Identifying and driving change in partnership with students - Simon walker, M...Jisc
Jisc has supported the creation of a UK wide Change Agents Network to support staff and students working in partnership on technology enhanced curriculum change projects. The network provides a virtual and face-to-face forum for staff and students across the UK to share approaches/experiences and offer support. The network was created as it was identified that working in partnership increases the success of technology-led projects and delivers the identification of student need and appropriate action. Delegates will have an opportunity to hear examples of how institutions are working in partnership with students to identify and affect sustainable change. Students who have participated in the network will share their experiences and outline the benefits they have experienced in working in partnership with staff on curriculum change initiatives.
The network has worked with the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) to develop an award for staff and students working in partnership on change projects, the Institutional Change Leader award and this session will offer an insight into how colleges and universities are recognising and rewarding student participation in change projects. Participants will engage in discussion around this award and will be given access to the accreditation resources and materials, which they may wish to take to their own institution.
The network has also developed a guidance toolkit to support colleges and universities with implementing student partnerships, which has been developed from the collective resources of a range of Jisc, Higher Education Academy, QAA and institutional initiatives in this area. Delegates will participate in a group activity using these interactive materials so as to evaluate their use in supporting their own practice in taking forward student partnership working in their own institutions. Find out more about the Change Agents Network and follow it on Twitter (or #CAN2014)
Identifying and driving change in partnership with students - Simon walker, M...Jisc
Jisc has supported the creation of a UK wide Change Agents Network to support staff and students working in partnership on technology enhanced curriculum change projects. The network provides a virtual and face-to-face forum for staff and students across the UK to share approaches/experiences and offer support. The network was created as it was identified that working in partnership increases the success of technology-led projects and delivers the identification of student need and appropriate action. Delegates will have an opportunity to hear examples of how institutions are working in partnership with students to identify and affect sustainable change. Students who have participated in the network will share their experiences and outline the benefits they have experienced in working in partnership with staff on curriculum change initiatives.
The network has worked with the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) to develop an award for staff and students working in partnership on change projects, the Institutional Change Leader award and this session will offer an insight into how colleges and universities are recognising and rewarding student participation in change projects. Participants will engage in discussion around this award and will be given access to the accreditation resources and materials, which they may wish to take to their own institution.
The network has also developed a guidance toolkit to support colleges and universities with implementing student partnerships, which has been developed from the collective resources of a range of Jisc, Higher Education Academy, QAA and institutional initiatives in this area. Delegates will participate in a group activity using these interactive materials so as to evaluate their use in supporting their own practice in taking forward student partnership working in their own institutions. Find out more about the Change Agents Network and follow it on Twitter (or #CAN2014)
Generating Stakeholder Buy-In to Establish a Culture of AssessmentExamSoft
Presented by Karen Bobak and Lisa Bloom
Vertical- Chiropractic
Using assessment data to make decisions regarding curriculum and instruction cannot be isolated to an administrative office. In order for data to have a meaningful and lasting impact on the academic program, it is important to solicit diverse stakeholder perspectives and provide opportunities for faculty engagement at every stage of the assessment process development. Developing collaborations in order to achieve incremental goals helps to establish a pattern of success and creates a vision of future accomplishments and an institutional culture of assessment. Each institution has unique needs. This workshop is designed to provide small group interaction to help attendees target optimal strategies doe their institutions.
At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
1) Identify why stakeholder buy-in is important
2) Formulate effective strategies for engagement of faculty and administration
3) Identify principles of Improvement Science to support a process of curriculum review
4) Review longitudinal assessment data to identify curricular gaps
5) Utilize assessment data to develop improvement plans
6) Develop specific strategies tailored to the needs of the participants’ institutions
Digital expectations and the student lifecycle: is engaging with students on ...Jisc
Speaker: Jack Tattersall, senior account manager, Guidebook.
Student expectations now demand their institutions offer a full mobile experience. This 60 minute session will map out the student lifecycle in detail and demonstrate how a mobile app can drive engagement at every stage. We'll discuss the challenges that face universities as they attempt to engage with students during the prospective, onboarding and support stages of the student lifecycle.
Attendees will walk away from this session with ideas on how to drive engagement and improve support through mobile. We'll offer a self-assessment of the university's current engagement performance and an action plan of how they could boost this through mobile technology.
Public School Alumni Engagement and PhilanthropyDaniel Mansoor
Project Alumni is a comprehensive initiative to identify, locate, and engage the alumni of a public school community. Accurate alumni records combined with meaningful alumni engagement lead to substantial and transformative philanthropic support of public schools students, faculty, programs and facilities. Alumni provide advisory, mentoring, networking, academic and professional resources to faculty, students and staff.
GoodWorks Group – a nonprofit and philanthropy consulting firm – provides counsel, advice, and guidance to public schools that wish to create robust alumni networks, programs, and fundraising. dan@goodworksgroup.com
From Jisc's student experience experts group meeting in Birmingham on 21 April 2016.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/student-experience-experts-group-meeting-20-apr-2016
Implementing analytics - Paul Bailey and Dr Nick MooreJisc
Led by Paul Bailey, senior co-design manager, Jisc.
With contribution from Dr Nick Moore, director of ICT at the University of Gloucestershire.
Connect more in Cheltenham 30 June
Designing and developing great courses together - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
Pearson’s course development team helps universities create innovative online and blended courses by providing flexible and scalable services, underpinned by rigorous learning design. We make design suggestions that promote your desired outcomes and after creating the course, track metrics so you can evaluate success.
By participating in the session, you will see examples of great learning design, understand Pearson’s participatory approach to developing courses, share ideas with colleagues, and apply principles to a live example.
2019 Spring Advisory Committee Meeting - self-guided slidesConnectionsUMD
2019 05 Advisory Committee Meeting - self-guided slides - updates from Connections Beyond Sight and Sound on the five key areas of our conceptual framework
Link into your professional network - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
This session will explore how helping teachers to build confidence in their own technical and professional networking skills, showing teachers how to use and become proficient with LinkedIn and how to transfer those skills to students can lead to employment for students.
The session will show case the Learning Futures/Education and Training Foundation funded resources for the FE and skills sector that its is anticipated may be embedded into a future Jisc service that is currently in the R&D phase.
Making the most of microlearning: ideas and insightsJisc
Speaker: Helen Dixon, digital learning technologist and coach, Northern Regional College.
This interactive workshop will explore the concept of microlearning and look at ways in which it can be used formally and informally with staff and students to develop digital capabilities.
Participants will be given the opportunity to explore activity mapping and social learning and will be encouraged to share their ideas and experiences
The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) has broken new ground with its Zx23 Project a yearlong grant-funded program to encourage every community college in the state to launch a Z-Degree or zero textbook cost degree program using open educational resources (OER). VCCS is using a collaborative model to develop and share OER-based courses across the entire system, using the VCCS system-wide Blackboard implementation and Lumen-supported OER course content. This enables institutions to expedite progress by viewing and building on each other’s work. Presenters from VCCS and Lumen Learning share program goals and approach, the collaborative course-sharing model (including VCCS’s very cool open course sharing site), progress to date, and advice for others exploring OER degree programs.
Generating Stakeholder Buy-In to Establish a Culture of AssessmentExamSoft
Presented by Karen Bobak and Lisa Bloom
Vertical- Chiropractic
Using assessment data to make decisions regarding curriculum and instruction cannot be isolated to an administrative office. In order for data to have a meaningful and lasting impact on the academic program, it is important to solicit diverse stakeholder perspectives and provide opportunities for faculty engagement at every stage of the assessment process development. Developing collaborations in order to achieve incremental goals helps to establish a pattern of success and creates a vision of future accomplishments and an institutional culture of assessment. Each institution has unique needs. This workshop is designed to provide small group interaction to help attendees target optimal strategies doe their institutions.
At the end of the session, participants will be able to:
1) Identify why stakeholder buy-in is important
2) Formulate effective strategies for engagement of faculty and administration
3) Identify principles of Improvement Science to support a process of curriculum review
4) Review longitudinal assessment data to identify curricular gaps
5) Utilize assessment data to develop improvement plans
6) Develop specific strategies tailored to the needs of the participants’ institutions
Digital expectations and the student lifecycle: is engaging with students on ...Jisc
Speaker: Jack Tattersall, senior account manager, Guidebook.
Student expectations now demand their institutions offer a full mobile experience. This 60 minute session will map out the student lifecycle in detail and demonstrate how a mobile app can drive engagement at every stage. We'll discuss the challenges that face universities as they attempt to engage with students during the prospective, onboarding and support stages of the student lifecycle.
Attendees will walk away from this session with ideas on how to drive engagement and improve support through mobile. We'll offer a self-assessment of the university's current engagement performance and an action plan of how they could boost this through mobile technology.
Public School Alumni Engagement and PhilanthropyDaniel Mansoor
Project Alumni is a comprehensive initiative to identify, locate, and engage the alumni of a public school community. Accurate alumni records combined with meaningful alumni engagement lead to substantial and transformative philanthropic support of public schools students, faculty, programs and facilities. Alumni provide advisory, mentoring, networking, academic and professional resources to faculty, students and staff.
GoodWorks Group – a nonprofit and philanthropy consulting firm – provides counsel, advice, and guidance to public schools that wish to create robust alumni networks, programs, and fundraising. dan@goodworksgroup.com
From Jisc's student experience experts group meeting in Birmingham on 21 April 2016.
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/student-experience-experts-group-meeting-20-apr-2016
Implementing analytics - Paul Bailey and Dr Nick MooreJisc
Led by Paul Bailey, senior co-design manager, Jisc.
With contribution from Dr Nick Moore, director of ICT at the University of Gloucestershire.
Connect more in Cheltenham 30 June
Designing and developing great courses together - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
Pearson’s course development team helps universities create innovative online and blended courses by providing flexible and scalable services, underpinned by rigorous learning design. We make design suggestions that promote your desired outcomes and after creating the course, track metrics so you can evaluate success.
By participating in the session, you will see examples of great learning design, understand Pearson’s participatory approach to developing courses, share ideas with colleagues, and apply principles to a live example.
2019 Spring Advisory Committee Meeting - self-guided slidesConnectionsUMD
2019 05 Advisory Committee Meeting - self-guided slides - updates from Connections Beyond Sight and Sound on the five key areas of our conceptual framework
Link into your professional network - Jisc Digifest 2016Jisc
This session will explore how helping teachers to build confidence in their own technical and professional networking skills, showing teachers how to use and become proficient with LinkedIn and how to transfer those skills to students can lead to employment for students.
The session will show case the Learning Futures/Education and Training Foundation funded resources for the FE and skills sector that its is anticipated may be embedded into a future Jisc service that is currently in the R&D phase.
Making the most of microlearning: ideas and insightsJisc
Speaker: Helen Dixon, digital learning technologist and coach, Northern Regional College.
This interactive workshop will explore the concept of microlearning and look at ways in which it can be used formally and informally with staff and students to develop digital capabilities.
Participants will be given the opportunity to explore activity mapping and social learning and will be encouraged to share their ideas and experiences
The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) has broken new ground with its Zx23 Project a yearlong grant-funded program to encourage every community college in the state to launch a Z-Degree or zero textbook cost degree program using open educational resources (OER). VCCS is using a collaborative model to develop and share OER-based courses across the entire system, using the VCCS system-wide Blackboard implementation and Lumen-supported OER course content. This enables institutions to expedite progress by viewing and building on each other’s work. Presenters from VCCS and Lumen Learning share program goals and approach, the collaborative course-sharing model (including VCCS’s very cool open course sharing site), progress to date, and advice for others exploring OER degree programs.
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Prospective Student Web Content Team - University of Edinburgh intro sessionNeil Allison
Introductory presentation and workshop organised by the University of Edinburgh's new Prospective Student Web Content Team. Sessions run for University staff involved in web marketing, recruitment and admissions during December 2019.
Changing current practice to meet the needs of learners and societyJisc
A presentation from Connect More by Dale Clancy, independent learning specialist, Borders College.
Pre-COVID alterations to the way that the electrical apprenticeship has been delivered, in a remote wide reaching area, has brought around positives in student engagement, skills and achievement during the current crisis.
Teaching and learning has had to be adapted across the world, but in most cases assessment has not or has been less flexible. Is there a case now to alter the way learners are assessed now more than ever?
This session briefly highlights the tools used to engage learners, skills they have developed, and obstacles in assessment which could be adopted to suit modern learners and society in both theory and practical environments.
New (?) Perspectives and Opportunities for Career ProgrammingWisr
With a background in the corporate world and a strong understanding of the needs of companies from a recruitment perspective, Hank is helping Denison move from transactional to transformational with its students and alumni. By asking the question to students “What Kind of Life Do I Want to Lead?”, the alumni association and the Knowlton Center for Career Exploration can better meet the needs of students and alumni.
Forging Successful Learning Centers: Critical Considerations and Evidence-Bas...Lisa D'Adamo-Weinstein
Forging Successful Learning Centers: Critical Considerations and Evidence-Based Practices for New LC Directors
Presented at NCLCA 2021 Annual Conference
Stepping into an LC leadership role and feeling overwhelmed about how to focus your efforts? Join members of the NCLCA Past Presidents Council for an in-depth exploration of evidence-based best practices that will help you improve the infrastructure and operations of your center.
Breakout groups will allow you to begin forging concrete plans in critical areas, including LC programs and services, utilization of online tools and technology, assessment and evaluation, professional development, and budgets and revenue generation.
Co-presented with NCLCA Past President's Council members Geoff Bailey, Lindy Coleman, Lisa D'Adamo-Weinstein, Jenny Haley, and Laura Sanders as part of the National College Learning Center Association (NCLCA) 47th Annual Conference. Birmingham, AL and online.
Division Meeting - October 1, 2021
UofSC Division of Student Affairs and Academic Support
Staff Senate Overview
Presented by:
- Leena Holt, Parent and Family Programs
- Rushondra James, College of Information and Communications
Updates on Telecommunicating and Class and Comp Study
Presented by:
- Stacey Bradley, Student Affairs and Academic Support
Overview of Lumen Learning progress and milestones over the past year, supporting widespread adoption of open educational resources in U.S. higher education
Everyone agrees that academic departments and central services need to apply joined-up procedures and to work collaboratively, but in reality, frustrating misunderstandings often come between these two interdependent parts of the university. This session will describe a number of initiatives developed at the University of Kent, under the common banner of “Excellence through Partnerships”, which are all aimed at fostering a better understanding between academic schools and central services by enhancing the relationships between professional colleagues in both areas. The presenter will show why and how these initiatives were developed and implemented, discuss their degree of success and suggest learning points that have emerged from the experience. One of the initiatives presented will be a job-shadowing scheme which, the project team believe, proved successful on a second attempt, thanks to its innovative format. Participants will also be given an opportunity to share similar schemes or initiatives introduced in their own institutions and to describe the success and/or problems they have encountered.
Coordinating an industry advisory board for an entrepreneurship courseTodd Warren
Presented at NCIIA Open 2013 on how we recruit and cooridnate an industry advisory board for NUvention Web, a web entrepreneurship course taught at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL
Salesforce Foundation HESUMMIT 2014 7Summits Social Strategies for Successf...7Summits
Engage in a discussion about how leading institutions are applying social technologies to attract new students, engage and retain their existing student population, and inspire and re-connect with alumni.
3. Project Overview
Problem: Lack of central repository for MS Acct Program information and
information that current/former students find interesting
Actions: Define categories, gather content
Results: Newsletter, additional content
Learnings: Individual takeaways discussed at the end of presentation
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4. Scope - Primary Research
• Informational interviews
• Alumni Spotlight: Kevin Rockecharlie
• Community Involvement: Wanda Beverly
4
5. Scope - Primary Research (cont.)
Informational Interview Template
5
6. Scope - Primary Research (cont.)
6
• Alumni Spotlight—Articles and Stories of Alumni
• Kevin Rockecharlie
• MBA & MSA alumnus of UTD
• Founder of BMK
• Skillset for career success:
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Desire
Kevin M. Rockecharlie, CISA
Director of IT Audit Services
7. Scope - Secondary Research
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• Websites for CPA/CMA updates
• Student organizations (ALA, Ascend, etc.) for
upcoming events and event photos
• Professor interviews from one of the project teams in
the day class (ACCT 6388)
• Faculty and staff (Ms. Ensminger, Professor Guan,
etc.) for student projects feedback and alumni
information
8. Scope - Secondary Research (cont.)
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•Initiative formally began in Fall 2015
•Focuses on projects with startups, nonprofit
organizations and small to mid-sized companies
•Hands out flyers in accelerators and sends the business
a Project Connection form
•Completed forms are forwarded to Professor Goodrich
for approval
ProConnect Program
Build the Future – One Project at a Time
Lucretia Ensminger
Business Relationship Manager
11. 11
Hot News
Hot topics and news on campus and in the
professional field
Upcoming Events
Accounting related events both on- and off-
campus
Faculty Spotlight
Articles and interview videos of MSA
professors
Alumni Spotlight
Articles and stories of alumni
Employment Spotlight
Employers that are hiring/have hired alumni
Community Involvement
Introduction and reflection of VITA program
and other community involvement activities
12. Results (cont.)
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• VITA goals:
• Provide information about tax law
• Give general tax advice and guidelines
• Help to avoid tax penalties
Wanda Beverly
Tax Compliance Officer, UTD
27 years of tax and payroll experience
13. Takeaways
Jasyca: Communication skills are very important!
Lisa: Be persistent: even embarrassing
experiences can be learning experiences
Daphne: It is very important to tailor emails to the
specific situation.
Karen: Grammar is very important and practice makes
perfect!
Valiant: Ensure project scope is defined and limit creep
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