Course Category: Webcast Recording
Making the Shift from Classroom to Online Course Design
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.
Using Data to Inform Your Annual Giving Strategy
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.
Customizing Your Peer Mentor Program: Best Practices in Developing a Peer Mentoring Framework
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:
Prioritizing Academic and Administrative Programs 101
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.
What Every Academic Chair Needs to Know
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.
Admissions Skill-Building: Core Training for New Counselors
Training of new Admissions counselors is often, out of necessity, much too hurried and perfunctory. The training that new counselors receive has historically been focused on the everyday duties of the job (travel, reading and processing applications, CRM systems, etc.), accompanied by lots of “just in time” training where other key competencies are concerned. But in today’s intensely competitive environment, it is no longer sufficient to let your Admissions counselors go out and begin recruiting for you without having adequate training on key, all-important soft skills. Join us for a trio of online training programs that will help get your new and entry-level Admissions counselors up to speed. These three 45-minute webcast sessions are focused on strengthening universal core competencies that all Admissions counselors must possess in order to be successful in their roles: How to discuss and think about value in higher education Effective counseling skills with prospective students and families Strategies for building connections and relationships with other key external stakeholders
Evaluating Online Faculty
With the growth of online education, institutions face the challenge of effectively measuring the quality of online teaching and the teaching competencies of their online faculty. Rather than using new practices tailored to a specific online learning environment, many institutions use basic evaluation methods that are not responsive to individual course considerations. Applying new practices specifically designed for your online environment will allow you to increase course quality, student success, and faculty engagement. Join us for an online course that will help you develop an innovative faculty evaluation plan that is built for online programs. Over the course of 4 modules, our expert instructors will: Guide you through an audit of current online faculty evaluation to identify strengths and opportunities Share a variety of evaluation models and tools to help you integrate best practices into the evaluation of your online faculty
Meeting the Challenges of Accepting and Receipting Gifts
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.
Strategic Enrollment Management for
Community Colleges
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 […]