Anthology Blog Check out our wide array of blog posts spanning all aspects of education and discussing best practices, tips and tricks, developments in EdTech, and more. Featured | July 11, 2022 Breaking Down Anthology iX: How Infusing Experiences with Data Unlocks New Possibilities for Education Learn More ➔ Featured | September 26, 2020 On Your Mark, Get Set, Go! A Runner's Guide to Combating Donor Fatigue In the world of long distance running, fatigue is a necessary piece of the training process. Marathon runners must find the delicate balance of logging an exhaustive number of miles and workouts while also allowing the body time to recover. Learn More ➔ Featured | September 8, 2020 Five Steps in Learning to Speak the Language of Data Visualization Technologies As a twenty-first-century consumer my home is full of sophisticated technology that is deceptive in its simplicity. On a given day, I may use my smart speakers to get directions, find a recipe, or – in one instance my wallet is unlikely to forget - adjust the thermostat. Learn More ➔ Featured | August 21, 2020 Practicing Equity-Centered Assessment Assessment has been used to evaluate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts and it is time to shift the discussion to embedding DEI efforts into the practice of assessment. A number of practitioners who participated in a recent survey about the intersections of assessment and equity, agree. Learn More ➔ Featured | August 14, 2020 Enlighten Your Institutional Initiatives with Course Evaluation Data Take a second and reflect on the ways your institution actively uses data from your course evaluation processes. Learn More ➔ Featured | August 4, 2020 Data-Informed Decision Making as a Framework for Changemaking When the calendar changed to 2020 and New Year's resolutions were being made, no one in higher ed had any idea of the challenges that lay ahead for the spring semester. Decisions that typically take months or years to make were made in moments. Health and safety became the primary focus, and instructors and students adapted to new methods of teaching and learning. Learn More ➔ Featured | July 31, 2020 Do you need a digital assistant on your campus? It depends. Learn More ➔ Featured | July 30, 2020 Does the new normal in higher ed include artificial intelligent agents? According to recent Gartner research, “by 2022, 20% of customer service will be handled by conversational agents.” If that is true, then what does that mean for students on a university campus? Learn More ➔ Featured | July 15, 2020 Alumni and Student Engagement: Is There a Link? Institutions are increasingly tracking student involvement and participation information in co-curricular organizations, for several reasons, including retention, co-curricular transcripts, and more. Another reason? This information can be an indicator of potential alumni engagement. Learn More ➔ Featured | July 13, 2020 Setting Up Assessment Year to Year: Five Key Questions The summer months provide an opportunity to reset, reflect and re-examine many of our institutional processes. As we strive to make annual assessment meaningful and manageable, we must evolve ongoing processes based on our unique students, curricula, resources and culture. Learn More ➔ Featured | July 10, 2020 Make it Easy: Creating a Simple Online Giving Experience Whether it’s your Annual Fund, Capital Campaign, Day of Giving, or a campaign connected to your crowdfunding pages, the common goal is to generate gifts, to create cash, to make money for your institution. This means you need to drive donors to your online giving page (or form) and move them all the way through the process to the finish page. Learn More ➔ Featured | July 10, 2020 The Essential Role of Co-curricular Programs in Student Success, Retention, Persistence and Graduation Student Success is often used as short-hand for the larger retention-persistence-graduation (RPG) conversation. The term student success can refer to a wide variety of things including precollege characteristics, quantifiable student attainment indicators, measures of academic achievement and personal and student development characteristics. Learn More ➔ Featured | June 20, 2020 Institutional Effectiveness in Action: 5 Tips for Success with Learning Datasets Within the first hour of almost every assessment consultation session I facilitate, the same question deflates the air in the room: ‘How does your institution use learning data to improve the student experience?’ Learn More ➔ Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Current page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Next page › Last page Last »
Featured | July 11, 2022 Breaking Down Anthology iX: How Infusing Experiences with Data Unlocks New Possibilities for Education Learn More ➔
Featured | September 26, 2020 On Your Mark, Get Set, Go! A Runner's Guide to Combating Donor Fatigue In the world of long distance running, fatigue is a necessary piece of the training process. Marathon runners must find the delicate balance of logging an exhaustive number of miles and workouts while also allowing the body time to recover. Learn More ➔
Featured | September 8, 2020 Five Steps in Learning to Speak the Language of Data Visualization Technologies As a twenty-first-century consumer my home is full of sophisticated technology that is deceptive in its simplicity. On a given day, I may use my smart speakers to get directions, find a recipe, or – in one instance my wallet is unlikely to forget - adjust the thermostat. Learn More ➔
Featured | August 21, 2020 Practicing Equity-Centered Assessment Assessment has been used to evaluate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts and it is time to shift the discussion to embedding DEI efforts into the practice of assessment. A number of practitioners who participated in a recent survey about the intersections of assessment and equity, agree. Learn More ➔
Featured | August 14, 2020 Enlighten Your Institutional Initiatives with Course Evaluation Data Take a second and reflect on the ways your institution actively uses data from your course evaluation processes. Learn More ➔
Featured | August 4, 2020 Data-Informed Decision Making as a Framework for Changemaking When the calendar changed to 2020 and New Year's resolutions were being made, no one in higher ed had any idea of the challenges that lay ahead for the spring semester. Decisions that typically take months or years to make were made in moments. Health and safety became the primary focus, and instructors and students adapted to new methods of teaching and learning. Learn More ➔
Featured | July 30, 2020 Does the new normal in higher ed include artificial intelligent agents? According to recent Gartner research, “by 2022, 20% of customer service will be handled by conversational agents.” If that is true, then what does that mean for students on a university campus? Learn More ➔
Featured | July 15, 2020 Alumni and Student Engagement: Is There a Link? Institutions are increasingly tracking student involvement and participation information in co-curricular organizations, for several reasons, including retention, co-curricular transcripts, and more. Another reason? This information can be an indicator of potential alumni engagement. Learn More ➔
Featured | July 13, 2020 Setting Up Assessment Year to Year: Five Key Questions The summer months provide an opportunity to reset, reflect and re-examine many of our institutional processes. As we strive to make annual assessment meaningful and manageable, we must evolve ongoing processes based on our unique students, curricula, resources and culture. Learn More ➔
Featured | July 10, 2020 Make it Easy: Creating a Simple Online Giving Experience Whether it’s your Annual Fund, Capital Campaign, Day of Giving, or a campaign connected to your crowdfunding pages, the common goal is to generate gifts, to create cash, to make money for your institution. This means you need to drive donors to your online giving page (or form) and move them all the way through the process to the finish page. Learn More ➔
Featured | July 10, 2020 The Essential Role of Co-curricular Programs in Student Success, Retention, Persistence and Graduation Student Success is often used as short-hand for the larger retention-persistence-graduation (RPG) conversation. The term student success can refer to a wide variety of things including precollege characteristics, quantifiable student attainment indicators, measures of academic achievement and personal and student development characteristics. Learn More ➔
Featured | June 20, 2020 Institutional Effectiveness in Action: 5 Tips for Success with Learning Datasets Within the first hour of almost every assessment consultation session I facilitate, the same question deflates the air in the room: ‘How does your institution use learning data to improve the student experience?’ Learn More ➔