Submitted by: Lance Eaton, Director of Faculty Development & Innovation at College Unbound
Contact Info:
Email: lance.eaton@collegeunbound.edu
Phone: 6178240472
What role would you like to play in organizing this workshop? I’m interested in organizing a workshop on this topic.
Intended Audience: Teaching & learning staff supporting faculty
Proposal:
Supporting faculty can often involve big projects or one-off approaches where learning is provided but not engaged in any ongoing manner. These approaches overlook that learning often takes place through many smaller interactions and opportunities to practice and reflect over a period of time. Teaching and learning staff can build upon these smaller interactions in how they think about the support they provide for faculty.
We’re naming this approach, “minimum viable practice” to 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.
This two-day workshop will guide teaching and learning staff through a series of activities which will help shape and develop their minimum viable practice. The workshop’s goal is to consider how we can accumulate small wins that add up to larger change over time, moving away from the 1 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.
The workshop will allow both for the opportunity for folks to share what they are doing learning from others, and collectively develop strategies for doing this more consistently and holistically across their institutions.
Day 1: Participants will share formal and informal strategies as well as obstacles or challenges to scaling a minimum viable practice approach.
Day 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.
Learning Objectives:
Challenge assumptions about effective faculty development
Discuss different practices to support faculty in terms of frequency and depth
Develop new approaches to support faculty that are less resource and time intensive
Plan strategies to create and share small amounts of learning across your campus
Identify ways to address obstacles to implementing minimum viable practice approaches.
Event Type: Online workshop - two 1.5 hour sessions (3 hours)
Track: Teaching & Learning
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Presenters:
| Name | Title | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Lance Eaton | Director of Faculty Development & Innovation at College Unbound | 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 | 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 |
Preferred Date and Location: February 2023, March 2023, April 2023, May 2023, June 2023
Dates Not Available: Would love to know what is available for Spring or next year.
