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Where Do You Start? The Need For Broader Needs Analysis

[ad_1] Importance Of Broader Needs Analysis In Solution-Based Learning A needs analysis helps you identify all the requirements or challenges that learners face. However, you can also get valuable insights from it regarding your business operations and L&D areas for improvement, such as which resources are missing to personalize the learning experience and put everything …

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Instructional Designer

[ad_1] A Master’s degree in Instructional Design, Educational Technology, or a closely related field. A minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in Instructional Design, preferably in a higher education setting. Extensive experience with various Learning Management Systems (ex. Blackboard, Canvas), content authoring tools (ex. Articulate 360), and multimedia production tools. Strong project management …

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Report: Catholic higher ed governance in flux

[ad_1] Governance structures at Catholic colleges and universities are rapidly changing as their sponsoring orders of nuns and priests shrink in size and relinquish some of their historic leadership responsibilities. A new report by the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges details the varied strategies …

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College “email for life” at risk as Google limits free storage

[ad_1] For years at Colgate University in New York, students getting an email address “for life” was a given. Then, in February, an email portent arrived—by email, of course: alumni learned that their lifetime email addresses might be phased out next year. “Even with the lead time, people were caught off guard,” said Carl Klauss, …

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What’s at stake for institutions, students in farm bill talks

[ad_1] As Congress gears up to update the sprawling and expensive farm bill, land-grant institutions want lawmakers to boost research funding and make other investments while advocates representing students are hoping to make food assistance easier to access for students. “If nothing changes in the farm bill, we will continue to have a massive federal …

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Berkeley student protest keeps anthro library open—kind of

[ad_1] Students’ nearly three-month-long University of California, Berkeley, anthropology library occupation ended in some concessions from the university, despite dwindling protester numbers and a lack of faculty support. In February, citing shrinking budgets, the university announced it would close the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library by the end of this year, merging its collections …

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Public scholarship must be more integral to academic work (opinion)

[ad_1] wellphoto/iStock/Getty Images When my co-editor, Ian Bogost, and I launched our book and essay series “Object Lessons” 10 years ago, we just wanted to make some pretty short books and accessible, engaging essays about deceptively simple topics: basic things instead of big ideas. We wanted to give scholars some fresh ways to write about …

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New presidents or provosts: APUS LACC Northeastern State Saint Paul Spelman TAMU-SA

[ad_1] Mary Gallagher, vice president of administrative services at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, in California, has been named president of Los Angeles City College, also in California. Rodney Hanley, president of Lake Superior State University, in Michigan, has been selected as president of Northeastern State University, in Oklahoma. Elizabeth Johnson, chief academic officer and provost …

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