ASU+GSV Summit 2023 BRAVE NEW WORLD – ASU+GSV April 17-19 (San Diego)
Imagining a new era in which all people have equal access to the future.
OLC Innovate: Education Reimagined – OLC April 18-21 (Nashville)
OLC and MERLOT are pleased to announce OLC Innovate 2023 and the opening of our Call for Proposals. Join us onsite April 18-21, 2023 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, TN (or virtually April 4-6, 2023). Share your innovative ideas with your global network of colleagues, your community, and those who inspire and seek inspiration.
Higher Education: Technology Profiles in Success – Spring – Fierce Education – April 27
Fierce Education presents a free half-day virtual event to showcase how higher education institutions are successfully incorporating and upgrading their technology capabilities to better serve their students and better equip their faculty. Confirmed speakers include University of Texas at Arlington, Clemson University, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), among others.
Teaching Professor Annual Conference – Faculty Focus June 9-11 (New Orleans)
Expand your love of teaching at the Teaching Professor Annual Conference in New Orleans, June 9-11, 2023. Give yourself something to look forward to at the end of your school year: a conference to network, learn, and refocus on why you got into teaching in the first place! This is the conference to delve into pedagogy, share experiences with peers, and reengage your mind and teaching with new insights, new sights, and new friends.
36th USDLA National Distance Learning Conference – USDLA July 17-20 (Orlando)
Many lessons have been learned over the past few years and there are countless new participants and practitioners in the distance and digital learning space. To help us all to reflect on the power and importance of distance education and to collaborate on the ideas and innovations that will move everyone forward, we have selected the theme: “Distance Learning’s Time to Shine.”
InstructureCon 2023 – Instructure – July 26-28 (Denver)
In 2023, InstructureCon is happening in Denver, Colorado, at the beautiful Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center! It’s finally time to get back together again and have the best “eduventure” yet. We’ll have more ways than ever before to collaborate, learn, and have fun, not to mention a very special secret line-up of entertainment.
QM Connect Conference – Quality Matters – November 5-8 (Bloomington, MN)
As an educator, your bold ideas lead the charge in improving experiences and outcomes for learners. From forward-thinking processes to your biggest moon-shot concepts, your expertise can advance QA practices for the entire QM community. You’re invited to take the stage this November to share how you achieve milestones, build momentum and innovate to uplift your colleagues and advance learner success. This is your opportunity to make your voice heard within the QM community!
The Child Care Barrier: The Impacts of Inaccessible and Costly Child Care for Student Parents – Generation Hope
“The Child Care Barrier: The Impacts of Inaccessible and Costly Child Care for Student Parents” explores the complicated waters student parents navigate in order to pursue higher education while simultaneously caring for themselves and their families. Our findings clearly demonstrate the unaddressed caregiving needs and important experiences of student parents, especially those in the D.C. region.
2023 College Hopes & Worries Survey Report – Princeton Review
We surveyed 12,225 college applicants and parents about their dream schools and their biggest college admission and financial aid challenges.
2023 Survey of College and University Chief Academic Officers – Inside Higher Ed
Covers how these institutional leaders think and feel about topics such as:
- The impact of inflation on their institutions’ budgets
- The academic health of their institutions
- The quality of their institutions’ student and faculty supports
- Their overall attitude toward general education requirements, liberal arts education and open educational resources, and much more
What Students Want (and Don’t) From Their Professors – Inside Higher Ed
The latest Student Voice survey reveals perceived barriers to academic success and the top actions students think professors should take. Mixing up teaching styles and being more flexible rank high.
Initial Evaluation of OPM Student Debt Claims – On EdTech
Does an institution working with an OPM for its online programs lead to greater indebtedness for its students? Probably not, but it’s complicated.
University Leaders Weigh in on Value of Online Program Managers – Fierce Education
Many students are looking for flexible online higher education opportunities, and to meet this need with quality online offerings, colleges and universities are turning to online program managers (OPMs) to help them develop, improve, run and recruit students for their online education programs.
ChatGPT in Education: The Pros, Cons and Unknowns of Generative AI – EdTech Magazine
Here’s a fun game: Say the word ChatGPT to a friend or colleague, then watch what happens. There’s a lot of drama swirling around this groundbreaking artificial intelligence chatbot, released in November by the startup OpenAI.
Inside the Quest to Detect (and Tame) ChatGPT – EdSurge
Even before ChatGPT was released, AI experts were exploring how to detect language written by this new kind of bot. On this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we talk with one of those experts, and others who are seeking to build guardrails to help educators successfully adapt to the latest AI technology.
Higher Ed’s Longtime Chief Lobbyist, Unplugged – Inside Higher Ed
Terry Hartle retired last fall after 30 years as the chief government and public affairs officer at the American Council on Education, where he had a front-row seat to virtually every important higher education policy discussion. In this week’s episode of The Key, Hartle talks about the partisanship and inertia that afflicts today’s politics, politicians’ increased questioning and oversight of higher education, and the implications for colleges, their employees and their students.
Excuse Me, Will This Be on the Exam? How to Get Students to Learn the Content, Not Just Memorize – Faculty Focus
Maryellen Weimer will offer evidence-based study strategies that you can implement into your course to help prepare students for exams. Rather than cramming the night before, you can encourage students to take more responsibility in their review techniques and redesign exams to promote learning.
Building Relationships Before Your Course Starts with a Personalized Website – Quality Matters
At the webinar, presenters Janel Heitz and Katherine Ostdiek from Bellevue University explored the reasons why creating a personal website for yourself as an instructor is a valuable way to build rapport and personal connection with online learners — helping to “set the table” for your course. They then reviewed some important features for instructor websites and discussed how you can begin building yours, even with little to no web design experience, in addition to some of the emails, videos, and other elements that can help you connect with your learners.
Investing in the Student Experience: The Technology Foundations of Student Success – Campus Technology
There’s never been a more critical time to focus on higher education’s core constituent: the student. Persistent enrollment declines and the challenges of pandemic recovery, combined with the expansion of alternative credentials, learning modalities, and pathways available to today’s learners, are putting pressure on institutions to improve the student experience. Colleges and universities are investing in technology to meet student expectations for seamless access to resources and personalized support at any time, from anywhere — and laying the foundation for innovation moving forward.
Survey of College and University Chief Academic Officers – Inside Higher Ed – April 12
Join Inside Higher Ed Editors Scott Jaschik and Doug Lederman as they walk through the key findings of the survey during a free webcast on Wednesday, April 12, at 2:00 P.M. ET. During this lively discussion, they will cover how these institutional leaders think and feel about topics such as:
- The impact of inflation on their institutions’ budgets
- The academic health of their institutions
- The quality of their institutions’ student and faculty supports
- Their overall attitude toward general education requirements, liberal arts education and open educational resources, and much more
There’s a lot to unpack here. Register today and tune in to the discussion.