Pre-Conference Workshop HALF DAY Workshop
Developing Data Fluency for Improving Student Success
This workshop is designed for post-secondary education professionals who seek to improve their data fluency, to support decision-making related to practices (including advising, coaching and the use of learning management applications and platforms) that fall under the broad category of student success services.
Through interactive exercises and real-world examples, attendees will learn what it takes to convert data into meaningful reports, for institutional improvement and improving student success. Special attention will be given to common challenges in educational data analysis and strategies for building sustainable data practices within institutional contexts.
This workshop is for institutional researchers, academic support professionals, student success professionals, program managers and faculty interested in developing a more sophisticated approach to using data for student success initiatives.
Ellen Wagner
Managing Partner, North Coast EduVisory LLC
Ellen Wagner is an accomplished learning technology professional with career experiences in academic, commercial, and non-profit organizations. She has worked as a tenured professor and university administrator, was a founding ed tech entrepreneur, a senior executive of publicly traded software companies, a journal editor, and a board member of a number of start-up ed tech companies. Her areas of expertise include ed tech, emerging tech, change management, instructional systems design and learning engineering, and digital learning (online and eLearning).
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Karen Vignare
Vice President, Association of Public Land-Grant Universities (APLU)
Karen Vignare, Ph.D., currently serves as Vice Provost, the Center for Innovation in Learning and Student Success at University of Maryland University College (UMUC) leading the search and evaluation for next generation learning models. The Center for Innovation in Learning serves as the research and development arm of UMUC’s academic organization. Dr. Vignare is responsible for identifying innovations and collaboratively implementing with core teams at UMUC. Areas of experimentation will include adaptive learning, onboarding, prior learning, course design, analytics, e-resources, open educational resources, instructional design changes, competency based models. She has been active in online learning for over 15 years. Karen has published research on online learning in areas such as business models, serving special populations, open education, blended learning, corporate training and data organization. She has a Ph.D. from Nova Southeastern University and a M.B.A from the University of Rochester’s William Simon School of Business.
Erin Czerwinski
Manager, Carnegie Mellon University
Author | Speaker | Online, evidence-generating curriculum designer | Formative assessment expert | Product developer and manager