PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SERIES

New Tools for Nudging Student Success

12 – 1:30 pm ET | Monday, October 28, 2024

We want students to do more of the work only they can do and nudges are the design features we can use to encourage behaviors like more studying and sleep, and better follow-through and course selection. How might we use psychology and behavioral economics to design better structures and choice architecture?

An energy bill that tells us we use more energy than our neighbors reduces our energy consumption. How might we use the same social norming to get students to study more?
Too many choices are cognitively depleting, and we defer choices or make bad ones. How might we reduce choice overload and set better defaults for course selection?
We work harder to preserve what we have than what we might gain. How might loss aversion or rebate grading stimulate more student effort?
We are more likely to vote or get a shot when we have to pick a time and make a plan. How might implementation intentions improve follow-through?

Only the person who does the work gets the benefit and what matters most for learning is S.W.E.E.T.: sleep, water, exercise, eating and time. We can indeed design policies, procedures, schedules and LMS use that will influence behavior and help students take charge of their own learning. Come see the data on why emojis work and discuss how we can make “learning everywhere” a campus reality and improve student understanding and engagement.

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Preparing Your AI Strategy

2 – 3:30 pm ET | Monday, November 18, 2024

Artificial Intelligence offers your campus much more than a chance to increase efficiency or reduce staff. Strategy is about improving your odds for success and now is the time to ask what new service or support could we now offer. We will get hands-on experience of how AI is changing work and thinking. AI can improve quality, speed and even work happiness by outsourcing tedious tasks, but it is also a better listener and can improve student support, meeting notes and assessment. We will learn how to create fine-tuned AIs that can do specific tasks (like financial aid). AI is also changing average: you will need to consider both when good is good enough and where humans need to focus. AI makes almost everyone more creative by surpassing human ability for quantity of new ideas—the most important phase of innovation. How will you change your processes and culture to leverage these new capabilities?

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Both events will be led by José Antonio Bowen.

José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 40 years at Stanford, Georgetown, and the University of Southampton (UK), then as a dean at Miami University and SMU and as President of Goucher College (voted a Top 10 Most Innovative College under his leadership). He now runs Bowen Innovation Group L.L.C., and does innovation, pedagogy and D&I consulting and training in both higher education and for Fortune 500 companies including AT&T, Chevron, Pfizer, Toyota, and Walmart.

As a scholar, Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University (in Chemistry, Music, and Humanities), has written over 100 scholarly articles, was editor of the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (2003), and an editor of the 6-CD set, Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (2011). He received a National Endowment for theHumanities Fellowship and has a TED talk on Beethoven as Bill Gates. In 2010, Stanford honored him as a Distinguished Alumni Scholar.

Bowen is a musician and has appeared on five continents as a jazz pianist and conductor with Stan Getz,Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby McFerrin, Dave Brubeck, Liberace, and many others. His compositions include a symphony (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1985), and music for Jerry Garcia.

Bowen has long been a pioneer in education, classroom design and technology, featured in The New YorkTimes, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Newsweek, PBS News Hour,and on NPR (an extended media list is here). He was given a Stanford Centennial Award for UndergraduateTeaching in 1990 and he has presented keynotes and workshops at more than 400 campuses and conferences in 46 states and 20 countries around the world.

His books on teaching include Teaching Naked (2012) winner of the Ness Award for Best Book on HigherEducation from the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the sequel, Teaching NakedTechniques: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Classes with C. Edward Watson (2017) and Teaching Change: How to Develop Independent Thinkers using Relationships, Resilience and Reflection(2021, Johns Hopkins University Press). His latest book with C. Edward Watson is Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (2024, Johns Hopkins University Press).

For more, see his website teachingnaked.com or his education TED talks.

In 2018 he received the Ernest L. Boyer Award (for significant contributions to American higher education) from the New American Colleges and Universities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in England, is currently a Senior Fellow at the Association of American of Colleges and Universities.

We’re grateful to partner with Knack to bring you this professional development series. Founded in 2015 by Forbes 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur Samyr Qureshi, Knack has developed an award-winning student success strategy designed to modernize the way students connect with and support one another. Knack’s innovative approach has been implemented 100+ campuses nationwide, offering a scalable solution that supplements and enhances existing learning support programs and fosters a stronger, more connected community. As a recipient of the Lumina Foundation Education Innovation Prize, Knack is proudly supported by George Kuh (Founder of High-Impact Practices & NSSE), Esther Wojcicki (global educator and best-selling author), ETS (creators of GRE), and Arizona State University Enterprise Partners. For more information, visit joinknack.com.