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Agenda

7:30 am-9:00 am Registration and Coffee

9:00 am-9:30 am Networking

Networking Activity: Speed connections - brief introductions and current challenge sharing

9:30 am-9:35 am Welcome & Day Overview

Speaker: Kristen Ziska-Strange, Associate Director of Faculty Development and Instructional Design, Tufts University

Workshop objectives, collaborative learning approach, and logistics

9:35 am-10:35 am Opening Keynote: The Future-Ready Instructional Designer: Skills and Mindsets for What's Next
Speaker: Brian Salerno, Executive Director, Center for Digital Innovation in Learning, Boston College

Essential competencies for the evolving higher education landscape, balancing human-centered design with technological advancement, and developing influence as an individual contributor

10:35 am-10:50 am Break

10:50 am-11:50 am Challenge Labs: Collaborative Problem-Solving

Participants rotate through problem-solving sessions, sharing real challenges and co-creating solutions

12:00 pm-1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm-1:30 pm Collaborative Design Session

Peer-to-peer sharing of practical innovations and lessons learned

1:30 pm--2:15 pm Panel Discussion: Navigating Difficult Conversations
Speakers:
Kevin Kennedy, Instructional Designer, Framingham State University
Aura Lippincott, Instructional Designer, Western Connecticut State University
Josh Lukens, Instructional Designer, Wentworth Institute of Technology ((Advancing Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (ATLAS) Center)

Practical strategies for handling pushback, advocating for best practices, managing unrealistic expectations, and maintaining positive relationships while having challenging professional conversations

2:15 pm - 2:45 pm Closing Circle & Next Steps

3:00 pm End

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