Learn the essential components of transforming face-to-face courses to an effective online format. Overview As the demand for high-quality online courses and programs rapidly increases, instructional designers and course developers are faced with a new set of challenges. Special considerations are required to ensure the development of effective courses and a high level of engagement for a variety of learners. Join us for a unique experience to examine steps to design effective online courses. In four sessions, we will cover re-mapping your course, organizing content, using Web 2.0 technology, and integrating learning design. We will also walk you through a step-by-step process to transform a face-to-face course to an online delivery format.
This two-part online training series will help you identify key predictive data, use that data to select retention programming, and assess the overall effectiveness of your interventions. Expert instructor, Russ Little, brings knowledge and experience from across the nation. You will learn: Strategies to inventory and map your current intervention strategy How to utilize predictive data in selecting student success interventions Measures and processes to evaluate your retention impact Approaches to demonstrating student support programming ROI You will leave this webcast better able to use predictive data to create tailored retention plans for your students.
Learn how you can improve your institution’s ability to recruit, hire, and retain diverse faculty. This training is split up into three modules and covers: Diversifying your search process and search committee Following Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action guidelines Writing inclusive position announcements Organizing a welcoming campus visit Utilizing pre-employment agreements On-boarding diverse faculty Implementing sustainable retention strategies
Are you properly leveraging your annual giving data? Overview Properly analyzing your annual giving data is essential to make sound decisions about growing your annual fund. Knowing what data to gather and how to mine it to craft your strategy can be intimidating if you are not sure where to start. This self-paced training will assist you in regaining your shop’s competitive advantage by considering a fresh perspective for preparing and analyzing donor data. No matter what software you use or how sophisticated your current level of data analysis, our experienced instructor will share ideas that you will easily be able to implement.
This online course will help you design targeted peer mentor programs to improve the success of specific student populations. Using best practices, this course will help you design a peer mentor model, train your mentors, and address important challenges of your mentee population. You will leave with a plan to improve your peer mentor program for one or more of these populations:
Learn the basic concepts of academic and administrative program prioritization as you hear advice from two of higher ed’s experts. Overview The current and foreseeable fiscal challenges in higher education require institutions to move beyond short-term measures like temporary cuts and sharp increases in tuition revenue, and fundamentally revisit their mission to ensure their programs and cost structure are aligned.
Learn to help raise needed funds, develop precise budgets, and develop and evaluate faculty more effectively. Overview Join us for this three-part online training series to learn the essentials for serving as an effective department chair. Whether you are a faculty member with a desire to advance your career towards academic administration or you are an experienced academic leader, this series will help you to manage faculty more effectively, develop precise budgets, and raise needed funds.
Join us for two online sessions that will show you how to plan for and implement a Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) structure on your campus for the first time. Using case studies rooted in the practical leadership experience of our instructor, you will gain an in-depth overview of how to take the necessary steps toward implementing a SEM structure at your institution. In session one, Planning for SEM at Community Colleges, we will focus on making the case for a SEM model at community colleges and discuss how you can approach the initial planning process on your campus. You will learn a number of smart practices and strategies about how two-year institutions should approach the planning process and will explore critical questions surrounding the adoption of SEM. If you are just beginning to consider SEM at your institution or are in the early stages of planning your model, this session is for you. In session two, Implementing SEM at Community Colleges, we will focus on moving from the planning to the implementation stage of your new SEM model. You will learn how to operationalize new marketing and recruitment tactics, education and training, and technology improvements. If you have already made progress with […]
Learn how to improve the accuracy of your gift receipting and acceptance processes. Overview While many gifts to your institution are straightforward, others present challenges and require special processing and acknowledgement. Gain an understanding of various types of complex contributions and your institution’s obligations for each variation. This comprehensive gift-receipting program will cover: Defining charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes Identifying the legal donor of a gift Gift receipt requirements and considerations Non-cash gift issues Recent US tax code changes and updates Considerations to weigh before accepting a gift Note: The technical and legal aspects of this webcast series will be focused on US examples.
Are you designing online course content that is accessible to all students? The online environment has the potential to offer an extremely accessible platform for all students to learn. However, students with disabilities often have difficulty using these online learning tools because websites and course content are not created with them in mind. When course content is inaccessible, it creates unnecessary barriers for students with disabilities. Are your online courses accessible for your entire student population? Join us for this online training series as we share ways to support the needs of all students online and comply with accessibility regulations. We will discuss: Consequences of inaccessibility Technology availability How to create course websites that are accessible to all users, regardless of ability
