Does general education represent a canon of knowledge, a set of skills, readiness for a student’s major, or simply a certain number of credits? These questions, along with increasing employer demands and student expectations for developing necessary competencies make it imperative to carefully assess your institution’s general education program. However, general education is difficult to assess because students’ core competencies can be obtained through various pathways. Join your colleagues in this webcast to discuss various methods for assessing the goals and quality of general education. Our expert instructor will focus on using low cost, low effort, turn-key tools to assess general education. This assessment approach, if done effectively, leads to improved student learning and addresses the skills gap that employers demand.
Learn how students can serve as effective philanthropic ambassadors for your shop. Agenda How are you currently using students in your shop? Institutional context: K-State”™s program creation Role of student foundation Primary functions Recruiting and retaining members Breaking down student roles and responsibilities Needs assessment Nominations and application process Interview and selection process Membership retention Professional development for students Creating and shaping your messaging for your program First five steps for starting your own student foundation
Online instruction continues to thrive, but instructors and designers struggle to develop effective forms of online assessment. How can an instructor know if students are meeting course objectives or achieving area competencies if tests and quizzes are not primary assessments? How can you ensure academic integrity and curb online cheating? What other forms of assessment are particularly effective in an online environment? Join us online to learn how to design and develop assessment tools in online instructional environments. Our expert instructor will share examples of assessment questions and how to improve them.
Selecting a learning management system (LMS) is a complex endeavor that requires spending hundreds of hours vetting different options; balancing the competing needs of faculty, students, and administrators; and making a multi-year commitment. Join us online as our instructor walks you through the crucial steps for selecting an LMS on your campus. Having recently selected a new solution for his own campus, Tom Cavanagh will share a collaborative process for vetting, evaluating, and selecting the right LMS for your institution. You will leave this webcast with proven approaches and key considerations to effectively guide your selection. While this program will help you better understand the process for selecting an LMS, it is not intended to help you evaluate your current system or explore features within specific platforms.
To accommodate increasing demands for flexibility from students, many institutions offer online orientations. However, not all online orientations are effective retention tools, and they may be inferior to in-person orientations. Is your online orientation interactive, assessment based, and conducive to learning? You can increase the effectiveness of your online orientation programs by implementing research-supported online instructional strategies. This webcast will help you develop or improve your online orientation with a learner-centered approach to programming for new students. Showcasing sample online orientation activities, our expert instructor will provide tips based on research and practice, so you can develop a more effective and engaging online orientation at your institution.
Do you have limited resources for your planned giving program? Students are a low-cost and effective option for reaching out and connecting with your most loyal donors. Join us online as our expert instructor introduces a student calling program that consistently uncovers current leadership giving members and exceptional prospects. Along with gaining a thorough understanding of how to begin such an initiative at your institution, you will learn tactics for: Selecting, motivating, training, and retaining the right student callers Communicating your effort internally and externally Managing handoffs between student callers and professional staff Getting started in a variety of shop settings
It may seem difficult to both balance space management in your academic library and continue to cultivate a thriving general collection that meets the needs of 21st century faculty and students. However, strong weeding and storage policies offer an effective way to meet both aims. The key is to move beyond just reviewing circulation data and integrate user input to inform your general collection management. Join us for a webcast that explores how to seamlessly integrate data and user input into your library’s storage and weeding policies. You will leave with five key takeaways and a plan for establishing policies that ensure the viability of your general collection in a way that nurtures the relationship between your library and its most important stakeholders.
The human and technological resources needed to ensure student success online are expensive to acquire and difficult to maintain. Consequently, institutions must make data-driven decisions about where to invest their resources. However, the data needed to inform such choices can be hard to isolate and are subject to misinterpretation given the complexities and constantly changing characteristics of online education. Examine how you can use metrics to better support retention efforts and improve the success rates of your online students. This webcast will address the use of data for modeling and prediction, and evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, including: Data available to your institution Mechanisms for obtaining data Conclusions that can and cannot be drawn from data about your retention and success initiatives Identifying at-risk students through analysis of predictive behaviors Using interventions to help reduce the risks Monitoring the interventions for effectiveness
Once you have defined your institution’s strategic messages and found your leader’s voice, the next task for your speechwriting assignment is to get words on the page. But knowing how to keep your listeners’ attention can be especially challenging when you aren’t a full-time speechwriter. Join our expert instructor, Chuck Toney, online for easy-to-implement tips on how to effectively incorporate technical and rhetorical tactics into your next speechwriting assignment. You will learn how to prepare the physical text of the speech and how to add impact through devices such as repetition, alliteration, rhythm, and emphasis. You will also leave the session with three types of speeches every campus speechwriter should have ready for delivery.
Empowering students to mentor and advise peers can reduce staff workload and free up resources to be leveraged elsewhere on campus. However, detailed planning is required to ensure that your peer mentor programs seamlessly integrate with your first-year student programs. Before launching a program of your own, you must learn how to effectively: Identify where peer mentors can influence first-year persistence Recruit and train peer mentors Assess your program’s effectiveness Join us to learn how to build a peer mentor component into your first-year student programming. Centered on Longwood University’s model, this webcast will prepare you to design a program that utilizes a team of peer mentors to engage first-year students and positively affect student persistence.
