AACRAO SEM XIX presentation about recruiting, engaging, and retaining students using modern technology. Presented by Chris Ferguson and Samuel Sudhakar.
This document outlines the holistic approach to delivering student services for online learners at the Regents Online Campus Collaborative (ROCC), the 6th largest system of higher education in the US. It discusses ROCC's vision, mission, and enrollment data. It also identifies retention as the #1 challenge for online student services and proposes addressing the 60% online failure rate through 5 variables: course content, design, delivery, instruction, and participants. Finally, it outlines enhancements to online student services including orientation, faculty awareness, student involvement, and career services.
Overview of Distance Learning ServicesJoseph Clark
The Office of Distance Learning at Florida State University provides various services to support online and distance education. It oversees instructional design, technology support, testing, media production, and student services. ODL works with academic departments to develop online programs and courses. It assists with marketing, curriculum approvals, budgets, and production. ODL also manages a testing center that has expanded from 96 to 260 stations to accommodate increased demand for proctored exams from distance students. Overall, distance learning enrollment and revenue at FSU has grown substantially in recent years.
This document discusses using blogging technology on college/university websites to communicate with prospective students. It notes that most prospective students use the internet to research colleges. The document outlines many factors that prospective students consider when selecting a college, including academics, campus life, reputation, and costs. It then discusses using student blogs on college websites to provide information on these topics from a student perspective in a format familiar to prospective students. Specific blog post topics that could be covered are listed. The goal is to determine if web content meets prospective student needs and identify best practices for presenting relevant information through this medium.
The changing landscape of recruiting and admissions requires constant innovation. This panel will discuss some of the ways that graduate admissions offices are using online tools for recruiting and conversion.
Strategies for increasing_student_success_tex_virtual_su12Lisa Dubuc
This document discusses strategies for increasing student success in online courses. It describes a project at SUNY community colleges that identified key risk factors for student persistence and retention in online courses. These include late registration, poor advising, student demographics, course engagement and design, and being a first-time online student. The document then focuses on an introductory web technology course that saw completion rates increase after implementing strategies to increase the instructor's teaching presence through tools like video introductions, discussion feedback, and reminders. These strategies engaged students more in the online course community.
Engaging Students Virtually Throughout the Enrollment CycleMarty Bennett
The document discusses strategies for engaging international students virtually throughout the enrollment cycle. It summarizes findings from a study on international student expectations that found institutional brand is the top reason for studying abroad. It also found students need the most help with financial decisions and visa applications. The document recommends recruiting students multiple times throughout the cycle via virtual events. It provides examples from various universities that increased international enrollment and yield through virtual recruitment strategies like live chats and video events.
Innovative Uses of Technology in International Education Marty Bennett
Throughout the life of a prospective student through to alumni, colleges and universities have been increasingly reliant on new virtual, social, and online methods to attract, retain, educate, and employ their target audiences. The panelists share examples of how institutions/organizations have been
Prevailing Trends: How to Engage International Students in AdmissionsMarty Bennett
Hundreds of universities are competing to recruit international students. Yet there’s little known about what drives the decisions of these students. In this session, attendees will gain insights gleaned from three consecutive years of research on the motivations of these students, and will hear firsthand from universities successfully engaging online with students throughout the admissions cycle.
This document outlines the holistic approach to delivering student services for online learners at the Regents Online Campus Collaborative (ROCC), the 6th largest system of higher education in the US. It discusses ROCC's vision, mission, and enrollment data. It also identifies retention as the #1 challenge for online student services and proposes addressing the 60% online failure rate through 5 variables: course content, design, delivery, instruction, and participants. Finally, it outlines enhancements to online student services including orientation, faculty awareness, student involvement, and career services.
Overview of Distance Learning ServicesJoseph Clark
The Office of Distance Learning at Florida State University provides various services to support online and distance education. It oversees instructional design, technology support, testing, media production, and student services. ODL works with academic departments to develop online programs and courses. It assists with marketing, curriculum approvals, budgets, and production. ODL also manages a testing center that has expanded from 96 to 260 stations to accommodate increased demand for proctored exams from distance students. Overall, distance learning enrollment and revenue at FSU has grown substantially in recent years.
This document discusses using blogging technology on college/university websites to communicate with prospective students. It notes that most prospective students use the internet to research colleges. The document outlines many factors that prospective students consider when selecting a college, including academics, campus life, reputation, and costs. It then discusses using student blogs on college websites to provide information on these topics from a student perspective in a format familiar to prospective students. Specific blog post topics that could be covered are listed. The goal is to determine if web content meets prospective student needs and identify best practices for presenting relevant information through this medium.
The changing landscape of recruiting and admissions requires constant innovation. This panel will discuss some of the ways that graduate admissions offices are using online tools for recruiting and conversion.
Strategies for increasing_student_success_tex_virtual_su12Lisa Dubuc
This document discusses strategies for increasing student success in online courses. It describes a project at SUNY community colleges that identified key risk factors for student persistence and retention in online courses. These include late registration, poor advising, student demographics, course engagement and design, and being a first-time online student. The document then focuses on an introductory web technology course that saw completion rates increase after implementing strategies to increase the instructor's teaching presence through tools like video introductions, discussion feedback, and reminders. These strategies engaged students more in the online course community.
Engaging Students Virtually Throughout the Enrollment CycleMarty Bennett
The document discusses strategies for engaging international students virtually throughout the enrollment cycle. It summarizes findings from a study on international student expectations that found institutional brand is the top reason for studying abroad. It also found students need the most help with financial decisions and visa applications. The document recommends recruiting students multiple times throughout the cycle via virtual events. It provides examples from various universities that increased international enrollment and yield through virtual recruitment strategies like live chats and video events.
Innovative Uses of Technology in International Education Marty Bennett
Throughout the life of a prospective student through to alumni, colleges and universities have been increasingly reliant on new virtual, social, and online methods to attract, retain, educate, and employ their target audiences. The panelists share examples of how institutions/organizations have been
Prevailing Trends: How to Engage International Students in AdmissionsMarty Bennett
Hundreds of universities are competing to recruit international students. Yet there’s little known about what drives the decisions of these students. In this session, attendees will gain insights gleaned from three consecutive years of research on the motivations of these students, and will hear firsthand from universities successfully engaging online with students throughout the admissions cycle.
Boundless: Engaging International Students Virtually Throughout the Admission...Marty Bennett
This slide deck is a summary of the 4 NAFSA regional presentations I did this October-November with Utah State, Sam Houston State, Miami of Ohio, and University of Michigan-Flint. The presentations focused on the results of the 3rd International E-Expectations Report, and how colleges and universities can apply those student behavior trends to their virtual recruitment strategies.
This presentation provides a summary of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) research and how it’s being organized around the world. MOOCs offer research objects that have the potential to address many of the issues higher education researchers face. They present new and unique opportunities to understand how people learn across a broad spectrum of educational mediums. MOOCs cross the boundaries between formal and informal learning in an unprecedented way, with each MOOC course offering opportunities for researchers to study how people select and engage with learning resources. This presentation will identify important questions: how are these research efforts being focused? What are they trying to learn? What impact are they having? What are they revealing about higher education? It also will explore the current state of MOOC research, summarize the approaches being taken, highlight some of the results that are coming from the research, and make predictions about what we might expect in the future.
Through analytics, we intend to equip our stakeholders (learners, instructors, partners and management) with data to achieve high level of learner engagement and completion rates.
Kindly take a sneak peek of our initial session here.
West Virginia University conducted an analysis of its summer trend data from 2000 to 2008. Some key findings were that 84-87% of summer students were WVU students, total summer enrollment increased 1% from 2007 to 2008 with on-campus enrollment decreasing 5.2% while online enrollment increased 5.4%. The document also reviewed course offerings, enrollment by level and location, and considerations for the future like maintaining on-campus facilities use and addressing non-resident student bleed to other colleges.
This document summarizes an event on Canadian eLearning programs and research models. It provides an overview of the Canadian eLearning Network (CANeLearn), including its mission, board of directors, initiatives and upcoming events. It also summarizes research on eLearning policies, programs and trends across Canadian provinces, including centralized vs decentralized models and implications of recent announcements in Ontario and British Columbia. Challenges in using educational technologies, creating digital resources, engaging students online and meeting curriculum expectations are discussed.
Guided Pathways and iPASS: Supporting Student Success from Start to FinishHobsons
Stella and Charles Guttman Community College, the newest community college in the City University of New York, is an equity-driven, guided learning pathways institution. Having just completed our fourth year, Guttman’s educational model is proving to be successful in helping students make timely progress towards degree completion; our two- and three-year graduation rates are well above the national average.
The document discusses the Sloan-C Mobile Learning Mastery Series. It provides an overview of the program, which consists of three workshops held over two months. The workshops help participants analyze mobile learning research, design a mobile course, develop teaching techniques, and create assessment strategies for mobile learning activities. The series is meant to help educators rethink their instructional processes and develop theoretical frameworks for incorporating mobile pedagogy. Attendees of the webinar discussed their experiences with the program and mobile learning.
This document provides an introduction to online learning environments. It discusses the differences between traditional and online courses and compares on-ground and online course components. It also outlines the course development process, including considering curriculum standards, materials, goals, objectives, assessments, technologies, and experts. Examples of open online courses and templates are provided. Resources for online teaching and learning are recommended.
This presentation will serve these three purposes and also propose that the OCW Consortium take a leadership role in serving as a clearing house and advocate for the sharing of data and experimental results across institutions, in order to advance the use of open material to fuel education innovation.
This document summarizes a presentation about how MOOCs can benefit higher education. The presentation discusses the growth of open educational resources and MOOCs, including early repositories, open courseware initiatives, and new MOOC platforms like Coursera, edX, and Udacity. It predicts that MOOCs will proliferate, advance the use of open resources, and increase the acceptance of alternative credentials. MOOCs may help lower costs but platforms will likely monetize through fees for certifications, proctored exams, career services, and selling user data. Universities can benefit from MOOCs by embracing open education, improving teaching, and enhancing their reputation.
Increasing Retention Through an Integrated Student Experience ApproachHobsons
This document summarizes Dawna Perez's presentation on Northern Essex Community College's efforts to create an integrated student experience through their strategic plan. It details how they are using their student success platform, Starfish, to facilitate communication between faculty and staff, provide early alerts on struggling students, and connect students to support services. Evaluation of Latino student cohorts has shown higher course completion and retention rates for those who engaged with support services after being flagged in Starfish. The college aims to continue expanding Starfish functionality and evaluating its impact on broader student outcomes.
Occasionally the Graduate School Dean or staff members are asked for a general overview of graduate education and the role of the Graduate School at MSU. This presentation covers both of these topics.
This presentation is intended for UPCEA members who are involved in helping their institutions determine whether to offer or continue to offer MOOCs. It draws on the experience of UC Irvine, an early member of Coursera, which has over ten years of experience in OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Open Educational Resources (OER). To begin, the presentation establishes the context for a full understanding of MOOCS, why they developed, what impact they have had so far, and what their effect might be on higher education and the world, but absent the hype and hyperbole that characterizes current discussions around MOOCS. The advantages and disadvantages of being involved with MOOCs and some strategic reasons to engage in MOOCs will be presented, using illustrations from the UCI experience.
Improve International Student Connections with ActiveMatchHobsons
Hobsons' ActiveMatch solution aims to improve international student connections by matching students to universities based on their interests and profiles. The presentation discussed Hobsons' vision of empowering student choices, their Naviance university and career planning tool used by over 12,000 schools worldwide, and their matching solutions like ActiveMatch Plus which directly engages with best-fit students. It also provided an overview of how Naviance and ActiveMatch are being used in the UK currently, opportunities to expand matching to international students, and a planned counselor community to connect high school counselors and university admissions representatives.
The application of technology enhanced learning to enhance the ‘student learning journey’, was a presentation to the staff of the University of South Africa on Tuesday 16 September 201
Sustainability as Imperative: The Unavoidable Future for OCWGary Matkin
Online education has clearly become a permanent feature of higher education world-wide. However, as dramatic as the technology-induced changes have been, the pace and impact of technology will intensify over the next fifteen years. Based on currently observable, documented, and quantifiable trends in higher and distance education, this paper will make predictions about the transformations in higher education that are on the horizon, with specific reference to the inexorable expansion of Open Educational Resources (OER), Open CourseWare(OCW), and continuous improvement processes.
The main prediction of this presentation is that, notwithstanding the current confusion over the use of OER and OCW and the present struggles to find resources to sustain the considerable efforts that have been undertaken in the OER movement, OER and OCW are here to stay and will grow rapidly, soon to be a part of every major higher educational institution in the world. The strongest and most obvious trends in higher education all intersect with OER and OCW creating in their addition an “imperative” for these movements.
This document summarizes the findings of a survey on dual enrollment programs conducted by AASA and Hobsons. Key findings include:
- Most respondents saw dual enrollment as benefiting students by giving them college experience and credits. However, barriers included requirements for instructor qualifications and difficulties transferring credits between institutions.
- The majority of respondents believed dual enrollment completion indicates college readiness and that the K-12 system should evolve into a K-14 system.
- Next steps discussed expanding dual enrollment opportunities and addressing challenges like credit transfer through partnerships between K-12 districts and community colleges. Two districts provided examples of how they deliver dual enrollment and early college programs.
The development of the OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Open Educational Resource (OER) movements over the last three years indicates that major universities around the world are already or will soon become producers and publishers of OCW and OER and that these efforts will become permanent features of organizational life in these institutions. Continuing educators will gain institutional credibility by initiating open Web sites. The institutional case for OCW/OER is strong and multifaceted.
This presentation will describe how institutions are effectively using and supporting open Web sites and how such sites intersect with clear trends in higher education. Among the benefits described will be the use of OCW/OER to attract students, serve current students and supplement their learning, support faculty in both course authoring and delivery, facilitate accountability and aid continuous improvement, advance institutional recognition and reputation, support the public service role of institutions, disseminate the results of research and thereby attract research funding, serve as a repository for a wide range of digital assets, serve learning communities of all types, and enhance international service and reputation.
Beyond Accreditation and Standards: The Distance Educator’s Opportunity for L...Gary Matkin
This presentation will provide practical suggestions for distance educators to take a leadership position amidst the call from accrediting bodies for institutions of higher education to become more accountable and transparent. Presentation will address content management, learner feedback, “openness”, and the establishment of infrastructure to meet these new requirements.
Beyond the Brochure: Using the Right Communication Channels to Enroll and Retain Students is the title of the presentation. There is substantial research that states pre-enrollment student engagement increases persistence and retention rates.
Many organizations are currently using social media to connect with their customers and achieve marketing and sales goals. However, there are many risks and compliance issues that must be considered and managed to ensure that the social media strategy is aligned with the organization’s goals.
The presentation will allow the attendees to understand how to:
Ø Monitor and Assess Social Media Objectives
Ø Identify Risks related to Planning and Executing Social Media Strategies
Ø Develop Social Media policies and procedures
Ø Establish Internal Controls related to Social Media
Ø Plan and Conduct an audit for Social Media activities
Boundless: Engaging International Students Virtually Throughout the Admission...Marty Bennett
This slide deck is a summary of the 4 NAFSA regional presentations I did this October-November with Utah State, Sam Houston State, Miami of Ohio, and University of Michigan-Flint. The presentations focused on the results of the 3rd International E-Expectations Report, and how colleges and universities can apply those student behavior trends to their virtual recruitment strategies.
This presentation provides a summary of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) research and how it’s being organized around the world. MOOCs offer research objects that have the potential to address many of the issues higher education researchers face. They present new and unique opportunities to understand how people learn across a broad spectrum of educational mediums. MOOCs cross the boundaries between formal and informal learning in an unprecedented way, with each MOOC course offering opportunities for researchers to study how people select and engage with learning resources. This presentation will identify important questions: how are these research efforts being focused? What are they trying to learn? What impact are they having? What are they revealing about higher education? It also will explore the current state of MOOC research, summarize the approaches being taken, highlight some of the results that are coming from the research, and make predictions about what we might expect in the future.
Through analytics, we intend to equip our stakeholders (learners, instructors, partners and management) with data to achieve high level of learner engagement and completion rates.
Kindly take a sneak peek of our initial session here.
West Virginia University conducted an analysis of its summer trend data from 2000 to 2008. Some key findings were that 84-87% of summer students were WVU students, total summer enrollment increased 1% from 2007 to 2008 with on-campus enrollment decreasing 5.2% while online enrollment increased 5.4%. The document also reviewed course offerings, enrollment by level and location, and considerations for the future like maintaining on-campus facilities use and addressing non-resident student bleed to other colleges.
This document summarizes an event on Canadian eLearning programs and research models. It provides an overview of the Canadian eLearning Network (CANeLearn), including its mission, board of directors, initiatives and upcoming events. It also summarizes research on eLearning policies, programs and trends across Canadian provinces, including centralized vs decentralized models and implications of recent announcements in Ontario and British Columbia. Challenges in using educational technologies, creating digital resources, engaging students online and meeting curriculum expectations are discussed.
Guided Pathways and iPASS: Supporting Student Success from Start to FinishHobsons
Stella and Charles Guttman Community College, the newest community college in the City University of New York, is an equity-driven, guided learning pathways institution. Having just completed our fourth year, Guttman’s educational model is proving to be successful in helping students make timely progress towards degree completion; our two- and three-year graduation rates are well above the national average.
The document discusses the Sloan-C Mobile Learning Mastery Series. It provides an overview of the program, which consists of three workshops held over two months. The workshops help participants analyze mobile learning research, design a mobile course, develop teaching techniques, and create assessment strategies for mobile learning activities. The series is meant to help educators rethink their instructional processes and develop theoretical frameworks for incorporating mobile pedagogy. Attendees of the webinar discussed their experiences with the program and mobile learning.
This document provides an introduction to online learning environments. It discusses the differences between traditional and online courses and compares on-ground and online course components. It also outlines the course development process, including considering curriculum standards, materials, goals, objectives, assessments, technologies, and experts. Examples of open online courses and templates are provided. Resources for online teaching and learning are recommended.
This presentation will serve these three purposes and also propose that the OCW Consortium take a leadership role in serving as a clearing house and advocate for the sharing of data and experimental results across institutions, in order to advance the use of open material to fuel education innovation.
This document summarizes a presentation about how MOOCs can benefit higher education. The presentation discusses the growth of open educational resources and MOOCs, including early repositories, open courseware initiatives, and new MOOC platforms like Coursera, edX, and Udacity. It predicts that MOOCs will proliferate, advance the use of open resources, and increase the acceptance of alternative credentials. MOOCs may help lower costs but platforms will likely monetize through fees for certifications, proctored exams, career services, and selling user data. Universities can benefit from MOOCs by embracing open education, improving teaching, and enhancing their reputation.
Increasing Retention Through an Integrated Student Experience ApproachHobsons
This document summarizes Dawna Perez's presentation on Northern Essex Community College's efforts to create an integrated student experience through their strategic plan. It details how they are using their student success platform, Starfish, to facilitate communication between faculty and staff, provide early alerts on struggling students, and connect students to support services. Evaluation of Latino student cohorts has shown higher course completion and retention rates for those who engaged with support services after being flagged in Starfish. The college aims to continue expanding Starfish functionality and evaluating its impact on broader student outcomes.
Occasionally the Graduate School Dean or staff members are asked for a general overview of graduate education and the role of the Graduate School at MSU. This presentation covers both of these topics.
This presentation is intended for UPCEA members who are involved in helping their institutions determine whether to offer or continue to offer MOOCs. It draws on the experience of UC Irvine, an early member of Coursera, which has over ten years of experience in OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Open Educational Resources (OER). To begin, the presentation establishes the context for a full understanding of MOOCS, why they developed, what impact they have had so far, and what their effect might be on higher education and the world, but absent the hype and hyperbole that characterizes current discussions around MOOCS. The advantages and disadvantages of being involved with MOOCs and some strategic reasons to engage in MOOCs will be presented, using illustrations from the UCI experience.
Improve International Student Connections with ActiveMatchHobsons
Hobsons' ActiveMatch solution aims to improve international student connections by matching students to universities based on their interests and profiles. The presentation discussed Hobsons' vision of empowering student choices, their Naviance university and career planning tool used by over 12,000 schools worldwide, and their matching solutions like ActiveMatch Plus which directly engages with best-fit students. It also provided an overview of how Naviance and ActiveMatch are being used in the UK currently, opportunities to expand matching to international students, and a planned counselor community to connect high school counselors and university admissions representatives.
The application of technology enhanced learning to enhance the ‘student learning journey’, was a presentation to the staff of the University of South Africa on Tuesday 16 September 201
Sustainability as Imperative: The Unavoidable Future for OCWGary Matkin
Online education has clearly become a permanent feature of higher education world-wide. However, as dramatic as the technology-induced changes have been, the pace and impact of technology will intensify over the next fifteen years. Based on currently observable, documented, and quantifiable trends in higher and distance education, this paper will make predictions about the transformations in higher education that are on the horizon, with specific reference to the inexorable expansion of Open Educational Resources (OER), Open CourseWare(OCW), and continuous improvement processes.
The main prediction of this presentation is that, notwithstanding the current confusion over the use of OER and OCW and the present struggles to find resources to sustain the considerable efforts that have been undertaken in the OER movement, OER and OCW are here to stay and will grow rapidly, soon to be a part of every major higher educational institution in the world. The strongest and most obvious trends in higher education all intersect with OER and OCW creating in their addition an “imperative” for these movements.
This document summarizes the findings of a survey on dual enrollment programs conducted by AASA and Hobsons. Key findings include:
- Most respondents saw dual enrollment as benefiting students by giving them college experience and credits. However, barriers included requirements for instructor qualifications and difficulties transferring credits between institutions.
- The majority of respondents believed dual enrollment completion indicates college readiness and that the K-12 system should evolve into a K-14 system.
- Next steps discussed expanding dual enrollment opportunities and addressing challenges like credit transfer through partnerships between K-12 districts and community colleges. Two districts provided examples of how they deliver dual enrollment and early college programs.
The development of the OpenCourseWare (OCW) and Open Educational Resource (OER) movements over the last three years indicates that major universities around the world are already or will soon become producers and publishers of OCW and OER and that these efforts will become permanent features of organizational life in these institutions. Continuing educators will gain institutional credibility by initiating open Web sites. The institutional case for OCW/OER is strong and multifaceted.
This presentation will describe how institutions are effectively using and supporting open Web sites and how such sites intersect with clear trends in higher education. Among the benefits described will be the use of OCW/OER to attract students, serve current students and supplement their learning, support faculty in both course authoring and delivery, facilitate accountability and aid continuous improvement, advance institutional recognition and reputation, support the public service role of institutions, disseminate the results of research and thereby attract research funding, serve as a repository for a wide range of digital assets, serve learning communities of all types, and enhance international service and reputation.
Beyond Accreditation and Standards: The Distance Educator’s Opportunity for L...Gary Matkin
This presentation will provide practical suggestions for distance educators to take a leadership position amidst the call from accrediting bodies for institutions of higher education to become more accountable and transparent. Presentation will address content management, learner feedback, “openness”, and the establishment of infrastructure to meet these new requirements.
Beyond the Brochure: Using the Right Communication Channels to Enroll and Retain Students is the title of the presentation. There is substantial research that states pre-enrollment student engagement increases persistence and retention rates.
Many organizations are currently using social media to connect with their customers and achieve marketing and sales goals. However, there are many risks and compliance issues that must be considered and managed to ensure that the social media strategy is aligned with the organization’s goals.
The presentation will allow the attendees to understand how to:
Ø Monitor and Assess Social Media Objectives
Ø Identify Risks related to Planning and Executing Social Media Strategies
Ø Develop Social Media policies and procedures
Ø Establish Internal Controls related to Social Media
Ø Plan and Conduct an audit for Social Media activities
This document discusses a live demonstration and future vision of mobile apps and their connection. It aims to showcase mobile apps and how they can connect users. The demonstration and vision focus on empowering users through open thinking and mobile technology.
Fantastic Cleaning Co is evaluating two options for their cleaning service business: renting cleaning machines or operating without machines. Both options have a breakeven point of 1000 cleaning services per month. Renting machines has higher contribution margin per service but also has monthly machine rental costs. The company is also considering partnering with an online marketplace and competing offers from other cleaning companies.
Marketing the future is becoming more important than the future itself. There have been four eras of marketing: 1) product-based marketing where companies sold commodities and customers bought products, 2) mass media-based marketing where companies sold goods and customers bought benefits, 3) customer-based marketing where companies sold brands and customers bought emotions, and 4) market-based marketing where companies sold ideas and customers bought experiences. Now in the digital age, marketers must inspire customers to think differently about the future, allow customers to be part of shaping the future, and create new lifestyles rather than just marketing new technologies.
The document provides an overview of financial intelligence and the importance of understanding financial numbers and information. It discusses how smart managers can make bad financial decisions due to emotional biases and an inability to make sense of numbers. The document emphasizes that financial numbers are estimates based on accounting judgments and that different accounting methods can produce different financial results. It also notes the importance of asking questions about the numbers to ensure they accurately reflect the company's performance and financial health. Overall, the document stresses the need to turn financial information into true financial knowledge and understanding in order to make strategic financial decisions.
The document discusses fraud risk and financial statement fraud. It defines fraud as an illegal act involving deceit, concealment, or violation of trust to obtain money or services. Financial statement fraud involves intentional misstatements or omissions of material facts that mislead readers and could change judgments. The roles of management, internal auditors, and fraud examiners in preventing, detecting, and investigating fraud are also described. Becoming a Certified Fraud Examiner requires passing a comprehensive exam covering fraud prevention, financial transactions, investigations, and legal elements of fraud.
The document is a schedule for a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) exam review course taking place over 5 days. Each day covers different topics related to fraud examination, including investigation techniques, laws related to fraud, financial transactions and fraud schemes, and fraud prevention and deterrence. The schedule provides the daily timing of sessions and topics to be discussed to help participants prepare to pass the CFE exam.
Disruptive Innovation
Overcoming the market with more than just lower pricing
Iyad Mourtada
New-Product Development
Reasons for new product failure include overestimating market size, poor design, incorrect positioning, wrong timing, pricing too high, ineffective promotion, management influence, high development costs, and competition. The new development process involves idea generation, idea screening, concept development and testing, and marketing strategy development. Types of test markets are standard, controlled, and simulated. Product life-cycle strategies must understand the current business model and look for signals to reinvent the model when needed.
- The document discusses strategies for selling luxury brands and products, including focusing on non-core luxury consumers, product diversification, and non-traditional distribution channels.
- It also covers topics like building customer relationships through data analysis, identifying opportunities across products, and creating unique value for customers.
- Key decisions makers are advised to organize for growth, identify the right decision makers, and make choices early in the sales process.
COBIT 5 provides a comprehensive framework to help enterprises effectively govern and manage information technology to optimize value. It enables holistic governance and management of IT across the entire enterprise. COBIT 5's principles and enablers allow organizations to balance realizing benefits from IT with managing risks and resources, delivering stakeholder value through good governance and management of IT assets.
This document discusses various ways that companies can manipulate their financial reports through fraudulent accounting practices. It describes methods to improperly increase reported revenue such as recording revenue before it is earned or shipping more product than can be sold. It also explains how expenses can be reduced by improperly capitalizing costs that should be expensed. Specific examples are given of companies that committed accounting fraud including Xerox, Waste Management, and WorldCom. The document raises questions about whether accountants are making proper judgment calls and who really controls organizations.
The document contains various quotes about swimming from famous swimmers. Scott Goldblatt says swimming should be fun and to keep swimming as long as you enjoy it. Ian Thorpe says there is space for everyone in the pool. Carson Kressley encourages challenging yourself and learning to swim. The document emphasizes that doubt and fear will slow you down, and finding your own style in the water. It also stresses the importance of a coach and finding sponsors to support your swimming goals.
The document discusses fraud and the human element of fraud risk. It summarizes a survey finding that most frauds are committed by employees, including managers, with several years of tenure. It then discusses the fraud triangle theory that fraud occurs when an individual is under pressure and has both the opportunity and ability to rationalize fraudulent acts. The document advocates evaluating the human/behavioral aspects of fraud risk and establishing an anti-fraud program with controls like ethics training, segregation of duties, and fraud monitoring.
The document discusses various topics related to designing customer experiences and using social media strategically. It addresses redesigning experiences for different contexts like handheld devices and hiring. It also covers listening to customers on social media, responding to improve business processes, learning from customer insights, and sharing content to drive greater organizational value. Key themes are using ideas, focusing on the customer experience across channels to reduce effort, and empowering frontline teams to deliver a low effort experience.
The document discusses several budgets for a company including a production budget, selling and administrative budget, direct materials budget, direct labor budget, cash budget, and sales budget. It provides details on projected sales figures and units for a quarter, manufacturing overhead costs, labor hours and rates, inventory levels from a previous period, and sections of the cash budget including expected cash collections, disbursements, excesses, deficiencies, and financing activities including anticipated borrowings and interest. For the month of April, the document notes an expected cash deficiency of $20,000.
Academically Social:The Social Business and Digital Revolution of Higher Edu...7Summits
The social phenomenon is impacting every facet of Higher Education. From the onslaught of new ways students are communicating, sharing, collaborating, and learning via social media to the innovative digital and social breakthroughs that stand to reinvent the way knowledge is transferred in a Higher Education setting, change is coming to this sector. And it will be disruptive. Learn first-hand what these big changes mean today and how to prepare for their effects tomorrow.
Join Jive Software, 7Summits, Penn Foster, and Milwaukee School of Engineering as they share best best practices and discuss how institutions can apply social technologies to attract new students, engage and retain their existing student population, and inspire and re-connect with alumni for measurable business benefits.
During this presentation, you will learn:
- How social technologies can drive value throughout the student experience (prospects, students, alumni)
- How to engage and influence high school students and their parents
- Suggested strategies for implementing social technologies within your institution
- Lessons learned from two leading institutions, Milwaukee School of Engineering and Penn Foster
This presentation was provided by Linda Jones of Western New England University, during the NISO event "Changes in Higher Education and The Information Marketplace." The virtual conference took place on June 17, 2020.
Online Education: A Game Changer for International Education AIEA 2015 Michael Waxman-Lenz
How will online education affect international student mobility and opportunities. Representatives from Coursera, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and International Education Advantage (Intead) present trends, facts and discuss the implications.
How will online education affect international student mobility and opportunities. Representatives from Coursera, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and International Education Advantage (Intead) present trends, facts and discuss the implications.
Out of mind, out of site: Engaging with your Alumni online (Eduweb 2013)Penny Richards Fowler
This document discusses strategies for engaging Victoria University alumni through online channels. It provides an overview of VU, its alumni relations office, and online tools used to communicate with alumni. Specific engagement tactics covered include email newsletters, social media, mobile optimization, and an alumni awards campaign case study. Issues engaging international alumni and general tips for online outreach are also addressed. The goal is to maximize alumni engagement through coordinated online communications.
SmarterMeasure Best Practices and Case Studies Webinar 4 2013SmarterServices Owen
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Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Moving Beyond Mail
1. Chris Ferguson Samuel Sudhakar
Director of Admissions & Vice President of
Assistant Professor Administrative Services & CIO
Wilmington University Carl Sandburg College
2. About Wilmington University
Private, Non-Profit, Non-Sectarian University
Undergraduate, Graduate, and Doctorate Programs
12,500 students
11 Locations in Delaware and New Jersey
Commuter
41 Years Old
About Chris Ferguson
10-years in College Admissions
Director of Admissions: Oversees Undergraduate and Graduate Admissions
Assistant Professor of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Doctoral Candidate at University of Pennsylvania
Specialized in College-Created SNS & Mass Notification for Yield Management
Specialized in Developing Robust Communication Plans
3. Engagement is the Fundamental
Recruitment Principle
• Primary Goal of Admission Lifecycle
Prospect Inquiry Applicant Student
To develop and strengthen student-centered relationships
while moving future students through the Admission Lifecycle.
This invites future students into Wilmington University’s
community while exploring it as their institution of choice.
After moving through the lifecycle, a personalized relationship
has been established enabling the potential for maximum
student success.
4. Use Multi-Channel Methods
Inquiry Applicant
• Website (Student-Driven Navigation, Virtual Tour, IM [Live
Communicator], Online Application, Online Event Scheduling)
• Email Campaigns
• Online Information Sessions
• Postal Letters & Publications (Viewbooks, Postcards, Application
Materials)
• Person-to-Person Telephone Calls
• Face-to-Face Appointments
• Campus Visits (Tours, Info Sessions)
• On-Campus School Counselor Dinners and Trainings
10. Email is used for…
• REINFORCING postal communications
• SPECIALIZING .edu website content
• INCREASING touch points
• QUANTIFYING communication plan
• EVALUATING messages
11.
12. College-Created Social Networking Site
is used for…
• ENGAGING admitted applicants
• INTEGRATING social media strategies
• CONNECTING peer applicants
• TAILORING one-click navigation
• ENABLING self-service
• PREDICTING yield rates
13.
14. Mass Notification is used for…
• DELIVERING specific messages
• TRACKING audience receipt
• REPORTING outcomes
• INCREASING tuition revenue/yield rates
• SURVEYING enrollment decisions
19. Test Campaign
(Spring 2007 Test)
262 non-registered undergraduate and graduate
applicants received an email three working days
prior to the first day of courses for Spring 2007. At
7:00 p.m. two days prior to the first day of courses,
more than half were also sent a pre-recorded
Blackboard Connect telephone call from the
Director of Admissions encouraging them to register
for courses.
20. Spring 2007 Test Results
• 35.4% (93) registered for one or more courses
• Tuition revenue totaled more than $198,000
• This was compared to a test group of 168 non-registered
undergraduate and graduate applicants who were only
sent a postal letter. This group was not communicated via
Blackboard Connect telephone contact and email.
• 19.6% (33) registered for one or more courses
• Tuition revenue approximately totaled $40,000
26. Opportunity to Succeed
To provide accessible, quality education in a
caring
environment by keeping the learner’s needs
at the
center of decision making and by working in
partnership with communities of the College
district.
27. People Actively Collaborate To Understand
More About The Student Experience and Work
Together to Design Better Approaches and
Programs
Faculty Seek Out Student Perspectives On
Their Own Learning and See them as Critical
Voices in the Ongoing Conversation About
Quality
NSSE, 2008
31. Noel – Levitz Engagement –Online CSI
mySandburg Portal – Online Student Self Service
Vertical and Horizontal Alliances (K-12, WIU, Franklin U,
SECC, Internships etc…)
Campus Refresh
Digital Signage Monitors
Climate Control Projects
Orientations
Social Networking
COMPASS Testing – Web Based
eScript Initiative
32.
33. Part of the Overall Communications Strategy
Emergency and Informational
Communications
Granular Targets
Built into the Culture
Standardized Formats
Hosted – Foray into the Cloud
34.
35.
36.
37. Scripts Run to Select Audience from
Database
Student Services
Financial Aid
Business Office
Academic Services
Faculty
Dispatch Office
38. mySandburg – Skydrive Interface
Operating Analytics – Business Intelligence
Faculty Engagement Strategies
Student Relationship Management
Move Apps to the Cloud