Early Alert Program
The Early Alert classroom assistance program at Sinclair Community College is an intervention program teaming faculty, counselors, and advisors together in order to promote the success of students facing challenges.
An Overview:
Early Alert is an intervention program that allows for faculty to notify advisors/counselors of issues that may affect the success of a student.
It is a simple way of assisting students in difficulty find the help they need while taking very little time.
Web-based Early Alert notifications are easy ways to promote the retention efforts of the college and the success of students.
Utilized currently in all DEV courses, English 111, select Math courses, and SCC 101 courses.
REFRAME
REFRAME is a university-wide project reconceptualising QUT's evaluation of learning and teaching.
REFRAME is fundamentally reconsidering QUT's overall approach to evaluating learning and teaching. Our aim is to develop a sophisticated risk-based system to gather, analyse and respond to data along with a broader set of user-centered resources. The objective is to provide individuals and teams with the tools, support and reporting they need to meaningfully reflect upon, review and improve teaching, student learning and the curriculum. The approach will be informed by feedback from the university community, practices in other institutions and the literature, and will, as far as possible, be 'future-proofed' through awareness of emergent evaluation trends and tools.
Central to REFRAME is the consideration of the purpose of evaluation and the features that a future approach should consider.
About Cohere
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Assessing learning dispositions/academic mindsets
Mar 01 2014
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A few years ago Ruth and I spent a couple of days with the remarkable Larry Rosenstock at High Tech High, and were blown away by the creativity and passion that he and his team bring to authentic learning. At that point they were just beginning to conceive the idea of a Graduate School of Education (er… run by a high school?!). Yes indeed.
Screen Shot 2014-02-28 at 16.56.56Now they're flying, running the Deeper Learning conference in a few weeks, and right now, the Deeper Learning MOOC [DLMOOC] is doing a great job of bringing practitioners and researchers together, and that's just from the perspective of someone on the edge who has only managed to replay the late night (in the UK) Hangouts and post a couple of stories. Huge thanks and congratulations to Larry, Rob Riordan and everyone else at High Tech High Grad School of Education, plus of course the other supporting organisations and funders who are making this happen.
Here are two of my favourite sessions, in which we hear from students what it's like to be in schools where mindsets and authentic learning are taken seriously, and a panel of researcher/practitioners
"SYDNEY LEARNING ANALYTICS RESEARCH GROUP
About
The Sydney Learning Analytics Research Group (LARG) is a joint venture of the newly established Quality and Analytics Group within the Education Portfolio, and the new Centre for Research on Learning and Innovation connected to the Faculty of Education and Social Work.
The key purposes in establishing the new research group are:
Capacity building in learning analytics for the benefit of the institution, its students and staff
To generate interest and expertise in learning analytics at the University, and build a new network of research colleagues
To build a profile for the University of Sydney as a national and international leader in learning analytics
LARG was launched at ALASI in late November 2015. The leadership team is actively planning now for the 2016 calendar year and beyond, with several community-building initiatives already in the pipeline, the first being a lecture by George Siemens, and the second is a new conference travel grant (see details below)."