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Set Your Guideposts: Defining and Pursuing Success in Competency-Based Education
Corrine (Cori) Gordon | Faculty Coordinator and Lead Faculty of Liberal Arts in the Personalized Learning Program, Northern Arizona University“Ski the slope, not the mountain,” a wise professor once told me—meaning don’t worry about everything you will encounter down the mountain, only focus on what is right in front…
Getting Social in 2019 and Beyond: Lessons for Postsecondary Marketers
Bhupesh Shah | Social Media Program Coordinator, Seneca CollegeSocial media is no longer a nice-to-have—it is an integral part of an overall marketing strategy for any organization. Yet the rate of change for social media presents a challenge…
The Online Cap: Why It’s Critical to Maintain Small Online Class Sizes
Erica Vail Young | Lead Instructional Designer for Digital Initiatives, Purdue UniversityAs an instructional designer, I often make suggestions to faculty on how to make their online courses more engaging for students through project-based learning. I also advocate for building an…
The 60 Year Curriculum: Developing New Educational Models to Serve the Agile Labor Market
Chris Dede | Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at the Graduate School of Education, Harvard UniversityWith the sponsorship of Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education (DCE), I’m participating in an initiative centered on The Sixty Year Curriculum (60YC). The Dean of DCE, Hunt Lambert, is leading…
How Student-Centricity and Substantive Interaction Take CBE to the Next Level
Margaret Moodian | Tutorial Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Brandman UniversityMany people often question whether online teaching in a competency-based education (CBE) program can have the same impact on students’ lives as face-to-face teaching or traditional online programs. My answer…
Small Changes, Large Rewards: How Individualized Emails Increase Classroom Performance
Zoë Cohen | Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine Tucson, University of Arizona“No professor has ever cared about me.” This was a sentence in an email I received from a struggling student in my Physiology of the Immune System course, an upper-division…
How to Circumnavigate Common Roadblocks in Changing the Status Quo: Some Guidance from Experimental Psychology
Alexandra Logue | Research Professor in the Center for Advanced Study in Education, CUNYThere is much existing advice on what higher education leaders should do to change the status quo: Find a faculty champion, compromise, wait, etc. Here I provide some other specific…