Events

Join industry experts Jim Fong, Leah Jewell, and Pete Janzow for a discussion of the latest findings of research conducted by UPCEA and Pearson on the rise of alternative credentials. This research will be examined alongside Pearson's new report, The Future of Skills: Employment in 2030 and will provide actionable insight into the steps an institution can take to ensure its students are prepared for the workplace, now and in the future.

At the 2017 ASU+GSV Summit, we were proud to participate with like-minded leaders in critical conversations around driving sustainable education and talent innovation. Watch the videos of our featured sessions below.

Over 5.8 million students are taking at least one distance education course. What did they look for in a program to fit their needs? What tools help them succeed? What advice would they offer to a first-time online learner and/or educator? What do they really want to tell their teacher about their class? Join us for this open dialogue with three students currently enrolled in 100% online courses. “Ask them Anything” about their experiences to best help you engage and motivate your learners. As a bonus, you will also gain insight into recent research on student attitudes toward digital course materials.

Micro-credentials, nano-credentials, badges…staying current on emerging trends in education is a challenge. It is also the life-force of the work that we do to prepare students for an ever-shifting professional landscape. In this engaging session, learn about the driving factors behind the emergence of alternative credentials, how higher education institutions are responding, and hear insights about what’s next.

The stakes are high. Student success, retention, and completion rates are driving many of your institutions initiatives, rightfully so. How can you systematically tackle these challenges differently going forward and in a way that shows measured results?

Join Steve Partridge, President/CEO of Charlotte Works, and Dean Mary Vickers-Koch, with Central Piedmont Community College, and learn from their success with economic and community development in North Carolina. They will outline best practices and the ways they work together with employers, the impact of WIOA on their relationship, and how to best interface with the K-12 system and industry as it pertains to career pathways and talent pipeline. They will also discuss how they coordinate on economic development and business outreach efforts to better support employers.

Data "hackathons"--such as the American Statistical Association DataFest--are an increasingly popular venue for college students to strengthen their data analysis skills and to network with industry professionals. Such hackathons are not (yet) part of the two-year college culture and yet, these events can serve as a useful tool for 'back engineering' a curriculum.

The pathways movement has generated interest in mathematics courses that provide relevant content for non-algebraically-intensive programs of study. The New Mathways Project Quantitative Reasoning course, from the Charles A. Dana Center, provides authentic content that is rigorous, engaging, and relevant to students' home, community, and professional lives. The supplemental resources for faculty provide support for facilitating an active learning environment and building students' self-regulation. In this session, you'll hear from speaker, Connie Richardson about the evolution and relevancy of this course for both Liberal Arts and Fine Arts Students

What is Quantitative Reasoning (QR), and why is it important for us to teach QR? QR is associated with the mathematics we need for decision making in our personal, professional, and public lives. The presenter will discuss implementation ideas and best practices for creating a new quantitative reasoning course that develops the fundamental quantitative literacy crucial for informed citizenship. He'll also discuss teaching using spreadsheets, even without a computer classroom. And he’ll explore some of the cutting edge functionality built into his new digital course, Thinking Quantitatively, which allows for a flipped classroom experience centered on inquiry based learning

Competency-based learning can help improve the connection between a college degree or certification and employment. But forging this important connection requires closer working relationships between higher education institutions offering CBE programs and local and national employers. Join this webinar to learn more about strategies for developing employer partnerships and increasing the employability of graduates from CBE programs.

Dr. Rickard will discuss Motivation and Readiness in the Finite Mathematics classroom. He will cover techniques, videos and assessments used to manage large classrooms and individual students. Dr. Rickard has produced a series of Calculator Help Videos recently added to MyMathLab for the Lial/Greenwell/Ritchey Finite Mathematics text

We all know it: commenting on student writing is the most important—and most difficult and time-consuming—work that we writing instructors do. With increasing class sizes and course loads, managing the writing of comments in ways that work both for student and instructor borders on impossible.

Joseph Williams’s Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace is one of our field’s most enduring and influential guides to prose style. Williams approaches style from a linguistic perspective: he identifies features of sentences, passages, and documents that lead readers to experience writing as clear, coherent, and graceful, and he shows writers how they can use these features to make their own texts more readable.

The presentation will focus on the vital role that engagement plays in a composition course. When students have a vested interest in the subject about which they are writing, they are much, much more likely to invest time and energy into their work. When they care about the subject about which they are writing, they want to do their best because the writing matters to them; they are writing to communicate ideas that are important to them—not simply writing to complete the assignment and earn a passing grade.