So Your Faculty and Academic Leaders Want to Improve Instruction and Student Outcomes with Courseware: Now What?

Thursday, October 29, 2015 | 2:30PM–3:20PM | Meeting Room 235-236
Session Type: Professional Development
Faculty or senior instructional leads may decide that high-quality digital courseware is critical to improving the quality of undergraduate instruction. Understanding how best to implement such hybrid learning innovations effectively and produce the best outcomes for learners is another matter. If such learning innovations become isolated islands of excellence, they will die when they lose the support of their faculty champions. At the same time, a critical barrier to achieving broader adoption is sufficient faculty understanding of the benefits that come with using high-quality courseware, not the least of which is better learning analytics and opportunities to provide real-time feedback to learners. In addition, many faculty need appropriate support and training on the optimal use of these digital learning technologies to amplify their personal impact and enhance the learning experience.


Outcomes: Get a practitioner and educator's perspective on integrating digital courseware into undergraduate instruction * Obtain a deeper understanding of how leadership and faculty can collaborate to improve the overall undergraduate educational experience

Presenters

  • MJ Bishop

    Vice President for Integrative Learning Design, University of Maryland Global Campus

  • Meaghan Duff

    Owner & Principal, Mercy Education Partners

  • Rahim Rajan

    Senior Program Officer, Postsecondary Success, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  • David Shulman

    Executive Vice President for Academic Operations, University of the People