Business Chief USA February 2019
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TECHNOLOGY<br />
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AMERICAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY (APU)’<br />
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role of the faculty within its e-learning format,<br />
in order to further personalize the student<br />
experience and increase success and retention.<br />
Securing faculty adoption of the new platform<br />
was, Srba admits, one of the most challenging<br />
aspects of APUS’ digital transformation. She<br />
stresses: “If you don’t have buy- in from the<br />
faculty member teaching that course, it can be<br />
a disaster.” Srba’s change management strategy<br />
centered around the most innovative<br />
members of her faculty. “We converted their<br />
courses first,” she explains. “We have a Center<br />
for Teaching and Learning, where we worked<br />
to help them understand how to use the<br />
adaptive software and the new formats and<br />
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