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Fostering Blended Learning: Successful Partnerships And Faculty Development For Institutional Change, Chantal Levesque-Bristol, Tomalee Doan, Donalee Attardo
Fostering Blended Learning: Successful Partnerships And Faculty Development For Institutional Change, Chantal Levesque-Bristol, Tomalee Doan, Donalee Attardo
IMPACT Presentations
Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT ) is a successful campus-wide course redesign and faculty development program at Purdue University. This session shows how blended course redesign is a potential catalyst for institutional change and demonstrates its effects on learning gains, including critical thinking, problem solving, and information literacy. The discussion focuses on the nuts and bolts of the innovative staff development and course redesign integral to IMPACT. Also covered are the research-based redesign curriculum and strategies; the financial and personnel support offered to faculty fellows; and the many successful institutional partnerships that were necessary for IMPACT’s success. The …
A Faculty-Focused Course Design/Redesign Process, Pat Reid
A Faculty-Focused Course Design/Redesign Process, Pat Reid
IMPACT Presentations
As a part of the IMPACT (Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation) project, faculty attend weekly developmental workshops. As these have become progressively more focused and interactive, we realized that many faculty members have little to no education in sound course design. As a result, a faculty-focused, backward design process was developed that offers a flexible, step-by-step model. The model provides both practical and theoretical background at each step, links to articles, videos, websites, and more for faculty who wish to delve deeper. Presented at the EDUCASE Learning Initiative (ELI) 2013 Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
Im:Pact: Supporting Faculty Innovation In Course Redesign, Pat Reid
Im:Pact: Supporting Faculty Innovation In Course Redesign, Pat Reid
IMPACT Presentations
IM:PACT is a centrally supported program that encourages faculty innovation in the redesign of large-enrollment courses at Purdue University. In two years, IM:PACT has seen the participation of 61 faculty, representing 49 courses and 11 colleges. FLC (faculty learning community) sessions lead faculty through the course redesign process, focusing on creating student-centered learning and leveraging instructional technology. Faculty work closely with design teams composed of staff from the academic technologies division of the central IT organization (ITaP), the Center of Instructional Excellence (CIE), and Libraries. This presentation explored how to begin a similar program at their own institutions. Presented at …