Academic Session ACA12
Are Early Warning Systems too Late?
Date Thursday, Dec 1 Time – Room Potsdam I
Early warning systems provide guidance to advisors and instructors about which students are at academic risk. These systems are often based on data about grades and student backgrounds, but this feedback may still arrive too late as it responds to student assessments. What if we could maximise the opportunities to provide guidance by identifying students at risk before they take exams? Listen and discuss here about what data we should be measuring to forecast student success.
Perry Samson
Professor, University of Michigan, USA
Perry Samson is professor of atmospheric sciences in the College of Engineering Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering in the College of Engineering and Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Prof. Samson has been awarded an Arthur F. Thurnau professorship in recognition of his contributions to undergraduate education at the University of Michigan. Perry has also the past recipient of the College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award and the Teaching Innovation Award at the University of Michigan. He has been honored as the Distinguished Professor of the Year in the State of Michigan. Perry is a frequent speaker as an evangelist for active learning using technologies in the classroom.
In addition to teaching and research Perry is an entrepreneur as a co-founder of The Weather Underground. He also co-founded LectureTools which has been acquired by Echo360 and is a co-founder of the Wireless Indoor Location Device (WILD) Learning System.
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Nives Kreuh
Senior Consultant, E-learning, National Education Institute, Slovenia
Nives Kreuh is a Head of e-learning at the National Education Institute in Slovenia. She is doing the national research, strategy planning and implementation of new curricula through teacher continuous professional development in the field of digital pedagogy and e-learning.
She was leading the national E-competent teacher project in which they designed the standard of e-competent teacher, principle and ICT coordinators in schools framework called The Way towards E-competency. She focused on designing key e-competencies and developing the efficient training model called The Way towards E-competency, leading the instructional design and online courses (MOOCs) development for in-service teacher training and professional development to raise pedagogical digital literacy in schools nationwide.
She is the Head of Programme and Organising Committe of the international SIRikt* conference (*Enabling Education and Research with ICT), which is the largest educational conference in Slovenia with around 1000 delegates each year.
She also works internationally as the national expert and is the author of E-Competent Teacher, Principle and IT expert Framework and Designing E-Student Books Framework.