Past Webinars
Past Webinars
Recordings of past webinars, plus related SREB resources on these education topics
Teaching Resources for the April 8 Total Solar Eclipse
Classroom Materials & Strategies to Observe the Eclipse Easily and Safely
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The last total solar eclipse in the U.S. until 2045 occurs in April 2024. Everyone in North America will experience at least a partial eclipse. In this webinar you will find tips to get your students to be ready to experience this rare celestial event.
The Skills Employers Demand and How Educators Can Address Them
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In this webinar, SREB provides an overview and findings of the recent SREB report, The Skills Employers Demand: An Analysis of the Research, detailing in-demand success skills based on recent research. Participants also learn what the job market reveals about success skill demand in the SREB region.
Telling the Story Using SREB Data
An Overview of SREB Teacher Workforce Resources
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Journalists, are you curious about what the data is telling us about the state of the teaching profession? In this webinar, we shared:
Communicating Technical Topics to Non-Technical Audiences
SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program Webinar Series
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Explaining research involving complex ideas makes sense to an
audience full of experts in the field, but to a
non-technical audience, the information may be confusing. In this
interactive discussion topics covered included:
Student Support Services
HBCU-MSI Course-Sharing Webinar Series
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Institutions must always consider what students will need to be successful. Students who participate in course sharing need multiple levels of student support to achieve their educational goals. Wraparound student services is one way to ensure that your course sharing, and other students, get the support they need to achieve success!
Course Sharing Using the Summer Enrollment Model
HBCU-MSI Course-Sharing Webinar Series
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“The 2023-2024 academic year will be the first year that institutions of higher education must ensure their financial sustainability without the aid of higher education emergency relief funds (HEERF).” (Brownlee, 2023). In order to maintain the successes HBCUs and MSIs have achieved using course sharing, sustainability must be addressed and strategies to maintain the program must be implemented.
Using Course Sharing Data to Tell Your Institution’s Story
HBCU-MSI Course Sharing Webinar Series
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All HBCUs are not the same. HBCUs and MSIs are also different from one another. Institutions benefit when they are allowed to carve out their own identities and tell their own stories. This may be difficult in the higher education industry where they are compared to each other in a way that strips them of their uniqueness, successes and growth opportunities. Using course sharing data is a great start helping institutions share their narratives.
Evaluating Personal Career Wellness
SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program Webinar Series
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In this webinar, Steph Kalina of Liberty Mutual led a discussion on career wellness, which refers to the state of one’s overall career satisfaction and success, encompassing various aspects such as work-life balance, personal growth, and job fulfillment.
An Analysis of OER Course Marking in Colleges and Universities
OER Summer Webinar Series
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In this webinar, we explored ways to use student outcomes to measure the value of open educational resources with the Midwestern Higher Education Compact and its National Consortium of Open Educational Resources partners.
There’s A New Tool in Town – ZUNI Learning Tree
OER Summer Webinar Series
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ZUNI Learning Tree, a pre-K-8 online learning platform, empowers student engagement and student-led learning opportunities, and builds a love of learning in the home!
How OER Can Support Digital Equity in Your State
OER Summer Webinar Series
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recording
How can you design your state’s digital equity plan to leverage OER, support equity and capitalize on improved digital infrastructure?
Financial and Community Incentives for OER Adoption
OER Summer Webinar Series
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Cost savings for students, increased access to education, customization and collaboration are a few reasons why open educational resources should be adopted more broadly.
Self-Advocacy in Academia
SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program Webinar Series
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Doctoral students and early career faculty may feel intimidated when meeting with professors or colleagues and should be prepared to advocate for themselves. This webinar was an interactive discussion featuring tips to prepare for challenging conversations and building confidence to overcome the anxiety.
HBCUs and MSIs Unite to Drive Student and Institutional Success
SREB HBCU-MSI Consortium
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Discover the power of collaboration through the SREB HBCU-MSI Consortium. Learn course-sharing best practices and strategies to increase student and institutional success.
Priorities for Raising College Student Success in the South
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College student success is central to both the professional workforce and the prosperity of individuals today and tomorrow. Join members of SREB’s Student Success Advisory Council as they discuss strategies with the best potential to impact individual and collective postsecondary success.
A Blueprint to Solve Teacher Shortages
The Overlooked Workforce
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How can we recruit and retain enough great teachers to serve all of our students? This webinar covered how several Southern states are working to enact their own comprehensive blueprints to elevate the teaching profession and reinforce the pipeline of qualified teachers.
The Overlooked Workforce
An Examination of Educator Shortages in the South
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Shortages in the teacher and faculty workforces are putting our economy and society at risk. This webinar examined the most recent data collected by SREB on P-20 educator shortages across the South. Speakers discussed why shortages have worsened, how several states are using data to address them, and presented:
The HBCU Affordable Learning Solutions Community Portal
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The HBCU Affordable Learning Solutions Community Portal at Tennessee State University provides HBCUs free access to tools, technologies services to build affordable course materials and learn from colleagues. Learn about this program and find ideas for collaboration around your own open educational resource efforts.
OpenStax: 10 years of Publishing and the Future of OER
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OpenStax has grown to serve more than 6.5 million students annually and save students over $1.7 billion. This webinar shared reflections on a decade of open educational resources and explored opportunities for the future. Learn how OER can improve student success and educational equity.
National Geographic Webinars
Literacy, Science, Social Studies, Project-Based Learning
Tap into students’ natural curiosity about the world around them by creating meaningful learning experiences that challenge students to see, explore, experience and improve their worlds.