What's Behind Door Number 3? Let's Make a Deal for Student Success Through a Strategic Course Design Journey
Concurrent Session 5
Brief Abstract
"But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations." Gwyn Thomas. How might we use the metaphor of a journey to explore specific tools and strategies for creating sustainable course design? Make it lean; keep it clean, and implement serene opportunities to stop and engage along the pathway to success.
Presenters
Extended Abstract
"But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations." This quote from Gwyn Thomas aligns with Higher Ed's journey beyond an emergency-response mode to determine a collaborative design approach and exceptional outcomes. Multiple information streams designate the deals made in Higher Education for quality, engagement, and interaction in course design and development. We can postmark the route with specific engagement markers on the journey to tomorrow's strategy: Pre-pandemic, Pandemic, and Post-Pandemic or endemic phases. Let's discuss the beauty of the journey from the perspective of a large metropolitan research institution. This session review approaches for designing quality courses to designate the prize behind door #3. What solutions for benchmarking quality are we creating in our collective spaces, and how can one university's approach provide ideas for the unopened door in your practice? Let us operationalize the doors that we already know:
- Door #1 - Quality Initiative encourage high faculty participation and improved outcomes
- Door #2 - Emergency Response help faculty bring their content online
- Door #3 - Sustainable Solutions build engaging student experiences that elevate the program and course design
How can we document and utilize the innovations from doors #1 and #2 to intentionally open door #3, the unknown potential before us? One answer is to design for quality within a learner-centric framework, which promises
- digital learning as the new default
- connectivity and accessibility to accommodate every student everywhere
- brand loyalty creation, maintenance, and revitalization in our institution/s
- renewed trust in institutions and authority
Level of Participation:
As a starting point, attendees will share success stories or challenges they have faced or questions about the first two doors or phases of a quality design journey. This session will follow the format of interactive interviews (small groups) with consultants (strategic leaders) based on a quick poll of interests in working on the options for innovation for door #3:
- digital learning as the new default
- connectivity and accessibility to accommodate every student everywhere
- brand loyalty creation, maintenance, and revitalization in our institution/s
- renewed trust in institutions and authority
Each group will have ten minutes to ideate and share their perspectives on the phases of quality in their institutions based on ideation goals, institutional stories, or prompts provided by the presenter in shared engagement options (shared note-taking). The consultants will then provide their group's answers to the questions when everyone gets back together. Attendees will work together to rank the ideas shared and create a personalized template of the solution offered by the groups.
Session Goals: Session attendees will be able to create guard rails for the quality design journey and document the steps for applying new initiatives within a quality design framework.
- Door #1: Describe the principles and practices that have worked in the past for design quality.
- Door #2: Leverage the time-bound strategic approach of the emergency response initiatives.
- Door #3: Discuss options and innovative opportunities for sustainable design for higher education.
Level of Participation:
As a starting point, attendees will share success stories or challenges they have faced or questions about the first two doors or phases of a quality design journey. This session will follow the format of interactive interviews (small groups) with consultants (strategic leaders) based on a quick poll of interests in working on the options for innovation for door #3:
- digital learning as the new default
- connectivity and accessibility to accommodate every student everywhere
- brand loyalty creation, maintenance, and revitalization in our institution/s
- renewed trust in institutions and authority
Each group will have ten minutes to ideate and share their perspectives on the phases of quality in their institutions based on ideation goals, institutional stories, or prompts provided by the presenter in shared engagement options (shared note-taking). The consultants will then provide their group's answers to the questions when everyone gets back together. Attendees will work together to rank the ideas shared and create a personalized template of the solution offered by the groups.
Session Goals: Session attendees will be able to articulate the necessary considerations for applying new initiatives within a quality design framework.
- Door #1: Describe the principles and practices that have worked in the past for design quality.
- Door #2: Leverage the time-bound strategic approach of the emergency response initiatives at their institution.
- Door #3: Discuss options and innovative opportunities for sustainable design for higher education.