Recruiting Intelligence

First Marketing Question Today: Making better decisions based on gathered and distilled information -- Isn’t that the skill education is seeking to instill in all of us as we grow and advance through life?

Second Marketing Question Today: To whom do you turn for help with important decisions? Put another way, who are your influencers?

Main Message Today: You don't want to be that institution that gets the comment, "Huh! We don't have that," when all the students are home on break.

After recognizing the opportunities in EdTech, Unibuddy has grabbed the reigns and created a program that allows current students to discuss the merits of their universities with prospective students. The benefit: students in the college-seeking process are able to authentically hear the pros and cons of different universities from their peers and are able to make an informed decision.

Peer-to-peer support is an essential part of the human experience. Peers, colleagues and mentors

provide support in many forms today and it is increasingly digital. Sure, the shared cup of coffee and conversation at a table in some quiet corner has its draw and advantages. But really, digital has taken over the advice department.

In our continuing series exploring EdTech, we are looking into social learning platforms

and how they are providing your students (and you) with new ways to move forward. It is the power of collective wisdom.

This is going to be good!

We touched on these highly-visible resources in this blog in March, discussing learning

management systems (LMS) and social learning platforms.

We’re pretty confident you’ve already checked in on at least one social media platform today before even reading this. As you know, your students are spending their days Snapchatting, Instagraming, WhatsApping, WeChatting, (and some even Facebooking! - they might admit that one grudgingly ; -), in an effort to stay connected. Most of their interactions on their device of choice is peer-to-peer. Social learning platforms provide the same type of connection, but the focus is on students, teachers, parents, and alumni interacting to learn, collaborate and get creative with a goal in mind...less mindless, more directed.

What’s all this mean to you and your institution? What does it mean for student recruitment and student retention? (Read on...)

OK, let's stay focused people!

So there are a few bad eggs out there doing admissions really, really wrong. You are not doing it wrong. We are not doing it wrong. We've got work to do, so let's ignore the headlines and get back to doing our jobs.

Just a few weeks back, we wrote about the growth and growing competition in the world of “edtech:” a broad term for the array of technologies designed to enhance learning, streamline the administration of educational programs, and improve student outcomes (find the post HERE).

Current thinking divides the area of edtech into 8 segments and we will be discussing each of them in more depth this year. Our next Can't Miss Event is a webinar on Artificial Intelligence and its relationship to Machine Learning and Predictive Modeling. What does all this mean for international and domestic student recruitment and retention?

Join Ben and Ashish Fernando, CEO of iSchoolConnect for an exclusive Intead Plus webinar on March 28 at 1 PM EDT: Artificial Intelligence for Higher Ed Explained.

We’ll be sharing valuable data about online behavior and technology trends, as well as case studies that will help you understand the role AI can play in optimizing your own student recruitment and retention plans.

Let's put it this way: It's a heck of a lot more than filtered lists and chat bots. And we are afraid that many others in the field are not thinking broadly enough about how this all works and what it truly involved. And of course, the consideration of what is affordable for the value.

Join us live—or if you can’t make it, heads up that Intead Plus subscribers will have exclusive access to the webinar recording (trust us: this is one you’ll want to refer back to and share with colleagues).

In our blog today, we are not about artificial intelligence. Instead we are focusing on edtech’s potential for better connecting students to resources and each other. Ensuring that students can easily connect with enriching materials and their fellow learners is a pretty basic goal of every educational institution...and yet, one that can be surprisingly difficult to do efficiently and well. And while technology can’t solve every problem...it sure can help a lot.

Read on for our review of 2 primary buckets of helpful edtech tools: learning management and social learning. What do these terms mean? How can they be helpful? And if your institution is already using these kinds of edtech tools, how can you know if they’re working?

Good questions—let’s get going.

EdTech Goes Collaborative: Social Learning Platforms

Getting Smart about Edtech: Learning Management and Social Platforms

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