This 4-week workshop is aimed at faculty, and walks through the ACE Framework with the goal of helping instructors design their fall courses so that they are responsive to the uncertain and rapidly changing landscape around the pandemic.
The workshop orients faculty to a course design process squarely centered on pedagogy and students, rather than on technology tools, modalities, or one-size-fits-all solutions.
Schedule
Week Three
Exploring the third ACE value, Equity, and opportunities to learn more about the services and techniques for supporting students.
Week Four
Pulling together all your work from the last three weeks; preparing and completing your guided self-assessment.
Workshop Resources
| Resource | Description | PSU Uses | Other Schools Could Use |
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Resource
Discussion Forum |
Description
An online space where all the members of the Workshop can share ideas and reflections and build community. |
PSU Uses
Microsoft Teams |
Other Schools Could Use
Teams, Slack, their own Learning Management System, or some other tool that facilitates informal conversation and chat.
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Resource
Participant Workbook |
Description
An online space for individual participants to record their reflections and assignments for the Workshop. Should be sharable, but only when/if participants wants. |
PSU Uses
Office 365 File space (accessible via Teams) |
Other Schools Could Use
Office 365, Google Docs, or any other online document system that allows for sharing. |
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Resource
VidSpace |
Description
A space for synchronous video meetings among participants that can be recorded and shared. |
PSU Uses
Zoom Room (accessible via Teams) |
Other Schools Could Use
Zoom, Teams Video Chat, Google Hangout, or any other video tool that allows group participation and recording/sharing |
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Resource
Workshop Mentors |
Description
Individuals who are identified by Workshop Facilitators to mentor small cohorts of participants (for larger groups) |
PSU Uses
CoLab Faculty Affiliates (will be assigned at the start of the Workshop)
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Other Schools Could Use
Additional learning center, library, instructional technology staff or faculty with significant course development experience |
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Resource
Workshop Facilitators |
Description
A group of people responsible for stewarding progress through the Workshop, including organizing learning activities, finding/assigning mentors, and managing online tools. |
PSU Uses
Robin DeRosa & Martha Burtis |
Other Schools Could Use
Learning Center staff, faculty developers, instructional designers, or even just a group of interested faculty at one or more institutions who want to work together |
Using the Workshop Elsewhere
Teams from other institutions are welcome to run this workshop using our curriculum (which you may modify as you wish). We are also open to opportunities to sync learning communities among participating institutions.
Please fill out the “ACE Interest beyond PSU” form below so we can be in touch.
Workshop Facilitators at other institutions may find the following online resources useful for planning purposes. All of these are shared in a Google Folder (link provides access for viewing and downloading) so they can easily modify, remix, and distribute them.:
- Full Workshop curriculum: This includes all four weeks of activities in a single document.
- Full Workshop checklist: This combines all the weekly checklists in one place.
- List of questions included on the Intake Questionnaire: These are the questions developed at PSU for the Workshop intake process.
- Participant Workbook template: This is a structured document that participants use to complete their weekly work.
- Guided Self-Assessment template: This is the structured document that participants complete during Week Four and use with a Mentor/Reviewer to assess their preparation for Fall.
Thank you to the Davis Educational Foundation for their generous support of this workshop. The Davis Educational Foundation was established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after Mr. Davis’ retirement as chairman of Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc.
