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- Key insights into campus must-have lists as school begins
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As students head back to campus this fall, the new school year brings with it new initiatives and new approaches to strengthening the student experience.
Ensuring students meet their academic goals is a priority for university leaders. Data, AI, the right digital resources, and meeting the needs of all students–they all top the lists.
Here are three insights into what the new school year has in store:
As campuses try to figure out ways to bring in and support new and varied students, technology can bring some innovations. Modes of instruction need to expand. Through an AI-guided educational ecosystem, we can offer more personalized learning, microcredentialing, virtual apprenticeships, better ties between learning and jobs, and opportunities to increase those participating in lifelong learning. Data-driven insights into the needs of the community will help the system improve, from enrollment to graduation to employment. Predictive models can help institutions move struggling students toward success and provide excellent feedback loops for future employers.
–Nick Swayne, President, North Idaho College
Ensuring equitable learning environments and delivering culturally responsive teaching is important at all levels of education. With this being a focus of our teacher certification program at City University of Seattle, we are continuing to use the Cortes-Carter Equity Sentio Framework in conjunction with video-based reflection to help prepare our candidates to teach with a culturally responsive lens in today’s K-12 classrooms. The Edthena Video Coaching platform allows candidates to record and watch short video clips of their teaching in action to better understand the different interactions taking place in the classroom. Seeing these teacher-student interactions on video allows them to better reflect on their practice and allows us to provide ongoing feedback, based on the framework, as needed.
–Dr. Bryan Carter, Undergraduate Program Director, Data Administrator, & Professor, City University of Seattle’s School of Education and Leadership
The trend toward larger and brighter displays on higher education campuses will continue as instructors see the benefit of ensuring all students have an equitable experience, including those in the back of the room. Projection technology will remain an enticing display option because it can provide a very large display at a cost-effective price, and when the display is turned off, the wall that was being used as the display area can be regained and used by the educator as a whiteboard or other purposes. In low-ceiling environments, the height of a very large display could result in some of the displayed content appearing below the line of sight of students behind the front row. A super-wide 21:9 aspect ratio, which is an option on select projectors, is a great solution to ensure everyone views the entirety of the display.
–Ramzi Shakra, Senior Product Manager-Large Venue Projectors, Epson America, Inc.
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