FLVC Blog
New ILS Provides More Access For Students, Faculty And Staff
The new, next-generation Integrated Library System (ILS) is scheduled to go live on July 13, 2021, and will allow students, faculty, and staff to search for and find information across all library....
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Why Quality Does Matter
Students can only have the best learning experience if the online courses they are taking are of the highest quality. The stronger the design of the course, the more likely a student will have success....
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A Post-COVID 19 Higher Education Renaissance
When thinking about a prediction for the next year given all that has been happening in higher education in terms of the fiscal struggles, affordability concerns, the state of public confidence and a changing education marketplace, I find it a bit difficult to focus on one...
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Benefits of Career and Technical Education
For students to succeed in an ever-changing workforce they must be ready for a long-term career. Many students decide going to college after graduating high school is the best path for the career they want. For others, college may not be ideal...
Read more →Making Innovation in Higher Education Work
Innovation is a hot topic in higher education today as colleges and universities continue to search for the silver bullet for student success, an acknowledgment that the way they are currently doing business is not working.
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Let’s Change the IT Conversation from Projects to Products
Many innovation methods adopt, at least implicitly, a product mindset. Product thinking is core to a focus on the customer (or client, end user, or other term of choice for those your organization serves), whether we describe our intended outcome as a product, service, or experience. The core skill of product thinking is empathy with the customer, or seeing the world from the customer’s viewpoint. Innovation practices that employ design thinking are therefore rife with concepts such as identifying the “true job” the customer needs performed, defining value from the customer’s viewpoint, discovering the “minimal viable product” that will meet these requirements, and designing a total “customer experience.”
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