Using Twitter to enhance student engagement and learning. Agenda Faculty best practices in building a Twitter presence Tweet frequency, timing, and content Build your personal learning network Twitter tools Preparing your course Student accounts Informing students on privacy and safety Creating course lists Facilitating peer communication In-class strategies Out of class uses Increasing student-faculty engagement Learning activity case studies
Do you have the clarity you need to update your Title IX grievance procedures? Agenda Grievance Procedures Decoded A checklist for the Dear Colleague Letter’s “musts,†“shoulds,†and “prohibitions†Interpreting the 2014 updates One size DOES NOT fit all Case Studies How does this impact your day-to-day? Institutional examples and application What Next? Action steps to get you started today Ongoing compliance efforts Final Q&A
Improve degree completion rates by redesigning your developmental courses. Agenda Introduction Why Austin Peay redesigned their developmental courses Why institutions are redesigning developmental courses in general Utilizing data to set goals and measure the success of your redesign Redesigning developmental courses using the Linked Workshop model Outline of the basic framework of the SLA/Linked Workshop model using one course as an example Applying the framework to different subject areas Instructor requirements and response in the various subject areas Logistical considerations (recruiting students, training, paying, expectations, role, etc.) Why does it work? Analysis and research that supports this approach Q&A
Facilitating successful online courses can be major time drains for instructors if not approached correctly. As the number of online courses that each faculty member is asked to facilitate increases, effectively managing and maintaining course quality becomes difficult. Utilizing best practices for the design, management, and facilitation of online courses will improve instructors’ capacity to deliver high quality programs in an efficient manner. Join our expert instructor for an online training to learn innovative approaches for efficiently managing your course workload in online instruction. We will discuss time efficient strategies for: Designing courses and assignments Providing personalized student feedback Facilitating productive discussion boards Integrating just-in-time course improvements
Can you describe your institution as nimble? Do you offer programs that meet the needs of adult learners? Does your institution effectively use online education to reach non-traditional learners? Do you offer practitioner-oriented programs? Proprietary institutions have successes we can learn from. Use the insights from an instructor that has experienced both sides of the fence. Take lessons learned from the for-profit sector to enhance your program’s competitiveness, student success, and persistence. J. Joseph Hoey will share best practices and case studies to illustrate innovations often used by the proprietary marketplace that are directly applicable to traditional institutions. Join us to learn models that you can incorporate into the way education is delivered at your institution. We will examine: Building education around the student Learning outcomes that connect learners and the workplace Flexible course and program offerings Steps to support students towards matriculation The role of prior learning assessment
Students who are provisionally admitted to college or otherwise considered “at-risk” often face unique academic, social, or emotional challenges during their transition. Summer bridge programs aim to address these transitional issues through support and remediation. The challenge is knowing which elements to prioritize and what works at your institution. Are you doing enough to create a sense of student connection on your campus for success into their second year and beyond? Join us online to learn how your institution can take a strategic approach to summer bridge programs and at-risk student success. We focus on three key components of summer bridge programs and identify effective strategies for measuring student engagement and campus connection. Our expert faculty showcases the SOAR program at University of Central Florida, a summer bridge program that boasts student retention rates of 90%.
Academic coaching is a powerful retention tool for at-risk, probationary, international, and other critical student populations. Coaching allows students to have one-on-one conversations with professionals who help them set academic goals and fill any gaps that exist between academic advising, tutoring, career services, and counseling. An in-house academic coaching model is a cost-effective approach to serving high-risk student groups. Join us online to explore two success-driven approaches to academic coaching. Highlighting the coaching program at the Florida State University, our expert instructor will share the steps for building, evaluating, and improving an academic coaching model on your campus.
International students studying in North America are often criticized for excessive plagiarism, with faculty wringing their hands in frustration. There are a number of legitimate reasons why students may be unable to properly cite sources in their writing. Faculty need to understand international students’ confusion, and institutions must support faculty with effective training and policy to help students become better writers. Join us to learn important considerations for how international students attribute authorship differently as well as how to implement a proper training program at your institution. While the focus of this program is to support international students, the fundamentals of proper citation in writing can be applied to all student populations.
The cost disease facing many institutions is made even more challenging in the arena of academic programs. The notion of “mission creep” continues to plague institutions already facing structural deficits, and many institutions are struggling to justify academic program realignment to faculty. What is needed is a metric-driven lens to view programs as promoting or detracting from academic mission and overall competitive position. Join us for a webcast that will provide your institution with the keys to developing academic program cost and demand metrics. These metrics can help your institution control cost and subsequently improve mission quality and reputation among peer institutions.
Your FERPA policies and procedures should be reviewed, updated, and communicated regularly to ensure compliance and to assist your campus in the event of a potential violation. Yet, managing this process and communicating updates effectively to the campus community can be overwhelming, especially when changes to the regulations occur. Join us online to help ensure your FERPA documentation and practices are sound. You will leave with ideas for seven focus areas for your audit, as well as the key questions to ask within each area. Near the end of the training, we will review sample documents in use on some campuses and offer tips on how to improve them.
Help your students save on textbook costs by implementing open educational resources in your courses. Agenda 8 Steps to implementing Open Educational Resources Tasking your key stakeholders: Champions, chairs, faculty, and librarians Evaluating and selecting OER providers Managing course design and objectives Improving faculty adoption Exploring financial considerations Managing the student experience Measuring and assessing the impact: Case studies Scaling and promoting OER across your program
Campuses continue to struggle with coordinating and solving campus-wide retention and enrollment challenges. Yet, the University of Tennessee used a problem-solving approach to pull together key partners to address an enrollment challenge. This approach worked so well that they have continued to meet to solve enrollment and retention challenges across campus, such as: Understanding why students leave Increasing low-income student success Balancing enrollment targets with financial goals. Join us to explore an alternative approach to solving enrollment and retention challenges. Using a case-study framework, this event will walk you through several different enrollment and retention challenges to demonstrate how your campus can make a case for rethinking key collaborations, success goals, and decision-making.
A strong and diversified alumni giving pipeline can increase your annual giving numbers and help your shop insulate itself from future fundraising downturns. One way to diversify your annual giving portfolio is to create an affinity-based giving circles program, which helps to alleviate donors’ doubts about unrestricted giving. Join us online to consider a new model for growing and retaining your alumni donors. You will be introduced to Illinois Wesleyan University’s “giving circles” model, which upon its launch saw a 300% increase in participation and converted 15% of participants from young alumni non-donors. Along with a comprehensive program overview, you will learn tactics for: Selecting and training program “influencers” Integrating the program into your current efforts Building buy-in for the program Monitoring progress Scaling the program for your institution
Academic advising is an effective process to improve student success and completion. However, making the connection between advising and retention eludes many administrators who do not have the comprehensive data they need to demonstrate this connection. To comprehensively evaluate the success of academic advising, you must examine: Programmatic outcomes Student learning outcomes Return on investment Join us online to explore three different methods of evaluating academic advising, as well as the changes that can result based on your assessment. Using a case-study approach, this event will walk you through several different assessment examples to demonstrate how your campus can make a case for improvements in academic advising.
Capital campaigns can be a source of excitement for the campus community, but can also be a source of questions, particularly from student organizations and leaders. How do campaign priorities get selected? Are tuition dollars being used to fund the campaign? Where is the campaign money coming from? Join us online to learn how the University of Michigan has strategically integrated student involvement in their capital campaign with the use of an official student campaign committee. From identifying, recruiting, and selecting students for the committee, to training them and empowering them to assist with campaign work, our expert instructors share a comprehensive case study that will leave you equipped to better involve and educate students on your campus.
Are you meeting the customer service needs of your adult students? Agenda Identifying adult students on your campus Communication essentials: Accurate and timely information Maintaining “high touch†service delivery Simple changes to your in-person service Considerations for online touchpoints Identifying metrics for success Assessing and reporting your customer service efforts Aligning your efforts with the institution’s mission and vision Summative and formative reporting Wrap-up and final Q&A
Improve your student recruitment efforts by optimizing your website for mobile devices. Agenda Audience needs and expectations: Now and into the future Identifying the web design tools Developing strategies to meet your goals: Reaching potential students Developing admissions functionality Measurement and analytics Prioritizing staff and resources Making the pitch for funding
Instructional designers and course developers are facing new design challenges amid increased demand for high-quality blended courses and programs. When executed properly, blended courses provide a high level of engagement from learners and establish measurable learning outcomes with the means for achieving them. How are you ensuring that the blended courses you are designing combine the best components of both online and face-to-face classes? Join us online as we discuss blended course design principles and how they align with instructional strategies. You will learn how to: Use instructional design strategies for online courses Organize content into instructional modules Align course objectives, activities, and assessments
An effective social media policy can reduce your legal liabilities and strengthen your institution’s brand. View this pre-webcast recording on developing your social media policy. This presentation will provide a great starting point for developing your own comprehensive social media policy and prepare you for the implementation phase covered in this webcast. Agenda Review of Essential Elements of a Social Media Policy Training of Your Policy Facilitation options Resources Policy Deployment and Implementation Messaging Planning for ongoing changes Change management processes Ensuring Compliance Best practices to have staff comply Ongoing enforcement
A vibrant leadership annual giving program not only serves as the core of a successful annual fund, but it can be one of the best tools to build the pipeline to major gifts. Yet, institutions struggle with how to create a separate identity for their leadership giving programs, and how to best communicate the opportunities available and their impact on the institution. In this online training, our expert instructors will show you how they strategically restructured their leadership annual giving program communications with enhanced branding, specific and targeted solicitations, and a more robust stewardship strategy.
