Envision strategic & differentiated digital learning
Palmetto Insights helps higher education leaders create goals, plans, and organizational structures for their digital learning efforts that will lead to strategic & differentiated programs.
Why would you want those things?
“Strategic & differentiated digital learning.” That’s a mouthful. In higher education, most felt the pressure in the early days of COVID, or even before, to “get online.” Well, most are waking up to a problem with this approach: A virtual hodge-podge of programs that aren’t as successful as they could be while also presenting a variety of conflicting faces to the world at large. Not good.
At Palmetto Insights, we work with you to get everyone under the same tent, telling the same story, and highlighting those parts of your university or school that make you special. The way we do that is by helping you envision your end goal: strategic & differentiated digital learning:
Strategic learning
This is learning that is worth investing in. Investing in these experiences strengthens your reputation and position in the market.
Differentiated learning
This is learning that enables you to do what it is that makes you special and unique. No one else could copy this learning because it would look like your learning.
Digital learning
This is sometimes called “online learning”—thinking here about any fully digital course—but it could be some hybrid combination (synchronous digital, asynchronous digital, or face-to-face). The ability to offer the appropriate version of these is of vital importance to adult or younger learners, degree or non-degree, school year or summer.
Typical services
Define goals for your digital learning efforts
What would it look like for you to have strategic and differentiated digital learning?
Define your approach to creating & managing your digital learning
What partnerships and processes do you need in place to create and manage strategic and differentiated digital learning? Should you use an OPM or not?
Gain the capabilities needed to create and manage your digital learning efforts
How can you ensure that your organization is able to create and manage strategic and differentiated digital learning?
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Some questions that we address
Given our budget, what should strategic digital learning look like at my institution?
How can I make sure that our digital learning efforts contribute to our success?
How can we make sure that our digital learning efforts evolve and improve together?
Is using an OPM or doing it ourselves the best way for us to create strategic and differentiated digital learning?
Why choose us?
In short, we can speak the language of all of your constituencies. We have been a dean, a tenured faculty member, an award-winning teacher, a department chair, and (of course) a student.
We have built financial models to address questions from deans and CFOs about the costs of implementing and running their digital learning programs.
We have walked provosts and program heads through the creation of staffing plans for their digital learning efforts.
We have worked with faculty, teaching & learning professionals, and students to craft pedagogical approaches that address their needs and desires.
What others say about us
Let's talk!
Let’s explore your situation and if would make sense for us to work together
Who we work with in higher education
- Presidents, provosts, deans, program heads, faculty staff, and students
- Public and private institutions
- Large R1 and small residential
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