Archive for the ‘Management’ Category

Strategic Hiring: Using Job Analysis to Effectively Select Online Faculty

Unlike training and professional development, hiring faculty for online teaching remains underexplored by scholars. It is imperative that faculty hiring be approached thoughtfully and strategically so that institutions can deliver quality online instruction in alignment with their missions, visions, and values. To address this need, this article illustrates how to use job analysis as the […]

A Grand Strategy for Grand Challenges: A New Approach through Digital Transformation

Today’s Grand Challenges in higher education need to be met with a new approach: a Grand Strategy that utilizes the cultural, workforce, and technological shifts of digital transformation. EDUCAUSE Review  

Podcast Bonus: Managing Higher Ed’s “New Normal”

In this bonus episode of the podcast, Dr. Elliot Stern, president of Saddleback College in Southern California, talks candidly about how his institution is making strategic decisions for the fall and what kinds of policies and infrastructure they are putting in place to move forward. The conversation comes from Campus Technology’s recent Distance Learning Summit […]

Cultivating Online Faculty Growth Through Leadership Training

Whether in business or education, leadership should always take steps to prepare employees for increasing responsibilities and future leadership roles. Continuous leadership training helps ensure employees are prepared to lead their classrooms as well as step into future leadership roles with confidence. Cultivating faculty leadership has numerous benefits for not only the faculty involved, but […]

Where ‘Generals Die in Bed’ Gets Online Education Wrong — Why Normal Arguments for Online Education Don’t Apply Right Now

Your publication on July 6 of Jeff Kolnick’s Views piece “Generals Die in Bed” raises some important questions, I’m afraid, related to the opinion pieces that Inside Higher Ed chooses to publish. My objection to Kolnick’s essay does not lie in his concerns about the health risks of face-to-face instruction during COVID-19. I share many […]

Practices and Discourses of Academics: Local Lessons to Address the Digital Shift in Academic Management

Since the 1980s, accountability, performance measurement and competitiveness have been implemented in universities globally. It is the management logic known as New Public Management (NPM). But the NPM in contemporary academia is not understood without attending to the emergence of digital management devices and platforms (DMDs). It is the combination of both events that we […]

Download Report:CREATING SEAMLESS CREDIT TRANSFER: A parallel higher ed system to support America through and beyond the recession

In an era of increasing data interoperability in almost every sector of life, the idea that today’s students can’t seamlessly transfer credits from one institution to another seems preposterous. Yet higher education’s broken credit transfer system has plagued students and stumped policymakers for decades—to this day, first-time students who transfer lose 43% of their credits […]

Trying to Make Sense of a Fluid Fall

As more colleges announce their instructional plans, two simulations suggest some of the likely challenges to a physical return. Others see opportunity for experimentation around teaching and learning. Inside Higher Ed

U.S. Faculty and Administrators’ Experiences and Approaches in the Early Weeks of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound and rapid impact on higher education institutions across the world. In this study, we report the findings of a survey investigating the rapid transition to emergency remote teaching in the early weeks of the pandemic at public and private post-secondary institutions in the United States. Participants consisted of […]

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In these times of lockdown due to the Coronavirus COVID-19, face-to-face educational functions and activities are being moved online, using remote working sites and tools. Many of us are struggling with the adjustment to working and teaching online, especially those who have always taught in a traditional classroom and are now being asked to rapidly regroup […]