With the University of Wisconsin's board expected to vote soon on new tenure policies, Raymond W. Cross, the system's president, describes the challenges he faces in both reassuring professors and making lawmakers more supportive of higher educ
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Some time ago I asked our senior academic managers to revisit the essential elements of our student learning environment. As the college continued to grow rapidly, we knew re-examining our basic assumptions and practices related to student learning would only get more difficult as the numbers of faculty, courses, students and learning resources increased exponentially.
In 1986, I returned to Malaysia with a PhD in Physics and was thrusted into the world of distance education in the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) on the island of Penang in Malaysia. Distance
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While test scores can predict academic success, self-management and relationship skills may better prepare students to thrive and graduate.
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This article in the Atlantic made me reflect about our way of learning and the way we work. We often focus on technology solutions as that is the rapidly changing landscape we currently live in, and these solutions are often enabling. However while I've tried to weave social learning into the fabric of my work here, perhaps we need to consider emotional aspects as well?
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March 2, 2016 4:57 PM
This article in the Atlantic made me reflect about our way of learning and the way we work. We often focus on technology solutions as that is the rapidly changing landscape we currently live in, and these solutions are often enabling. However while I've tried to weave social learning into the fabric of my work here, perhaps we need to consider emotional aspects as well?
The student experience is always high on the agenda for any educational establishment.
If you’ve been working in higher education (HE) for a while, you’ll know that the latest Higher Education Commission (HEC) report ‘From Bricks to Clicks: the Potential of Data and Analytics in Higher Education’ is welcome research. It brings into the spotlight the conversation about the strategic role that data and digital can play in HE.
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I love this “One thing I’m very well aware of is the (higher education) model is going to need to change and it will change fast,” he said. “I think education is going to be completely different 10 years from now. Those universities that adapt to online education, that adapt to portability of their courses, that have a larger footprint than just the north of Australia, are going to be far more flexible in meeting that change.”
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One of the great things about the academic community is its culture of collaboration and communication, particularly when figuring out ways to better support the student experience. True, there remains a competitive culture, as seen in our student tours, college athletics branding and college rankings.
As leaders and managers in higher education, we often find ourselves in situations that require us to think outside the box in our interactions with faculty to continually improve student success in our classrooms. Our instructors are the face of our college in student interactions and should always be “top of mind.” Instructors help us meet and often exceed our goals and our students’ expectations, but what do we do when we have low performers?
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A new series of leadership masterclasses is underway, presented by the University’s Centre for Workplace Leadership.
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Forget the monolithic change management programs and focus on the elements of your culture that drive performance.
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Thanks to Paul Duldig (UniMelb) for this link. |
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