Upcoming Live Events
Lightning Talk Series— “A Collaborative Approach to Preparing Learners with Digital Skills for the 21st Century Workforce”
This presentation focuses on the collaboration between the Greater Washington Partnership, a civic alliance of employers and higher education institutions in the Capital Region, from Baltimore to Richmond. One of the higher education institutions in the Partnership is the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. They are collaborating to address the talent gaps in the region by preparing learners with the digital skills needed by the 21st Century Workforce. Listen in to their strategic approach to providing learners with programs and stackable credentials yielding skills linked to specific skills essential to employers.
Lightning Talk Series— “AEFIS Weird Name, Easy Assessment System!”
Helping your university colleagues more effectively assess, provide measurable results, and keeping their eyes on continuous improvement is critical to everyone’s success. Learn how Florida Polytechnic Institute used the implementation of a software called AEFIS, along with training and transparent expectations to streamline course evaluations, unit assessments, and even the SACSCOC Compliance Certification.
Lightning Talk Series—”Successfully Completing Your Self-Study in AEFIS”
Lightning Talks are short, targeted presentations that provide insight into best practices, challenges, and successes in assessment. Listen in as some of the greatest minds and thought leaders share authentic assessment processes, continuous improvement stories, and innovative approaches toward lifelong learning and student success.
Lightning Talk Series: Creating Efficiency— Integrating Your LMS to AEFIS to Link Direct Assessment to Institutional Goals and Outcomes
This Lightning Talk highlights solutions, which can be adapted to any institution size, that facilitate the efficiency of collecting improvement data from learning management systems and other educational technology using AEFIS. This process provides a blueprint for helping faculty choose the appropriate assessments aligned to institutional goals and program outcomes for reporting..
Lightning Talk Series—Assessing Your Strategic Initiatives Using Inclusive, Collaborative Planning at SUNY Oswego
This presentation focuses on the process and transparency for strategic planning at the State University of New York Oswego and how AEFIS Strategic Planning Solution provides a collaborative workspace for empowering faculty and staff to contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
Lightning Talk Series— Author Spotlight: “Exemplars of Assessment in Higher Education—Diverse Approaches to Addressing Accreditation Standards”
This session will provide you with an overview of their journey toward the publication of their new book, Exemplars of Assessment in Higher Education: Diverse Approaches to Addressing Accreditation Standards unpacking key elements, best practices examples, and future opportunities to adapt these models and strategies at your institution.
Lightning Talk Series—What You Need to Say and Do to Make Learning Accessible for All Students at Montgomery County Community College
This session will focus on the advancements made to the accessibility of learning resources for all students. As campuses provide more digital delivery models and resources such as online textbooks, digital progress dashboards, and skills portfolios to enhance student learning, accessibility plans are being revised to ensure that all students can easily participate and use these resources to support their success.
Lightning Talks Series—Assessment for Learning: Engaging Faculty and Students in Reflection and Improvement
Lightning Talks are short, targeted presentations that provide insight into best practices, challenges, and successes in assessment. Listen in as some of the greatest minds and thought leaders share authentic assessment processes, continuous improvement stories, and innovative approaches toward lifelong learning and student success.
Lightning Talk Series—Leading Institutional Effectiveness & Student Employability: Making a Greater Impact Using Interoperability Solutions to Elevate Student Achievement
Higher education is in the midst of a digital transformation—to radically shift its processes to collect data that demonstrate the overall impact on student learning and a clear return on investment. See how leaders are empowering change across their institutions using interoperability solutions which help produce robust evidence to ignite improvement plans which include new experiential learning opportunities for students that prioritize skills in high demand by employers.
Lightning Talks Series—Lessons Learned from Implementing a New Software Institution-Wide
Leading change in higher education is never easy and does not come without a plan that considers your mission, culture, faculty, and your students. This session will focus on strategies to support your change—specifically your digital transformation of assessment for learning and improvement—and scaling this approach across your institution to produce efficiency while also enabling access to meaningful data to drive decision-making. Dr. Davis will discuss UMGC's assessment vision, and process, including sharing their journey, challenges, examples, and instruments that you can use to lead digital transformation at your institution.
Lightning Talks Series—Integrated Planning: The “Difference that Makes a Difference” in Institutional Effectiveness Over Time
Lightning Talks are short, targeted presentations that provide insight into best practices, challenges, and successes in assessment. Listen in as some of the greatest minds and thought leaders share authentic assessment processes, continuous improvement stories, and innovative approaches toward lifelong learning and student success.
Lightning Talks Series—Addressing Problems of Practice: Collaborating with Your Community to Establish a Foundation to Collect Meaningful Data
Digital transformation of your assessment processes is exciting but challenging at the same time. Empowering key stakeholders to contribute and design this digital transformation is essential. Tasks and logistics likely include setting up assessment proficiency scales, translating these scales for your programs, and institution, digitizing manual data collection are all part of the foundation to collect meaningful data for institutional effectiveness and improvement. Having a community to draw information and best practices from gives you the ability to adapt success from other institutions and stakeholders to your process. Hear from Dr. Mike Rudolph from the University of Kentucky who has established a process for ensuring that his 18 colleges are contributing to the foundation of assessment design and collection to ensure that meaningful data is being collected and used in making decisions for continuous improvement and accreditation reporting.
