by Pat Hutchings and Mary Deane Sorcinelli The 2019 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)—held January 23-26th in Atlanta, Georgia--focused on the need to create more compelling narratives about the value of higher education.  Two critical elements in doing so are the assessment of student learning outcomes and faculty development. The idea that these two activities might be “better together,” working in partnership with each other, was the theme … [Read more...]

Indiana University will be hosting its second annual Learning Analytics Summit on April 3-5, 2019, in Bloomington, IN. Sponsored by the Center for Learning Analytics and Student Success (CLASS), this years' theme is Engaging Faculty in the Research of Student Success. Registration is free but space is limited! The purpose of the annual summit is to foster the widespread use of learning analytics by faculty, providing them with the support and tools they to conduct scholarly research about … [Read more...]

BVA’s RAC1, TRESTLE, has a brown bag webinar scheduled January 28 at 3PM Central time.  “Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Leveraging Course Transformation for Broader Curriculum Design,” will be facilitated by Andrea Greenhoot and Joshua Potter of KU. You can find a link to register for the webinar here. Previous brown bag webinars included: Colloquium: “How to be a great embedded expert,”  Stephanie Chasteen (University of Colorado Boulder) and Warren Code, UBC) ,December 3, … [Read more...]