Innovations
September 11, 2020
Education is a part of a nation's critical infrastructure. Over decades, critical infrastructure sectors have evolved methods for managing business continuity in abnormal operating conditions to ensure critical products and services reach the population. In education, business continuity is essentially learning continuity—the ability to offer education in an unusual time.
This webinar will focus on adaptability in response COVID-related challenges, including the use of short-term solutions and strategic planning for technology and continuity frameworks, as well as ways to...
Tags:
By Erin Bentrim, Ph.D.
Systems can provide structure for assessment and planning, but they cannot create commitment. Digital tools can organize outcomes, store reflections, or support annual cycles, yet they only mirror the choices people make. A sustained practice of evidence use develops when faculty and staff explore results, ask questions, and use information to improve learning. Questions to ask:
How are faculty and staff expected to engage with assessment results beyond submitting required entries?
Where do we see evidence being used to inform decisions or improvements, rather than...
Tags:
Reimagining the traditional face-to-face, lecture-based instructional model is at the heart of academic transformation in higher education, and faculty development is central to this change. Getting faculty to want to modify how they teach will enable grassroots experimentations to gain traction and inspire systemic change. Yet this process first requires faculty developers to recognize and support the affective dimension of teaching and learning and, in turn, experiment with more human-centered approaches. Expect it to be messy.
Recognizing Faculty Culture
Creativity and risk-taking in the...
Tags:
Community college health professions faculty are invited to join faculty colleagues and infection control experts for a series of four Project Firstline virtual discussions to be held during the 2022-2023 academic year. The series explores infection control topics through the Project Firstline lens for application across healthcare disciplines and clinical settings. Webinars focus on best practices that improve infection prevention and can enhance education and training for community college faculty and incoming healthcare workers.
Participation is free, but registration is required.
WEBINAR...
Tags:
Correction:
In the 2017 Survey Final Topline report, for QE21, item 21d was inadvertently omitted. The full item is provided below.
Tags:
