Upcoming Live Events
Comprehensive Learner Record: Empowering Embedded Assessment of Competency to Determine Student Readiness for Real-World Problems
Recognizing a preparation-to-practice gap, professional organizations called for a transformation from traditional lecture-based learning, focused on learning concepts, to experiential learning emphasizing competencies. American Association for Colleges of Nursing shared their 2019 vision on how nursing education needs to improve the quality of patient care, requiring a profound pivot in assessing and reporting learning outcomes. Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) provides a holistic approach to assessment that tracks the achievement of competencies across learners’ experiences. In this session, learn about CLR in assessment and how the University of Rochester School of Nursing developed CLR while shifting to a competency-based curriculum during COVID-19.
How We Built This? Series—Accessibility and Assessment: Supporting Students in the New Normal
How We Built This? Series provides a forum for educational leaders to share their sustainable processes and best practices in leading assessment, student success and other initiatives at their institution in a spin-off active dialogue inspired by NPR’s “How I Built This” podcast series.
AEFIS Makerspace: Design Your Success Journey with AEFIS
Let’s create your Success Plan with AEFIS! Our Client Development Team will be available to help you design your assessment success journey and determine how AEFIS can help.
A Collaborative Approach to Preparing Learners with Digital Skills for the 21st Century Workforce
As post-secondary programs engage learners in the wake of COVID-19, 2021 has become a year for skills-driven hiring. Greater Washington Partnership (GWP) is a civic alliance of CEOs dedicated to making the National Capital Region – from Baltimore to Richmond – the most economically dynamic region to live, work, and grow. In 2018, GWP launched Capital CoLAB (“Collaborative of Leaders in Academia and Business”) a network of 24 higher-education institutions including the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Listen in to their strategic assessment plan aligned to skills essential to employers using Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) with ed-tech leader AEFIS.
AEFIS Makerspace: Design Your Success Journey with AEFIS
Let’s create your Success Plan with AEFIS! Our Client Development Team will be available to help you design your assessment success journey and determine how AEFIS can help.
Expanding Professional Learning for Assessment and Improvement
Professional learning in higher education is a precious commodity given shrinking budgets and changes to the higher-ed landscape. To support assessment development efforts, AEFIS and Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) are partnering to broaden the scope for assessment professional development nationwide. Together, they’re expanding SAAL’s “Applying & Leading Assessment in Student Affairs” course and resources to AEFIS Academy - an open online community dedicated to professional learning and networking in assessment, strategic planning, and best practices for teaching and learning. Learn how AEFIS and SAAL collaboration will support those leading assessment activities, and keep higher education leaders current in their work.
Meet Our Partners Series—Assessing Your Non-Academic & Support Units at Texas A&M International
Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) has had great success collecting, analyzing, and making changes based on data within their academic and non-academic units using an intentional workflow and data collection template in AEFIS. This session will focus on non-academic unit assessment, how to efficiently and effectively collaborate with unit leaders, ensure they are collecting the right data on a regular cadence, and empower them to use the data to improve their offerings and programming for their learners.
IMS Global & AEFIS: Together, Using Open Standards to Align Learning Outcomes with Industry Skills
The need to provide learners of all ages with skills in addition to academic credentials has been highlighted well before COVID-19. As vaccines rollout and job reports deliver mixed news, the national conversation about skills and academic credentials amongst practitioners center on if there are ways to manage these seemingly disparate needs. According to a new report by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), “The alignment of educational outcomes with workforce needs plays an essential role in promoting both individual socioeconomic mobility and national economic growth and competitiveness.” In this session, we’ll explore what solutions can support the learner-to-earner trajectory, and how technology can utilize foundational open standards.
“Assessment: The Musical!”—Episode 17 Empowering Collaboration Across Your Institution
Assessment, in general, can make a great musical… Come for some comic relief, share your assessment of drama, comedy, and heroic efforts. Let’s discuss how to turn all the drama into a success story!
Active Learning Lab (ALL) Series—Designing Your Comprehensive Learner Record Blueprint with AEFIS
AEFIS Active Learning Lab or ALL workshop series is a participant-driven, hands-on experience for users who want to learn how to more efficiently implement assessment processes and solutions on their campuses using AEFIS. ALL offers all-inclusive sessions on selected topics where attendees can learn and build solutions specific to their institution or program via a backward-design approach. Using the Edcamp Model “unconference” delivery, this active learning experience focuses on what partners need to know and want to put into action on their campuses tomorrow.
AEFIS Makerspace: Design Your Success Journey with AEFIS
Let’s create your Success Plan with AEFIS! Our Client Development Team will be available to help you design your assessment success journey and determine how AEFIS can help.
AEFIS Virtual Yoga Level 1: 15-Minute Easy Stretching & Meditation While Sitting at Your Desk
This activity is intended for everyone and no experience necessary. All you need to do is show up!
