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Developing a Digital Learning Ecosystem to Ensure Student Success

Students looking at laptop together in common space representing Digital Learning Ecosystem.

Intended Audience:

This service is geared toward stakeholders of different roles and levels of expertise who support teaching and learning across modalities, including online, blended, hybrid, and digitally enhanced face-to-face experiences. Participants may include, but are not limited to: 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. Facilitated asynchronous workshop. Participant showcase.

Modalities:

eLearning, Facilitated self-paced

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. Community of Practice
  2. Strategy Guide

Service Duration

4-week asynchronous engagement

Contact Hours

2-5 contact hrs/wk

Time on Task

6-8 hours per week

Capacity

Cohort of 25 participants or less representing 3-5 institutions

Assumptions

Institutions should confirm participant commitment to the service before the engagement. Pricing is per institution.

NOTE: The following components may be added at an additional cost to the core instructional components listed above:

  • Interactive toolkit
  • Landscape analysis and recommendations report
  • Institutional webinar series presenting findings from recommendations report
  • Strategic consulting engagement
  • Facilitation of an ongoing asynchronous community of practice assessing and iteratively improving equitable technological infrastructure
 

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