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Support Faculty With MVP: Minimum Viable Practice For Sustained Learning - Online Workshop
This Online Workshop Is Not Accepting New Registrations and Has Been Changed to a Webinar Format
Where: Online/Virtual
When: Monday, September 16, 2024 and Tuesday, September 17, 2024
12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
Note: This registration will cover both sessions
Workshop Organizer: Lance Eaton of College Unbound
Registration Fee:
NERCOMP Member: $90
Non-Member: $180
Event Overview
Ever feel like you aren't as engaged in an ongoing manner when supporting faculty? Maybe it's because that support and learning often involve big projects or one-off approaches. Learning often benefits from many smaller interactions and opportunities to practice and reflect over a period of time.
Enter what we call MVP, “minimum viable practice,” where we identify what are the smallest types of interactions and communications that can help sustain learning. This approach helps teaching and learning staff view any interaction as an opportunity to provide incremental help or guidance that fosters some means of transformation for faculty.
Join us for the two-day workshop where we'll guide teaching and learning staff through a series of activities which will help shape and develop their "minimum viable practice". We'll focus on how we can accumulate small wins that add up to larger change over time, moving away from the one big event approach and into a more systematic practice of development that is short, concise, and directly applicable to the daily teaching practices of faculty.
Session Outcomes:
Participants will be able to:
- Share what they are doing and learn from what others are doing to support faculty.
- Work together to collectively develop strategies for developing an "MVP" more consistently and holistically across their institutions.
Registration Cancellation Policy:
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Day 1, Session 1:
Participants will share formal and informal strategies as well as obstacles or challenges to scaling a minimum viable practice approach.
Day 2, Session 2:
Participants collectively brainstorm ways to surmount or break down those barriers and challenges that might hinder these practices and strategize for deploying minimum viable practices across their campuses.
After the sessions, we’ll send 3 incremental follow-ups over 6 weeks with additional tidbits. We’ll invite the participants to reflect on chances they’ve had to apply minimum viable practices in the intervening weeks.
Lance Eaton
Director of Faculty Development & Innovation at College Unbound
Summary: Lance Eaton is the Director of Faculty Development & Innovation at College Unbound, a part-time instructor at North Shore Community College, and a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts, Boston with a dissertation that focuses on how scholars engage in academic piracy. His work engages with the possibility of digital tools for expanding teaching and learning communities while considering the various deep issues and questions that educational technologies open up for students, faculty, and higher ed as a whole. He has given talks, written about, and presented at conferences on artificial intelligence generative tools in education, academic piracy, open access, OER, open pedagogy, hybrid flexible learning, and digital service-learning. His musings, reflections, and ramblings on AI and Education can be found on his blog: https://aiedusimplified.substack.com/
Rebecca Darling
Assistant Director of Instructional Technology at Wellesley College
Summary: Rebecca Darling has worked with the Library and Technology groups at Wellesley College since 1999. In March 2011, she became the Assistant Director of Instructional Technology at Wellesley College. While she is officially the subject specialist for the languages and humanities, Rebecca teaches classes, plans assignments, and offers student support across all disciplines. Her professional interests currently include Universal Design for Learning, promoting technology based on pedagogical choices, and inclusive teaching practices.
Educause Online Article: Digital Scholarship Day at Wellesley Authors: by Rebecca Darling Published: Monday, June 30, 2014 http://er.educause.edu/articles/2014/6/digital-scholarship-day-at-wellesley