Creating a Sustainable Network for Faculty Development in Virginia: The #OpenLearning17 Faculty Collaboratives Project

The AAC&U Faculty Collaboratives project invited 10 states to participate in a grant-funded effort to create sustainable networks for faculty development in support of AAC&U's Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiatives. The State Council for Higher Education in Virginia administered the funding for Virginia. A steering committee of four faculty, a librarian, two assessment specialists, a community college system technology director, and a state liaison from SCHEV chose open education as its focus and created an open online course called Open Learning '17 (www.openlearninghub.net) to help form the network. This session tells that story.

Outcomes: Learn about the AAC&U Faculty Collaboratives initiative, as well as the focus Virginia chose for its participation * Explore the design of the open online course #OpenLearning17, as well as how the design created and sustained a network of participants * Learn how Virginia's Faculty Collaboratives Steering Committee aligned initiatives and communities at international, national, and state levels