Allocating Resources to Scale and Sustain Digital Learning and Student-Centered Initiatives

Institutional leaders considering transformational teaching and learning initiatives in a dynamically shifting higher education landscape do not lack choices. What is not always present is an intentional plan of action to realize and sustain the intended outcomes of new instructional models and student-centered programs. Widening the approach from ‘this is what we are going to do’ to include ‘here is how we are going to do it’ requires a nuanced understanding of how stakeholders, strategy, timing, resources, and metrics are interconnected.

Presenters

• Mark McBride, Associate Director, Ithaka S+R
• Dawn Eckenrode, Director of Professional Development Center, SUNY Fredonia
• Seana Logsdon, Associate Provost for Student Success, Empire State College
• Tony DeFranco, Director of Operations, SUNY OER Services, State University of New York (SUNY) System
• Donna Desrochers, Senior Associate, rpk GROUP

Hear lessons learned about various sustainable business models behind new student-centered initiatives, including open educational resources (OER), competency-based education (CBE), and credit for prior learning (CPL). This will include cohort experiences from SUNY as well as other systems and institutions that implemented these models.

Attendees will gain a unique lens of best practices for creating sustainable student success initiatives, including:

• Understanding the business model behind new student-centered initiatives
• Prioritizing investment across various student success initiatives
• Considering, people, time, and money when evaluating initiative resource needs
• Developing frameworks and metrics that support monitoring of initiatives over time
• Use of cohort-based models to move to scale

Throughout the session, presenters will share industry use cases. In addition, participants will benefit from robust peer-to-peer learning.