Agenda
Course Activity and Digital Badge
Each registered participant will develop one activity that employs various concepts and strategies introduced in the course. Participants will be asked to complete assignments in between the course segments that support the learning objectives and will receive feedback and constructive critique from the facilitator on how to improve and shape their work. Those registered participants that successfully complete the entire activity will receive an EDUCAUSE digital badge recognizing their accomplishment.
Agenda
Session 1: Strategies for gathering evidence of interventions that influence student outcomes
November 21, 1:00–2:30 p.m. ET; convert to your time zone.
Participants will discuss strategies for gathering evidence of interventions that influence student outcomes on their campuses. This session will provide research models (experimental and survey designs) and a framework of inquiry for guiding exploration for evidence at their institution.
Session Activity
What's your question? The session activity will take participants through various steps in developing a research plan, including identifying potential key questions and generating research questions as well as associated variables and measures using the DETA Research Toolkit. Other elements of the plan will include data collection procedures, such as randomized control design, survey instrumentation, and institutionally warehoused data. Finally, analyses of the data will be considered in the plan.
Session 2: Swimming through the organization in conducting research
November 29, 1:00–2:30 p.m. ET; convert to your time zone.
Using the outcomes of the previous session, participants will discuss the practical challenges of launching an effort to collect evidence of the positive impact on student outcomes on his/her campus. We will explore challenges and potential solutions in navigating across the organization to develop the capacity in launching research initiatives, including examining the organization culture, enhancing one's organizational knowledge (rules, procedures, and resources), and building key relationships and networks.
Session Activity
Participants will begin thinking about challenge points or moments when they are most likely to need support in gathering evidence and develop strategies for meeting those needs. The research plan or the sequence of activities planned will be considered in thinking about potential challenge points in conducting the research, in particular skills in data collection and analysis.
Session 3: Diffusing proven practices across the institution
December 6, 1:00–2:30 p.m. ET; convert to your time zone.
Participants will discuss methods to implement and diffuse practices evident in the findings in order to improve teaching and learning. Once one has interpreted the findings in the gathering evidence initiative, only through closing the loop and introducing these new instructional and institutional practices will an institution develop an ecosystem that promotes researcher proven teaching and learning practices.
Session Activity
Participants will share ideas on engaging administration, faculty, and staff in order to increase adopting, including incentivising faculty, informing faculty development and instructional design, and share effective institutional practices and use cases for research and teaching. Reflect on and revise research plan.