Innovative Educators

Improve Your Learning Center Using National Benchmarks and Groundbreaking Research

Registration Fee: $345.00

Description

Improve Your Learning Center Using National Benchmarks and Groundbreaking Research

Friday, December 4th ~ 1:00-2:30 EST

If you can not make this date and time, you can watch the recording.
Each participant will receive a link to the recording which is good indefinitely and can be distributed to your entire faculty and staff via email for viewing anytime, anywhere!

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The registration fee for Innovative Educators' webinars is per institution.

Please note: Payment is not required prior to event date but is greatly appreciated.

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Improve Your Learning Center Using National Benchmarks and Groundbreaking Research: Friday, December 4th
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What is the cost?

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Overview

This session will examine results of a national survey that gathered data in an effort to determine benchmark statistics on Learning Center and Tutorial Service usage at colleges and universities across the country. Statistics will include practical comparative information to utilize not only in annual administrative reports, but also to garner institutional support and funding. Descriptive statistics regarding program demographics, services typically provided, who provides those services, and patterns of utilization will be reported. Participants in this webinar will find out what current practices are in learning assistance centers across the country and will be able to examine how their program demographics compare to other similar institutions.

Objectives

This webinar will provide you with benchmark statistics in order to compare your institutional practices with other similar institutions. In this webinar, you will discover the answers to the following questions and more.

Should your institution consider hiring faculty tutors as opposed to more peer tutors? What do other institutions do?
Should your learning center provide separate tutoring services for student-athletes? What is the typical practice at other similar institutions?
Is your institution considering decentralizing your learning assistance programs? What are the recent trends?
Are there differences between the provisions of services in two-year colleges compared to four-year colleges?
On average, what percentage of first-year students use learning assistance services?

Who should attend?

Tutorial Program Coordinators
Directors, Deans, and Administrators of Learning Assistance Programs

Who is the speaker?

Laurie L. Hazard holds an Ed.M. in Counseling and an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Teaching from Boston University. Laurie's experience with academic support began as a graduate student at Boston University and later as a reading and writing specialist in an innovative, team structured learning assistance program at Boston University. For two years, Laurie served as the Director of Academic Support Services at Becker College, a department which housed advising services for at-risk students, learning assistance programs, and tutoring services.

Laurie has been the Director of the Academic Center for Excellence and Writing Center at Bryant University for the last nine years. Laurie has been teaching and designing curricula for first-year experience and study skills courses for the last seventeen years. She has taught courses in college reading and study skills, liberal arts seminars, psychology, personality psychology, abnormal psychology, and social psychology. Her area of expertise is the personality traits and attitudes of college students that influence academic achievement and mediate the utilization of newly learned study strategies.

Laurie is a New England Peer Tutor Association Board member and has hosted their Annual Forum at her institution. She has presented at national conferences such as the First Year Experience and Students in Transition, the Conference on College Composition and the College Reading and Learning Association.

Laurie co-authored a text entitled Foundations for Learning designed for study skills and first-year experience courses. Laurie has done extensive work writing about and assessing the effectiveness of learning assistance programs and FYE courses. She has been a Guest Editorial Board member for the Learning Assistance Review. Publications by Laurie and her co-author include: Exploring the Evidence, Volume III: Reporting Outcomes of First-Year Seminars, a monograph published by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition and “What Does It Mean to be ‘College-Ready’?”, an article which appears in Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education.

Laurie, an award winning educator, was recently selected by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition as a top ten Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate. In 2006, she also received the Learning Assistance Association of New England’s Outstanding Research and Publication Award.

Registration Information

How do I register?
You can register online by adding this product to your shopping cart. If you have any questions, please call 303-775-6004.

When do I register? How much does it cost?

You can register at any time. The cost is $345, which includes access to the recording for one year.

Note: This is for one site connection and an unlimited amount of participants.

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3 webinars: $750 - enter coupon code 285 when registering

6 webinars: $1395 - enter coupon code 675 when registering

1 (2-part) workshop and 1 webinar: $750 - enter coupon code 140 when registering

1 (2-part) workshop and 4 webinars: $1395 - enter coupon code 530 when registering

2 (2-part) workshops and 2 webinars: $1395 - enter coupon code 385 when registering

Package Deal Registration Instructions:

If you would like to order a package of 3 or 6 webinars, or if you are interested in ordering more than 6 webinars, please contact Val at val@ieinfo.org or call 303-775-6004 for more information. Download paper-based registration form for package deal

What is a webinar?

A webinar is an interactive seminar conducted over the web and is typically 1.5 to 2 hours long.

What is the process? Webinar participants log into the webinar site with a username and password sent via email. Participants can print handouts, as we send you a link to the presentation via email approximately 2 days prior to the event. Once logged in, you are able to see the PowerPoint slides, ask questions and make comments via chat, very similar to instant messaging.
Is there a recording available? Approximately one week after the conclusion of the webinar, you will receive a link to the recording which is yours for one year and can be forwarded to all faculty and staff at your institution for viewing anytime, anywhere.
What equipment is required? An Internet connection, computer speakers and LCD projector if a large group is present.

What are the benefits of a webinar?

Cost-Effective: No travel required. Webinars are an innovative way to provide your entire faculty and staff with a variety of professional development opportunities for one low price! The more you train – the more you save, as the registration fee is per institution, not per person.
Easy: You will receive a detailed list of instructions via email a week prior to the event. And if you run into any problems, we’re always here to help.
Interactive: Chat online with presenters, participate in online polling questions, discuss specific situations with your colleagues, and receive implementation strategies for your campus (included when appropriate). You can even join a discussion group to continue the discussion with the presenter and webinar participants. Join discussion groups at www.weeklyinnovations.org.
Practical: Our training sessions focus on the most critical and relevant issues facing educators today. Our primary goal is to provide participants with the information, training and skills necessary to immediately implement positive change at their institutions.
Top-Notch Speakers: Our speakers are subject matter experts and recognized in their field.
Value Added: When you purchase a webinar, you also receive access to the recording, which is good for one year. You can use it wherever and as often as you want, offering consistent training to your faculty and staff.

How will we use these trainings?

Flexible Training:
- Live: Promote and attend a live webinar and debrief immediately following.
- Hybrid: Distribute a recording to all faculty and staff at the beginning of each month and plan a discussion session at the end of the month to determine how you will implement the strategies presented.
- On-Demand: Distribute a recording to faculty and staff so they can watch anytime, anywhere. Contact Innovative Educators at val@ieinfo.org, and we will create an online discussion group specifically for your institution at no extra charge.

In-Service Training: Plan an in-service around a live webinar or schedule a day and time to show the recording in a lecture hall or large conference room and invite faculty and staff to attend – brainstorm and discuss implications for your college.
Staff Recognition: Develop a program around the webinar with monthly themes and recognize the staff members that implement the best idea related to the theme.
Team-Building: Utilize these webinars to develop cross-functional and cross-discipline teams to foster collegiality.
New Employee Training: Include these webinars and the free recording as part of your new employee training program to ensure consistency.