In providing direction for your institution’s role as an education provider, you will constantly be looking for strategies to improve leadership and management, enhance the student experience and the learning and teaching environment, establish social and business partnerships, improve employee engagement and the cultivation of skills through development and training programmes, develop good relationships with community stakeholders, recruit, retain and manage teaching staff and students and manage estates and facilities all at the same time. This is by no means an easy task but it is often further thwarted by inefficiencies in data processing and workflow management that seriously reduce collaboration and productivity.
CES has great expertise in this field and works with common, standard technologies and tools (such as .NET framework, SQL Server, and Visual Studio) to facilitate low-cost development and implementation of specialized education CRM software that will provide your institution with a highly available 360-degree view of its environment. Intuitive and familiar user interfaces allow for a seamless adoption and manipulation of essential information in a timely fashion and help it to create, efficiently manage, and swiftly leverage its knowledge for the better accomplishment of its goal and objectives.
With CES’s consultation service and education CRM software you will be able to create and manage the knowledge needed to improve:
• Student recruitment, retention and management.
• Recruitment, retention, management and career development of teaching staff.
• Campus, school, faculty and/or departmental joins and collaboration.
• Management of administrative workflows and student-teacher-parent-administrator workflows.
• Estates and facilities services management.
• Management of inspections and grant application rounds.
• Distance learning communications.
CES is happy to provide an initial consultation on where and how our CRM platform can collect and produce a rich array of actionable business intelligence that might be leveraged for the accomplishment of your goals. Please post any experiences with CRM or other successful administration and marketing strategies that you wish to share here in this post.
Implementing a VLE is a difficult step for any school, college or universtity. The proliferation of systems and features makes it very difficult to decide which platform or technology stack to choose. Furthermore, until a platform is in place and in use it is very difficult to know which features are going to benefit your particular organization most.
This post invites comments from all teaching practitioners on their experience with VLEs, either as deployments already made or research into their functionality and impact. It is hoped that this will serve as a resource for those looking to make decisions on setting up their first VLE or improve on what they already have with additional functionality. Please post any valuable experiences or important questions you need answering here.El establecimiento de una Red de Aprendizaje Virtual es un paso difícil para cualquier colegio, instituto o universidad. La proliferación de sistemas y de las distintas características presentes en ellos hacen muy complidada la elección de un sistema. Además, hasta que la plataforma no está en su sitio y en uso es complicado saber cuáles son las funciones que más van a beneficiar a una institución en concreto.
Este blog invita a todos los enseñantes a hacer comentarios sobre su propia experiencia con una Red de Aprendizaje Virtual, bien en uso inicial bien a través de la investigación que se haya realizado sobre su impacto y su funcionalidad.
The Faculty of Arts at the University of Winchester has adopted Creative Education Solutions’ Asset software suite as its interactive learning activity platform of choice. Over the last three years, the Faculty has been developing blended learning strategies through the creation of a library of learning objects and the deployment of ILAs for formative assessment and guided study on a number of its modules. Dr Michael Jardine from the Department of English, Creative Writing and American Studies commented:
We have made considerable advances with a series of projects in recent years and accumulated significant capital in our available digital learning materials that form an important part of module delivery. To continue with this work and drive development forward, Asset was simply the best platform choice for its ease of use, level of sophistication and scalability. It will allow us to easily create, deploy and manage our expanding corpus of interactive learning activities used for content delivery on a range of our modules now. Our existing application could not cope with the levels of sophistication required for creating truly interactive and engaging materials. Its non-intuitive feel and difficult user interface for the management of ongoing activities meant that adoption and further development were being held back. Asset has solved all of this for us.
The Asset platform has already been rolled out and Creative Education Solutions will provide a related staff development programme and technical support during the coming academic year.