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Creating Experiential Learning Using Social Media
Learn how you can create social media-based experiential learning activities that improve student engagement and promote the development of valuable networks.
Social media tools, including Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram, and YouTube, are changing the way students and faculty communicate, share ideas, and build networks. As with many other technologies, the educational community has harnessed the potential of these resources to improve teaching and learning.
Join us online as we showcase evidence-based uses of social media in student learning. We will show ways you can use social media to create experiential learning activities, improve student engagement that extends outside of the classroom, and develop community and professional networks.
A UNIQUE WEBCAST FORMAT
Throughout the webcast our expert instructors will be showing social media tools as they apply to teaching and learning activities. We will show real-time examples of course activities that utilize different forms of social media.
In order to maximize your learning and engagement throughout the webcast, we encourage you to set up or login to your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, or Google+ accounts.
FREE RESOURCES
As part of this webcast, we will send you a list of social media you can use in innovative ways for teaching and learning to better communicate, share ideas, and build communities.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Whether your institution is already using social media in the classroom or not, you will leave this webcast with a wealth of new ideas. The webcast content is especially pertinent for faculty, faculty developers, instructional designers and technologists, academic computing services, and student computing services administrators.
Tuesday 5/21/2013
Online
, $350.00
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Financial Literacy Programs: Increasing Awareness and Participation
Learn how you can reach more students and increase participation in your financial literacy programs.
With student loan default rates steadily rising, many schools are offering financial literacy programming as a part of their default prevention and student success strategies. However, these programs are of little use if students do not take advantage of them. What should schools do to increase student participation?
Join us online to learn what you can do to expand the reach of your financial literacy program. Our expert instructors will begin by discussing the findings of a recent study conducted by the National Student Loan Program and continue by showcasing examples from Indiana University and other campuses. You will learn how you can scale these ideas to your institution, how you can market these programs to students, and ways to integrate them into programs you likely already have.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This content is well-suited for professionals at institutions looking for actionable solutions to increase student participation in financial literacy programming, including:
First-year student seminars and programming directors, assistant directors, and coordinators
Orientation directors, assistant directors, and coordinators
Financial aid professionals
Registrars and bursars
Retention specialists
At-risk student program directors, assistant directors, and coordinators
Peer mentor program directors, assistant directors, and coordinators
Residential life programming professionals
Professionals responsible for student wellness initiatives
Wednesday 5/22/2013
Online
, $350.00
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Designing a Sophomore Living-Learning Community
Retain more students through a living-learning program designed specifically for sophomores.
A well-designed sophomore living experience program applies student development theory to sophomores, fosters student engagement, increases interaction with faculty and staff, and increases retention.
Join us online to learn specific steps you can take to get your sophomore living-learning community program off the ground or what you can do to improve an existing program. Our expert instructors will share information about the following:
Considerations to use when designing a sophomore living-learning community
Identifying partnerships you need to pursue for an effective sophomore living-learning community
How to assess the success of your program using best practices and national assessment instruments
INCLUDED WITH YOUR REGISTRATION
Included with your registration is a 30-minute recording taken from a portion of a 2010 Academic Impressions webcast. This recording will orient you to our instructors’ theoretical framework for sophomore-year programming and will provide a brief overview of the history of sophomore initiatives. We will send this recording to you shortly before the live session.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Administrators interested in creating a living component for the sophomore-year experience or those who are seeking ways to enhance their existing program will benefit from this webcast.
EXPAND YOUR TRAINING LIBRARY
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Wednesday 5/29/2013
Online
, $350.00
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Measuring Market Position to Inform Strategic Enrollment Management
Learn how you can analyze data to measure your market position, benchmark against your competitors, and inform your enrollment management strategy.
Should you cut your tuition rates? Is your current tuition discount rate effective? Should you consider opening another campus location? Should you expand or cut your program offerings?
All of these questions, and more, are the key issues strategic enrollment managers wrestle with each day. The schools that have been most successful in growing their enrollment over the past few years are those that have answered these questions by having a clear sense of their market position.
Join us in Newport Beach to learn how you can use readily available data and simple analyses to measure your market position, benchmark against your competitors, and inform your enrollment management strategy. With the help of our expert instructors, we will guide you through a market analysis, help you interpret what the data means, and give you ideas for turning that knowledge into strategy for your campus leadership team.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This conference is appropriate for enrollment managers, strategic planners, institutional researchers and other higher education professionals involved in strategic enrollment management. Considering the blend of strategic and tactical content of this program, participants are encouraged to attend as cross-functional teams. While data analysis will be the focus of much of our learning, you do not need to be a data expert to benefit from the discussion. Sample data sets will be provided.
WHAT TO BRING
Because we will be working with various data sets (spreadsheets, etc.) provided by the conference instructors, you will need a laptop with Microsoft Excel to fully participate.
OPTIONAL PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
Market Position 101
This lecture-style workshop will provide an overview of marketing and economic principles that will be needed to fully grasp and apply the conference content to your institution. Our instructor will focus on the following:
What is market position?
What informs market position?
How does market position relate to identity, branding and differentiation?
Why is it important for enrollment management?
Wednesday 5/29/2013 thru Friday 5/31/2013
Newport Beach, CA
, $1095.00/$395.00 for workshop
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Measuring the Success of Your Retention Efforts
Learn how you can use various data indicators to assess your institution’s retention efforts.
Are your retention goals realistic? What parts of your retention efforts are the most or least effective? Which efforts are the most cost-effective? Knowing the answers to these questions will help you assess your retention programming and identify opportunities for improvement.
Join us for a conference designed to help you understand the four main areas of retention measurement to focus on: institutional outcomes, performance outcomes, learning outcomes and the ROI of retention initiatives.
With the help of our expert instructors, you will learn how to find, analyze, and understand various data points to create a framework for assessing your institution’s overall retention strategy and your institution’s individual retention programs or initiatives.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
You do not have to be an expert with data or have a background in statistical analysis to benefit from this conference. The information that will be shared and the hands-on activities we’ve designed are appropriate for any higher education professional charged with improving retention, including: enrollment managers, student and academic affairs leaders, and assessment coordinators or committee members. Four-year and two-year institutions alike will benefit from this conference.
Wednesday 5/29/2013 thru Friday 5/31/2013
Denver, CO
, $1,395.00/$395.00 for optional workshop
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