Dr. John O’Brien Keynote The History of the Future of Educational Technology Reflecting on history and our tendency to ignore it in our forward-looking work, EDUCAUSE President and CEO John O’Brien invites us to consider the “history of the future” of higher education technology. He explores engaging “paleofuture” artifacts—for [...]
Mental Health and How It Impacts Education This session focuses on mental health issues that affect students and learning, particularly the impact of trauma. Participants discuss the psychosocial barriers students are facing and how trauma left untreated can have a negative impact on students’ emotional and social development. Participants advance their knowledge [...]
Instilling Faculty With an Entrepreneurial Mindset Colleges rely on the resourcefulness and persistence of their people to have the greatest impact on those they serve. Both of these essential skills are just two of the many values that can be learned from some of our society’s most underappreciated individuals, the “unlikely entrepreneurs.” [...]
Beyond Retention Programs and Policies: The Habits of Effective Human Levers of Retention Colleges depend upon policies, initiatives, and programs to support student success and college completion. Perhaps the best resource a college has, however, it its faculty. Based upon a qualitative study of faculty identified as "highly effective human levers of [...]
Growth Mindset: Growing the Minds of First-Year College Students At the beginning of each semester or term, college campuses are overtaken by the excitement and curiosity of incoming freshmen students. They are excited, they are eager, and they are enthused. But do they know “how to college”? Do they have the proper mindset [...]
Jumpstart to Successful Instruction Are you interested in becoming a more effective instructor, but aren’t sure where to start? The SkillsCommons Industry Expert to Expert Instructor (IE2EI) IMPACT community has a ready-to-use, free, and open answer for you! The Jumpstart to Successful Instruction course offers ready-to-use teaching solutions for college instructors through interactive modules, videos, and other resources. The Jumpstart to Successful Instruction course modules equip instructors with [...]
The Luddite Instructor in the Wired Classroom: The Trials and Tribulations of Incorporating Information Technology in the Classroom College students in the 21st century are preoccupied by their mobile devices and social media platforms. Consequently, college instructors—even the most troglodyte among them—must find a way to either work around or with this learning [...]
Claiming Our Right to Be Here: The Art of Overcoming Self-Sabotage We’ll call it baggage…the stuff we thought we’d left behind long ago—the old hurts, regrets, and insecurities—that have a way of showing up in our academic careers. We aim low, create conflict, or procrastinate our way away from something we really want [...]
Impacting Student Success Through the Power of Hope Hope is the belief that tomorrow will be better than today and that you have the power to make it so. In his book, Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others,Shane Lopez shares his analysis of hope research and concludes that, [...]
Informational Webinar: NISOD 101: How to Engage With NISOD This complimentary webinar informs attendees about the following membership opportunities: Innovation Abstracts, The NISOD Papers, #NISODProfiles, and Member Spotlights. NISOD’s Publications and Communications Manager, Brigitte Pentecost, will facilitate and answer questions on how to get more involved with NISOD. This webinar is free for both members and non-members [...]