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Book Sales: 5 Key Strategies Educational Publishers Need to Focus On

Book Sales: 5 Key Strategies Educational Publishers Need to Focus On

The impact of COVID-19 on book sales is both subtle and profound. K-12 book sales thrived throughout the pandemic. Leaders face unusual headwinds in book sales – record number jumps in sales coupled with labor shortages and supply chain disruptions. First, leaders must get content creation teams back into the office. Then, publishers face the rising costs of materials, supply chain shortages, and a vast backlog of work. In this environment, leaders wonder how to keep growing books sales. Here are five key strategies to focus on to increase book sales.

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Curriculum Development: Hiring a 3rd Party Vendor for Your Courses

Curriculum Development: Hiring a 3rd Party Vendor for Your Courses

Colleges, universities, and K-12 providers are seeing an increased need for curriculum development, especially for online course content. A majority of schools have been pushed into digital content to meet the needs of pandemic-related constraints. While these are positive transformations, they need to deliver content more quickly. Thus, schools face overworking current curriculum designers or hiring new employees. However, a more efficient solution is collaborating with experienced third-party content creators to design courses.

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Hybrid Learning: 5 Strategies That Publishers Can Address

Hybrid Learning: 5 Strategies That Publishers Can Address

Educators work hard to keep students engaged and excited about learning. Publishing leaders help teachers and students grow and learn together as one class—no matter their physical location – with remote-ready products. Likewise, leaders urge their content teams to create products that transition seamlessly between in-person and remote classrooms. Leaders utilize these five strategies to leverage the pros of hybrid learning.

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Course Planning: 3 Things to Know for Online Competency-Based Higher Education

Course Planning: 3 Things to Know for Online Competency-Based Higher Education

As more institutions of higher learning move toward online learning options, they must create course planning that leads to successful student outcomes. Toward that end, utilizing online competency-based higher education (OCBHE) can help achieve these goals. Ideally, successful OCBHE has the following components:

Student learning is active and personalized.
Students learn through various types of instruction and media.
Students experience opportunities to process and apply information in a tailored way.
Learning experiences match real-world contexts where learning might be applied.

Colleges and universities will apply these 3 strategies for successful course planning in a competency-based online learning environment.

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Curriculum Development: Creating Learning Goals and Objectives

Curriculum Development: Creating Learning Goals and Objectives

The importance of clear, concise learning objectives cannot be overstated. Learners need to know what to focus on to learn the content. Still, courses fill curricula that do not have clear learning outcomes. Yet, with a few tweaks, courses and entire curriculums can be an impactful learning experience. Read below about the importance of learning goals and objectives for curriculum development.

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5 Points on How Higher-Ed Leaders Can Develop Competency-Based Education

5 Points on How Higher-Ed Leaders Can Develop Competency-Based Education

Colleges and university leaders face challenges as college enrollment numbers have dwindled. Many potential learners need to upskill quickly and do not desire to attend a traditional college program. Other students want a degree but lack the time and support to attend college. Other potential students confront barriers like previous college failure or fear they are not college material. Thus, leaders strategize. They develop different modes of instruction like competency-based education. These five points aid higher-ed leaders in developing a competency-based education (CBE) for their colleges.

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Transadaptation: 5 Key Points Publishers Should Know When Creating Assessments

Transadaptation: 5 Key Points Publishers Should Know When Creating Assessments

Lost in translation is more than a cute idiom. For English Language Learners (ELL) and their educators, loss in translation is a genuine experience. Transadapation builds the best meaning even for assessments. Teachers need help, and publishers can provide solutions. K-12 publishers and providers can help them by following these five key points to transadapt assessments.

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4 Tips for College Leaders to Target Adult Education

4 Tips for College Leaders to Target Adult Education

The demographics for colleges are changing. Adult learners, typically 25 years and older, need courses and college programs that fit their lifestyles and needs. Students want to complete their degrees. They put them on hold because of life commitments, such as starting a family or serving in the military. College leaders, states, and non-profit programs understand this ongoing situation. A need exists to upskill workers quickly. A new training or certification helps workers to obtain new jobs or improve their abilities for their current employment. These four tips target how college leaders could create or improve the offerings and services for adult education seekers.

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5 Strategies to Pivot ERL to Online Learning for Higher Ed

5 Strategies to Pivot ERL to Online Learning for Higher Ed

Colleges encounter stoppages as new variants or other emergencies emerge. The challenges force colleges to move to emergency remote learning. Often, these courses lack the best modalities and effectiveness of well-designed, online classes. Now, colleges have emergency remote learning (ERL) content, which can be converted or repurposed for online learning. Additionally, these courses could be prepared for future situations, using hybrid learning. With these five steps, college leaders could pivot these ERL courses, producing successful online learning and preparing their colleges for hybrid learning. 

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Proof of Concept: 5 Amazing Tips for Learning Design Leaders

Proof of Concept: 5 Amazing Tips for Learning Design Leaders

A director of learning design needs to ensure instructional materials created by their design team are marketable. A proof of concept for K-12 publishers and providers helps ensure instructional materials target the audience correctly. This guide helps verify if the materials will meet the requirements and interests of K-12 students and instructors. Most importantly, it reduces the risk of rejection before costly production. Leaders will explain which materials and resources are needed for the project. Learning design leaders can use these five tips for leading instructional designers (IDs) to create an effective proof of concept.

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Teaching Online: 5 Ideations College Leaders Can Use to Support Their Faculty

Teaching Online: 5 Ideations College Leaders Can Use to Support Their Faculty

As online learning becomes more the norm than the exception, college faculty require new skills and tools to help students succeed. In truth, fully remote, in-person, and hybrid teachers need support, resources, and professional development. They must navigate changing curricula, learning modalities, and student needs. Leadership is critical. College leaders can use these five ideations to support faculty for teaching online.

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Digital Literacy: 5 Methods K-12 Publishers Can Implement for Their Products

Digital Literacy: 5 Methods K-12 Publishers Can Implement for Their Products

Publishers know teachers want resources to help their students. Besides that, teachers face the same challenges in digital literacy as they did before the pandemic. Still, publishers provide educators with the tools they need to succeed. Yet, teachers seek solutions for their educational challenges, and publishers provide these solutions. Publishers can use these six methods to improve their products for digital literacy.

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