Grant McMillan
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Well, it has been quite a year! COVID-19 has pushed us hard. And in my last blog post of the year, I am not going to dwell on it or look back on it because nobody needs that. What I am going to say is you make me proud. I was speaking with someone who… Read More Kudos to YOU!
Supporting Student Success
OCTOBER 8, 2020
By: Tricia Seifert. When I was a kid, I dreamt of traveling the world. I remember friends from a youth organization (4-H) hosting an exchange student from Japan. I was in grade 4 and I wanted to learn all about this student’s life back home and how it compared to her experience in the US. When I was in high school, I begged my parents to become a host family.
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Will Richardson
APRIL 23, 2020
As educators, parents, and students have scrambled over the past couple of months to figure out how to move school online quickly and at scale, I can’t help but be reminded of a pivotal scene in the movie Apollo 13. After having to abandon their trip to the moon due to an explosion, the three astronauts suddenly find themselves struggling for oxygen in their emergency home in a lunar module designed to support only two people.
The Change Leader, Inc.
DECEMBER 29, 2020
The year 2020 has been a year of crises and opportunities in higher education. The year’s challenges have given higher ed institutions a chance to practice change management, as well as necessitated a sustained focus to build leadership capacity for higher ed and more targeted higher ed branding.
Terminalfour
DECEMBER 16, 2020
The Heist Awards, is a staple in the education marketing calendar, celebrating brilliance and innovation across the sector.
Teaching Matters Experiential Learning
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Image Credit: Design by Joe Arton This podcast series focuses on creative approaches to practicals and field work in online and hybrid spaces. Robbie Nicol, a professor of place based education, and Heidi Smith, a lecturer of outdoor learning at Moray House School of Education and Sport, discuss the critical role of place based education in hybrid teaching and learning and it’s capacity to support health and wellbeing.
Credo Higher Ed
DECEMBER 9, 2020
Photo Credit: NCICU.org. North Carolina Independent College and Universities (NCICU) and Credo are pleased to announce a partnership to improve student outcomes across the North Carolina independent college and university sector. The first cohort will launch in August 2021.
Student Affairs Connection brings together the best content for student affair professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Teaching Matters Online Learning
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Haoran Wei- garden, Qingdou, China In this second part to the post from December 1st, 2020 , the authors illustrate how the shift to hybrid learning has enabled them to rethink and revalue the pedagogical approach to “reading” sites from a distance in their Architecture course design… “Reading” sites from a distance The increasingly globalised condition of twenty-first century landscape/ architectural design practice has been argued to intensify spatial and ecological design d
Higher Ed Connects: Diversity
DECEMBER 1, 2020
by Terri E. Givens. As a political scientist I am acutely aware that the November election was an indicator of the ongoing divides in our country. I wrote my book, Radical Empathy , in part to address those divides, but there are many divides that are impacting our country, leading to divisions within families and across communities. Institutions of higher education often find themselves in the middle of these divides as they work to address longstanding practices that hurt women and minorities,
Teaching Matters Student Engagement
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
Photo Credit: Daniel Mutia MCF Kickabout In this fourth post in our Spotlight Series: Voices of Movers and Shakers , Daniel Mutia a fourth year MasterCard Foundation Scholar studying BEng (Hons) Electronics and Electrical Engineering describes the transformative power of Edinburgh University Sport Union and how it can support leadership development, mental wellbeing, and a sense of belonging… Sport has the power to change the world…it has the power to inspire.
Teaching Matters Academic Support
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
All photos courtesy of Oscar Ukwizagira In this fourth post for the “ Spotlight: Voices of Movers and Shakers” series , Oscar Ukwizagira, a student in Civil Engineering, tells us about his journey joining the University’s Karate Club and how it has contributed to his overall wellbeing, sense of belonging and leadership skills… “An athlete is a normal person with a gift of an undying passion to be the best and achieve greatness” – Amanda Ring.
Goucher DEI
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
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Will Richardson
MARCH 28, 2020
Right now, we have millions of parents shouldered up to their children trying to help them do school. I’m reading a fair share of both funny and sad accounts of parents who are trying to navigate this new role of surrogate teacher or coach in terms of setting schedules or giving feedback or making the technology work or just getting “coverage” Frustration levels are high, and my sense is that most parents can’t wait for this to be over and will be happy to send their kids
The Change Leader, Inc.
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Strategic board leadership is an emerging paradigm of university governance that can help higher education institutions navigate multiple challenges. This podcast features Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Henry Stoever, president of AGB. Changing Paradigm of University Governance Typically, higher education boards are made up of individuals who are appointed as trustees because they have made significant philanthropic contributions, either to the institution or, in the case of public universities, to a
Terminalfour
DECEMBER 9, 2020
At a time when new and prospective students are navigating unprecedented change, the role of the student ambassador has never been more important.
Teaching Matters Experiential Learning
DECEMBER 8, 2020
Photo credit: Glen Cousquer This month’s short issue will focus on things not going as expected in our learning and teaching environments and how we might turn these experiences into opportunities. There is a lot of pressure in academia to get things right first time, to excel, to demonstrate how much we know, to communicate to others what we can do, and to maintain the sense of the University as a site of higher learning.
Credo Higher Ed
DECEMBER 4, 2020
Credo is thrilled to announce Dr. Mary Dana Hinton, President of Hollins University, as the recipient of our eighth annual Courageous Leadership Award.
CU Work-Life Balance
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
CU custom courses, housed in Skillsoft, help CU campuses and departments meet their training needs, advance university goals, and, as shown in the examples below, may even help save lives. The Employee Learning and Development team’s instructional designers partner with campus departments to develop CU-specific courses that have the potential to make a significant impact.
Teaching Matters Online Learning
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Image Credit: Remix by Joe Arton. Originals, Jonathan Francisca Unsplash and Duncan Kidd Unsplash. Welcome to November’s Issue: Creative Approaches to Practicals and Fieldwork in Online/Hybrid spaces. As colleagues worked hard over the summer to envisage how they were going to teach their courses this autumn, there was one question I was asked by many people: how are we going to teach practicals and fieldwork?
Teaching Matters Academic Communities
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
Image Credit: Remix by Joe Arton. Originals, Riccardo Annandale Unsplash and William Marsden, University of Edinburgh Collections Catalogue No. 0054810. In this latest post in our Spotlight: Voices of Movers and Shakers series, Martine Irakoze a Mastercard Scholar at the University of Edinburgh in International Relations & International Law tells the story of her leadership journey, who she is as an activist, entrepreneur and student leader and the struggles and mental pressures behind her s
Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs
NOVEMBER 1, 2020
by Dawn DiPeri. The American Council on Education surveyed 2,000 college students in April 2020 and found that 20% of them were unclear about their plans for the 2020/2021 school year. Instead of returning to campus, several of these students embarked on a gap year. The gap year is a common practice in Europe, but since the pandemic it has become a popular choice for college students all over the world.
Blackboard Higher Education
OCTOBER 29, 2020
As members of the newly formed Blackboard Student Advisory Council, we’ll be expanding upon Blackboard’s ongoing commitment to student success by sharing our voices with the company as it plans and designs its software and solutions. We’ll play a critical role in ensuring the student perspective is incorporated into the company’s product planning and design.
Collegis Education Data Management
OCTOBER 28, 2020
At Collegis Education, data is in our DNA. It’s the foundation of everything we do. Higher education institutions have a mountain of data at their fingertips. But for many, the more data they have, the more challenging it can be to find meaning in it. It’s far too easy for patterns and insights to become hidden in the rows and columns of a daunting spreadsheet.
Will Richardson
MAY 26, 2020
With respect to those who stand in awe of all that’s changed about schools in the past few months, I would ask “what’s actually changed?” I don’t mean to minimize the incredible work that educators around the world have done to respond to this crisis. It’s amazing the scale and speed with which we moved from physical space to remote schooling.
The Change Leader, Inc.
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
There are two components of this: one where agreement may be found, and one where there will be disagreement. The first is the general acceptance that education—and especially higher education--has to be faster, better and less expensive. However, the second, that higher education needs to be more accessible to people.
Terminalfour
NOVEMBER 22, 2020
This week we bring you our social media round-up, showing you the latest developments you need to factor into your communications and marketing activities.
Teaching Matters Experiential Learning
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Image Credit: Richard Fitzpatrick, a top view of CaMKII (a protein used in memory formation) in a Minecraft world created using Minecraft blocks. In this post, Richard Fitzpatrick a final year PhD student working in the Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences as part of the University of Edinburgh-Zhejiang University partnership, explains how the popular sandbox videogame Minecraft can be used for teaching and how it can lead to sustained engagement, enthusiasm, and creativity.
Credo Higher Ed
OCTOBER 29, 2020
The COVID-19 world pandemic has created academic, social, and financial crises on our campuses and has quickly and dramatically changed the landscape of higher education. Educational leaders across the country are attempting to respond to these crises by determining safe and effective models for their educational systems. There is no doubt that COVID-19 has been one of the most deadly and disruptive viruses in over a century.
Teaching Matters Academic Support
OCTOBER 27, 2020
Photo credit: Cristina Gottardi, Unsplash CC0 In this post, Fingal Dorman, Counsellor at the University’s Student Counselling Service, reflects on the challenges of carrying on with his work from home and the importance of providing a solid space for students in particularly disquieting times… These times are unsettling. At a time when we have all been enclosed in our separate boxes, I’d like to give a window into what the Student Counselling Service looks like in this time: how we h
Teaching Matters Online Learning
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Photo credit: Luca Bravo, Unsplash CC0 In this post, Thomas Bak and Brittany Blankinship, from the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, summarise the findings from a study they conducted on comparing face to face and online teaching, addressing how expectations influence satisfaction… Imagine that you are booked on a very nice-looking beach holiday, sunshine, warm sea, cool drinks in the shade; and all this in an attractive historic town.
Teaching Matters Academic Communities
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Photo by Ellie Morag In this post, Johanna Holtan, Program Director of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program, introduces the new Spotlight Series: Voices of Movers and Shakers that will feature writings by Mastercard Foundation Scholars on disruptive learning practices, transformational leadership, activism in and outside the classroom, and more… I’m very proud to launch a collaborative blog series between Teaching Matters and the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at Edinburgh.
Higher Ed Connects: Technology
OCTOBER 1, 2020
by Dawn DiPeri. A curated list for higher-ed administrators. How to work from home – with breaks from the screen, exercises for the eyes and body, and tips for reducing the need for excessive online meetings. . Since COVID-19 arrived, record numbers of higher-education administrators and staff working remotely have been inundated with web conferences, online meetings, and webinars using various online conferencing software such as Zoom, Google Meets, Google Hangouts, Facetime, Skype, Adobe Conn
Blackboard Higher Education
OCTOBER 26, 2020
¿Puede la IA mejorar la forma en que las instituciones atienden a sus estudiantes? Una encuesta reciente realizada por Blackboard y la University Business reveló algunas ideas interesantes sobre el sentir de la educación superior con respecto a la inteligencia artificial. La encuesta consultó a miembros de educación superior en la University Business, incluyendo a 130 participantes quienes ocupan una variedad de cargos de alto nivel, incluidos CIO, CTO, líderes de inscripción y admisión, preside
EAB
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Use the industry-wide data and resources below to inform your graduate, online, and adult degree completer growth strategy. Data shown on this page is drawn from EAB’s Organizational Benchmarking Survey. The survey collects over 80 different data points from nearly 300 institutions on academic governance, portfolio composition, and revenue outcomes for professional, continuing, and online education divisions.
Will Richardson
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
I’ve been expending a lot of bandwidth lately reading and thinking about the meta story of school, not just the history of the system and of pedagogy, but, more specifically, the motivations behind the story we’re currently living and how they effect the potential for deep and powerful learning that we all say we want for kids. That means diving into some new (to me) edu-historians and thinkers and trying to connect what I’m learning to others who have been tweaking my thinkin
The Change Leader, Inc.
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
With the various factors (the pandemic, the recent election, social unrest, etc.) roiling the nation, reputation management and crisis management have never been more important in higher education. This podcast features Bill Coletti, the CEO of Kith. His company has worked with a number of institutions, including large universities who faced outcries due to sexual harassment challenges as well as institutions that are undertaking mergers.
Terminalfour
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
This week we review the creative online experiences universities used to bring students together safely this Halloween.
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