Pre-Conference Workshop M3
M3 - Silo Smashers: The Student Success Game
Price: 95.00 € Status: places available
Glenda Morgan
Market Analyst, Phil Hill & Associates, United States of America
Glenda Morgan is a Market Analyst at Phil Hill & Associates and the lead analyst at Morgan EdTech Strategies, helping higher education institutions, vendors and investors navigate the edtech landscape. She brings more than 30 years of experience in higher education, including roles as a faculty member, IT administrator and education analyst at Gartner and Director of Academic Technology Services at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Morgan holds a PhD in political science from the University of Minnesota.
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Suzanne L'Amoureux
Consultant, Option 7 Strategies , United States of America
Student success – defined holistically as an institution’s ability to retain and graduate students in a timely manner while preparing them for the workforce or postgraduate study – is one of the most pressing challenges facing higher education globally. Yet, for all its importance, securing student success has proven persistently difficult.
This interactive workshop debuts Silo Smashers: The Student Success Game, a board game that blends systems thinking, strategy, and fun to help higher education professionals reflect on the collaborative nature of student success and the constraints and choices institutions face. Participants will actively play a full round of the game, reflect on insights from play, and leave with ideas on how their institutions can improve student success. Participants will also receive a copy of the game.
Agenda:
• Introductions and Welcome (10 min)
• Overview Presentation: The Problem of Student Success in Higher Education (20 min)
• Table Introductions & Set-up (10 min)
• Table Play (70 min)
• Coffee Break (20 min)
• Table Play (30 min)
• Table Debrief (15 min)
• Post-game Room Debrief & Identification of Lessons Learned (25 min)
• Wrap-up (5 min)
Target Audience:
Academic Leaders, Student Success Professionals, Faculty and Advisors, Institutional Researchers, and Educational Technologists
Target Audience Sector:
Higher Education; Workplace Learning
Prerequisite Knowledge:
Knowledge of higher education structure
Expected Outcomes:
• Understand how student success depends on cross-institutional collaboration.
• Identify effective strategies and their trade-offs for improving student retention and graduation.
• Recognise how institutional barriers – like silos or budget limits – affect student support efforts.
• Rethink deficit-based narratives and explore institution-centred approaches to student success.
• Evaluate the role of data and technology and distinguish useful tools from generic solutions.
• Translate insights from gameplay into actionable strategies for your own institution.