Elliot will facilitate a pre-conference workshop on designing services and spaces for student success as well as be a panelist on a discussion about student success at the 9th Designing Libraries Conference.

In this 20 minute talk with CFO University, I share my story and review my Op-Ed with Sanjit Sethi on debunking higher education’s fallacies. Then we talk about how students can take ownership over and design their own learning experiences – online and on campus – to get the most out of their education. Finally we dig into the pandemic’s impact on the value of being together but also providing greater flexibility.

Elliot will present and facilitate a discussion among leaders in higher education, healthcare, and hospitality about what higher ed can learn from other industries about how to foster a sense of community and belonging.

This 7 minute video tells the story of How to Get the Most Out of College so that you can think not just about where to go to college but how to go to college – and get practical tips on making the everyday decisions about class projects, support services, and community that help you succeed. This way students can be the designers of their own college experience and find their place, people, program, and path.

Elliot gave the keynote presentation and facilitated a workshop for the Collective Success Network’s mentoring program for first gen and low income students. He drew upon research from Gallup, brightspot, and others to outline what students can do in college in order to set themselves up for success in the workplace – and helped them imagine their ideal future experience at work.

Elliot and Jonathan Myers from Arizona State University presented at the NASPA Student Success Conference. They led an interactive session focused on common student challenges like access, belonging, and scale and then reviewed ASU’s strategies for addressing them such as hybrid tutoring sessions, AI chatbots, and “home away from home” spaces for students.

Elliot taught a four-session EDUCAUSE online course for instructional technologists how how to design a collaborative instructional technology support model. Using the Service Center Canvas he developed, Elliot helped more than 50 institutions understand student and faculty needs and then design and deliver the support services needed to enable online, blended, and hybrid learning.

Elliot presented with Sarah Sachs on six trends reshaping campuses, and how to plan for them: community connections, collaboration, interdisciplinary projects, experiential learning, student wellness, and workplace transformation. Together they references a broad set of data and reports on trends and used case studies to illustrate how to respond to them.

It's not just where you go to college but how you go to college. In this 15 minute video I provide an overview of the ideas, organization, and format of my book How to Get the Most Out of College. It features 127 research-based tips that students can use at the building blocks for a customized college experience, one in which they find their place, people, purpose, and path.

At the NASPA Annual Conference, Elliot presented trends on the student experience during the pandemic and facilitated a discussion among six student affairs leaders about how they are changing their services, staffing, and systems to become more student-centered, agile, and equitable.

What is the future of learning in higher education and will this mean for student experience and campuses in the future? In this keynote presentation, I answer these questions with insights on the science of learning, broader societal trends, edge cases that provide some further clues about the future, and insights from my book How to Get the Most Out of College.

As part of a panel discussion, I talk about how libraries are leading the way to transform higher education in the future as adaptable, student-centered places – places that bring together support services, advance equity and inclusion, and enable experiential learning where students work in teams on projects that make a difference.

This talk provides an overview of the Connected Campus whitepaper. Learn how on-campus and online education are converging, how the pandemic is accelerating and decelerating trends reshaping higher education, and how colleges and universities must reimagine their positioning, programs, people, and places as a result.

How is covid-19 changing learning, research, student life, and work and what will the implications be for campus facilities? I answer this question with clients using a case study of our work together, bringing together representatives from learning, research, HR, IT, facilities, and finance to identify changes needed in space, technology, processes, and policies.

In this short explainer talk, I provide an overview of how workplaces can provide people more flexibility in where, how, and when they work. This starts with the role and value of the workplace – why have an office at all? – and then covers the benefits to employees and employers, and how to set up flexible spaces, systems, schedules, and structures

Drawing from consulting projects, student surveys, and institutional roundtables, this workshop covers how campus facilities are inequitable today and explores what to do about it. Topics such as the correlation of facilities with student success, lack of service awareness, and the need for hybrid physical/digital solutions, provides information and inspiration for a more equitable future.

In this webinar with my wife and fellow MIT Alumni Liz Burow, we discuss the impact of the pandemic on how and where we’ll live, work, and learn. We also reflect on our experiences at MIT and how they prepared us for careers beyond architecture, designing not only spaces, but services, teams, and systems as well.

In this webinar, I bring together two perspectives for the future of higher education and the impact of Covid-19: voices of hundreds students from a national student survey I led and voices of dozens of colleges and universities from roundtables I facilitated. The presentation and Q&A cover how everyone has adapted, what’s working, and what this means for the future.

What is student experience, how do you measure it, and how do you improve it? In this short talk, I define experience (and what it is not) and how it varies by persona or student type. Then I walk through a tool to understand the experience for different student types – from applicant to alum – and they interact with courses, technology, support services, campus, and community.

In this interview for the Rebel Playbook for Employee Engagement, Elliot talks with Glenn Elliott about the role of the workplace in employee engagement. They dig into understanding people to better design for them, how to think about activities and events and not just space itself, and how to intentionally shape norms and culture to help people be engaged and productive.