How Universities Can Continuously Improve Student Outcomes - Ken Michaels, Intellus Learning (part of Macmillan Learning)
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The document discusses the role of technology and educational resources in improving learning outcomes in universities, emphasizing the need for engagement, organization of content, and insights into student performance. Ken Michaels, CEO of Intellus Learning, highlights that understanding what works for students is crucial and stresses the importance of creating harmony within educational institutions. The University Leadership Summit 2017 serves as a forum for addressing these challenges and fostering discussions on affordability, engagement, and innovative solutions in higher education.
How Universities Can Continuously Improve Student Outcomes - Ken Michaels, Intellus Learning (part of Macmillan Learning)
- 1. and how we are working in partnership with educators and administrators. How can learning outcomes improve? It is tempting to jump right to the newest technology as a solution to improve learning outcomes. Recent hot topics have included artificial intelli- gence, personalized pathways and adaptive platforms, which all work, but only if you balance affordability to value and efficiency to academic freedom. We all have to remember, teaching is at the heart of this. What knowledge are you trying to convey? How do you present learning and support critical thinking? How are resources and knowledge concepts delivered? Even if the delivery and resources are high quality, it means nothing if you do not have engagement. Only when all three are achieved can you have learner success. It should be a holistic approach, an orchestration of the learning process. How can universities achieve that? Intellus Learning brings many solutions together into one platform. First, universities need to understand what resources they have to address these questions and issues, and how they are organized. What is available in the open education resource hubs? What content are professors bringing in? The second battle is how that content is organized for delivery. Learning objectives should be tied to course objectives. What content is being used? And with that knowledge, can we help universities avoid duplicate buying or prevent library budget cuts where there is heavy usage? That intelligence and visibility into delivery is important to address the affordability question. We need to know what supplements can enhance teaching; where the gaps are in what the school owns; what professors are trying to teach and best practices; where affordability and OER contributed content models are forming around grants, and if they are corre- lated to the accreditation of the school. All of these are very critical insights. Ultimately, there are different tools universities can use but the foundation of our approach is to support the goals the administrator is trying to reach, to How Universities Can Continuously Improve Student Outcomes Interview with: Ken Michaels, Chief Executive Officer, Intellus Learning (part of Macmillan Learning) “Although the mission of education has not changed, many of the needs have. We know so much about how, what, and why students learn. Universities, administrators and educators need greater access and insight into what engages students, what drives learning, and what simply is not working,” according to Ken Michaels, Chief Executive Officer of Intellus Learning, a division of Macmillan Learning. “Universities need a bridge that unifies those insights with feedback from students, faculty and administrators. That understanding and transparency will provide them with a clear map to continuously improve student out- comes.” Intellus Learning is a solution provider at the marcus evans University Leadership Summit 2017 in Palm Beach, Florida, October 12-13. What are the issues university leaders are facing today? There are so many issues that we see our partners at universities facing from affordability, engagement, student success, and retention and limited resources to address it all. That is a core pain point because so many universities have very limited financial resources, while demands and expectations keep growing. Capabilities are constantly evolving. Technology is changing teaching delivery methods and how universities serve learners. The question becomes whether or not learning processes and teaching delivery methods are in sync? It is all about the learner and whether he or she is progressing. That is where our focus is bring it all together without losing intelligence, and to avoid letting academic freedom fracture efficiency. What administrators want is afforda- bility, knowing whether students are engaged and if graduation rates are improving. We give administrators the dashboards and insights they need, while still enabling professions to teach their way. Bridging all of the complexity of technology and workflows into one insights platform is a big endeavor. This was a missing ingredient in the industry. It takes open architecture, open APIs and the bridging of many solutions into one analytics platform. Any final words of advice to university leaders? Do not rush to retention programs and take grants without insights. Do not rush to affordability and separate course builds with center of learnings. I really feel that one has to create harmony and ownership on each campus and in each department. That only happens with insights and a common purpose. Knowing what engages students is absolutely critical in today’s world. You need to know what content is being viewed, what is attracting the appropri- ate time on a task, how they are linked to performance, and be able to replace content that is not working. It is all about engagement transparency, better linkages between resources, delivery sites and performance outcomes. If you cannot see that level of student engagement during the semester, it might be too late to capture retention later on. If you cannot see student engagement during the semester, it might be too late to capture retention later on
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