Dynamic Campus
September 26, 2014
 Strategies for improving student services,
enrollment, and retention
 User-Friendly Learning Management System
(LMS)
 Business Intelligence (BI)
Strategies for improving
student services,
enrollment, and retention
September 26, 2014
Understanding the generations:
According to Pew Research Company
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Silents born 1928-1945
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Baby Boomers born 1945-1964
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Gen Ex born 1965-1980
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Millennials born 1981-2000
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Characteristics of Millennials
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More independent/special/sheltered
Liberal
Accepting
Most non-whites
Don’t want religious affiliation
Rise in children born outside marriage
Living with parents
The “trophy” generation
Narcissistic
Navigate the world through social media
Tattoos
Lower levels of trust
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Millennials: the next America
5 New findings about Millennials:
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Millennials: the next America
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Millennials have fewer attachments to political
and religious institutions
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Millennials: the next America
Instead, they connect with personalized networks
of friends, colleagues and groups with common
interests
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Millennials: the next America
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Millennials are more burdened by financial
hardships than previous generations but they are
optimistic about the future.
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Student loan debt
Unemployment and poverty
Lower levels of income
8 in 10 say they have enough to live the life they want
They value flexibility and time off
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Millennials: the next America
#3
Singlehood sets Millennials apart from any other
generation
• Just 26% of Millennials are married
• They lack a solid economic foundation
• Most amount of children born outside of wedlock
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Millennials: the next America
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Millennials: the next America
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Millennials are the most
racially diverse generation
• 43% are non-white
• Melting pot
• Hispanic and Asian
immigrants
• Racial makeup contributes to
liberalism
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Millennials: the next America
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Millennials are less trusting of others than older
American's are.
• Just 19% of Millennials agree with the statement “most
people can be trusted”
• Compared to 31% Gen x’ers
• 40% of Baby Boomers
• 37% of Silents
*****More information readily available, more
opportunity for disappointment and disillusionment.
Millennials do trust Social media!!
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Millennial Trends
• 24/7 world
• 3 or more wireless devices
• Digital natives/virtual reality
• Selfies
• Multi-askers
• Collaborative
• Sustainability
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Millennials: Trivia
• What is the average age of financial
30
independence? ____
2 out of 10 students are traditional?
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33 percent of children born today will live to
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see their 100th birthday?
• Average graduate today switches jobs every
4 years?
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• Over the past year there has been a ___%
decline
in 12-24 year olds use of email
• True or false? Texting is as intimate as talking True
Why are these facts important?
Impacts how you deliver services
• Provide cutting- edge technology/Virtual Communities
• Convenience / Self-service
• Top notch communication /texting
• Bandwidth (each student = 3 wireless devices)
• Need space for collaborating
• Provide parent involvement opportunities
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User-Friendly Learning
Management System
(LMS)
September, 2014
Agenda
• User-friendly Learning Management System (LMS)
• Interactive Course Content
• Social Media Use
• Definition of Social Media
• Creating Collaborative Learners
• Case Studies
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User-Friendly Learning Management System
(LMS)
• Canvas, Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Moodle
Content, Discussions, Dropbox
Quizzes, Chat, Grades, Blog, Calendar
Course Objectives same as F2F classes
Can tie each learning outcome to a specific goal so results are
measurable
• Publishers offer complete course information with books
(downloaded by faculty)
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Interactive Course Content
• Promote the use of Discussion Boards or Chat Rooms
• Students respond to others’ posts
• Create their own learning and social communities
• Maintains learner engagement
• Students become active learners
• Ability for the faculty to provide feedback immediately
• Incorporate web and social media
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Social Media Use
• Students of all ages are active on social media (Croke)
• 86% use Facebook
• 89% on Google
• 81% on Twitter
• 90% Pinterest
• 96% LinkedIn
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What is Social Media
• Resource Sharing Tools Available
• Twitter – enables blogging
• Wiki – such as PB Works enable sharing of files and manage
projects
• YouTube – enables social tagging
• Facebook and LinkedIn – social networking
• Google Apps – enable document sharing
• Blogging Platforms such as WordPress enables portfolio
development
• Creates Collaborative/Active Learners
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Creating Collaborative Learners
• Includes students working, building, learning changing,
and improving together
• By incorporating social media into online classes,
learners have the tools t0 share resources, participate in
collective knowledge, and manage their own thinking
(Dabbagh & Reo, 2011; Dron, 2007).
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Business Intelligence (BI)
September 26, 2014
Agenda
• What is Business Intelligence? (BI)
• What problems are we trying to solve?
• BI vs. Reporting
• Current reporting methodology challenges
• What do I need?
• How does it work?
• Demo
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What is Business Intelligence?
• “A technology tool that provides non-technical answers”
• Minimal learning curve
• Turns raw data into meaningful information
• Enables rapid “information” retrieval
• Ensures secure, reliable, and consistent results
• Can be utilized at strategic and operational levels
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What problems are we trying to solve?
• Longitudinal data and trending
• “How do our current registrations compare to this time last year?”
• “Are my developmental programs effective?”
• “In what areas are the most students at risk?”
• Multi-Source reporting
• “How successful are our programs”
• “I need to combine spreadsheets every day because of the number of
systems we have”
• Operational reporting
• “It takes me two weeks to get the information I need”
• “Which students have incomplete packages?”
• External Reporting
• Voluntary Framework for Accountability
• Performance based funding
• Satisfactory Academic Progress
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BI vs. Traditional Reporting
 Static vs. Dynamic
 Ad-Hoc and “What if” capabilities
 Dimensional data
 Rapid and flexible analysis
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Current reporting methodology challenges
 Consistency and conflicting results
 Security
 Knowledge of tools
 Data structure knowledge
 Time and effort
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What do I need?
 Local or Cloud Based
 Data warehouse
 Consolidates and transforms data
 Allows for specialized tuning
 Reduces strain on other systems
 Interface
 Point and click
 Dashboard
 Services
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Alerts
Specialized functionality
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How does it work?
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DEMO
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Questions?
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Thank You!
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