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Higher Ed
4 Tips for College Leaders to Target Adult Education
The demographics for colleges are changing. Adult learners, typically 25 years and older, need courses and college programs that fit their lifestyles and needs. Students want to complete their degrees. They put them on hold because of life commitments, such as starting a family or serving in the military. College leaders, states, and non-profit programs understand this ongoing situation. A need exists to upskill workers quickly. A new training or certification helps workers to obtain new jobs or improve their abilities for their current employment. These four tips target how college leaders could create or improve the offerings and services for adult education seekers.
5 Strategies to Pivot ERL to Online Learning for Higher Ed
Colleges encounter stoppages as new variants or other emergencies emerge. The challenges force colleges to move to emergency remote learning. Often, these courses lack the best modalities and effectiveness of well-designed, online classes. Now, colleges have emergency remote learning (ERL) content, which can be converted or repurposed for online learning. Additionally, these courses could be prepared for future situations, using hybrid learning. With these five steps, college leaders could pivot these ERL courses, producing successful online learning and preparing their colleges for hybrid learning.
Teaching Online: 5 Ideations College Leaders Can Use to Support Their Faculty
As online learning becomes more the norm than the exception, college faculty require new skills and tools to help students succeed. In truth, fully remote, in-person, and hybrid teachers need support, resources, and professional development. They must navigate changing curricula, learning modalities, and student needs. Leadership is critical. College leaders can use these five ideations to support faculty for teaching online.
Educational Equity Part 2: Creating a Student Ready School for Community Colleges
For this second installment on educational equity for community college readiness, we offer additional solutions for creating student-ready schools. While community college students face unique challenges, school leaders can ensure better success with key strategies. Community college leaders can apply these additional strategies for a student-ready campus.
K-12
Competency-Based Education (CBE): What Supports Can K-12 Providers Supply?
Publishers can give schools various digital tools that support competency-based education (CBE). But, districts may put off buying a CBE curriculum as they are overwhelmed by product choices. So, publishers can help school districts by making and supporting quality products. Read about the products and supports publishers should prioritize for schools for competency-based education.
Textbooks: The Process and Fight for School District Adoption
Publishers now face new barriers when selling textbooks. The needs of the teachers and students are at risk unless providers can make flexible, adaptable, and scalable resources. Florida’s rejection of math textbooks for SEL and Common Core standards brings providers new challenges. Publishers may face some of these challenges.
6 Steps for Publishers When Building the Curriculum Process
Making a robust curriculum is complex. Without effective processes, learners lack structure and guidance that makes optimal learning. Besides that, schools cannot effectively measure results. Moreover, tomorrow’s curriculum must connect to various types of learning, such as online courses. Content creators can quickly lose focus. Therefore, leaders can utilize the following six steps for the curriculum process.
K-12 School: How Publishers and Providers Can Address the New Virtual Continuum
The pandemic has opened various pathways for K-12 students to learn. Savvy providers think differently about the digital tools they offer schools. Publishers give districts digital solutions for different scenarios students face. Also, leaders create equity by meeting the student where they are in their learning journey. Publishing leaders can create materials to supply these virtual platforms, giving every student an equal opportunity for K-12 schools.
Curriculum Design
ASU-GSV Summit 2021: Visionary Notes from Andrew Pass
Several weeks ago, I attended the ASU-GSV Summit 2021. After not traveling to any conferences for 16 months, it was a very exciting experience! The conference’s beautiful location, on the San Diego Bay, was invigorating. I connected and networked with folks from organizations like Kiddie Kredit, Michigan Virtual, and Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). Here are a few great moments from the summit:
10 Key Differences Between Course Design and Course Development
This stage of course design is the fun part of content creation! Here is the spark that creators say, “I have an idea for a course.” “Yes! It’s a course.” Besides that, creating courses is fun. The beginning stages of projects can push the imagination to create without limitations. Here is when the course creators envision the course. Seasoned pros will work with teams to sketch out the course flow. Experienced instructional designers will listen to the flow of ideas. ID pros…
7 Essentials Colleges Can Integrate into their LMS Systems
Instructors need to be clear and concise about what the student needs to do. The simple landing page for the course should tell and show the learner what to do. A good LMS brings college students up to speed with almost zero training. Also, students should be able to find what they need. Likewise, the design should be simple for…
5 Reasons to Consider Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Your next Curriculum
The term “artificial intelligence” or "AI" brings to mind movies about robots. Adding robots to any class may seem unnatural and may make people uneasy. Fortunately, AI comes in many forms. Artificial intelligence is using computer programs that act like human...