Elliot Felix presented “Lead Users: A Strategy for Predictive, Context-Sensitive Service, and Space Design” with Georgia Institute of Technology at the Library Assessment Conference in Virginia, Oct 31-Nov 2, 2016.
EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2021: Digital Transformation to Create a Coordinat...brightspot
brightspot worked with Ohio University to answer these questions and helped them better understand and improve their student experience. Our holistic approach considered courses, student services, technology, facilities, community, and campus culture through an engaging and inclusive process.
In our session, Digital Transformation to Create a Coordinated, Compelling Student Experience, Maggie Walsh and Elliot Felix (brightspot) and Chris Ament and Brian Bowe (Ohio University) discuss our work together and share lessons learned that can be applied at your institution.
ELI Annual Meeting 2019: Using Design Thinking to Enable Student Success and ...brightspot
Kelly Miller, University of Miami Libraries, and Adam Griff and Elliot Felix, brightspot strategy presented Using Design Thinking to Enable Student Success and Build Community at the 2019 ELI Annual Meeting. They answer the important question: How can disparate academic service providers come together – culturally, organizationally, physically, and digitally – to better support students?
Educause 2021: Starting Your Accessibility Program from Scratch: Where to BeginJason Buzzell
Know you need to start an accessibility program at your campus but don't know where to begin? Here's the session for you. Learn how University of Nebraska went from 0 FTE, budget and focus on IT accessibility to two years later leading on policy, procurement, training, and tools/resources at the NU System.
What is student experience and how can it be assessed and improved? This answers these questions with "pecha kucha" style presentation from a panel on architecture and education panel held at AIA NYC in August of 2019. Learn more about brightspot's student experience canvas featured in the presentation here: http://bit.ly/stuex_canvas
Mentoring for Today’s Generation(s) at Scale: Virtual and Face-to-FaceEDUCAUSE
Mentoring relationships come in many forms--online, in-person, short- and long-term, peer- to-peer, and situational. We'll review mentoring in a multi-generational workforce and explore two mentoring models that can be adapted to fit your organization and serve professionals at various career stages. Model 1 is an international virtual mentoring program that uses data analytics to match participants and digital badging to recognize mentor/mentee achievements. Model 2 uses a just-in-time, conference-centered approach to connecting professionals across career stages. For each model, we'll discuss benefits and barriers and action steps for launching mentoring initiatives that support diverse learners.
SCUP Virtual Pacific Region Fall Series: Tools and Tactics for Changebrightspot
Where are We? Where Do We Go? Moving From Reactivity to Creativity During COVID
Bryan Alexander and Elliot Felix kicked off the SCUP Fall 2020 series by exploring the core issues, challenges, and opportunities shaping higher education during COVID.
EDUCAUSE Webinar: Introduction to Service Designbrightspot
This "Introduction to Service Design" presentation is from Elliot Felix's EDUCAUSE Chatbot Community of Practice webinar. The presentation gives an introduction to student service design mindsets, tools, and techniques.
Learn about an approach to understanding and designing future student experiences through external and internal research, service design, and organizational design.
EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2021: Digital Transformation to Create a Coordinat...brightspot
brightspot worked with Ohio University to answer these questions and helped them better understand and improve their student experience. Our holistic approach considered courses, student services, technology, facilities, community, and campus culture through an engaging and inclusive process.
In our session, Digital Transformation to Create a Coordinated, Compelling Student Experience, Maggie Walsh and Elliot Felix (brightspot) and Chris Ament and Brian Bowe (Ohio University) discuss our work together and share lessons learned that can be applied at your institution.
ELI Annual Meeting 2019: Using Design Thinking to Enable Student Success and ...brightspot
Kelly Miller, University of Miami Libraries, and Adam Griff and Elliot Felix, brightspot strategy presented Using Design Thinking to Enable Student Success and Build Community at the 2019 ELI Annual Meeting. They answer the important question: How can disparate academic service providers come together – culturally, organizationally, physically, and digitally – to better support students?
Educause 2021: Starting Your Accessibility Program from Scratch: Where to BeginJason Buzzell
Know you need to start an accessibility program at your campus but don't know where to begin? Here's the session for you. Learn how University of Nebraska went from 0 FTE, budget and focus on IT accessibility to two years later leading on policy, procurement, training, and tools/resources at the NU System.
What is student experience and how can it be assessed and improved? This answers these questions with "pecha kucha" style presentation from a panel on architecture and education panel held at AIA NYC in August of 2019. Learn more about brightspot's student experience canvas featured in the presentation here: http://bit.ly/stuex_canvas
Mentoring for Today’s Generation(s) at Scale: Virtual and Face-to-FaceEDUCAUSE
Mentoring relationships come in many forms--online, in-person, short- and long-term, peer- to-peer, and situational. We'll review mentoring in a multi-generational workforce and explore two mentoring models that can be adapted to fit your organization and serve professionals at various career stages. Model 1 is an international virtual mentoring program that uses data analytics to match participants and digital badging to recognize mentor/mentee achievements. Model 2 uses a just-in-time, conference-centered approach to connecting professionals across career stages. For each model, we'll discuss benefits and barriers and action steps for launching mentoring initiatives that support diverse learners.
SCUP Virtual Pacific Region Fall Series: Tools and Tactics for Changebrightspot
Where are We? Where Do We Go? Moving From Reactivity to Creativity During COVID
Bryan Alexander and Elliot Felix kicked off the SCUP Fall 2020 series by exploring the core issues, challenges, and opportunities shaping higher education during COVID.
EDUCAUSE Webinar: Introduction to Service Designbrightspot
This "Introduction to Service Design" presentation is from Elliot Felix's EDUCAUSE Chatbot Community of Practice webinar. The presentation gives an introduction to student service design mindsets, tools, and techniques.
Learn about an approach to understanding and designing future student experiences through external and internal research, service design, and organizational design.
SCUP Annual 2021: Supporting the Whole Studentbrightspot
At the SCUP Annual 2021 conference, Kelly Sanford (brightspot) and David Schnee (Group 4 Architecture) shared the approach and process we used for Chabot College and College of Marin's Blended Learning Centers.
EACUBO Spring 2021 Workshop: Assess the Impact of Covid-19 on Your Campus Fac...brightspot
Elliot Felix of brightspot strategy and Cameron Charlebois and Chris Buddle of McGill University presented Assess the Impact of Covid-19 on Your Campus Facilities at the EACUBO Spring 2021 Workshop.
Growing a whole institution culture of commitment to student engagementJisc
As the student engagement agenda has gained momentum in UK higher and further education, there are numerous interesting and complex issues that arise and seemingly prevent a whole institutional commitment to working with students as partners.
Issues such as departmental autonomy, traditional hierarchies and power dynamics, and lack of time invested in innovative student engagement all contribute to a landscape where engaging students remains a project rather than a culture, and something done in a few departments rather than across a whole institution.
Find out more at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/growing-a-whole-institution-culture-of-commitment-to-student-engagement-20-jan-2016
At the SCUP Annual 2021 conference, Elliot Felix and Allan Donnelly introduced the 2021 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) survey and learned from survey participants how they use peer benchmarking and institutional data to inform guidelines and standards in campus planning.
Digital student skills workshop - 17 February 2016Jisc
As part of our digital student project, this series of consultation events will help inform our digital student: skills sector study. We are exploring the technology expectations and experiences of different learners’ including adult and community learners, work based learners, apprentices and offender learners.
Wellbeing and responsibility: a new ethics for digital educatorsHelen Beetham
Slides for Jisc Learning and Teaching Experts' group June 2015 summarising work of Jisc Digital Student project and 'Framing digital capabilities' project. Summarises findings and draws out implications for 'digital wellbeing' as an emerging concern for staff and students.
Learning and teaching reimagined - how are student needs changing?Jisc
Presentation slides from our first learning and teaching reimagined series, which focused on how student needs are changing.
The rapid move to online learning brought about by COVID-19 has caused profound changes to higher education and the student experience.
But how much do we really know about the needs of our students? On what evidence are we basing these views? Even if we are confident that we do have a full and accurate picture of these needs, what difference is it making to our planning and decision making?
As part of our learning and teaching reimagined programme with UUK, Advance HE and Emerge Education, this webinar provided the opportunity to share your own understanding of your students’ needs and to hear those of others – not least from students themselves.
It explores the value of different types of evidence and, crucially, how to then build on this insight to ensure that the student voice permeates through, and plays an active role in, influencing your strategic planning.
Roundtable: How can education providers improve the employability prospects o...Jisc
This roundtable invites you to listen and share examples of effective practice in your organisation regarding how peers have approached employability from the perspective of:
- What does the employment market look like?
- What does an ‘employable learner’ look like?
- How can educators incorporate relevant employability skills into the curriculum?
- How can technology for employability be embedded into course delivery?
- How to ensure organisational support for employability?
This event was held on 9 June 2021.
Led by Esther Barrett, subject specialist in teaching, learning and assessment, Jisc.
With contributions from:
Dr Liz Bennett, director of learning and teaching, University of Huddersfield
Ciara Duffy, virtual services manager, South West College
Louise Woods and Claire McCloskey, e-learning developers, South West College
Jisc Connect more in Northern Ireland, 23 June 2016
Learning and teaching reimagined, a new dawn for higher education?Jisc
Learning and teaching reimagined is a sector-wide initiative that launched in June in response to the rapid move to online learning and teaching. This webinar will mark the launch of the initiative’s flagship report which brings together the last five months of research and engagement with leaders from universities across the UK and partner sector bodies.
Speakers:
Vikki Liogier, head of learning technologies, Education and Training Foundation
Dawn Buzzard, e-learning adviser, Education and Training Foundation
Pedagogy not technology has been the guiding light in developing the Digital Teaching Framework (DTPF) in collaboration with Jisc. The focus has been on how technology can help teachers and trainers in their existing professional practice, as well as helping them to develop new professional practice. In addition, the needs of the FE sector have been addressed with extensive input from representatives of all parts of the sector.
In this session, Vikki and Dawn will:
Give an overview of the Enhance Digital Enhance Digital Teaching Professional Platform and the Digital Teaching Professional Framework
Discuss the rationale leading to this model of programme development
Show you how to optimise the use Enhance and DTPF for your personal professional development
Discuss building digital capability and know-how to better embed edtech in teaching learning and assessment
Online Student Engagement and PlatformsLeneka Rhoden
Due to COVID-19, Student Engagement has been rather difficult especially virtually. This presentation will walk you through platforms that are easy to use and will allow you to improve your student engagement strategies once incorporated. The key features and capabilities of each platform are outlined with tips to best use them.
Boston Library Consortium: Building a Change-Ready Organizationbrightspot
Keynote at the Boston Library Consortium annual meeting on the topic of organizational change. The session touches on three areas leaders can focus on to build a more change-ready organization: adopting a lean mindset, enabling self-organization, and supporting user-driven innovation.
SCUP Annual 2021: Supporting the Whole Studentbrightspot
At the SCUP Annual 2021 conference, Kelly Sanford (brightspot) and David Schnee (Group 4 Architecture) shared the approach and process we used for Chabot College and College of Marin's Blended Learning Centers.
EACUBO Spring 2021 Workshop: Assess the Impact of Covid-19 on Your Campus Fac...brightspot
Elliot Felix of brightspot strategy and Cameron Charlebois and Chris Buddle of McGill University presented Assess the Impact of Covid-19 on Your Campus Facilities at the EACUBO Spring 2021 Workshop.
Growing a whole institution culture of commitment to student engagementJisc
As the student engagement agenda has gained momentum in UK higher and further education, there are numerous interesting and complex issues that arise and seemingly prevent a whole institutional commitment to working with students as partners.
Issues such as departmental autonomy, traditional hierarchies and power dynamics, and lack of time invested in innovative student engagement all contribute to a landscape where engaging students remains a project rather than a culture, and something done in a few departments rather than across a whole institution.
Find out more at https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/growing-a-whole-institution-culture-of-commitment-to-student-engagement-20-jan-2016
At the SCUP Annual 2021 conference, Elliot Felix and Allan Donnelly introduced the 2021 Campus Facilities Inventory (CFI) survey and learned from survey participants how they use peer benchmarking and institutional data to inform guidelines and standards in campus planning.
Digital student skills workshop - 17 February 2016Jisc
As part of our digital student project, this series of consultation events will help inform our digital student: skills sector study. We are exploring the technology expectations and experiences of different learners’ including adult and community learners, work based learners, apprentices and offender learners.
Wellbeing and responsibility: a new ethics for digital educatorsHelen Beetham
Slides for Jisc Learning and Teaching Experts' group June 2015 summarising work of Jisc Digital Student project and 'Framing digital capabilities' project. Summarises findings and draws out implications for 'digital wellbeing' as an emerging concern for staff and students.
Learning and teaching reimagined - how are student needs changing?Jisc
Presentation slides from our first learning and teaching reimagined series, which focused on how student needs are changing.
The rapid move to online learning brought about by COVID-19 has caused profound changes to higher education and the student experience.
But how much do we really know about the needs of our students? On what evidence are we basing these views? Even if we are confident that we do have a full and accurate picture of these needs, what difference is it making to our planning and decision making?
As part of our learning and teaching reimagined programme with UUK, Advance HE and Emerge Education, this webinar provided the opportunity to share your own understanding of your students’ needs and to hear those of others – not least from students themselves.
It explores the value of different types of evidence and, crucially, how to then build on this insight to ensure that the student voice permeates through, and plays an active role in, influencing your strategic planning.
Roundtable: How can education providers improve the employability prospects o...Jisc
This roundtable invites you to listen and share examples of effective practice in your organisation regarding how peers have approached employability from the perspective of:
- What does the employment market look like?
- What does an ‘employable learner’ look like?
- How can educators incorporate relevant employability skills into the curriculum?
- How can technology for employability be embedded into course delivery?
- How to ensure organisational support for employability?
This event was held on 9 June 2021.
Led by Esther Barrett, subject specialist in teaching, learning and assessment, Jisc.
With contributions from:
Dr Liz Bennett, director of learning and teaching, University of Huddersfield
Ciara Duffy, virtual services manager, South West College
Louise Woods and Claire McCloskey, e-learning developers, South West College
Jisc Connect more in Northern Ireland, 23 June 2016
Learning and teaching reimagined, a new dawn for higher education?Jisc
Learning and teaching reimagined is a sector-wide initiative that launched in June in response to the rapid move to online learning and teaching. This webinar will mark the launch of the initiative’s flagship report which brings together the last five months of research and engagement with leaders from universities across the UK and partner sector bodies.
Speakers:
Vikki Liogier, head of learning technologies, Education and Training Foundation
Dawn Buzzard, e-learning adviser, Education and Training Foundation
Pedagogy not technology has been the guiding light in developing the Digital Teaching Framework (DTPF) in collaboration with Jisc. The focus has been on how technology can help teachers and trainers in their existing professional practice, as well as helping them to develop new professional practice. In addition, the needs of the FE sector have been addressed with extensive input from representatives of all parts of the sector.
In this session, Vikki and Dawn will:
Give an overview of the Enhance Digital Enhance Digital Teaching Professional Platform and the Digital Teaching Professional Framework
Discuss the rationale leading to this model of programme development
Show you how to optimise the use Enhance and DTPF for your personal professional development
Discuss building digital capability and know-how to better embed edtech in teaching learning and assessment
Online Student Engagement and PlatformsLeneka Rhoden
Due to COVID-19, Student Engagement has been rather difficult especially virtually. This presentation will walk you through platforms that are easy to use and will allow you to improve your student engagement strategies once incorporated. The key features and capabilities of each platform are outlined with tips to best use them.
Boston Library Consortium: Building a Change-Ready Organizationbrightspot
Keynote at the Boston Library Consortium annual meeting on the topic of organizational change. The session touches on three areas leaders can focus on to build a more change-ready organization: adopting a lean mindset, enabling self-organization, and supporting user-driven innovation.
Tradeline Space Strategies: Pop-ups, Prototypes, and Pilotsbrightspot
Change is hard. Innovation is risky. Space is costly and time-consuming to update or create. In the face of these challenges, institutions can keep planning large risky projects that take years to design and build and that might miss the mark. Or they can think about it differently and use more agile ways of making progress and learning along the way. In this interactive session, we will show how prototypes, pop-ups, and pilots can help you make progress and create truly innovative spaces that meet needs today, not years after you hear about them. Using case studies and activities, Elliot Felix covers how to structure a participatory process that enables organizational change, how to launch and operate experimental initiatives, and how to evaluate them to make the case for change and get skeptics on board.
Slide show from "Killing It with Kindness: Incorporating Sustainable Assessment through Kindness Audits," a Virtual Conference Webcast given by Jessica Olin and Joe Hardenbrook on March 26, 2015 as part of the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, Portland, Oregon.
Session Description: "Learn how to design and conduct a kindness audit, a low-cost and high-reward assessment method that helps librarians examine barriers to library services and spaces through a user experience lens. Varying methods for kindness audits, lessons learned, and suggestions for identifying and implementing low-cost improvements for library spaces and services, will all be discussed."
URLs for the narrative will be available soon.
Cornell Health, Hospitality, and Design Symposium 2016brightspot
Adam presented “Coordinating Service Delivery: How to Apply Design Thinking” at the 2016 Cornell Hospitality Health and Design Symposium in Ithaca, NY, on Oct 11th. His session provided insight into how healthcare and hospitality experiences are connected, and introduced attendees to the research methodologies that he and his colleagues use to understand and analyze the user experience for clients like CVS, NYU, and NYPL.
Trends, Tools, and Tactics for Better Library DesignElliot Felix
Webinar from October 2013 to Blended Librarians Group on the "Trends, Tools, and Tactics for Better Library Design" featuring trends on learning and research, tools from the learning space toolkit (www.learningspacetoolkit.org), and tips for putting them to work to improve your library's spaces, services, and staffing.
This presentation was provided by Tracy Bergstrom of Ithaka S+R, Todd Carpenter of NISO, Filip Jakobsen of Samhæng, Eva Jurczyk of the University of Toronto Libraries, Stacy McKenna of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Libraries, Jill Morris of PALCI and Boaz Nadav-Manes of Lehigh University, during the "Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project Fall Update Webinar." The event was held virtually on September 27, 2023
The Future of Finding: Resource Discovery @ The University of OxfordMegan Hurst
The report is the culmination of a one-year multi-strand research project, and examines how users of the museums and libraries at the University of Oxford find the information they need (known as “resource discovery”), current practices among other institutions, and trends and possibilities for resource discovery in the future.
Athenaeum21 led the end-user research and needs assessment portion of the project, and then led the synthesis and analysis of the data across all of the research strands, making the recommendations and writing the final report. The report defines the resource discovery strategy for the University for the next 5 years.
The Future of Finding: Resource Discovery @ The University of OxfordChristine Madsen
The report is the culmination of a one-year multi-strand research project, and examines how users of the museums and libraries at the University of Oxford find the information they need (known as “resource discovery”), current practices among other institutions, and trends and possibilities for resource discovery in the future.
Athenaeum21 led the end-user research and needs assessment portion of the project, and then led the synthesis and analysis of the data across all of the research strands, making the recommendations and writing the final report. The report defines the resource discovery strategy for the University for the next 5 years.
Using the Participatory Patterns Design (PPD) Methodology to Co-Design Groupware: Confer a Tool for Workplace Informal Learning
Edmedia 2016, June, Vancouver, Canada: https://www.academicexperts.org/conf/edmedia/2016/papers/48568/
John Cook, CMIR, UWE Bristol & Learning Layers team
This presentation was provided by Lisa Hinchliffe of The University of Illinois, during Session Seven of the NISO event "Assessment Practices and Metrics for the 21st Century," held on December 13, 2019.
This presentation was provided by Todd Carpenter of NISO, Boaz Nadav Manes of Lehigh University, and Jill Morris of PALCI, as part of the update on "The NISO Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP)" held during ALA Annual on June 24, 2023.
This presentation was provided by Elliot Felix of Brightspot, during the NISO training series "Assessment Practices and Metrics for the 21st Century (Session One)," held on October 25, 2019.
Web-scale Discovery Services are becoming an integral part of libraries' information gathering arsenal. These services are able to use a single interface to seamlessly integrate results from a wide range of online sources, emulating the experience patrons have come to expect from Internet search engines. But despite their ability to streamline searching, discovery services provide a wide set of challenges for libraries who implement them. This virtual conference will touch on both the potential of discovery services as well as some of the issues involved.
A Manifesto for the Digital Shift in Research LibrariesTorsten Reimer
A report from the Digital Shift working group for RLUK (Research Libraries UK) on the challenges libraries face with regards to the digital shift and how to overcome them. Presented at a virtual RLUK seminar on 18th May 2020.
What does success look like when it comes to library discoverability? Index based discovery systems have seen a dramatic rate of adoption since introduction to the research ecosystem in 2009, with more than 9,000 libraries relying on a discovery system to provide users with a comprehensive index to their offerings. Some issues bar the way to providing this comprehensive view, but many challenges have been overcome through collaboration between libraries, content providers and discovery partners. The NISO ODI initiative began to examine these issues in 2011, and released a best practice in June 2014.
Speakers will highlight examples of successful collaboration, note continued areas of challenge, and provide insight on how the Open Discovery Initiative Conformance Checklists can be used as a mechanism to evaluate content provider or discovery provider conformance with the best practice.
Data-Informed Decision Making for Libraries - Athenaeum21Megan Hurst
Athenaeum21 presents three case studies of assessment and evaluation programs in libraries--one past, one current, and one future. The cases use three different modes of data gathering and analysis to show the power of understanding user needs and how well your organization is meeting them.
Data-Informed Decision Making for Digital ResourcesChristine Madsen
This session will provide three case studies of assessment and evaluation programs in libraries--one past, one current, and one future. The cases use three different modes of data gathering and analysis and show the power of understanding user needs and how well your organization is meeting them.
Reviews the role of digital repositories in relation to the broader UK digital information environment, picks up on highlights, issues and trends. Intended to steer the work of JISC and others interested in furthering enhanced scholarly communication.
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First-Year Experience Conference: Helping Students Design their Experience an...brightspot
How can students see themselves as the designers of their own educational experience? How can they use evidence-based strategies to inform the everyday decisions they’ll make about where to live, what courses to take, what to do a class project on, how to seek support, how to find belonging, and how to explore career paths?
Elliot Felix answered these questions in his session, "Helping Students Design their Experience and Inform their Decisions" at the Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience.
How can libraries enable student success? In this presentation at the 2022 Designing Libraries Conference, brightspot Founder Elliot Felix uses a broad range of national data to identify the key challenges and proposes solutions based on brightspot's work and his book How to Get the Most Out of College.
Trends Impacting Higher Education and Librariesbrightspot
What are the trends reshaping higher education and what might the impact be on academic libraries? brightspot Founder Elliot Felix, answers these questions in this short presentation from the 9th Designing Libraries Pre-conference on renewing libraries held at Temple University.
NACAC Conference 2022: Belonging Across Industries.pdfbrightspot
In this competitive market for the next generation of students, what can schools, colleges, and universities learn from other industries about connecting people to their brand, building a sense of community, and developing stronger bonds? brightspot Founder Elliot Felix spoke with industry leaders Devan Ford-McCartney of MD Anderson, Sam Roberts of Delta, and Tom Ellett of Quinnipiac University to answer these questions and share advice on building community and belonging.
Elliot Felix and Allan Donnelly reviewed findings from the 2022 Campus Facilities Inventory survey at the SCUP 2022 Annual Conference.
Learn from survey participants Jennifer McDowell, Husser Roger, Timothy Green, and G. James Meschino how to use peer benchmarking and institutional data to inform guidelines and standards in campus planning.
SCUP 2022 Annual: A Tale of Two Planning Projects: The Frontiers of Science a...brightspot
brightspot Founder Elliot Felix, Bob Reppe (Carnegie Mellon), and Matt Plecity (GBBN) presented "A Tale of Two Planning Projects: The Frontiers of Science and Robotics" at the SCUP 2022 Annual Conference.
In their session, they shared how to free up space on your main campus and evaluate issues in interdisciplinary planning at your institution using two Carnegie Mellon University project case studies.
NASPA Conference on Student Success: Designing for Student Success in a Hybri...brightspot
brightspot Founder Elliot Felix and Arizona State University Director of Projects Jonathan Myers presented Designing for Student Success in a Hybrid World at the NASPA Student Success Conference 2022.
NASPA Conferences of Student Success: Supporting Post-Traditional Studentsbrightspot
As institutions anticipate the enrollment cliff and an increase in post-traditional students, how must they evolve to best support these audiences? brightspot Director Amanda Wirth Lorenzo and Metro State Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs Amy Gort answer this question from a national and local perspective: sharing insights from brightspot's national Student Experience Snapshot complemented by strategies from Metro State that has supported post-traditional students for 50 years. These perspectives provide the strategies and tactics to help you adapt your support services, campus, and technology for post-traditional students.
NASPA Annual Conference: Learning and Adapting Together During the Pandemicbrightspot
How are your student affairs peers adapting? How will they change their services, spaces, staffing, and systems in the short-term and long-term? We discussed and answered these questions and more by facilitating a conversation among student affairs leaders across different colleges and universities to understand how they are adapting to the pandemic to be student-centered, agile, and equitable. Together, these stories and strategies will help you plan for the future and make immediate impact at your institution.
EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2021: Mapping the Student Journey to Improve Post-...brightspot
brightspot led a Student Journey Mapping engagement with Metropolitan State University that identified obstacles for students from various demographic groups and developed an action plan based on best practices to strengthen our support for and interaction with post-traditional students.
Amanda Wirth Lorenzo, Maggie Walsh, and Elliot Felix (brightspot) and Virginia Arthur (Metro State) presented Mapping the Student Journey to Improve Post-Traditional Student Success at the 2021 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference.
Tradeline Space Strategies 2021: Let's Get Phygitalbrightspot
The pandemic has validated the work remotely / learn online model, but also highlighted the value of physical connection. Hybrid work models require more flexible policies, agile processes, smarter buildings, and better technology – and the ability to collect data and evaluate how hybrid work solutions and environments are performing. Elliot Felix (brightspot) and Robert Okpala (Buro Happold) presented Let's Get Phygital: The Phygital Building Playbook for Hybrid Working and Learning at the 2021 Tradeline Space Strategies conference.
SCUP Annual 2021: Renovating Student Services to Promote Successbrightspot
At the SCUP Annual 2021, Adam Griff (brightspot), Charles Frame
and Dara Hagen (Normandale Community College), and Rebecca Celis (HGA) discussed our work with Normandale Community College and their Student Services Building.
SCUP Webinar: Creating a More Adaptive Institution in the Wake of COVID-19brightspot
How can colleges and universities become more adaptive in the wake of COVID-19? This interactive panel discussion brought together open discussion among panelists from UC Berkeley, SUNY Fredonia, Cornell, Minnesota State University, Mankato, and Marquette, and their perspectives from facilities, technology, student services, and finance to understand the impact of COVID-19 on institutions and their student experience.
As colleges and universities respond to changing conditions and increased community spread of COVID-19 in their regions, they need a tool to revise their reopening plans – and keep revising them as things change.
Based on our conversations with dozens of colleges and universities this spring and our work advising institutions on if/how/what to reopen, we created a tool called the Adaptive Campus Planner.
In this webinar, we walk you through the Adaptive Campus Planner to help jumpstart how you adapt this fall.
Keeping the Campus Connected in a Post-Pandemic Worldbrightspot
The future of higher education lies at the intersection of on-campus and online learning. This Knoll k. talk from May 5, 2020 covers how these two worlds are converging, how the pandemic is accelerating trends reshaping higher education, and how colleges and universities must reimagine their positioning, programs, people, and places as a result.
From “What if?” to What’s Next?”: Planning for a Next Generation Business Schoolbrightspot
Societal challenges and opportunities no longer fit in departments. Future success requires business researchers, educators, and students to interconnect across the entire campus and beyond. In this session, we will explore how to plan a campus ecosystem that connects business with people, ideas, and resources to drive a new research and education model. You will learn key strategies and find opportunities—encompassing planning, programming, design process, and lessons learned from building use—to advance your institution’s mission and build a framework to implement your initiatives.
Transforming the Academic Workplace at the Campus Scalebrightspot
Faced with high demand for admin offices, changing needs, and shortages of space, how can institutions restructure their campus workplace strategy to optimize the amounts, types, and locations for staff? This presentation from the 2019 Tradeline University Facilities conference calls upon recent case studies of campus-scale administrative space strategies for large institutions to deliver lessons learned and a proven process for assessing quality, quantity, and location of office space; introducing new workplace standards; making long-term decisions; and making the operational and organizational changes required to implement a dramatically more effective and effective staff space program across the campus.
Libraries are changing rapidly from places to store and access information individually to places to connect, create, and collaborate. In response, campuses are looking to add study and instructional spaces, consolidate academic services, and renew existing buildings. This presentation from the 2019 Tradeline University Facilities Conference looks across a half-dozen case studies ranging from top liberal arts colleges to major public research universities, guiding institutions through a process they can use on their campuses including conducting research, establishing a vision, forecasting needs, rationalizing the spaces and services across locations and within buildings, and identifying phases and pilots. Following these steps, institutions can create flexible long-term plans that produce measurable results in the near-term
Elliot Felix was the keynote speaker at the 2019 SCUP Southern Symposium where he spoke about transforming the student experience in and out the classroom and online.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Instructions for Submissions thorugh G- Classroom.pptxJheel Barad
This presentation provides a briefing on how to upload submissions and documents in Google Classroom. It was prepared as part of an orientation for new Sainik School in-service teacher trainees. As a training officer, my goal is to ensure that you are comfortable and proficient with this essential tool for managing assignments and fostering student engagement.
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
2. “The future is already here.
It’s just not evenly distributed.”
- William Gibson
3. Context on How Libraries
(and Georgia Tech’s Libraries)
are changing.
4. 1. Positioning the library is primarily digital, and
secondarily physical
2. Connecting users to the universe of information, not
just Georgia Tech
3. Creating a more porous library, with more ways in and
out of the spaces
4. Pulling in beginning users and pushing out services to
advanced users
5. Earlier and longer involvement in the research process,
with broader expertise
6. Increasing awareness of services and showcasing work
context
As we began the project, we identified the key future directions for Georgia Tech’s Library
and used these to focus the research and strategy.
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Library Vision
context
As we began the project, we crafted Georgia Tech’s Library future vision and used it to
focus the development of space and service concepts.
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Our hypothesis and methodology:
Research and engage lead users to
predict future space and service
needs.
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Eric Von Hippel discovered that many innovations are created by users themselves.
hypothesis: lead users predict the future
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hypothesis cont’d: lead users predict the future
Everett Rogers identified how ideas are adopted across different segments and why.
Internally
motivated
to change
Inspired by
the new &
influenced
by the
media
Adopt if
practical and
has been
successful in
practice
Jumps in
when sees
“everybody”
is doing it
Waits until forced
to adopt
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1. Identify lead users
2. Engage them through interviews,
workshops and shadowing
3. Identify their existing workarounds and
innovations as well unmet needs
4. Compare their behaviors to how other
users are trending
5. Create concepts based in lead users
ideas and new ones to meet their needs
methodology
Our process engaged lead users to co-create ideas for future spaces and services.
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Library Faculty / Staff Advisory Boards
identifying lead users
We identified lead users by canvasing library faculty and staff who were working with
them as well as utilizing existing faculty, graduate, and undergraduate advisory groups.
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Shadowing Journaling Synthesis
engaging lead users
We engaged lead users through surveys, workshops, interviews, shadowing, and
journaling activities. Then we synthesized findings with them in a workshop.
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User Experience Model
understanding experience
We created an experience model that identified the five key components of the library
experience, using it to evaluate the current and envision the future.
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Advisory board member, works
visualizing chemical engineering
research
Undergrad Lead User Persona
Inspiration: Visualization Wall Collaborative Rendering (BNIM Architects)
Discover: Digital Media & Scholarship Collaborative
We found that users are looking for a technology-rich destination to engage in digital
scholarship, broadly considered.
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Design student who is extensive user
of electronic and print materials Inspiration: Walgreen’s Consult Center Rendering (BNIM Architects)
Focus: Expert Consultation Center
We found that students and faculty alike are looking for subject matter expertise as well
as knowledgeable guides to help them through administrative research processes.
Grad Student Lead User Persona
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Professor of Public Policy,
Problem-Based Learning courses
Roberta Berry
Inspiration: Learning Studio Adjacencies / Components of Studio
Grow: Teaching Studio
We found that campus needed a neutral space to design, develop and test emerging
pedagogical practices.
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Director of Student Innovation
Programs
Innovation Prizes Studio Rendering (BNIM Architects)
Create: Innovation & Ideation Studio
We found that users are looking for a low-tech space with flexible furniture and supplies
to help them explore, visualize, and create “messy” models of their ideas.
Chris Reaves
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Tree house project Event Space Rendering (BNIM Architects)
Showcase: Scholars Event Network
We found that people like Hugh needed places to showcase work of all shapes and sizes
and to talk about what they made. So, we created a network of scholarly event spaces.
Professor of Literature, Media and
Communication
Hugh Crawford