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Collaborative Innovations in Higher Education: Makerere University's ASU Leadership Visit
Discover the strategic partnership between Makerere University and ASU, highlighted during a leadership site visit aimed at advancing e-learning initiatives and fostering innovative educational strategies. This collaboration underscores efforts to enhance online instruction and support systems in response to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Student Design Corps Initiative in Higher Education Transformation
The Student Design Corps (SDC) spearheads a 12-week challenge supported by the UDI, focusing on integrating student perspectives into higher education through innovative design processes. Their interdisciplinary approach aims to revolutionize educational experiences by tackling key design challenges and empowering students as co-creators of their learning journeys.
Insights from the Mastercard Foundation Scholars e-Learning Summit
UDI is one of four ASU units serving as key implementation partners to the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program e-Learning Initiative. The initiative was launched in September 2020 to address the disruption to learning at higher education institutions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Frank Rhodes Lecture Series | The Science of Learning: A Community-Based Learning Activity
Thille discusses transforming how learning research and instructional practice serve adult learners and society, citing examples from academia and beyond. She highlights economist William Baumol's 1967 call for a teaching revolution and argues current conditions support a breakthrough in human learning. Thille outlines these conditions, discusses reshaping education and culture for all learners, and presents her vision for higher education's role in the future.
Transforming Higher Education through Innovation: The Redesign Accelerator
The Redesign Accelerator empowers teams from Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education to develop and implement transformative strategies, fostering student success through innovative approaches and rigorous collaboration
Shaping the Future: Inclusive Visioning at Barrett, The Honors College
Under Dean Tara Williams' leadership, Barrett, The Honors College at ASU undertook a comprehensive, community-driven initiative to redefine its mission and values. Through 17 listening sessions and collaborative retreats, diverse voices contributed to a transformative vision that is energizing and uniting the college.