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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
World Translation: 5 Methods Publishers Can Utilize for Their Content
Why should leaders invest in translation services? Machine translation services deliver close enough results. Still, publishers do well when they get translations right. Leaders face many barriers in today’s business climate. Yet, a good partnership with an expert translation partner yields a better return. Here are five methods leaders can use to make their translated content stand out for world translation.
Educational Equity Part 2: Creating a Student Ready School for Community Colleges
For this second installment on educational equity for community college readiness, we offer additional solutions for creating student-ready schools. While community college students face unique challenges, school leaders can ensure better success with key strategies. Community college leaders can apply these additional strategies for a student-ready campus.
Course Design for Higher Ed and K-12: Using a Learner-Centered Framework and Other Methods
College leaders can take a variety of approaches to course design. One method is learning-centered design. This design method focuses on the needs of the students as opposed to a traditional topical approach that focuses on the subject matter itself. To create effective and sustainable courses, designers should apply strategies that lead to successful learner experiences. Therefore, higher educational and K-12 leaders can employ this strategy and others to design effective courses.
Personalized Learning: What Ways Can Publishers Focus on the 3 Models?
Education is moving from theone size fits all model of instruction. Teachers have tailored instruction to their students for years. Yet, publishers did not offer educators personalized learning options in their textbooks. Now, content is more than textbooks. Today, publishers make content for various, digital platforms. Besides that, publishers provide customized learning experiences for students. Publishers can utilize these three models to support personalized learning.