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Major Trends Shaping Adult Student Marketing
How do you reach adult students? What media do you use? What are their needs, wants and priorities? How do you compete against for-profit organizations to recruit them? You'll get the answers you need to attract them to your campus during this new online seminar.
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Free Web 2.0 Tools to Use Inside Your LMS
Teaching at the 2.0 level can transform and reinvigorate your classes while unleashing student and faculty potential. This seminar will help you find the most powerful complimentary online applications and explain how to put them to work in your classes.
Best Practices in Risk Management for Student Affairs
Colleges and universities have been faced with a startling rise in litigation over the last decade. Students, faculty, employees – anyone can have a grievance, and sometimes it seems they all do. Every institution needs to carefully examine its policies and practices … lawsuits are simply too costly to allow for anything less than a robust prevention strategy. But where to start?
Engaging Faculty in Departmental Strategic Planning
The typical faculty response to a strategic planning meeting? Plan a strategy for being absent from it. Meet your strategic planning challenges with the help of an engaged, committed faculty.
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Teaching Unprepared Students: Success & Retention Strategies
There are more unprepared students arriving on college campuses than ever before. The number of college students with defined learning disabilities has tripled on campus, while many other students simply have inadequate reading, writing, and study skills. Get practical strategies for improving at-risk students’ skills and increasing student success rates.
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Web Analytics for Recruitment Success
Just mentioning web analytics may cause heart palpitations among people who consider themselves not technically oriented. Fear not. Yes, there are more analytics out there than any sane person needs to know. But you don’t have to use them all. Even more importantly, you don’t need to be a techie to use the analytics that will really improve your site and subsequently, your recruitment efforts.Listen to a preview
Gambling Addiction: Policy, Prevention and Referral
Like alcohol consumption, gambling is a risk-laden behavior that affects a large number of students–and it's widely available on campus. This seminar offers a comprehensive look at how to spot gambling addiction, and outlines important steps universities can take to address the problem in terms of referral, treatment and prevention programming.
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Service-Learning Course Design: What Faculty Need to Know
Faculty members who enrich their teaching with service-learning explore the connections between their disciplines and the critical questions facing local and global society. Creating an effective and meaningful service-learning course requires careful planning and logistical know-how. Get an insightful explanation of the workings of a successful service-learning course.
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Changes in Federal Distance Ed Policy: How You Can Respond
If you are a distance educator, the recent changes in federal policy and regulation are going to affect you. Get a comprehensive update on the latest developments, from a distance educator who actually helped shape the language of the new law.
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Promoting Critical Thinking with Just-in-Time Teaching
The classroom itself has undergone an extreme transformation, thanks to technology and the tremendous popularity of online instruction. Learn how to apply the underpinnings of Just-in-Time Teaching to your online courses, transforming distance learning into a powerful, individualized teaching environment.
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Legal Primer for New Academic Administrators
Higher education practice now carries numerous legal responsibilities for faculty administrators. For new administrators, it can be nerve-jangling to consider the legal ramifications of slipping up when going about your daily duties of faculty management. Proper training is the key to managing legal risks without losing the confidence to perform effectively.
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Writing Reports and Conducting Briefings: An Introduction
With today’s increasing focus on accountability, measurement and results, assessments are most likely a fixture on your campus, and one of your key responsibilities in Student Affairs. That means assessment reporting is also one of your responsibilities–and probably a challenging one. A lot can go wrong with reports and briefings: they can be too jargon-heavy; too detailed; too vague. When they’re negative, a lack of tact can cause real problems with morale and collegiality. But they don’t have to be that way. It is possible to create reports and briefings that are focused, interesting, on-target and–dare we say?–dynamic.
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Strategies for Teaching What You Just Learned
Budget cuts, changing curricula and an increasing focus on interdisciplinary courses are just some of the pressures forcing instructors out of accustomed subject areas and into unfamiliar teaching territory. Get valuable recommendations for maintaining your confidence and remaining an effective instructor, even when teaching outside your comfort zone.
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Managing the Adjunct Pool for Consistent Learning Outcomes
The use of adjuncts is on the rise and will continue to grow as colleges deal with economic challenges by hiring fewer full-time, tenure-track professors. This seminar will outline a system for successfully supporting a large pool of adjuncts, including evaluation, development and assignment.
Increasing Cognitive Engagement in the Online Classroom
Keeping online students engaged is a whole different ballgame. Create an environment where students feel motivated to invest themselves fully in the learning process.
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Prepare Yourself for the Post-LMS World
The future of the Learning Management System is here, and it’s more effective than ever! Find out what administrators need to do now to get ready for the exciting future of improved online learning.
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Law 101 for Faculty Members: How Not to Get Sued
Faculty members today are expected to know and adhere to a host of new legal mandates. Get the necessary tools and information to understand the legal concerns that most commonly impact academia and how to prevent the litigation that can arise from them.
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Tour de Force: Using Assessment to Improve Campus Tour Yields
The campus visit may be the single most important factor in a student’s college selection, and the cornerstone of every great visit is the campus tour. Unfortunately, many campus tour programs fall short when it comes to closing the deal.
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The Keys to a Culture of Assessment: Value and Respect
Learning assessments may never be the hot fudge sundaes of academic life, but they don’t have to be the brussels sprouts, either. Learn how a thoughtful and collaborative approach to assessment programs can win over even the most reluctant faculty and create a healthy environment for growth and change.
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Getting Started with Assessing Institutional Effectiveness
Institutional effectiveness has become increasingly necessary as the demand for services has expanded and the pool of available resources has contracted. Find out how to turn your institutional goals into measurable outcomes and shares her proven 4-step process, which you can easily use to begin assessing your institutional effectiveness.
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Study Abroad & Student Affairs: Best Practices in Health/Safety
Study-abroad programs have to plan for every eventuality, to avoid problems where possible, and to minimize their impact when they do occur. That task can be greatly aided by paying attention to the best practices adopted on the home campus. In particular, student-affairs programs have developed excellent protocols for student health and safety, and they can provide valuable models for study-abroad programs.
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Effective Strategies for the Adult Degree Completion Market
Millions of adults are searching for an institution that fits their unique and constantly changing needs, and positioning your institution to take advantage can ensure strong financial and educational gains. Ensure your institution’s online education options align with proven programs and policies for capitalizing on the adult market.
Student Conduct Administration: 7 Critical Issues & Challenges
Here’s your chance to hear one of the country’s leading authorities on student conduct and academic integrity … on your “home turf.” In this video seminar, Gary Pavela, J.D., will examine trends, issues and best practices in student conduct. You can hear from this important voice in higher ed without leaving your campus.
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Growing Successful Online Programs at a Small School
In the arena of online education, small schools can compete effectively with far larger ones. Learn proven steps for launching new online programs, including how to gain faculty support, identify lead administrators, develop solid instructional designs, and provide technological help during the transition to the new delivery system.
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