Successfully navigating the pathway to possibility that is education is becoming a must for individuals, communities, and our country. The data are clear: completing credentials that count—especially at the postsecondary level—opens up opportunities in education, economics, social mobility, and personal efficacy. Given the great need and the flood of education data streaming from next-gen technologies, the question now is: Can we put analytics to work as we have in the health care, consumer, and social networking worlds to help more striving students succeed? Interactive dialogue with key education analytics thought leaders will explore this question and make the case that more of these efforts need to be focused on getting the power that fuels Mayo Clinic Analytics, Amazon, and eHarmony to students, faculty, and advisors.

Learning Beyond Campus develops unique academic partnerships with students by adapting educational offerings/approaches and facilitating new pedagogical atmospheres that increase diversity by challenging students academically, socially, and culturally.

For coursework, students have made the transition online, with more than 70% taking online quizzes, tests, and tutorials.

Use strategies grounded in learning theories and learning styles inventory to create transcription, audio, video, and signed content using a single document and inexpensive technology to enhance student learning.

Faculty will discuss innovative research exploring the infusion of critical thinking concepts into a computer literacy curriculum. Integrative strategies and their impact will be presented.

The presentation will focus on debates over the proper functions of the community college website. Special attention will be paid to how a college website can directly improve student learning.

Community colleges have always made education accessible, but it's not enough. This session will discuss how colleges can immerse democratic learning at their college, fulfilling obligations to produce student-citizens.

This session offers an engaging look at how to develop high quality rapid response workforce development programs within complex multi-campus environments.

Structure is a key role in any college, especially in the contract training function. Learn from Global Corporate College Champions how to move from order taking to partnering in the corporate solutions arena.

Students need to know storage in the era of server virtualization and cloud computing. Learn how EMC and NDG can help you deliver a hands-on storage course.

The University of Phoenix’s Phoenix Career Services interactive online career portal and new online career services center offers resources to help students make an impact on their field of choice.

An interactive presentation discussing effective budgetary and measurable service changes within the Lone Star student population, including the young, disabled, fostered, and underprepared. This session will benefit all.

Academic support staff will learn about a novel program to greet incoming African-American students and to connect them with institutional resources. Student outcomes and program feedback will be discussed.

America is academically third rate to Asia and continues towards scholarly inferiority. Educators discuss the issues and share solutions that support skill development and allow our students to compete globally.

Blended learning! HCC's model of developmental education evolved into a mastery learning program with extensive lab time accompanied by recitation sessions. Sample materials, pros, cons, and data will be provided.

How do you move from lackluster galas to cost-effective advancement? Reimagine your efforts through an Advancement Proficiency Assessment and the story of one college's journey to reinvent its foundation.

Learn how to seamlessly display course and program information so outcomes and performance standards are consistent across your college. WIDS provides for robust design and dissemination of learning outcome documents.

This session includes an overview of two sources of comparative data and benchmarking: the National Study of Community College Instructional Costs and Productivity, and the National Community College Benchmark Project.

Participants will acquire knowledge of sustainability and assessment, a rubric to measure student learning of sustainability, and a plan to share these practices at their respective institutions.

NSF-funded centers share strategies on how to scale your innovative programs that include creating a support system of fellow educators. Presenters will share success stories, their processes, and outcomes.

MOOCs, LOOCs, and OER—education is being transformed. Learn how several organizations partnered together to develop science content to make sure they stay ahead of the curve in education.

OERs expand access to high quality instructional resources to support effective teaching/learning. This session will include highlights of OER initiatives and strategies for identifying, evaluating, adopting, and/or developing OERs.

Supplementing instruction with cyber competition exercises provides a venue for high school and college students to gain authentic experience, assess their career interests, and apply knowledge gained in their coursework.

The development of online courses has enabled distance learning to grow significantly. Discuss how Humber's Live Virtual Online Proctoring provides a level of integrity that meets/exceeds typical examination requirements.

This session will focus on factors hindering education for girls, especially in Africa, and how to overcome them. The presenter will give special attention to girl child education in marginalized indigenous communities with strong cultural beliefs. The audience will be encouraged to share case studies, global experiences, and recommendations for a way forward.

Budget bleeding out? Morale at an all-time low? This session will help brainstorm and offer creative solutions to maximize remaining budgets. Geared toward administrators who oversee programs and people.

Discuss strategies for achieving student success amongst minority or under represented student populations. This session is geared towards those who are seeking to improve diversity strategies at their organizations.

We will discuss student success strategies evolving in the project. Students can develop and polish their technical skills, work on assignments, and attend workshops while enjoying a healthy snack.

This presentation will help administrators and coordinators learn how to blend academic support services like embedded tutoring, prescriptive tutoring, and supplemental instruction to tailor academic programs for at-risk students.