Education and all its related processes isn’t work for just one persona. It is a collaborative effort between staff, management and teachers that lead towards a better environment that will improve the student’s performance and thus, acquire a higher recognition.
But this joint work isn’t confined to the walls of the institution. There are other professionals that have created networks and channels in LinkedIn to help reach new levels of development and learn new tactics from their colleagues all over the world.
Knowing what trends other industry leaders are taking can become the foundation of what or how the strategy will be for this year or the following ones if you learn, adapt and share them with others.
Therefore, we’ve picked 4 LinkedIn groups that every education professional should join and engage in for new trends, methodologies, tips and best practices within the industry.
One of the, if not the, largest higher education management groups, aptly named Higher Education Management has over 100,000 followers that were accepted exclusively because they have a relationship with the world of higher education management.
Due to this selection, this group has the largest database of people working in this area, having experts from all over the world that range from leaders, authors, CEOs, Deans and hiring firms who work with educational institutions.
The group was created by Education Dive, an informative website about education that creates original content that is shared here, inviting for discussions and opening the door for debates for their thousands of users.
This groups brings together Spanish and English speaking educators towards a better management of universities. Quality in Higher Education has over 5 thousand followers and has a wide array of admins that have the task of keeping the group as updated as possible.
Their main objective is the sharing of experiences, queries and best practices between all professionals who follow this group by promoting the use of posts, slideshares and other kinds of media for all the rest to see, comment and share, with content in both languages that allows for a broader audience.
In this group, you can find job offers, people asking for help, invitations, webinars and tips and tricks in English and Spanish, so it is advised for all professionals to join.
Higher Education managers can always have more resources, and this group is about industry leaders and their role in university processes, and how the institutions can work better.
This LinkedIn group, which has over 25.000 members, doesn’t focus as much into students, but it is centered around the process and management of the institutions themselves, and how to improve issues like student retention.
In this forum, leaders and other professionals share tips, webinars, courses and other media that lead towards a better use of available resources, planning new learning tactics, and adapt the latest managing and technological trends that have appeared in this area.
Everything there is to know about E-Learning can be found in this group, based on this modern take on the learning process that keeps evolving, growing and gaining more adepts as days go by.
E-Learning 2.0 isn’t for those wanting to learn about it, but it is a tool for those professionals that strive to perfect and improve their methods of doing this teaching method over the Internet.
With news, instructional design techniques of E-Learning, over 66,000 members have created a wide environment of E-Learning experts that always share their experiences, thoughts, praises and ideas about the methodology, that is bound to make its mark in the teaching world.
Do you know a group, or want to promote one related to education? Leave as a comment and we will expand this list as a collaborative effort.