Decision Making: An IEPC Learning Package

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Decision Making is the first package of the International Education Professional Certificate. This package focuses on how you responsibly allocate fiscal resources and develop human capital, so you can innovate in your role for the benefit of international education.

The Decision Making package consists of three modules that cover these three competencies:

• People Development
• Business Acumen
• Data Collection

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About People Development

The People Development module is focused on a key competency. International educators appreciate and support inclusive opportunities for colleagues, peers, and staff to gain valuable experience, find their passion, and realize their full professional potential.

At the end of this People Development module, you will be able to:

• Build strong relationships at work and connect to others.
• Coach and manage through giving and receiving feedback.
• Apply strategies for continuous feedback that build positive relationships.
• Recognize strategies to foster and encourage innovation and creative growth to help you and your team to find passion and realize your full professional potential.
• Articulate how you can contribute to psychological safety of your team to support inclusive opportunities for colleagues, peers, and staff.

As you progress through the module, we invite you to make notes to reflect on your learning experience. There is also an action plan for you to keep working on your People Development skills.

Meet Your People Development Guide

Elena Anderson is your People Development guide. Elena is a Global Workforce Mobility Advisor, Human Resources Compliance, and Diversity & Inclusion Strategist with over 20 years of experience. She specializes in helping senior managers relocate and handle everything that comes with moving jobs internationally–from planning and hiring to logistics, taxes, and building partnerships. She’s designed Human Resources and mobility strategies and managed talent transfers from local to international levels for mid-sized to large companies, always keeping in mind the intricate needs of families and government regulations.

About Business Acumen

The Business Acumen module is focused on a key competency. International educators show astute insight into how their education enterprise functions, its financial flows, and how institutional and unit structures affect sustainable financial health and operational results.

At the end of this Business Acumen module, you will be able to:

• Understand how to align business models with broader institutional strategies to support sustainable financial health.
• Identify steps you need to develop your business acumen skills to achieve the goals of international education and use resources effectively.
• Articulate how you can champion ethical and fiscally responsible practices and innovation.

As you progress through the module, we invite you to make notes to reflect on your learning experience. There is also an action plan for you to take away to keep working on your Business Acumen skills.

Meet your Business Acumen Guide

Sara Easler, PhD is your Business Acumen guide. Sara is the Assistant Dean, International Programs & Partnerships and Director of the Office of International Programs & Study Abroad for the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. She is responsible for the development of international strategy, relationships, and international education opportunities and has worked in the field of international education for over 15 years with a proven track record of success in the area of education abroad. She holds a master of education and a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of South Carolina. Sara’s research focuses on the areas of litigation risk, equity, and access in international education. Her dissertation explored the extraterritoriality of U.S. federal law in international education.

About Data Collection and Analysis

Proficiency in Data Collection & Analysis for an international educator is about being able to analyze the impact of policies, processes, and programs. This involves systematically gathering and measuring metrics and communicating accurate information and stories to key stakeholders and champions.

At the end of this Data Collection & Analysis module, you will be able to:

• Understand how to collect, analyze and manage data while maintaining data integrity.
• Identify the steps to determine appropriate data collection methods based on stakeholder goals, effectively advocate with data and report outcomes to inform decision-making and improvements.
• Identify appropriate data collection tools as well as quality research and literature related to your programs.

As you progress through the module, we invite you to make notes to reflect on your learning experience. There is also an action plan for you to keep working on your Data Collection and Analysist skills.

Meet your Data Collection and Analysis Guide

Dr. Dilnoza Khasilova is an educator, researcher, and linguist with extensive global, cross-cultural, and inclusive experience and she has expertise in the field of international education, teaching and learning, and advancing global partnerships.

Dr. Dilnoza Khasilova holds her Ph.D. in Literacy Studies, Curriculum and Instruction Department within the College of Education (minors in Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodologies), and a master's degree in Curriculum & Instruction with a concentration on English as a Second Language and a minor in International Studies from the University of Wyoming. Dilnoza is an Assessment/Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Specialist at the Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning and a founder of the World Language and Culture program (alumni initiative/community programming) at the University of Wyoming.

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The purchase of the Decision Making specialized learning package may be applied to the full cost of the International Education Professional Certificate (IEPC). Contact IEPC Support for assistance to apply this purchase to the cost of the IEPC.