Webinar: Customizing Your Content Management System to Work for Your Higher Education Institution
A Higher Education institution’s website is often a primary recruiting and information tool, and the stakes for building a scalable, versatile and intuitive Content Management System (CMS) couldn’t be higher. Making the right choice and making the CMS work for each institution’s unique needs and goals can lead to a centralized and effective environment in which they can meet the ever-evolving demands of their target audiences. EMG and Ektron partner up to present the top 5 challenges Higher Education institutions face while managing web content and provide insights on how customizing your CMS can help to solve these issues while creating a better and more efficient user experience. From this webinar you will gain: 1. An overview of the most common challenges facing Higher Education institutions while managing web content 2. Insight into how customizing your CMS can help solve your issues and satisfy your specific needs 3. A look at how a prestigious liberal arts college used Ektron CMS400.net to meet their specific needs and better serve their audiences 4. An understanding of the capabilities of a Content Management System and what options are available to you
Educators React to Pro Tools 9 Academic
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Higher Education’s Catch-22
Patricia Komuniecki, vice provost for graduate affairs at The University of Toledo, joins UT graduate student Sarah Ronau and Lisa Chavers, assistant dean of graduate studies at Bowling Green State University around Jeff Smith’s Roundtable to discuss the relationship between the government and higher education institutions.
GHRF2006: Enhancing MBA Programs in the Asia-Pacific Region
* Chair: Hasung Jang, Dean, Business School, Korea University, Korea * Speaker: – Kulwant Singh, Vice-Dean, Business School, National University of Singapore, Singapore – Zhiwen Yin, Associate Dean, School of Management, Fudan University, China * Description : In todays rapidly changing knowledge-based economy, it is vital for higher education institutions to respond efficiently and adequately to the changing demands of the times. This is especially true for Masters of Business Administration programs, which need to continuously stay a step ahead of the changing environment in order to remain competitive. Higher education institutions play key roles both in training manpower and in creating new knowledge, and the competitiveness of higher education directly influences the competitiveness of a nation. In order to obtain and maintain the leading position, higher education institutions are competing against each other at both national and transnational levels. Each higher education institution tries to recruit more competent students and professors, raise more funds and produce high quality research results. As a means of enhancing competitiveness, many higher education institutions are forming close working relationships with each other or with other actors like firms and research institutes. ‘Coopetition’ (cooperation + competition) has become a new trend in the higher education market. All countries are trying to implement more efficient and effective strategies for …
Perak Education Expo 2009
As one of the largest education expo in this region, Perak Education Expo 2009, is superbly timed when students have just completed their SPM and STPM examinations. The students and their parents will be eagerly gathering vital information on suitable programs and institutions of higher learning to further their children’s education. The Perak Education Expo 2009 aspires to be the ultimate platform for meeting a remarkable audience of prospective students whose interests are to pursue higher education. The Education Expo is a place where they make their decisions on the choice of programs and also the education institutions to help them build their future. The Perak Education Expo 2009 presents the educational institutions an effective platform to showcase their Courses and Programs to the visitors. We would like to sincerely invite representatives of higher education institutions and/or professional bodies, to seize this opportunity to showcase their courses and programs with this enormous huge target audiences comprising of secondary and tertiary students, working adults seeking further education, educationists, parents, and other parties interested in the Education Industry.
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Community Transformation through Community Transportation – Education Institutions
Marianne Geyer of Point Park Uniniversity talks about the University’s Academic Village Project and the transformation that will occur as a result of the investment being made.
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Internet Marketing of Education Institutes
The education sector in India is emerging strongly. Lately, this sector has had rave reviews from various investor classes and can easily be termed as the leading runners among “the emerging sectors” in India in true sense. New companies have emerged started by young entrepreneurs focusing their services on the youth of India imparting them quality education by the use of technology. Many traditional businessmen have invested their time and funds starting new schools and colleges to impart quality education to the youth. The owners of these institutes see it as a simple way of doing clean business and earning healthy margins and profitability.
The demographics of India are helping these companies to flourish as the demand in India is strong. Having 50 % of our population in the age group of below 25 years would support the growth of these businesses in the near future. The emergence of these schools and educational institutes could easily be visible while traveling. One could easily spot these institutes on the outskirts of the major cities across India. With emergence of so many institutes the choice for the courses / institutes has increased among its takers. It has become imperative for the runners of such institutes to position themselves in the right way, to be visible to their audiences.
With the growth of internet it has become easy for the students to scan the offerings of various institutes. The student’s google their way to the institutes / courses of their choice. The institutes have also started focusing on strategizing ways to attract the students for their courses. Most of the institutes have a dedicated website which talks about its courses, faculty, alumni etc. But, still problem remains in terms of finding the right information about the institutes among the actual users of such information. The main problem today is that most of the institutes do not know what exactly to post on the internet or how to brand themselves on the internet to attract the users and giving them information of their use. The problem is inherent from the fact that the starters of these institutes or the owners have been traditional businessmen, who are not very well verse with the use of internet technologies and the various other forms of digital marketing media
It has become imperative for these education institutes/schools to focus on the use of digital media to attract and position their institutes the right way to be visible to their potential users. Times have changed today and students and their parents have become smarter. Before taking decisions of getting into the right institutes both parents/students want to have full knowledge about the right course offering. With competition increasing day by day everyone wants to get into the right institute which can impart right education and can prepare them for future. The easiest way to get access to this information is internet. The owners of these education institutes need to think in new direction to increase their visibility to attract the users. Also, the students need to have the correct and reliable information on these institutes which would be shaping their future. Online marketing and use of social media can help these institutes to market themselves in the right way.
Challenges and Opportunities of Civil Service Reform and the Role of Education Institutions
Safwat El Nahas President of the Central Agency for Organizational Administration and Ambassador Nabil Fahmy, founding dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, signed a memorandum of cooperation between the Central Agency for Organization Administration (CAOA) and the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy that aims on enhancing research, training, and collaboration between the two entities. After signing the memorandum, El Nahas delivered a descriptive lecture titled Challenges and Opportunities of Civil Service Reform and the Role of Educational Institutions where he discussed the current environment of the Egyptian Administration and how cooperation between members CAOA and academics in GAPP can help address these challenges.