2018

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10 Reasons to Go Digital with Your Course Materials

Eric Stoller

When I was a college student, there were times when I skipped out on buying a required textbook for a course. Finances were always tight, so I tried to balance my checkbook with buying actual books. Even then, textbooks weren’t cheap. Today, students are paying more and more for their higher education experience. If a university can find ways to make attending college more affordable, accessible, and “high-tech/high-touch”, well, it’s not really an option, it’s a necessity.

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The Most Wonderful Time at Hope College

Hope College Network

Coming back to campus after Thanksgiving may not sound like any fun. However, there is nothing like Christmas music and festive decorations to make the last couple weeks of the semester that much better. Holland, Michigan, may be well known as a beach town, but there is something so enchanting about 8th Street covered in snow and strung with lights and stockings above the Bultman Student Center fireplace.

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Who, Where, and How to Engage Partners and Stakeholders in a Residential Curriculum

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

Educational and curricular efforts exist in context. Furthermore, residence life and education departments do not exist on an island. When developing a campus or residential curriculum, it is important to identify partners and stakeholders early on and include them in the curriculum design process. This inclusion can include stages from planning to implementation, and throughout assessment and review processes.

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10 tactics and tips to help your digital marketing dollars be more effective

Terminalfour

Without a focused strategy it can be money poorly spent. An approach relying purely on outbidding competitors through pay per click is no longer going to work.

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Investment in human capital a ‘no regrets’ policy

HECG

By DAVID MYTON. Whatever the future holds, investment in human capital is “a no-regrets policy” that prepares people for the challenges ahead, says the World Bank in its latest examination of the changing nature of work. Three types of skills, it says, are increasingly important in today’s labour markets: Advanced cognitive skills such as complex problem-solving.

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Advice From Advocates of Lean Higher Ed

Collegis Education Data Management

Resource constrained colleges are looking for ways to do more with less. The topic of process improvement and ways to increase efficiencies had our audience’s attention at the February 2018 Collegis Enrollment Growth Summit. Janyce B. Fadden, director of strategic engagement at University of North Alabama’s College of Business, presented on the process improvement philosophy called Lean Higher Ed.

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A Career in a Life

Academic Librarian

In addition to a lot of time to meditate, my last year of serious illness has given me a lot of time to think, including about my job and career. I seem to be of the age where people start considering what they’ve done with their life so far, and evaluating whether it was worth doing and whether they were successful at it. What does it mean to have a successful career?

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Learning To Be Thankful One Day At A Time

Hope College Network

Thanksgiving has been my favorite holiday for as long as I can remember. When I tell people this, I generally get a lot of questions asking why. No, it’s not because my favorite food is mashed potatoes (though it definitely takes a nice second to puppy chow) or because I love watching the Lions lose every year. It’s the idea of taking a specific day out of your life to be thankful.

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Glasses Under the Sea

Hope College Network

I lost my glasses in the Mediterranean Sea. Twice. I don’t miss them one bit. Why? Because I learned two important lessons when I studied in Spain last May. First, don’t go kayaking without securing your glasses. Second, you have a rare opportunity to earn college credit while having a marvelous adventure by finding a new way of seeing things — in more ways than one, in my case.

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Worrying About the “What If?”

Hope College Network

Chandler Alberda is a junior from Austin, Texas Deciding where to go to college was just as stressful and scary as it was exciting. What if I made the wrong choice and I missed out on an entirely different experience at a different school? I wanted someone else to decide for me so I didn’t have to think about it. My whole mindset changed once I went on college visits.

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Developing A Culture of Assessment in Your Residence Life and Education Program

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

Because developing a residential curriculum entails refocusing your departmental efforts towards student learning, it necessarily follows that you must develop a culture of assessment. A culture of assessment is one in which decisions are data-driven and tested through the design, implementation, and review of assessment measures. As Lakos and Phipps (2004) describe it, a culture of assessment is: An organizational environment in which decisions are based on facts, research, and analysis, and wh

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Why I go to the Institute on the Curricular Approach… And keep coming back every year

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

Perspective I attended my first Institute on the Curricular Approach (then the Residential Curriculum Institute) in 2010. Since that point I have attended 8 of the 12 total Institutes and served on faculty and planning committees for 6 of them. With the most recent Institute wrapping up this past week in Chicago, I left the.

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Breaking Down Curricular Learning Goals into Learning Outcomes

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

Continuing down the cascade of your curriculum, one becomes more specific in the learning objectives one hopes residents will achieve. In this way, the cascade functions as nested structure includes successively more specific statements as one moves towards the level of practice. One’s educational priority is the broadest statement of learning one hopes students will.

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Developing Your Educational Plan(s) and Putting Your Residential Curriculum Into Practice

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

Once a department or division articulates the goals, outcomes, and objectives it hopes to achieve, and they’ve undergone the work to rubric, map, and sequence these objectives, the final step in the process is the development of an overall educational plan. Educational plans function much like blueprints. As plans, they outline time-based progression through the.

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The Iterative and Reciprocal Process of Developing Rubrics (With Training Video)

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

An important element of developing residential curriculum involves scaffolding and sequencing learning. Rubrics, or tools developed for the purposes of scoring and rating development along a scale, can be useful in this scaffolding and sequencing process. As discussed earlier, residential curriculum rubrics break down learning outcomes into successive stages of development and mastery.

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Six Videos To Use During Residence Life Professional Staff Training (With Bonus Curriculum Videos!)

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

I provide a number of training and consulting services for professionals in college housing and residence life. In the course of developing materials for these services, we've identified a number of high quality videos that address topics related to higher education and student learning. The following are some of our favorites that make excellent conversation starters for.

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Life is about the moments that matter

Hope College Network

I figured out a while ago that I should spend my life solving problems and so I’m pursuing engineering. While engineering isn’t easy, many pursue it in hopes of entering their field of work right after college. That was me, for like the first week of my freshman year. I quickly figured out, though, that I wanted to pursue engineering in a different way when I joined the Hope Entrepreneurial Institute (HEI) mentorship program.

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What’s On Your Residential Education and Curriculum Summer Reading List?

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

In a recent post to the Residential Curriculum Facebook page, a number of folks started sharing what’s on their reading list related to residential student learning, education, and curriculum. Since summer time is typically a great occasion to catch up on reading and other work, we curated this list of “summer readings” from their suggestions.

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Campus in a Summer State of Mind

Hope College Network

When your parents first drop you off at Hope, it is hard to imagine that you might not want to go back to “home sweet home” next summer. Holland is an enjoyable city to be in from Fall to Spring, but summertime is prime time for this beach town. Locals will tell you that Hope students are truly missing out when they pack their bags for summer, only to return when classes start up for fall.

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27 Quick Questions to Assess Student Learning

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

One of the most important aspects of developing residence hall curriculum is the establishment of assessment practices that measure student learning. The use of Bloom’s Taxonomy and its related verbs can help in this regard by ensuring that the outcomes we seek to achieve are specific and measurable. But how do we actually do the.

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What are Residential Curriculum Goals and Narratives and How to Write Them

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

Goals and narratives are perhaps the least appreciated, understood, and often confused components of a residential curriculum. In reviewing the cascade of learning objectives in a curriculum, one starts with an educational priority. An educational priority is a broad summary statement of what students will learn as a result of their participation in the curriculum.

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Have We Reached The Tipping Point For Residential Curriculum Model Adoption?

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

My vantage point at a technology company gives me unique insights into the industry. Given the large number of schools we work with and interact with, we're often able to begin to see trends before others in the field. One thing we have discussed is the increasing use of curricular models by departments of residence.

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Live Where You Learn

Hope College Network

Picture it: You are a high school graduate ready to make “the big move” to become a college student with a college life, on a college campus, in college housing. You are ready to start a new chapter where independence and learning are your new way of life. You are ready! And you know what? We are ready for you, too! Living in the same campus environment where you learn makes your Hope education as complete as it can be.

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Utilizing Peer and External Review Processes for Continuous Curricular Improvement

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

Developing a culture of continuous improvement within your housing and residence life department requires one to put structures in place to gather assessment data and utilize that data to make change. Furthermore, it requires the identification and standards against which a department can compare their progress and determine and prioritize goals. Within the area of.

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#ThrowWhatYouKnow (Everything You Want to Know About Greek Life and More)

Hope College Network

To rush or not to rush? A brilliant question that inevitably crosses the mind of many soon-to-be-freshman. And with great reason. It’s a big decision! Greek Life, no matter where you are in the country, comes with its own unique set of myths, stereotypes, and hesitations. I’m sure you know someone whose Instagram caption is forever “#throwwhatyouknow” Annnnd then I’m sure you know someone else who always insisting that Greeks “buy their friends”.

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How to Conduct an Archeological Dig for a Curricular Approach to Student Affairs

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

Before embarking on a curricular approach, it is important to conduct an audit, or archeological dig, to surface important characteristics and concepts that should be present and accounted for in your curriculum. As Siri Espy states, “Much like an archeological dig, your mission is to start with a set of bones and construct a skin.

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Four Ways Residence Life Education Can Go Wrong

Dr. Paul Gordon Brown

There are a number of practices in residential life and education that have become commonplace, but that don't always advance our roles as educators and student affairs professionals. Over my many years in residence life, I've seen the following four ideas surface again and again. They are concepts that seem to be ingrained in our collective.

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Our Higher Education Digital Marketing and Web Survey results are now available

Terminalfour

Our 5th international Higher Education survey to date has now launched, packed with digital marketing insights. How do you compare? What are the latest trends?

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University of Michigan wins Move in Week

Terminalfour

We have seen some pretty amazing Welcome videos in our time but we have to say this series from the University of Michigan has got to be our all-time favorite.

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Seeing is believing - bringing the campus to the student using video and VR

Terminalfour

Experience and data shows that if a prospective student visits a campus there is a higher chance of them applying. What about bringing the campus to them?

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It’s good to talk - the impact of automated communications in Higher Education

Terminalfour

Automated communications are a relatively new way for students to get information but they’re set to have a bigger impact on recruitment and for students.

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10 tips for delivering large scale website projects - part 2

Terminalfour

This is part two of our advice on running large scale web projects. In this post we have compiled 5 top tips from the TERMINALFOUR project team.

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TripAdvisor for Universities? A new trend in showcasing external student reviews

Terminalfour

Don’t be afraid of what your students have to say and they may just turn out to be your biggest advocates! A first for Loughborough University!

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10 tips for delivering large scale website projects - part 1

Terminalfour

To date well over 200 Universities have partnered with us and we have learnt many lessons along the way about what makes a project successful.

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Monsters University - The best Halloween 2018 Higher Ed hauntings

Terminalfour

Over the past few years, we have noticed that institutions have really upped their game when it comes to celebrating Higher Ed Halloween.

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Digitizing Campus Visits - How Universities are enhancing the student experience

Terminalfour

Data shows that a student attending a Campus Visit has a 80% higher chance of applying. How can technology make it a better experience?

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How is Artificial Intelligence revolutionizing HigherEd digital marketing?

Terminalfour

AI and machine learning technology can, by tapping into data, can help Universities and Colleges to make better informed decisions

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