Enrollment Growth University: Higher Education

Dr. Unnati Narang, Assistant Professor of Marketing at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign joins the podcast to talk about the first week of class prompt that improved student engagement by 30%, other pedagogical tests that didn’t move the needle at all, and how to make sure we’re all learning off each other’s online pedagogy experiment curves.

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Dr. Greg Heiberger, Associate Dean of Academics & Student Success at South Dakota State University joins the podcast to talk about how the metaverse can make our in-person students’ educational experience more immersive, and our online students’ experience more communal.

Dr. Sheila LeBlanc, Associate Vice President of Continuing Education at The University of Calgary joins the podcast to talk about the adoption curve for microcredentials in higher education and the need to adopt a shared language for degree and micro-credentials in order to accelerate it.

Ben Congleton, CEO and Co-Founder at Olark joins the podcast to talk about the enrollment power of a live chat experience, and how these chat transcripts in the aggregate can become some of our most valuable inputs and feedback loops for website content improvements.

Dr. Adam Fein, Chief Information Officer at University of North Texas joins the podcast to talk about embedding microcredentials within our degree programs, and whether or not microcredentials are an existential threat to higher education or its wonderful partner.

Dr. Rebecca Vidra, Senior Lecturer at Duke University joins the podcast to discuss her personal experience and challenges navigating higher ed’s financial aid gauntlet with her own daughter, and how all of her “insider” knowledge didn’t leave her or her daughter any less confused.

Dr. Nicole Barbaro, Sr. Communications Content Manager at WGU Labs returns to the podcast to discuss their follow-up study on faculty perceptions of EdTech and online learning, as well as how we can better learn off our peer institution’s tech learning curves.

Bob Ubell, Author & Vice Dean Emeritus of Online Learning at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering returns to the podcast to talk about what has gotten in the way of the great Clayton Christensen’s belief that online education would rapidly escalate the consolidation of higher ed, and whether or not that inevitability is still yet to come.

Dr. Jeffrey Docking, President at Adrian College joins the podcast to discuss how the survival strategy for small liberal arts colleges must contain a shared services approach to liberal arts education with other similar institutions.

Mollie Waller, Executive Director at Youth Solutions joins the podcast to discuss their Jobs of Michigan’s Graduates (JMG) program and the high-touch, high-time requirement for successful student mentorships that truly make an impact on retention and graduation.