Global Student Attitudes on Higher Education Infographic Laureate International Universities has partnered with Zogby Analytics to poll students on their attitudes about the present and future of higher education. More than 27,000 students in 22 countries were surveyed—the largest student survey of its kind ever. The Global Student Attitudes on Higher Education Infographic showcases the results from their poll on student attitudes about the present and future of higher education. What Students Say About Higher-Ed Today Nearly 80% of students surveyed pursued higher education to improve their employment prospects and believe the importance of education lies in fostering the right attitudes. 79% of students believe that a successful education "fosters an attitude to grow personally and professionally. An amazing 96% of students believed it was important that their school foster an entrepreneurial atmosphere, and 93% thought teaching soft skills was important. Students are confident about higher education quality but want to receive a better return on their investment Students from all regions are generally optimistic (53%) about the quality of their country’s higher education system but are less confident in the value that they receive from their higher education systems. Optimism About The Current Education System Across The Globe On the basis of the 2015 survey, Laureate and Zogby developed the Student Confidence Index, which tracks student attitudes on the current state of higher education and its future. The 2015 results demonstrate that students are generally confident in the current state of their higher education systems, with students in Panama, Costa Rica, and China reporting the highest confidence of all countries surveyed. What Students Expect In The Future The Laureate/Zogby Future Index also measures global student confidence in education innovation. The Index shows that students in the developing world are more confident that education innovations will improve future students’ opportunities. Students believe changes to the university model will benefit them: 2/3 of all students believed that changes like lifelong learning, apprenticeships and flexible schedules would benefit their education. Institutions will prepare graduates better for employment, and employers and business will be more involved in education: 70% (and nearly 3/4 of students in Peru) believe that institutions will offer more career-oriented skills, including employers: - designing courses (58%) - offering apprenticeships (58%) - paying students’ tuition (47%) 58% (and more than 2/3 in Mexico) believe that the higher education system will develop an electronic matching system to match graduates with jobs. An interactive and responsive version of the Global Student Attitudes on Higher Education Infographic is also available here. You can also download the Laureate/Zogby Student Confidence Index full report.   Via: www.laureate.netThe post Global Student Attitudes on Higher Education Infographic appeared first on e-Learning Infographics.

Unbelievable Statistics About Teen Safety On The Internet Infographic The Unbelievable Statistics About Teen Safety On The Internet Infographic refers to kids’ internet usage behaviors. It’s scary how Internet savvy kids are these days. They definitely know how to do more online than adults, but they often put protecting themselves on the backburner. This content is best suited for parents of kids in the digital age to inform them of critical facts regarding kid’s internet activity. The Unbelievable Statistics About Teen Safety On The Internet Infographic delivers impactful information that relays the importance of protecting kids and teens from cyber bullies, criminals and hackers that are online. The Internet changes and expands daily, which makes protecting people and devices more challenging. Cyber criminals and stalkers often take advantage of new systems before the general public is aware of the potential dangers. You want to protect your kids, but there’s such a huge learning curve how do you keep up? With the right information you can become just as proactive online as you are offline. The SearchRPM Internet Safety Resource section is all about bringing parents up to speed on how they can protect their kids, ways to teach kids about Internet safety and helping them build good habits. Via: www.searchrpm.comThe post Unbelievable Statistics About Teen Safety On The Internet Infographic appeared first on e-Learning Infographics.

What Type of Procrastinator Are You? Infographic It becomes quickly evident that the harder we work, the better we are at wasting time. It’s why we are so obsessed with getting better, faster and quicker at working - but procrastination actually highlights those inner insecurities that we didn’t really know we had, or least didn’t know were holding us back. However, what can we gain from ‘understanding’ ourselves? Firstly, it’s a big step in being able to turn a weakness into one of a strength. Conquering fears that working hard induce can bring you closer to achieving your goals. Organisation, planning and self-discipline are essential skills in being able to accomplish tasks; this is why this method can be applied to anything in life - from setting up a business to being a productive employee, as well as studying effectively and completing everyday chores. The What Type of Procrastinator Are You? Infographic presents the four categories of the procrastinating individual: Daredevil, Self-Saboteur, Ostrich, Chicken or Perfectionist. Understanding what each of these means can lead us to understand a little more about ourselves and how we can move forward. Categories of the procrastinating individual The Daredevil: To live dangerously, only starting the work when the deadline is looming. You think you show grace, but the end result is rushed and the work full of errors. Solution: Get organised and set yourself tighter deadlines. Self-Saboteur: You’re your own worst enemy, putting obstacles in your path to stop yourself working. That way, you can say it’s not your fault - rewarding yourself for a job left undone. Solution: plan for obstacles. List potential problems and how you can overcome them, ahead of time. Plan countermeasures, ‘Whenever I check Facebook, I take a short break.’ Ostrich: You like to stick your head in the sand and ignore the tasks at hand - avoiding having to make decisions. If you make a decision, then you don’t risk failing or being judged. Solution: Self-talk confidently. Notice how you are talking to yourself when procrastinating. Think positively - instead of ‘I can’t’, say ‘I will’. Chicken: With so many choices, how are you supposed to decide? By the time you’ve made up your mind, it’s too late. You feel like you may as well put it off and let someone else choose. Solution: Swiss-cheese the big tasks. Handle the biggest tasks first by breaking them down into smaller manageable ones. Devote small amounts of time and achieve as much as you can in each to boost your momentum. Perfectionist: You’ll settle for nothing less than perfection - which is essentially impossible. You’re ruled by what others think of you, delaying work until you can be sure other people won’t criticise it. Solution: Keep it real! Set yourself reasonable targets. Perfection is impossible, but you can learn from mistakes. By doing little changes we can move towards success. Set smarter deadlines and don’t rush your work. Don’t pressure yourself beyond your means. If you are someone who feels the pressure quickly, then either seek support from peers, friends and family or work to reduce the pressure - plan a new approach. Inspiration comes from success and justifies why you set out to complete this task. Just remember perfection is impossible, but doing nothing achieves nothing. Via: www.parcelhero.comThe post What Type of Procrastinator Are You? Infographic appeared first on e-Learning Infographics.

Tapping Into the Brains of Prospective College Students Infographic Higher education marketers are constantly trying to get into the brains of prospective college students. Every year, the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA publish their annual Freshman Survey report, covering a wide variety of topics from career aspirations all the way to their tendencies to party. The Tapping Into the Brains of Prospective College Students Infographic presents some of the key trends exemplifying the incoming college students and the changing academic landscape. Via: www.oho.comThe post Tapping Into the Brains of Prospective College Students Infographic appeared first on e-Learning Infographics.

Experiential Learning in The Classroom Infographic Experiential learning is the process of making meaning from direct experience, i.e., "learning from experience." Experiential learning is a more effective way to gaining understanding of materials than lecture-based discussions. Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory Model Expanding on earlier work by John Dewey and Kurt Levin, David Kolb’s experiential learning theory features a four-stage cyclical theory of learning. Experiential learning helps students gain precious work-related social skills, gain maturity and increases their confidence about the future. Benefits of Experiential Education Experiential education promotes positive attitudes towards learning: 10 of 14 students who have been taught using the experiential education method express significantly more positive general attitudes towards their learning experiences. The logic is simple: people tend to do more of the activities they enjoy than the activities they do not enjoy. If we can get students to enjoy school and learning more, just think how much more they may learn. Additionally, we might then be able to reverse the trend of students becoming less engaged as they progress through their K-12 educational years. Experiential education provides true-to-life experience that enhances career exploration: Students can learn about careers through slideshows and lectures, but a greater connection is formed when they receive hands-on career experience. This hands-on experience not only prepares them for the technical aspects of future careers, but gives them a better understanding of what career area they may enjoy or excel in. Experiential education helps create more engaged members of the workforce: By establishing positive attitudes towards education, providing hands-on career experience and helping create more engaged members of the workforce, experiential education and CTE programs are helping create a stronger workforce - a workforce that, in time, will be better able to compete globally and fill the high-skill STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) careers that are anticipated to be in demand in just a few years. Technology and Experiential Learning Technology is a highly effective teaching tool for experiential learning. Teachers are creating more interactive lessons thanks to access to technology: 93% of educators agree that digital resources such as classroom technology and web-based programs help in their students’ academic achievement. 65% of teachers say technology lets them demonstrate things they couldn’t show another way.   Read also: 8 Reasons Why Experiential Learning Is The Future Of Learning   Via: realityworks.comThe post Experiential Learning in The Classroom Infographic appeared first on e-Learning Infographics.

2015 Top 5 Higher Ed Infosec Issues Infographic Higher education isn’t just a place to learn about cybersecurity — it’s a place to put solid digital defense practices into action. The Higher Education Information Security Council (HEISC) was established in July 2000 to provide coordination for the higher education sector. The HEISC mission is to support higher education institutions as they improve information security governance, compliance, data protection, and privacy programs. HEISC accomplishes this work through volunteer groups supported by professional EDUCAUSE staff, as well as collaborations with other organizations that address information security and privacy in higher education. HEISC actively develops and promotes information security leadership, awareness, and understanding; effective practices and policies; and guidance for the protection of critical data, IT assets, and infrastructures. Earlier this year, the group released the 2015 Top 5 Higher Ed Infosec Issues Infographic that includes the top five strategic information security issues for 2015. Top 5 Higher Education Information Security Issues Developing an effective information security strategy that responds to institutional organization and culture and that elevates information security concerns to institutional leadership. Ensuring that members of the institutional community (students, faculty, and staff) receive information security education and training. Developing security policies for mobile, cloud, and digital resources (includes issues of data handling/protection, access control, and end-user awareness). Using risk-management methodologies to identify and address information security priorities. Developing, testing, and refining incident response capabilities to respond to information systems/data breaches. Wondering what’s next? The Higher Education Information Security Council Information Security Guide is the only resource developed by higher education information security practitioners for higher education information security practitioners. The guide features toolkits, case studies, effective practices, and recommendations to help jump-start campus information security initiatives. (Don’t reinvent the wheel every time you start a new infosec project, policy, or program function on campus.) Via: www.educause.eduThe post 2015 Top 5 Higher Ed Infosec Issues Infographic appeared first on e-Learning Infographics.

5 Strategies for Employee Onboarding Success Infographic A successful onboarding program can be a significant contributor to your company’s success, driving benefits like new employee productivity, engagement, and retention. But building a program that drives this positive impact can be challenging. Read the 5 Strategies for Employee Onboarding Success Infographic to learn five strategies that will enable you to create an effective onboarding program. How can you make your onboarding program effective? Leverage these five strategies to create a successful onboarding program: Extend the learning time frame: Extend your onboarding program over a time frame of at least six months to encourage learning retention. Learn through others: Incorporate a personalized 1:1 approach to your program. Consider providing new hires with a resource network which will connect them to the organization, thus improving integration and retention. Guide learning: For informal learning, structure is the key to success. Build a guided workflow for your program to ensure continuous and productive learning. As an added bonus, you can replicate this for future new hires. Measure impact: Establishing metrics at the beginning of the program allows you to accurately understand the impact. Focus metrics into two buckets: the program level, or metrics on achieving business objectives, and employee level, or metrics on the impact the program has had on the employee. Standardize and scale: Creating a standardized process will allow for repeatability throughout the organization, and ensure consistent new employee training procedures which translate into substantial benefits for your organization. Want more insights and ideas into these five strategies? Read the full guide. Following this guide, you will build your employee onboarding program out to extend past the initial orientation to a longer-term, guided onboarding experience that includes informal learning through others. Hopefully you will also plan out the key measurements to demonstrate your program’s success. By carefully building in these steps, it will be fairly easy to scale your strategic onboarding program across your organization to achieve a uniform, effective new hire experience. A new employee onboarding program will keep new employees engaged and learning, making their relationship with your organization a positive one. Engaged employees serve as your best corporate evangelists as well as tomorrow’s leadership team, ensuring your upfront investment in new employee onboarding provides an excellent return in terms of productivity, retention, and company growth. Read also: The Anatomy Of Great Onboarding eLearning Via: chronus.comThe post 5 Strategies for Employee Onboarding Success Infographic appeared first on e-Learning Infographics.

eLearning Development Checklist Infographic Despite great content and graphics, things can go wrong. The eLearning Development Checklist Infographic lists a few points to consider which may save your time and money when you develop your eLearning courses. Checking your elearning course before you hit the send button  Proofread as many times as possible. Yes, you may have checked it a few times but check again. At times, we are so focused on checking the spelling on the inside pages of the slides that we forget to pay attention to Headlines and Titles. If you can spot the spelling and grammar mistakes before your client does, great for you. If you have a course with many slides, consider doing half and then the other half a couple of minutes later. If you try to proofread 70-100 slides in one go, chances are you are going to miss something out. At times, we are so obsessed with the spelling and grammar that we miss out on other important factors such as visuals. If your slide says, click here to view the map. Is the map there? Or you have a click and reveal activity, when you click, is something revealed (text or image). This may seem absurd and obvious but errors can occur, so do check. Navigation is so important because you want your learner to be comfortable whilst learning. You want to be able to give them control of what they are learning. Unless specified in the brief that certain slides have to be completed to move forward, do ensure your students are in control at all times. Check your assessments. Are they too easy? Are they challenging enough? Are they too hard? Should you consider providing hints? A golden rule…. ALWAYS get another person to check the course. Be it the development team, colleagues; just to make sure you have not missed something very obvious Did you notice we purposely left the full stop out in the previous sentence. In fact, if you have been paying attention, we have purposely made a spelling mistake in the first image. Did you spot it? Read also: Before You Publish: Your eLearning Checklist Via: www.synotive.comThe post eLearning Development Checklist Infographic appeared first on e-Learning Infographics.

EdTech in the United States Infographic As schools chase the one-to-one dream, students weigh in on tech in the classroom. The EdTech in the United States Infographic presents interesting stats and facts about the usage of digital devices and educational technology in U.S. schools. Where do schools stand? 48 MILLION public schools in the United States 13.2 MILLION computing devices in K-12 schools across the country 1:3.6 estimated ratio of devices to students in the United States The devices they are using 4.7 MILLION desktop computers 2.3 MILLION tablets 3.9 MILLION notebooks 2.3 MILLION other What students think 81% of students agree that using tablets in the classroom lets them learn in a way that’s best for them. 63% of students would like to use mobile devices in the classroom more often than they do now. 51% of students across all grade levels feel that it is important for their schools to provide them with a notebook on a one-to-one basis. 43% of students feel that it is important for their schools to provide them with a tablet one-to-one. Via: www.edtechmagazine.comThe post EdTech in the United States Infographic appeared first on e-Learning Infographics.

Online Learning in India Infographic The Online Learning in India Infographic presents interesting stats and facts about the state of online learning in India. When the whole nation was complaining about the state of Learning in India, ChalkStreet wanted to solve some of the problems. They conducted a survey, called the KnowMore Campaign, where they interviewed 3,000+ engineering students across India and understood their perspective on current education, online learning and the problems they faced. They learnt that there was a high level of interest in pursuing online learning. However, there were significant gaps in availability of relevant (for the demographic, country and context), affordable and good quality content to meet the learning needs. Via: www.chalkstreet.comThe post Online Learning in India Infographic appeared first on e-Learning Infographics.