Upcoming Live Events
A Collaborative Approach to Preparing Learners with Digital Skills for the 21st Century Workforce
As post-secondary programs engage learners in the wake of COVID-19, 2021 has become a year for skills-driven hiring. Greater Washington Partnership (GWP) is a civic alliance of CEOs dedicated to making the National Capital Region – from Baltimore to Richmond – the most economically dynamic region to live, work, and grow. In 2018, GWP launched Capital CoLAB (“Collaborative of Leaders in Academia and Business”) a network of 24 higher-education institutions including the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Listen in to their strategic assessment plan aligned to skills essential to employers using Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) with ed-tech leader AEFIS.
AEFIS Makerspace: Design Your Success Journey with AEFIS
Let’s create your Success Plan with AEFIS! Our Client Development Team will be available to help you design your assessment success journey and determine how AEFIS can help.
Expanding Professional Learning for Assessment and Improvement
Professional learning in higher education is a precious commodity given shrinking budgets and changes to the higher-ed landscape. To support assessment development efforts, AEFIS and Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL) are partnering to broaden the scope for assessment professional development nationwide. Together, they’re expanding SAAL’s “Applying & Leading Assessment in Student Affairs” course and resources to AEFIS Academy - an open online community dedicated to professional learning and networking in assessment, strategic planning, and best practices for teaching and learning. Learn how AEFIS and SAAL collaboration will support those leading assessment activities, and keep higher education leaders current in their work.
Lightning Talks Series—Integrated Planning: The “Difference that Makes a Difference” in Institutional Effectiveness Over Time
Lightning Talks are short, targeted presentations that provide insight into best practices, challenges, and successes in assessment. Listen in as some of the greatest minds and thought leaders share authentic assessment processes, continuous improvement stories, and innovative approaches toward lifelong learning and student success.
Meet Our Partners Series—Assessing Your Non-Academic & Support Units at Texas A&M International
Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) has had great success collecting, analyzing, and making changes based on data within their academic and non-academic units using an intentional workflow and data collection template in AEFIS. This session will focus on non-academic unit assessment, how to efficiently and effectively collaborate with unit leaders, ensure they are collecting the right data on a regular cadence, and empower them to use the data to improve their offerings and programming for their learners.
IMS Global & AEFIS: Together, Using Open Standards to Align Learning Outcomes with Industry Skills
The need to provide learners of all ages with skills in addition to academic credentials has been highlighted well before COVID-19. As vaccines rollout and job reports deliver mixed news, the national conversation about skills and academic credentials amongst practitioners center on if there are ways to manage these seemingly disparate needs. According to a new report by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), “The alignment of educational outcomes with workforce needs plays an essential role in promoting both individual socioeconomic mobility and national economic growth and competitiveness.” In this session, we’ll explore what solutions can support the learner-to-earner trajectory, and how technology can utilize foundational open standards.
“Assessment: The Musical!”—Episode 17 Empowering Collaboration Across Your Institution
Assessment, in general, can make a great musical… Come for some comic relief, share your assessment of drama, comedy, and heroic efforts. Let’s discuss how to turn all the drama into a success story!
Active Learning Lab (ALL) Series—Designing Your Comprehensive Learner Record Blueprint with AEFIS
AEFIS Active Learning Lab or ALL workshop series is a participant-driven, hands-on experience for users who want to learn how to more efficiently implement assessment processes and solutions on their campuses using AEFIS. ALL offers all-inclusive sessions on selected topics where attendees can learn and build solutions specific to their institution or program via a backward-design approach. Using the Edcamp Model “unconference” delivery, this active learning experience focuses on what partners need to know and want to put into action on their campuses tomorrow.
AEFIS Makerspace: Design Your Success Journey with AEFIS
Let’s create your Success Plan with AEFIS! Our Client Development Team will be available to help you design your assessment success journey and determine how AEFIS can help.
AEFIS Virtual Yoga Level 1: 15-Minute Easy Stretching & Meditation While Sitting at Your Desk
This activity is intended for everyone and no experience necessary. All you need to do is show up!
Meet Our Partners Series—Surviving & Thriving: Texas A&M University’s Improved Self Study Process for the SACSCOC Decennial Report
Leading effectiveness and improvement initiatives at any institution take a clear vision, collaboration, and an innovative plan. Dr. Alicia Dorsey successfully led Texas A&M University through the completion of their SACSCOC Deciennal Report in fall 2021. In the true spirit of collaboration and partnership, she and her team helped usher in a new process to digitally deliver a self-study to their accreditation reviewers—sharing feedback to improve the efficiency and user experience of AEFIS Accreditation & Self Study Solution for other institutions in both the SACSCOC region as well as other accreditation bodies. In this session, we will hear about Texas A&M's approach, timeline, and ingenuity in not only surviving their self-study but thriving forward into a new era of institutional effectiveness that increases efficiencies and decision-making power.
Lightning Talks Series—Addressing Problems of Practice: Collaborating with Your Community to Establish a Foundation to Collect Meaningful Data
Digital transformation of your assessment processes is exciting but challenging at the same time. Empowering key stakeholders to contribute and design this digital transformation is essential. Tasks and logistics likely include setting up assessment proficiency scales, translating these scales for your programs, and institution, digitizing manual data collection are all part of the foundation to collect meaningful data for institutional effectiveness and improvement. Having a community to draw information and best practices from gives you the ability to adapt success from other institutions and stakeholders to your process. Hear from Dr. Mike Rudolph from the University of Kentucky who has established a process for ensuring that his 18 colleges are contributing to the foundation of assessment design and collection to ensure that meaningful data is being collected and used in making decisions for continuous improvement and accreditation reporting.
