Links used during session:
Concept mapping tool: https://bubbl.us/
Professional Goals & Planning Worksheet: https://my.curry.edu/web/faculty/professional-support
Google alerts: http://www.google.com/alerts
RSS Example: http://www.google.com/reader
Twitter Search (no login needed): https://twitter.com/#!/search-home
Tips for Using Twitter... http://derekbruff.org/?p=2097
How to Start Tweeting... http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/how-to-start-tweeting-and-why-you-might-want-to/26065
Abstract: At some point, general education reform moves from conceptual plans to in-the classroom specifics. Often, this transition involves handing an overall framework, with buy-in from faculty and institutional governance, to groups charged with implementing it on the ground. How can we best structure this transition while enhancing faculty engagement, continuing professional development, and widening the circle of stakeholders who are prepared to implement changes? This session focuses on Curriculum Innovation Communities as one way to delegate the responsibility for general education reform effectively, smoothly, and with appropriate support and accountability. These faculty learning communities focus on coherent thematic areas within general education, and are charged with developing strategies for implementing components of the general education program (e.g., writing/communication, diversity, quantitative literacy). Facilitators will discuss mid-year assessment data on three such groups (including work products and faculty participant surveys), apply the approach to diverse institutional settings, and analyze shared challenges of passing the general education baton.
Materials:
Presentation (pdf)
Curriculum Innovation Communities program home page (link)
2011-12 Curriculum Innovation Communities and Materials (link)