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Strategies to integrate technology into campus outcome management

Posted on: Thursday, May 21st, 2009 in: Accountability

Most well designed technology enhanced solutions require a substantial investment from academic leaders and faculty on campus in order to yield more turn-key reporting and analytics going forward.  The level of effort depends on the maturity of the campus learning statement hierarchy and the comprehensiveness of course outcome to program goal to institutional mission statement [...]

Adult students and new technologies?

Posted on: Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 in: Education

Do we need to incorporate new technologies (such as Web 2.0 tools) for adult students?
For those of us who primarily teach adult, non-traditional students, we might not think we need to pay attention to things like social networking or other Web 2.0 technologies. I was recently presenting on new technologies to a school that primarily [...]

Talking points to encourage face to face faculty to adopt an online course component

Posted on: Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 in: eLearning

More campuses with predominantly on-ground faculty are looking to an LMS component to solve issues including environmental impact, changing student expectations in a 24/7 world, faculty disappearance in the middle of the term, and accreditation documentation. The adoption of an online component (course space with tools that facilitate classroom communication, organization, and assignment submission) that complements what [...]