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Developing a Digital Learning Ecosystem to Ensure Student Success

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Intended Audience:

Administrators, including C-suite executives (CAO, CIO, CTO); Directors, deans, and department chairs; Experienced leaders in online teaching and learning (LMS administrators, CTL administrators, faculty developers)

Service Model:

Cross-functional team experience

Modalities:

eLearning

This workshop explores the digital learning ecosystem needed to establish and sustain student success, with a focus on the technological infrastructure needed to serve all learners equitably. The workshop challenges participants to develop micro- and macro-level strategies for ensuring inclusive and accessible education in contexts of cultural, economic, and technological barriers. Participants will engage in a collaborative landscape analysis, exploring ways to assess, fund, and sustain care-centered initiatives via policy, pedagogy, and technology change management, including:

  • Technology infrastructure solutions, including mobile and remote access
  • Diverse, multimodal approaches to course design and development
  • Centering student care, including building belongingness, empowerment, and agency
  • Funding models for supporting student access
  • Socioculturally contextualized methods for building inclusive learning environments

Learning Objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

  • Define quality online learning experiences across disciplines, contexts, environments, and systems that address the challenges of endemic racial and socioeconomic inequities
  • Assess an institution’s technological infrastructure to support continuous improvement of quality learning experiences
  • Conduct a landscape analysis to determine current strengths and challenges for scaling equitable learner access to educational opportunities
  • Operationalize institutional strategies for delivering equitable and accessible online learning experiences through financial models and policymaking that empower technology-enhanced instruction
  • Guide administrators and decision-makers in creating a digital strategy for technology access aligned with the organizational mission and vision

Service Deliverables

  1. Cohorted Community of Practice
  2. Strategy Guide

Service Format

Asynchronous

Configuration

Facilitated, scheduled

Service Duration

Four weeks

Contact Hours

Two to five contact hours/week

Time on Task

Six to eight hours per week

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