Webinar: Faculty As Teachers & Mentors

How To Build A Student-Focused Culture & Increase Retention

Type: Webinar

February 12^th, 2014

Location: United States of America

We will provide a set of proven strategies designed to build a student-focused culture throughout the entire institution. The strategies introduced may be implemented at your institution to guarantee quality interactions between faculty & students. 

Website: http://www.innovativeeducators.org/product_p/2101.htm

Webinar: Student Motivation- Practical Strategies That Will Increase Engagement, Learning & Retention

January 24 2014
online, United States of America

You will learn HOW the basic principle of “active student involvement” will help us help our students to focus on their sense of purpose, control, & build connections that will help them socially, academically, physically, & emotionally.

Participants will:

• Differentiate between the WHY and the HOW of student success and motivation
• Examine the underlying principles of student success
• Examine common best teaching practices in a college classroom (across disciplines)
• Reflect on and describe how their teaching practices compare with the best practices
• Identify teaching strategies that are appropriate for their student population
• Apply basic principles of student success to their own teaching success (e.g. validation, self-efficacy, collaboration, active involvement)

More information: http://www.innovativeeducators.org/product_p/2079.htm

Connections 2014-Student Learning Assessment

Connections 2014

Closing the Loop: More Than a Metaphor

March 3-5, 2014

The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center

901 Prices Fork Road

Blacksburg, VA 24061 

 You are invited to attend the 4th Annual Connections Conference on Higher Education Assessment hosted by Virginia Tech and Weave. 

The Connections 2014 Conference aims to add meaning to the metaphor, "Closing the Loop". Too often, the final step of the assessment process gets less attention in the rush to complete one assessment project and move onto another. Connections 2014 will showcase sessions from institutions that have successfully utilized the assessment cycle to make well-informed, strategic decisions designed to improve student learning or the learning environment.

This is a small interactive conference with only 200 registrations, so space is  limited. Registration will close once capacity is reached.

Click Here to learn more and to register for Connections 2014!

Free Webinar-Faculty Attitudes on Technology

Inside Higher Ed's 2013 Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology -- conducted with Gallup -- aims to understand how college and university faculty members and campus leaders in educational technology perceive and pursue online learning and other emerging opportunities for delivering course content. Highlights of the survey findings include:

• Few faculty believe that online courses can achieve student learning outcomes as well as in-person courses.
• Whether an online program is offered by an accredited institution tops the list of factors that contribute to quality in online education according to faculty members. Technology administrators are far likelier to associate quality with academic credit.
•  Faculty members feel strongly that institutions should start MOOCs only with faculty approval, and that MOOCs should be evaluated by accrediting agencies.
• Of faculty who have never taught an online course, 30 percent say the main reason they haven't is because they've never been asked.
• Faculty members and technology officers alike agree that their institutions fail to reward teaching with technology in tenure and promotion decisions.

On Thursday, September 12 at 2 p.m. Eastern, join Inside Higher Ed editors Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman for a free webinar. Scott and Doug will lead a lively discussion sparked by the results of the survey and questions/comments from participants.

Click to Register

Read up before you participate! Check out Inside Higher Ed's article on the survey and download the complete report at: www.insidehighered.com/news/survey

The Inside Higher Ed Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology was made possible in part by the generous financial support of Deltak, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, Pearson and Sonic Foundry. Your registration information will be shared with these companies.

Seminar on Student Learning Outcomes-Should you assess individual students?

Presenter: Dr. David Shupe

When colleges and universities first began doing outcomes assessment, they were told to create anonymous data by not retaining the names of the students whose work they were assessing.   Dr. David Shupe will here focus on twelve positive reasons to now move beyond that, that is, twelve good things that can happen as a direct result of assessing the work of named students.

David is Chief Innovation Officer at eLumen. Previously he was System Director for Academic Accountability for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, as Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Development at Inver Hills Community College (MN), and as the founding director of the Master of Liberal Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. David received his PhD from Syracuse University.

Who should attend this webinar? 

• Any person who has responsibility for student learning outcomes assessment at their institution (e.g., SLO Coordinators, Assessment Coordinators, Deans, Provosts, VPs, Presidents) 

If I attend, what will I take away from the webinar?

• Compelling reasons to reconsider how and why outcomes assessment is being done at your institution
• Attention to concerns about data privacy

Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 2:00PM -3:00PM, CDT 


 Registration

eLumen Website