The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2020

In Merging Higher Education Institutions: A Smart Strategy? Part 1 I discuss the landscape in higher education that continues its transformation (def: is being rocked by change). Between 2014 and 2019, 129 private higher education institutions closed their doors, 18 merged with other privates, and 12 reorganized to consolidate administration. Among public higher education institutions, 11 closed their doors, 20 merged and 33 have acquired private higher education institutions.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 29, 2020

Photo credit: © Mihaela Bodlovic 2019 Festival of Creative Learning In this extra post, Dr. Jule Hildmann, a Senior Research Fellow in Outdoor Environmental Education at Moray House School of Education and Sport, and Dr Andy Cross, Impact Coordinator for the School of GeoSciences, discuss the outcomes of a PTAS-funded project, which explores how an experiential learning framework can be used for designing and evaluating more ‘experiential’ courses… Background Experiential Learning (EL) has

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Hope College Network

JANUARY 24, 2020

As I was doing my college visits as a senior in high school, I constantly found myself asking engineering students if they were able to graduate in four years or if five was more realistic. Hope was the only school that was consistently stating that as an engineering student I would graduate in four years. To be honest I was skeptical about Hope. Why would every other college make students stay for five years?

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Teaching Matters Student Engagement

JANUARY 23, 2020

Photo credit: Unsplash, Edwin Andrade, CC0 In this post, Dr Job Thijssen, Lecturer , and Dr Ross Galloway, Senior Lecturer, both in the School of Physics and Astronomy, argue that using interactive tools in large classes might democratise student participation… Feedback from our own students on traditional physics courses suggests that they want the lecturer to do more derivations on the blackboard.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 21, 2020

Photo credit: Unsplash, Lysander Yuen, CC0 In this post, Dr Varia Christie, Programme Coordinator for the online PG Cert Global Health Challenges, reveals how assessing through editing Wikipedia pages develops students’ skills in communicating knowledge to a wider audience while instilling a sense of social responsibility… What is it that makes significant pedagogical and administrative effort involved in the development and implementation of ‘innovative’ assessment worthwhile?

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Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

JANUARY 15, 2020

by Iris Manning. Business schools teach their students to always keep abreast of what’s going on in the marketplace and what competitors are doing. Colleges are in the business of education, so they should plan accordingly. Especially with today’s demographic changes, like the decreasing birth rate and increasing numbers of nontraditional students , colleges need to find out what’s going on in the student marketplace so they can give the students what they want within their operational objectiv

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

What are the pros and cons of Higher Ed Mergers and Alliances? Let's take a look. Higher education mergers tend to be tenuous for multiple reasons, the biggest reason being is most mergers are not planned in advance.

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Terminalfour

JANUARY 7, 2020

Celebrities frequently endorse products, brands, and even political candidates. But what impact can the famous and emerging influencers have on degree programs?

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

JANUARY 26, 2020

Yes. A curricular approach to student affairs work utilizes the processes and methods of teachers in the classroom and adapts it to the out-of-class setting. Setting learning objectives and planning strategies and engagements with students works regardless of whether they live on campus or not. You may need to think about your curriculum differently, however.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

Photo credit: unsplash, Hendrik Cornelissen, CC0 In this post, Dr Ellie Devenish-Nelson, a Teaching Fellow for the MSc in Biodiversity, Wildlife and Ecosystem Health, based in the Biomedical Teaching Organisation, describes how she implemented an authentic assessment in her online MSc course using role-play scenarios… Designing authentic assessments, such as role-playing, is central to promoting deep learning, student engagement, and providing learners with experience of real-world applica

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Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

JANUARY 15, 2020

By Lisa Hunter. Course scheduling is a critical function at every institution of higher education, but is often given precious little strategic thought. Done with intention, however, the schedule can be an incredibly powerful tool for improving student outcomes. This article will look at the following areas: The challenge: As faculty, we typically think of course scheduling from an individual, or departmental perspective—not as a tool to foster academic progression and ultimately student success

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Dr. Lori Varlotta is president of Hiram College, a small liberal arts college with approximately 1,000 students in the traditional college and 200 in the adult program. She is the campus’ 22nd president, the first female to serve in that role. Academic Restructuring and Prioritization Podcast with Drumm McNaughton and Lori Varlotta.

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Hope College Network

JANUARY 6, 2020

* Note: This post is updated annually in January for newly admitted students. It’s a new year! And a new chapter for you as well. You’ll be starting college life in just a few months. These are exciting times — but let’s be honest, these can be stressful times, too. We want to take the worry out of your upcoming transition to Hope College and Holland, Michigan, so we’ve created a “Countdown to Hope” — your checklist on next steps for financial aid, scholarships and enrollment.

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Terminalfour

JANUARY 16, 2020

The higher education landscape is constantly changing. To help you stay ahead of the curve, we've compiled 10 key things to watch out for as you plan ahead.

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

JANUARY 19, 2020

Residence Hall Associations (RHAs) and Hall Councils are student organizations commonly found in residence halls across the United States. Typical functions for these organizations include student-lead programming, community building efforts, and representation and advocacy around issues of concern to students. When developing a curricular approach, a number of institutions have questioned what role these types of organizations should play under this different model.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 9, 2020

Photo credit: unsplash, Daniel Funes Fuentes, CC0 In this post, Kay Douglas, Schools Liasion Associate for the School of GeoSciences, reflects on what she hopes the current GeoScience Outreach Course students will have achieved through the revamped course and assessment approach come the following August… This term, as I gazed out at our 37 new students on the The GeoScience Outreach course , my feelings were a mixture of trepidation and excitement.

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Higher Ed Connects: Faculty Development

JANUARY 14, 2020

By Steve Joordens. Why are many faculty members seemingly disinterested in keeping on top of, and utilizing, new innovative approaches to education? This article is focused on that question, addressing it from a psychological perspective by highlighting several established phenomena and theories that are seemingly relevant. . These include the power of context, the role of habit, the desire to be seen as competent, and the resistance to engage in learning that feels outside of one’s zone of pr

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

Using strategic risk planning to chart your course in turbulent times for higher education institutions needs to be approached differently than just using the traditional tools. As you read in last month’s blog and newsletter, higher ed is in a maturing and/or declining market; the indicators include enrollment is down across nearly all segments, driven […].

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JANUARY 6, 2020

Happy New Year from Teaching Matters! For our first post in 2020, we are celebrating the top ten viewed Teaching Matters blog posts in 2019. Three of these posts featured in the 2018 top ten , while the other seven were published this year… Teaching Matters in 2019 Teaching Matters readership has continued to grow steadily throughout 2019; the October issue (research-led teaching and learning) attracted over 10,000 hits.

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Terminalfour

JANUARY 23, 2020

In the run up to Christmas UCAS launched a significant update to its end of cycle reports covering admissions trends and the state of unconditional offers.

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

JANUARY 19, 2020

Facilitation guides function as the “lesson plans” for delivering educational strategies in a residential curriculum or curricular approach. Facilitation guides are detailed plans that provide all of the information necessary so that anyone with the appropriate level of training and skills could execute the planned strategy. A department or division that has a fully realized a curriculum will have a catalog of facilitation guides upon which to draw when executing their educational plans for the

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Will Richardson

JANUARY 31, 2020

So, it’s been a while. For someone who has had a blog for almost 20 years in one form or another, I’m wondering what happened last year. Started off with a bang. Posted fairly regularly elsewhere. But I think the white space here for the last year or so captures a larger struggle that I’ve been having with my place in the world and what I want to say and how to best say it.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 4, 2020

Negotiated Rulemaking 2019 podcast with Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Russ Poulin. Dr. Poulin served on the subcommittee on the recent federal Negotiated Rulemaking (Neg Reg) negotiations where he had the opportunity to provide input on recommendations that were voted on by the full committee. He was recently promoted to be the Executive Director of WCET.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 4, 2020

Join us in reflecting on 2019 and our predictions for 2020. The Change Leader CEO and President Drumm McNaughton and Aurora University Vice President for Marketing and Communications Deb Maue share their insights during the second annual wrap-up of happenings in higher education. These show notes offer a follow-up on the pair’s predictions for 2019 as well as insights on what to prepare for with our predictions for 2020.

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Terminalfour

JANUARY 21, 2020

Find out how institutions are making their graduation ceremonies memorable for the right reasons and supporting these occasions with technology.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

What do you think the potential impact of Brexit on Higher Ed will be? Written by The Change Leader's European team member, Dr. Albert Schram.

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Terminalfour

JANUARY 9, 2020

Is your university considering experimenting with TikTok to deliver digital marketing campaigns in 2020?

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Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

JANUARY 6, 2020

Developing a residential curriculum or a divisional curricular approach is hard work. It takes time. It can take years to develop a curriculum that you feel is on solid footing and functioning well. The move to a curricular model is not just about identifying objectives, writing facilitation guides, and completing tasks. There is a lot of work required to change organizational culture, the way you work, and how you understand problems and conceive of solutions.

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Terminalfour

JANUARY 28, 2020

How do you turn colleagues into collaborators and silos into synergetic teams?

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