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Designing Your Course for Active Team-Based Learning Webcast Recording

Implementing collaborative and team-based learning in large, diverse classes has proven to be an effective tool for improved student engagement and learning. The challenge is designing and facilitating your course to effectively identify students’ current knowledge and craft activities that promote a deeper understanding of the subject matter. Join us online to learn how to design your courses to incorporate team-based learning. Our expert instructor will cover how to: Build diverse student teams Assess teams’ current knowledge Create problem-based activities to promote critical thinking Evaluate the team-based experience Instructional designers, faculty developers and current faculty will leave this training with a proven and researched model for designing and facilitating team-based learning courses. During the webcast, we will demonstrate different team-based learning strategies through active attendee participation, allowing you to experience guided team interaction and dynamics. Learning outcome After participating in this online training, you will be able to implement team-based learning principles in your course. Agenda Examining a comprehensive team-based learning structure Preparing students for deeper learning Designing diverse student teams Identifying characteristics essential to the course Strategies for small and large courses Tools to ensure multiple levels of diversity Building activities that assess student knowledge Purpose and execution Designing for […]

Taking a Case-Study Approach to Improving Academic Advising Assessment Webcast Recording

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. Who Should Attend This online training is ideal for institutional teams that are working on a plan to assess the impact of academic advising on student success. Learning outcome After participating in this online training, you will be able to improve your ability to identify and use assessment information to make decisions for your advising program.  Agenda The assessment flowchart A framework for assessment in academic advising Reviewing key definitions Examining programmatic efforts, student learning outcomes, and ROI measures Process outcome method Review of the process delivery outcome model Example of programmatic assessment […]