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NOTE: As part of our sponsor agreements with Annual Conference sponsors, we occasionally post information provided by our sponsor-partners on their behalf. This is one such article. Thank you and enjoy! There’s no question that current and prospective students are the most technically savvy cohort in history. During her presentation at HighEdWeb 2019, Kat Liendgens, […]
Monday nights at HighEdWeb are “free” nights to provide time for you to network with colleagues from all over the country and the globe. Our great #heweb19 sponsors have lined up a series of Monday evening opportunities for you to do just that — so take advantage of these fun outings where you can enjoy […]
The HighEdWeb Annual Conference provides a variety of learning experiences for higher education professionals. This year we’ve made it easier to build a pre-conference schedule that will provide two days of hands-on, small group learning. Last year, the academies made a schedule change that allowed attendees to also attend a pre-conference workshop on Sunday afternoon. […]
Building and maintaining a higher ed website is too big a task for any single person. Even those heroic “armies of one” (we see you, friends!) who manage their school’s sites on their own still have to deal with navigating intrapersonal relationships and politics throughout the rest of the institution, not to mention dealing with […]
We know that HighEdWeb conferences bring some of the best speakers in the world. This year’s #heweb19 conference in Milwaukee continues that trend as bestselling author, social influencer and motivational speaker Erik Qualman will highlight Wednesday, Oct. 16, activities. Author of five well-known books on digital leadership — including “Socialnomics” and “What Happens on Campus […]
Nikki Massaro Kauffman is a unique combination of front-end developer, multimedia specialist, and educator. She will bring her experiences from Penn State University and present at the 2019 Technical Academy. It’s a two-day deep-dive, immediately before the HighEdWeb Annual Conference, that helps web developers build better sites. 1. We can use browser-supported standards. No frameworks necessary. […]
We love the title of our track, Supporting Our Students, because it captures a HUGE reason why we all do what we do as web professionals in higher education. Our goals are always user- and audience-driven, and a large number of users of our websites are undergraduate students. So this year, we are super excited […]
Eric Sembrat from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Matt Ryan from Carleton College are proud to introduce the Supporting our Audiences (AUD) track for HighEdWeb 2019. This track was re-imagined to feature sessions on why we do work for our end-users, focusing on user experience, web accessibility, and inclusive design. The selected speakers have […]
If you were to ask an attendee what is the best part of High Ed Web, they’ll give you a lot of answers – the amazing presentations by peers, the insightful keynotes, the networking opportunities, possibly even the endless flow of caffeine available. But all those great things boil down to one important part of […]
Interested in a HighEdWeb Academy but unsure of how to sell it to your boss? Our academies provide deep dives into one of three topic areas – leadership, technical/development, or content strategy + user experience. Held immediately before the annual conference, the programming features cohorts of no more than 30, hands-on learning and opportunities to […]
Colleges and universities do not exist to create websites. Crazy, right? But true. However, our schools’ digital presences have become vital assets that allow our schools to accomplish what they do exist to do: to recruit, retain, and educate our students; to create knowledge through research; and to serve our local, national, and global communities. […]