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  • Driving Toward a Degree: It Takes a Village to Increase Student Retention

    Driving Toward a Degree: It Takes a Village to Increase Student Retention

    Thursday, May 21st at 2:00 PM ET

    iDesignImproving degree completion has been a hot topic for both mission- and sustainability-related reasons. There are so many different experiments and approaches being undertaken that it can be hard to tell what works and what to pay attention to. Tyton Partners, using a clever mixed method research approach, has identified institutions that are having a real impact on student success and discovered some common characteristics. Critically, one of the most important of these is not a single magic technology or technique but rather a coordinated effort across different parts of the university using a set of complementary strategies.

    Come hear Tyton Partners experts Gates Bryant and Nicholas Java, along with University of Pittsburgh’s Associate Vice Provost for Academic Innovation Julia Spears, talk about what we’re learning about supporting student success—including the latest information on their impending update to the study!

    Participants
    Gates Bryant, Partner, Tyton Partners
    Nicholas Java, Senior Principal, Tyton Partners
    Julia Spears, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Innovation, University of Pittsburgh

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  • Results You Can Trust: Building a Rigorous and Relevant Portfolio of Evidence of the Efficacy of Edtech

    Results You Can Trust: Building a Rigorous and Relevant Portfolio of Evidence of the Efficacy of Edtech

    Date: March 11th, 2020
    2pm ET

    iDesign

    Educational technology has the potential to innovate pedagogy, but the focus on instructor and student perceptions of tools, and the lack of rigorous and relevant evidence of effectiveness has resulted in false starts and frustrations. In 2017, with the development of their next generation platform Achieve, Macmillan Learning established an innovative approach to demonstrating efficacy.

    Through partnership with educators like Solina Lindahl and experts like Thanos Patelis they began building a valid and reliable body of evidence beginning with learning science foundations through to quasi-experimental study designs. The results have been both educationally significant – that using Achieve can help close skills gaps between less academically prepared students and their more academically prepared peers, and practically significant – offering instructors insight into how to implement Achieve to best effect in their educational context.

    The series of studies and approach to transparency has value for any university making decisions about which learning tools to use, and how to use them to best effect in their educational context. Topics covered in this webinar include:

    • What evidence decision-makers should look for when investing in digital technology

    • Strategies for partnering with educators and students to develop evidence that pushes beyond perception toward learning outcomes

    • How rigorous, reliable, and relevant evidence can enhance teaching and improve learning

    • Building trust through effective peer-review and transparency

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  • Competency-based Credentials for Educational Professionals: LX Pathways from iDesign

    Competency-based Credentials for Educational Professionals: LX Pathways from iDesign

    Date: February 20th, 2020
    2pm ET

    iDesignColleges and universities face a surprising new skills gap within their own ranks: instructional designers. With instructional design job postings increasing by as much as triple, the demand for trained instructional design professionals is far outpacing supply. Higher education is facing a shortage of talent—and evidence-based practice in learning sciences and technology—to navigate a complex new landscape of online and digital learning. 

    To tackle this challenge, Instructional design firm iDesign recently announced its LX Pathways initiative, to help learning experience design professionals gain skills through a new program developed to help close the skills shortage in qualified instructional design professionals. 

    LX Pathways is a “choose your own edventure” competency-based approach to acquiring beginning and advanced instructional design and instructional technology skills, with a focus on quality and leadership in the field. The program has stackable credentials leading to certifications in Instructional Technologist and Learning Architect. The program was piloted with the Harvard Graduate School of Education and several other institutions, who provided substantial feedback that shaped its development.  

    Join us for this discussion to learn more about the instructional design talent gap—and how LX Pathways and other programs are working to close it.

    Panelists: Whitney Kilgore, Chief Academic Officer, iDesign; Patrice Torcivia Prusko, Associate Director, Learning Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Education Teaching and Learning Lab

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  • Overcoming Barriers to Enrollment: Can AI Increase Student Success?

    Overcoming Barriers to Enrollment: Can AI Increase Student Success?

    Date: November 18th, 2019
    2pm ET


    Michael Feldstein
    Chief Accountability Officer
    e-Literate
    Drew Magliozzi
    Co-Founder and CEO
    AdmitHub

    Lindsay Page
    Professor of Research Methodology
    University of Pittsburgh
    Tim Renick
    Senior VP for Student Success
    Georgia State University

    Higher ed administrators are likely familiar with “summer melt” – the phenomenon in which students are admitted to college, accept, but never show up on campus. It most often impacts first-generation college students who run into challenges during the enrollment process—often bureaucratic ones, like getting a health form or a parental signature—and don’t have the support they need to overcome the hurdle.

    In 2017, the AI developer AdmitHub partnered with researcher Lindsay Page and their customer Georgia State University to prove that AI chatbots could help reduce summer melt. The results of their randomized controlled trial speak for themselves: the chatbot helped Georgia State to reduce summer melt by more than 20 percent. 

    The study has value for any university looking to reduce summer melt and help students persist in their degree, regardless of whether or not they already use AI or chatbots on campus.

    AdmitHub logoJoin Professor Page, GSU’s Senior Vice President for Student Success Tim Renick, and AdmitHub co-founder Drew Magliozzi to learn how to reduce summer melt at your institution.

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