Developing a culture of continuous improvement in your business enhances employee knowledge and academic performance. This leads to success for your organization and provides employees with opportunities to improve their skills; they will feel more engaged and motivated at work. It is essential to remember that turnover increases without access to these opportunities because it becomes easier for employees to feel that their career is in a holding pattern. This is where blended learning can assist.

As colleges and universities pursue their digital transformation journeys, budget restrictions, lack of buy-in and other roadblocks often stand in the way of strategic goals. Here, we take the pulse of institutions' Dx efforts, where resources are being spent, top challenges and more.

Las competencias digitales que precisamos los docentes hace ya algún tiempo (2017) que están establecidas en ese famoso marco común europeo de la competencia digital de los educadores (DigCompEdu). Pero es ahora cuando arranca la esperada (y temida) certificación oficial de dichas competencias. Unas competencias donde las tecnologías digitales se contemplan como un medio, y no como un fin, superando un modelo anterior basado más en determinadas herramientas o productos de ciertas empresas tecnológicas. 

Technology is changing our world to such an extent that the majority of children in school today will do jobs that don’t yet exist. And even for those of us already in the workforce, the jobs that we do will undoubtedly change – many will evolve, many will become obsolete, and many new jobs will emerge.

So, when we think about the essential skills for workplace success, we need to consider not just the jobs that exist today, but the sorts of jobs that may exist in the future. In a world in which more and more jobs (and parts of jobs) are given over to machines.

​The challenges facing students and institutions call for a holistic approach that centers student success, well-being and belonging, Mary Dana Hinton writes.

Institutional repositories (IR) maintained by research libraries play a central role in providing open access to taxpayer-funded research products. It is difficult to measure the extent to which IR contribute to new scholarship because publisher self-archiving policies typically require researchers to cite the “version of record” of a manuscript even when an IR copy is accessed to conduct the research. While some studies report an open access (OA) citation advantage resulting from the availability of self-archived or “green” OA manuscripts, few have sought to measure an OA citation effect of IR separately from disciplinary repositories, including arXiv and PubMed Central. In this study, the authors present a bibliometric analysis examining correlations between search engine performance of items in IR, OA availability from different types of repositories, and citations. The analysis uses a novel, open dataset of IR access and usage derived from five months of Google search engine results pages (SERP) data, which were aggregated by the Repository Analytics and Metrics Portal (RAMP) web service. Findings indicate that making OA copies of manuscripts available in self-archiving or “green” repositories results in a positive citation effect, although the disciplinary repositories within the sample significantly outperform the other types of OA services analyzed. Also evident is an increase in citations when a single manuscript is available in multiple OA sources.

To lead change effectively, a leader must have a growth mindset to embrace the challenge and define a vision, be able to ask questions, use structured problem solving, exercise agility, listen actively, and importantly, build coalitions and inspire their team to forge ahead to implement the change.

The best way for institutions to achieve digital transformation in higher education institutions is through acquiring effective software.