Higher Education Events

Join Dr. Shelley Gaskin as she discusses encouraging critical thinking skills in the classroom as well as how one can go about developing assessments for coursework with the GRASPS model.

Join Mary Anne Poatsy, author and series editor at Pearson, to explore strategies and tools to communicate with your students.  

Social responsibility helps give people greater life satisfaction, better educational attainment, and more civic engagement. It’s also something that employers are coming to expect in their hires. Join us to discover more about this key life skill.

Increasingly recognized as a key 21st-century skill, leadership benefits learners throughout their lives. Join this webinar to discover more about what leadership is and how we can effectively teach it.

Often a better predictor of a student's performance than IQ, self-management is a core skill that helps promote independence and determination. This webinar looks into ways we can help encourage it in our learners.

With the pace of innovation accelerating, creative skills are helping learners participate and succeed as they join the workforce. Join us to find out more about how we can teach and assess this valuable skill.

As companies place more emphasis on team-based work, students who excel at collaboration are more likely to be valued applicants. Join us as we look at collaboration in more detail and how we can develop this skill in our students.

Identified as one of the most important skills employers look for, communication is central to success in school, work, and life. We look closely at what it is and why it is often lacking in entry-level applicants.

Sometimes known as higher-order thinking, critical thought is a highly desirable skill in the workplace. Join us as we look deeper into what it is, why it's essential, and how we can effectively teach and assess this skill in the classroom.

A recent survey showed that only 11% of employers believe educational institutions are effectively preparing students for employment. The first webinar of Our human talents | Personal and social capabilities webinar series looks at the crucial skills we're overlooking and what that means for education.

Join Brooke Gleason of Amazon Web Services for a discussion of using Amazon Alexa voice technology to improve student learning experiences, on campus and beyond.

Join Pearson’s Dan Belenky to discover key success factors for your transition to digital learning technologies.