update
5. Open Competencies Network (OCN) - Terence Ma
   • (DRAFT) 5 Star Competency Data
   • What Does Open Competency Data Mean?
     • U.S. Dept. of Labor Industry Competency Model examples of 5 star competency data: Automation Competency Model https://www.careeronestop.org/competencymodel/competencyframeworks.aspx published to the Credential Registry https://credentialfinder.org/competencyframework/1927/Automation_Competency_Model
6. Closing

Next Steps

1. Use the below linked Google Document to add your reactions:
   • Review and provide reactions to the (DRAFT) 5 Star Competency Data
   • Provide your reaction to "What does open competency data mean?" Provide your thoughts!

August 31, 2022

The August 31, 2022 OCFC Network Meeting discussed the following topics. The meeting's Google Slides, chat, video and audio recordings are saved in the 31-08-2022 Google Drive Folder. Meeting follow up is posted here.

Meeting Agenda

1. Complete the Standing Items
   • Mark yourself as "present" on the Roster
   • Review required reading from T3 Guidelines Section 5.5 (above).
2. Welcome and Housekeeping - Terence Ma, OCFC Network Chair
3. Advancing Open Competencies Workgroup (AOCW)(formerly Requirements Workgroup on Skills and Competencies - Naomi Boyer, AOCW Chair and Jeanne Kitchens AOC Facilitator
   1. Updated AOCW Charter
   2. C3 Connecting Competency Communities Webinar Series - Eric Shepherd, Project Lead
      1. Project Plan
      2. Registration Site
      3. Wiki and T3 Hub Pages
   3. Next steps
4. Technical Advisory Workgroup (TAW)—Steve Gance, RWSC Chair & Phil Barker, RWSC Facilitator
   • Use case analysisand list of features
   • Approved Competency Explorer Project Plan and next steps
   • Data Ecosystem Schema Mapper tool update
   • Next Steps
5. OCFC Network - Terence Ma
   • Draft explanation of “Competencies” umbrella term for OCFC Network.
   • Draft updates to OCFC Network Decision Making Process
   • Draft suggested changes to OCFC Network Charter
   • Next Steps and Closing

Next Steps

1. Review the following:
   1. Updated Open Competency Network Charter - Yellow highlighted sections have updates from the original Charter created during the pilot period that has ended.  
   2. New OCFC Competency Explainer - to be referenced from the OCN Charter.
   3. and revised T3 OCFC Decision Making Process - to update the existing process created in the pilot period.
2. Complete the Online Consensus Form in respect to the above three document no later than September 20, 2022.
3. Register for and share the information about the new C3 Connecting Competency Communities Webinar Series.

If you have any questions, please reach out to network facilitators Jeanne Kitchens and [Barker]. Thank you!

Meeting Presentation and Recordings

• Presentation Google Slides
• Chat, video and audio recordings are saved in the 31-08-2022 Google Drive Folder.

Other Referenced Materials

• T3 Hub https://www.t3networkhub.org/
• August 4, 2022 T3 Mid-Year Meeting
  • Skills-Based Hiring and Advancement Brief
  • Skills-Based Hiring and Advancement Project Report (Pre-Publication Release)
  • Skills-Based Hiring and Advancement Explainer Video
  • Speaker Presentation
• Advancing Open Competencies Workgroup Charter (Formerly Requirements Workgroup on Skills and Competencies)
  • Project Plan for the new  C3 Connecting Competency Communities Webinar Series
  • C3 Connecting Competency Communities Webinar Series
    • Registration site https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvduyqrDMiEtN6kugAWIv7By3eTn7Im-4q
    • C3 webinar series Project Plan
• Technical Advisory Group
  • Competency Explorer:
    • use case analysis on the wiki
    • list of features on the wiki
    • final project plan document
    • updated Draft TAW Charter
• OCFC Network
  • Draft Competency Explainer
  • Draft OCFC Network Decision-making Process
  • Draft Open Competencies Network Charter
  • Network Charter, Competency Explainer, and Decision-making Process Online Consensus Form

May 18, 2022

Members marked themselves as present Mark as “Present” in column G of the OCFC Network Roster.

The topics that follow were presented and discussed via the OCFC Network: May 19,2022 Meeting Presentation.

This meeting provided updates on:

1. T3 Guidelines and OCFC Network Charter -Terence Ma, Chair
   • T3 Guidelines were update March 2022.
   • OCFC Network Charter is up for review and feedback.
   • The T3 OCFC Network Wiki provides information about this network, its workgroups, and is the place to find shared materials.  https://wiki.t3networkhub.org/wiki/OCF_Collab_Network.
2. Requirements Workgroup on Skills - Naomi Boyer, Chair; Jeanne Kitchens, Facilitator
   • Met per the OCFC Calendar that will be updated during the June 2022 meeting.
     • Held 14 meetings: Sept. 22, 2021 through May 9, 2021.
   • Running agendas, materials, and recordings are maintained on the RWSC Wikispace OCF Collab Network:RWSC
   • Completed 38 competency search use cases and delivered them to the TAW.
   • Discussed and created a list of ideas for naming the OCFC search. Created a survey for the OCFC Network to contribute to search naming ideas.
   • Analyzed and discussed AI use cases for scaling competency data. Visit the AI Use Case Scoping: Discussion Resources Wikispace for all of this information.
   • Next Steps
     • Provide recommendations for T3 supporting AI use cases for scaling competency data.
     • Summarize search naming ideas to propose a name.
     • Review the RWSC Charter for potential updates.
     • Determine and work on next tranche of  objectives.
3. Competencies and Technical Advisory Group - Steve Gance, Chair; Phil Barker, Facilitator
   • Met per the OCFC Calendar
     • Held 10 meetings between September 2021 and May 11, 2022.
     • Finalized the Data Ecosystem Schema Mapper (DESM)Tool Project Plan and development of the DESM tool Configuration Dashboard is underway. 
     • Working on expanding upon the use cases developed by RWSC to define requirements for the OCFC Search Service Project plan to include piloting. Visit the Use Cases Wikispace to view the use cases OCF Collab Network:rwscUCanalysis.
     • Next Steps
       • Review the TAW Charter for potential updates.
       • Complete and pilot the DESM tool.
       • Complete the OCFC Search Service Use Cases/Requirements.
       • Develop the Search Service Project Plan.
       • Build off the existing search and pilot the Search Service.
4. Discussion: AI’s Role in Scaling Competency Data
   • Visit the AI use cases Wikispace AI Use Case Scoping: Discussion Resources.
   • Themes from the discussion, AI will play a vital role in scaling competency data that is important to all T3 Networks.  Each T3 network need reliable sources for competency data for numerous use cases and actors. Scaling Competency Alignments and Mapping
     • generating semantically-based competency alignments between competencies and other resources (e.g., credentials, assessments, learning opportunities, jobs, work roles, tasks, etc..) Scaling Competency Analysis
     • accelerating currency of competency trends
     • drilling down to micro or up to macro details such as geographic significance
     • protecting identity (companies and individuals)
     • providing measures of competency alignment
     • removing bias and increasing equity Scaling Competency Data Search Sources
     • extracting competencies with context from documents (e.g., competencies from job postings and job descriptions with the context of the job specialty)
     • improving cross-competency searching (e.g., automating alignment for competency disambiguation)
     • living representations of competencies (rather than static one-time information)
     • providing curated data for research and benchmarking

Next Steps:

1. New T3 Guidelines are available, take a look.
2. Complete the search name ideas survey.
3. Prior to the next OCFC Network meeting, we’ll provide suggestions for any potential OCFC Charter updates for member’s to review and provide feedback.
4. RWSC will collaborate across T3 Networks to develop a summary for T3 supporting the growth of AI solutions for scaling competency data.
5. Participate with the bi-monthly OCFC update meetings.  
   1. July 13, 2022  @ 10 am, PT / 11 am, MT / 12 pm CT / 1 pm, ET / 5 pm, GMT
   2. September 14, 2022  @ 10 am, PT / 11 am, MT / 12 pm CT / 1 pm, ET / 5 pm, GMT
   3. November 16, 2022  @ 10 am, PT / 11 am, MT / 12 pm CT / 1 pm, ET / 5 pm, GMT

Meeting Presentation and Recordings:

• Presentation
• Video, Audio, and Chat

Other Referenced Materials:

• OCFC RWSC Wikispace
• RWSC: Cataloged Competency Data Use Cases
• OCFC TAW WIkispace
• Data Ecosystem Schema Mapper Wikispace
• Data Ecosystem Schema Mapper: Configuration Dashboard Project Plan (Final Approved)
• TAW Competency Search Use Case Analysis Wiki
• AI Scoping for Supporting Scaling of Competency Data Wikispace

February 16, 2022

• Presentation
• Video
• Audio
• Chat
• Running Notes Google Document

December 2, 2021

• Presentation
• Video
• Running Notes Google Document

October 15, 2021

• Presentation
• Video
• Running Notes Google Document

August 5, 2021

• Presentation
• Running Notes Google Document