COVID Inspired Innovation: The UTSA Story

On Demand
Session Type: Industry Led
Delivery Format: On-Demand

This session describes how UTSA is elevating innovation and a unique online educational experience for students while moving virtually all education online for 2020.  Keys to success: future-focused, energetic mindset owning this moment; focusing on positioning UTSA education for the future.  Core values:  quality, true innovation and optimism. Innovative engagement of about 200 faculty and students prioritized programs-- FYE, interdisciplinary and key courses, experiential learning. Using both co-curricular and curricular opportunities, embedding tools like Pressbook and Adobe, UTSA students creatively express and archive their experiences. 



Outcomes:

A model to build internal capacity successfully * Important ways to include students in planning * Ideas that could be replicated at other institutions  (FYE, experiential learning, interdisciplinary)

Presenters

  • Melissa Vito

    Vice Provost of Academic Innovation, University of Texas at San Antonio