Upcoming Live Events
AEFIS Virtual Yoga Level 1: 15-Minute Easy Stretching & Meditation While Sitting at Your Desk
15-minute easy stretching and meditation while sitting at your desk.
This activity is intended for everyone and no experience necessary. All you need to do is show up! You will not need a yoga mat, special shoes, or any specific clothing. All you will need to do is sit up in your chair and ideally be close to your camera showing your shoulders and head. During our session, we will be focusing on gentle neck and shoulder stretches, breathing techniques, and a small meditation for each class where we will set an intention for our day.
Life Preserver on Board— Rescuing Assessment Efforts When it’s Not Business as Usual
The abrupt move to remote learning during the Spring 2020 semester caused assessment efforts at many institutions to founder. Messiah University’s streamlined assessment processes became a life-preserver for analyzing learning data and developing improvement plans.
AEFIS Virtual Yoga Level 1: 15-Minute Easy Stretching & Meditation While Sitting at Your Desk
15-minute easy stretching and meditation while sitting at your desk.
This activity is intended for everyone and no experience necessary. All you need to do is show up! You will not need a yoga mat, special shoes, or any specific clothing. All you will need to do is sit up in your chair and ideally be close to your camera showing your shoulders and head. During our session, we will be focusing on gentle neck and shoulder stretches, breathing techniques, and a small meditation for each class where we will set an intention for our day.
Lightning Talk Series—”Successfully Completing Your Self-Study in AEFIS”
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.
“Assessment: The Musical!”—Episode 10 Spring Data Cleaning!
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!
Democracy & Assessment Series—Your Voice Matters! Episode 3 Theory to Practice
As your community of practice, AEFIS Academy is launching a four-part series designed to explore and unpack the relationship between Democracy and Assessment. Throughout this series, a variety of thought leaders will come together in conversation around what the current relationship between democracy and assessment entails, what the relationship should or could be, and what the role of assessment might be moving forward to support a productive democracy. As the conversation unfolds, we will invite all participants into group discussion on how we might, as a field, advance assessment for democracy. Please join us because Your Voice Matters!
Meet Our Partners Series—”Agile Wayfinding: Combining Innovation and Assessment at University of Maryland Global Campus”
This particular event will focus on Agile wayfinding and its purpose in institutional planning and assessment processes. University of Maryland Global Campus has a long history of evaluating innovation and using results to guide the next steps. More recently, assessment of student learning has been added to an academic planning process that includes program review, academic scorecards, and external data on labor and competitive markets. This integrated planning process provides faculty and administrators with a comprehensive view of an academic program. Learn how you can apply this approach at your institution.
Lightning Talk Series: Creating Efficiency— Integrating Your LMS to AEFIS to Link Direct Assessment to Institutional Goals and Outcomes
This Lightning Talk highlights solutions, which can be adapted to any institution size, that facilitate the efficiency of collecting improvement data from learning management systems and other educational technology using AEFIS. This process provides a blueprint for helping faculty choose the appropriate assessments aligned to institutional goals and program outcomes for reporting..
“Assessment: The Musical!”—Episode 11 Recommendations for Summer “Reading”
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!
“Democracy & Assessment Series— Your Voice Matters!” Episode 4: Future Opportunities
As your community of practice, AEFIS Academy is launching a four-part series designed to explore and unpack the relationship between Democracy and Assessment. Throughout this series, a variety of thought leaders will come together in conversation around what the current relationship between democracy and assessment entails, what the relationship should or could be, and what the role of assessment might be moving forward to support a productive democracy. As the conversation unfolds, we will invite all participants into group discussion on how we might, as a field, advance assessment for democracy. Please join us because Your Voice Matters!
Meet Our Partners Series—Johns Hopkins University Second Commission on Higher Education (CUE2) Report Results & Lessons Learned
This particular event will focus on the undergraduate curricular review at Johns Hopkins University, the first of its kind, and the takeaways of embarking on this initiative, the stakeholders involved, and the process for this undertaking. This session will focus on the challenges, best practices, and lessons learned in authentic self-assessment of undergraduate education at an institution and the commitment to using assessment of student learning to pivot, revise and make meaning to impact change.
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.
