POD Conference 2021

TBA

Healthy Academics Initiative

The Healthy Academics Initiative at UW-Madison aims to equip faculty, instructional staff, TAs, and advisors with the knowledge, skills, and resources to create academic environments in which all students can thrive. The Healthy Academics Toolkit is a product of this Initiative and incorporates both a campus-wide data visualization and evidence-based strategies and campus resources for faculty, TAs, instructional designers, and other members of the campus community. This Healthy Academics Initiative has led to the campus-wide, joint academic and student affairs Teaching for Well-Being Taskforce that continually improves and advances this work campus-wide.

Presenters

Claire Barrett (she/her)

Healthy Academics Manager, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Claire Barrett (EdM, MS, PhD) completed her joint PhD in Educational Psychology and Human Ecology at University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). In her current position with UW-Madison’s UHS Prevention and Campus Health Initiatives, Barrett oversees the Healthy Academics Initiative... Read More →

Katherine Loving

Paris Wicker

Graduate Project Assistant, Prevention and Campus Health Initiatives, University of Wisconsin- Madison

Paris is a graduate project assistant for Prevention and Campus Health Initiatives. In this position, Paris supports initiatives at the policy and structural level to advance health equity and cultivate well-being, especially in academic settings (e.g. classrooms, labs, etc.).Paris... Read More →

Kelsey Weddig

Monday October 25, 2021 TBA
On Demand

TBA

Put it into Practice (PIP): A Community-Building Support Model for Instructional Innovation

POD Innovation Award Finalist: Put it into Practice (PIP)

Imagine that you are an instructor planning to implement a new teaching strategy in your course. You’re probably feeling somewhat anxious, wondering about the reception your students will give your innovation. Now, imagine that you could open up your Zoom room and find yourself greeted by a pair of students and support staff members, all of whom are there to serve as your personal audience so that you can try out that new tool, grading strategy, or other activity. After just 15 minutes, you close your Zoom room, confident in your ability to roll out the new approach to your “real” students. This is the Putting it into Practice (PIP) model. Find out more about how PIP fosters multi-directional community building, facilitates pedagogical innovation, and amplifies student voice.

Presenters

Deena Levy

Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, Ph.D., M.Ed.

Laura Cruz

Associate Research Professor, Penn State

Beate Brunow

Associate Research Prof, Penn State

Monday October 25, 2021 TBA
On Demand

TBA

Revealing the expert blindspot on a $7 budget

Our recent experience with pandemic teaching thrust us into novel learning environments and forced us to consider how best to learn under such conditions. One common challenge of expert instructors is understanding the learning needs of novice students, a challenge exacerbated by the disruptive nature of teaching during a pandemic. Ironically, expertise can be a liability as well as an advantage when it comes to teaching novice learners (Ambrose, et al. 2010; Ludwig, 2020). When expert instructors are disconnected from the needs of novice learners, it is known as an expert blind spot (Nickerson, 1999; Hinds, 1999; Korn, 2021).
This poster highlights a cross-institutional professional development adventure where participants learned how to solve the Rubik’s Cube with a group of colleagues to gain insight about the learning (and teaching) process, how that differs among learners and context, and pedagogical strategies that help meet specific needs of diverse learners. The practical challenge to the group: learn how to solve the Rubik’s Cube in less than five minutes in a six-week period!
For a brief video overview of this poster, please vist here.

Ambrose, S., Bridges, M., DiPietro, M., Lovett, M.C., Norman, M.K. editors. (2010). How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Pg. 112-120. 
Hinds, P. (1999). The curse of expertise: The effects of expertise and debiasing methods on predictions of novice performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 5, 205-221.
Ludwig, L. (2020). Why I Learned to Solve Rubik’s Cube: Seeing the Expert Blind Spot. Mathematical Association of America Focus, April/May, 10-12. 
Nickerson, R. S. (1999). How we know - and sometimes misjudge - what others know: Imputing one's own knowledge to others. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 737-759.
Melissa Korn, (2021, Feb 26) How to Teach Professors Humility? Hand Them a Rubik’s Cube, Wall Street Journal.

Presenters

Benjamin Haywood

Associate Director, Faculty Development Center, Furman University

I joined the Furman Faculty Development Center (FDC) in 2020 after spending nearly six years as a faculty member in the Department of Environmental Science & Sustainability at Allegheny College (Meadville, PA). As the FDC Associate Director, I utilize insight from the learning sciences... Read More →

Lew Ludwig

Director, Center for Learning and Teaching, Denison University

I am in my third year as Center Director at Denison University. I will serve as the Small Colleges and Small Programs SIG chairperson for the upcoming year.I am particularly interested in sharing and discussing ideas for small center programs, as well as developing sustainable programs... Read More →

Monday October 25, 2021 TBA
On Demand

12:00am EDT

A repository for SoTL support

Interactive On-Demand, Research & Scholarship (SoTL/DBER/SoED)

In this session you will learn about the new SoTL SIG repository efforts. You will see examples from a variety of institutions of how they support SoTL through their programs. There will be a variety of ideas from different contexts: small and large institutions, fully funded or unfunded programs, robust centers and staff-of-one units. You will also learn how to submit your own information to be included in the repository for others to view.

Presenters

Janel Seeley

Director, Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning

Janel Seeley is an instructional designer and assistant lecturer with the Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning.

Devshikha Bose

Senior Educational Development Specialist, Boise State University

Senior Educational Development Specialist at Boise State University, CTL, with over 10 years of experience supporting faculty with SoTL research, student success strategies, and EBIP integration.

Laura Lukes

Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

Laura is a geologist, geoscience education researcher, and faculty developer, currently serving as an Assistant Professor in Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at University of British Columbia (Canada). She formerly served as the Assistant Director of the Stearns Center for... Read More →

Christopher Kilgore

Associate Director for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

I serve as the Associate Director for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning within the office of Teaching & Learning Innovation (TLI) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. I administer support services for faculty and graduate students with regard to SoTL, but also help run... Read More →

Sharon Ultsch

Elina Salminen

Co-Chair, ISSOTL Publications Committee; Chair, POD SoTL SIG

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) SIG
Audience POD Network Members, Center Directors
Topic Research & Scholarship (SoTL

12:00am EDT

A Workflow for Rapid, Collaborative Design of Online Project-Based Courses

Online, asynchronous problem/project-based learning (PBL) courses have potential to be highly engaging experiences for students as they work collaboratively to solve complex, ill-structured global problems. However, inductive, self-directed online courses require a dramatically different design approach from traditional courses—one that is unfamiliar to many faculty. Given this challenge, how did one university support tenure-track research faculty in designing 18 PBL courses in a two-month timeframe? This session describes how this goal was achieved through a collaboration between the faculty and the university's teaching and learning center, in coordination with the Offices of the Chancellor and Provost.

Presenters

Mary C. English

Associate Director, CATLR, Northeastern University

My areas of expertise include problem- and project-based learning (PBL), self-regulated learning, self-directed learning, course design, online learning, and service-learning.

Laurie Poklop

Northestern University

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

Interactive On-Demand, Start-up

Audience Experienced Educational Developers, Instructional Designers/Technologists and Technology Integration Specialists
Topic Start-up

12:00am EDT

Blending Asynchronous and Synchronous Programming to Optimize a Virtual Collaborative

Interactive On-Demand, Adjunct & Part-time Faculty Development

Now more than ever, faculty development centers are asked to imagine programming in modalities that fit the practical and personal needs of diverse faculty bodies. Particularly for institutions that employ significant numbers of remote, part-time adjunct faculty, on-demand, asynchronous faculty development can offer flexible timing, long-term professional development, and cost effectiveness. Yet the question remains: how do we build community, a critical need in professional development, into asynchronous resources? Join us as we outline the design, execution, and assessment of a blended model of professional development that joins self-paced, asynchronous teaching and learning modules with a synchronous virtual collaborative.

Presenters

Erica Jansen

Adjunct Support Associate, Park University

At our Faculty Center for Innovation, I develop and execute programming specifically targeted towards our adjunct instructors.

Jamie Els

Programming Director, Faculty Center for Innovation, Park University

I am the Programming Director for the Faculty Center for Innovation and teach first-year seminar at Park University. I also serve as the Assistant Editor of Park's academic journal, InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching.

Amber Dailey-Hebert

Professor & Director, Faculty Center for Innovation, Park University

I'm a scholar on the future of learning & working and believe that education has the power to transform our lives and society. Having lived and worked abroad, I've been fortunate to be part of collaborative efforts around the globe (academic, research, government & consulting) that... Read More →

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty SIG
Audience Adjunct & Part-time Faculty, Multicampus Institutions or Systems
Topic Adjunct & Part-time Faculty Development

12:00am EDT

Campus Communities Encounter Themselves: Organizational Change through Photographs

Interactive On-Demand, Organizational Development

Given the serious challenges facing higher education—including much-needed improvements in equity, student outcomes, and support for faculty, especially adjunct and part-time educators—educational developers need to have a variety of change strategies at their disposal. This on-demand interactive session will prompt new thinking about using visual media, made accessible through descriptive captions, in organizational change strategies. Documented impacts of this approach include transformative changes in teaching practices, culture, communication, and recognition. Participants will apply methods to their own context and explore how to use an extensive collection of open-source resources and examples to support their efforts.

Presenters

Cassandra Volpe Horii

Hello, fellow POD Networkers! I'm a scientist by training who has founded and overseen a couple of centers for teaching / faculty and am passionate about inclusive, evidence-based (broadly defined), equity-minded teaching and systemic organizational change. As a former POD Network... Read More →

Martin Springborg

Director of Teaching and Learning, Inver Hills Community College

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

Audience Center Directors, Administrators (Assoc. Deans/Deans/Vice Provosts/Assoc. VPs)
Topic Organizational Development

12:00am EDT

Connecting to the Future: Resources for Adjunct Faculty Support Systems

Interactive On-Demand, Adjunct & Part-time Faculty Development

Adjunct faculty compose the majority of faculty in American higher education. It's essential that faculty developers think about and create virtual and in-person programming that address the different types and circumstances of adjunct faculty. Drawing on research from various institutions supporting adjunct faculty, participants will explore the professional development and support systems initiated at other institutions across the country and then reflect on the characteristics and needs of their own adjunct faculty to arrive at strategies to support them.

Presenters

Reba Wissner

Patricia Guillen

Director, Instructional Services, Maricopa Community Colleges

Patricia Guillen is Director of Instructional Services at the Maricopa Center for Learning and Innovation at Maricopa Community Colleges and an Adjunct Faculty with the University of Dubuque and Glendale Community College. Her main responsibility is designing and developing professional... Read More →

Liz Cummins

Faculty Developer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide

Kristin Morley

Faculty Development Manager, Salt Lake Community College

Sarah Oliver

Program Outcomes Specialist, Creighton University

Douglas Jerolimov

Instructional Consultant, IUPUI

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty SIG
Audience Experienced Educational Developers, Community Colleges
Topic Adjunct & Part-time Faculty Development

12:00am EDT

Embodying Anti-Racist Pedagogy Through Mindfulness and Contemplative Practices

Interactive On-Demand, Diversity Equity & Inclusion

How can mindfulness and contemplative practices empower, clarify, and facilitate our efforts in creating anti-racist learning environments? In this session, we will explore and examine the ways in which contemplative practices can help us embody the learning process of becoming anti-racist educators. Through a series of guided practices, participants will critically reflect on their individual positionality and how it relates to applying action-oriented next steps for integrating anti-racist pedagogy into their educational contexts, as well as come away with resources for sharing this work with others.

Presenters

Alexia Ferracuti

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Mindfulness & Contemplative Pedagogy SIG
Audience POD Network Members
Topic Mindfulness and Contemplative Pedagogy

12:00am EDT

Evolving Beyond (the Climate) Crisis: Ensuring our Students' Futures

Interactive On-Demand, Organizational Development

The preservation of our ecological systems is the most important issue of our times and is inextricably intertwined with efforts to ensure equity and justice. Equipping our students to cope with and mitigate the effects of climate change and other environmental threats is a central responsibility of higher education. Some faculty development centers are rising to the challenge. From workshops to mini-grants to discussion groups to efforts to reduce their own footprints, centers are exploring ways to address this critical need. Come hear a panel share their efforts and ideas on how you can move forward at your own university.

Earth-Centered Pedagogy Resources Living Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P4T2vsA1xJA_5zTlOuuFr9tpRI4aaJTdx1IAyqYEs2k/edit#

Presenters

Sarah Wyman

Director, Faculty Development Center, SUNY New Paltz

Sustainability Education; Community Building; Eddy at New Paltz (https://hawksites.newpaltz.edu/eddy/events/); International Mother Language Day; new faculty mentoring

Heather Keith

Executive Director of Faculty Development, Professor of Philosophy, Radford University

Course and curriculum innovation, incorporating wicked problems across the curriculum, brave pedagogy

Abby Schroering

Bart Everson

Creative Generalist, Xavier University of Louisiana

As a creative generalist for faculty development, it’s my professional mission to encourage teachers to think deeply about their teaching, to explore new pedagogical techniques, and to thrive as whole human beings. To those ends, I am a passionate advocate for contemplative pedagogy... Read More →

Elizabeth Roderick

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Earth-Centered SIG
Audience Center Directors, Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers
Topic Signature Programs/Program Planning and/or Curricula

12:00am EDT

Giving Students a Say: Collaborative Development of Student Engagement Policies

Interactive On-Demand, Teaching & Learning in Practice

This session offers a framework for faculty and students to collaboratively develop policies regarding in-class student engagement and provides an example of how it was used in a classroom. While the session primarily focuses on student engagement via Zoom, and in a large, lecture-based class, we ask participants to consider how the framework could be applied to other types of learning environments (e.g., asynchronous class) and forms of student engagement (e.g., guidelines for class discussion).

Presenters

Katie Walsh

Senior Teaching Consultant, Carnegie Mellon University

Deanna Matthews

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

Audience Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers, POD Network Members
Topic Teaching & Learning

12:00am EDT

Leveraging lessons learned and relearned during COVID-19 for the future

Interactive On-Demand, Teaching & Learning in Practice

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, educational developers were often trying to scramble to keep up with the changing circumstances and institutional expectations. This session provides an opportunity for shared reflection about how the pandemic reinforced important core principles of effective instructional design and pedagogy and challenged us to re-examine some aspects of teaching and learning that we thought we knew. In addition to looking back at those lessons, this session will provide an opportunity to share how pandemic-imposed pedagogical experiences are leading to changes, and how we can support each other and our institutions in moving forward.

Presenters

Ashley Montgomery

Assistant Dean of Teaching, Learning and Assessment, University of Maine at Farmington

Tracy Bartholomew

Director for Learning Assessment and the Center for Teaching & Learning, University of the Arts

Melissa Eblen-Zayas

Professor of Physics, Carleton College

Lew Ludwig

Director, Center for Learning and Teaching, Denison University

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Small Colleges SIG
Audience POD Network Members, Center Directors
Topic Teaching & Learning

12:00am EDT

Make them WANT to Go Virtual: Making Online Sessions Engaging

The past year forced everyone in higher education to take their teaching, meetings, and/or community-related events online, so we are all experienced at conducting real-time virtual sessions now, right? ...Right? OK, well, there's always room for improvement. To that end, this presentation, hosted by the POD Network's Digital Resources & Innovation Committee, will discuss how to make different kinds of virtual sessions more engaging. Participants will join our community of educational developers to discuss strategies, tools, materials, and activities that hosts and presenters can use to prompt participation and engagement in different types of virtual experiences.

View our slideshow >

Session Presenters:
Laura Baecher
Josie Baudier
Lindsay Doukoupoulos
German Vargas
Yianna Vovides

Presenters

Digital Resources & Innovation Committee (POD)

German Vargas Ramos

POD DRI Committee Co-Chair & POD Core Committee Member, Otterbein

German Vargas is the Website & Digital Platforms Coordinator at Otterbein University. He has a M.Ed. in Learning Media and Technologies from the College of Education at UMass Amherst, where he is also a Ph.D. student in Education.

Josie Baudier

Director, CETL, Georgia Highlands College

Laura Baecher

Professor, Hunter College, CUNY

Dr. Laura Baecher is a Professor at the Hunter College School of Education, City University of New York where she also serves as a faculty fellow in the Academic Center for Excellence in Research and Teaching. Her interests relate to teacher/faculty learning, observation and coaching... Read More →

Lindsay Doukopoulos

Associate Director for Educational Development, Auburn University

I am passionate about building community around the challenges and joys of teaching and learning, building capacity in our faculty to achieve their teaching and learning goals in rewarding and sustainable ways, and fostering creativity so that all faculty are empowered to innovate... Read More →

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

Interactive On-Demand, Technology

SIG/Committee Alignment Digital Resources & Innovation Committee
Audience POD Network Members, Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers
Topic Online/Hybrid and/or Asynchronous Teaching & Learning, Technology

12:00am EDT

Meaningful Faculty Feedback: Using Kirkpatrick's Levels to Evaluate Faculty Development

Interactive On-Demand, Faculty Professional Development

Often, we fall into a rut regarding evaluation of professional development events. We create surveys asking the same tired questions about facilities, materials, and organization; find ourselves frustrated with low numbers of responses on those surveys, and fail to find meaningful feedback to implement in future PD. Looking for a better way, one faculty developer implemented elements of Kirkpatrick's Four Models of Training Evaluation into all PD events for a full year. Come hear about what worked, what didn't, and how you can use the Kirkpatrick Model to gain more meaningful professional development feedback from your faculty.

Presenters

Nicole Frank

Faculty Development Coordinator, Fort Hays State University

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Professional Development Committee
Audience Center Directors, Experienced Educational Developers
Topic Faculty Professional Development

12:00am EDT

Pathways to POD Leadership: Engaging with the POD Strategic Plan

Interactive On-Demand, Development of Educational Developers

Session Sponsored by Strategic Planning Committee

Creating transparent participation pathways for members to engage in committees, small interest groups (SIGs) and leadership roles is a key element of the POD strategic plan. To support this goal, the Strategic Planning Committee invites new and seasoned members to this on-demand session to develop and refine ideas that will inform the work of POD. Participants will engage in exercises to examine the alignment of the strategic plan to the work of committees and SIGs, reflect on how POD leaders view our collective work, and explore new ways that POD can realize elements of the 2018-23 strategic plan.

Session attendees can access our guided reflection alignment activity at this link: https://tinyurl.com/SPCAlign

Presenters

Carol Hurney

Associate Provost of Faculty Development and Diversity; Founding Director of the Center for Teaching & Learning, Colby College

Elizabeth Luoma (she/her)

Assistant Director, Faculty Teaching Initiatives, Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning

Beth is the Assistant Director of Faculty Teaching Initiatives at the Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, where she conducts consultations, classroom observations, and workshops for instructors across a wide variety of pedagogical topics, including active learning, assessment... Read More →

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

Audience New/recent educational developers (5 years or less), Experienced Educational Developers
Topic Development of Educational Developers

12:00am EDT

Personalities, perspectives, and politics: the cultural work of curriculum redesign

Interactive On-Demand, Development of Educational Developers

Welcome to our session! We have set it up a little bit differently than some of the others, and you will find all the material, including videos, in the interactive slide presentation: Personalities, perspectives, and politics: the cultural work of curriculum redesign

Abstract: An ineffective curriculum redesign can result in fruitless meetings over multiple years, some small tweaks to a few classes, and much frustration. In this session, we argue that beginning a curriculum redesign with attention to the cultural and human nature of the work preempts common problems and helps educational developers and faculty evolve beyond crisis. Participants will engage with a fictional department beginning a curriculum redesign, considering aspects of stakeholder analysis including departmental power dynamics and pedagogical approaches. Using this analysis, participants will make decisions to initiate a process that transforms not only the curriculum itself but also department culture.

Presenters

Jessica Taggart

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia

Lynn Mandeltort

Assistant Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia

Elizabeth Dickens

Assistant Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

Audience Experienced Educational Developers, Center Directors
Topic Development of Educational Developers

12:00am EDT

Promoting Trauma and Resiliency Informed Teaching and Learning Practices

Interactive On-Demand, Diversity Equity & Inclusion

The isolation, disconnection and stress of the pandemic made many students feel overwhelmed and what many would call trauma. Brain science has shown that in periods of trauma the brain shifts energy away from areas essential to learning, making it more difficult to focus, make connections and think creatively. The result is that students often disengage- missing classes, assignments or contributing minimal effort. In this session we will present our application of Carello's seven principles of trauma-informed learning giving specific examples of how to implement them in all formats and explaining how they contribute to an inclusive, resilient learning environment.

Presenters

Krysten Gorrivan

Assistant Lecturer, University of New England

Marc Ebenfield

Director, CETL, University of New England

Arabella Perez

Lane Clarke

Christina Leclerc

Anuja Doshi

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers, Administrators (Assoc. Deans/Deans/Vice Provosts/Assoc. VPs)
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

12:00am EDT

Researching the Resilient CDI: Pandemic Lessons and Opportunities

Interactive On-Demand, Signature Programs Program Planning and/or Curricula

In our multi-institutional study, centers for teaching and learning that offered course design institutes (CDIs) during summer 2020 served an average of ten times the faculty participants compared to the prior year. These centers adapted CDI models to prepare faculty to teach online and hybrid courses, address the pandemic's uncertainty, and create equitable learning environments. In this session, we define the resilient CDI, share lessons learned from iteration, and discuss opportunities after significant faculty participation. Through asynchronous and live activities, participants will contextualize their own programs and develop an action plan that leverages insights from multiple institutions.

Presenters

Eric Kaldor

Senior Associate Director, Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University

Adriana Streifer

Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia

Kimberly Fournier

Director of Teaching Support at the Center for Teaching and Learning, University of New Mexico

Maggie Vecchione

Melissa Kane

Senior Associate Director of Online Program Development, Brown University

Carl S. Moore

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Scholarship Committee
Audience Center Directors, Administrators (Assoc. Deans/Deans/Vice Provosts/Assoc. VPs)
Topic Signature Programs/Program Planning and/or Curricula

12:00am EDT

Rippling Out: Faculty Learning Community Fellows as Critical Change Agents

Interactive On-Demand, Diversity Equity & Inclusion

Faculty can function as critical change agents who promote diversity, inclusive and equitable teaching practice. The presenters will describe how their participation in a faculty learning community developed into an impactful collaboration through which they educated a critical mass of faculty and graduate students on the topic of microaggressions first across the university, and then reaching all departments of two colleges. The presenters will share insights gained, discuss how this collaborative process allowed them to become change agents, and lead participants in a discussion on how to apply a change agent approach on their campuses.

Presenters

Paula Rees

Paula Rees is Director of Diversity Programs for the College of Engineering and Director of the Massachusetts Water Resources Research Center in the College of Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In her Diversity Programs role, she works with students, faculty... Read More →

Kirsten Helmer

Senior Lecturer and Director of Programming for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Let's talk about how the pandemic has changed teaching, learning, DEI work. I'd also love to talk with folx about anti-racist and decolonizing pedagogies and curriculum design, trauma-aware teaching, moving programming related to microaggressions forward, UDL, and anything related... Read More →

Neena Thota

Jonique R. Childs

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience POD Network Members, Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

12:00am EDT

Strategic Assessment: Evaluating Program Outcomes using Instructional Artifacts

Welcome! Impact assessment of educational development programs enables us to shape and respond to emerging institutional needs, anticipate implications of those needs, and iteratively improve programming. Quality data does not need to be time consuming or expensive to collect. Strategic evaluation of instructional artifacts (e.g. syllabi, lesson plans) provides high-quality information about faculty learning without a large investment of resources. This workshop explores the power of common artifacts to capture programmatic impact on teaching practices, such as shifts in mindset. Participants will use our process to identify meaningful and measurable components of program outcomes and map those outcomes onto instructional artifacts.

We have set up our session materials a bit differently than some of the others. You can access:

the session video on Perusall (Perusall.com) by enrolling in the course 2021 POD On-Demand Workshop: Strategic Assessment using course code HUNT-NY929.
session materials on Sched or via Google Drive folder Strategic Assessment: POD 2021
group reflection document via Google Drive.

We look forward to engaging with you during the Q&A session on Thursday, November 11th from 3:30 - 4:30 EST.
Alice, Ruth & Meg

Presenters

Megan Mittelstadt

Director, University of Georgia Center for Teaching

I am the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Georgia (UGA), where I lead institutional efforts associated with educational development, learning technologies, classroom and learning space support, instructional media services, and the scholarship... Read More →

Alice Hunt

Asst. Director for Instructional Development, University of Georgia

I am the Assistant Director for Instructional Development at the Center for Teaching and Learning (University of Georgia). In this role, I work with faculty, departments, and academic units to increase student learning through curricular and programmatic (re)design, evaluate programmatic... Read More →

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

Interactive On-Demand, Assessment

Audience Center Directors, Administrators (Assoc. Deans/Deans/Vice Provosts/Assoc. VPs)
Topic Assessment

12:00am EDT

The Learning College: Continuous Improvement through a Curriculum Review Process

Interactive On-Demand, Signature Programs Program Planning and/or Curricula

At Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, we have sought to develop faculty communities of practice through a curriculum review process that looks holistically at the formal and informal curriculum of programs to provide faculty with a wealth of information related to the coherence of their program curricula. We will share our curriculum review process, present findings from our initial pilot, and discuss considerations for replicating a curriculum review in other contexts. Participants will come away with a concrete understanding of how to conduct a curriculum review process and recommendations for how to get started within their context.

Presenters

Derek Thurber

Senior Learning Designer and Educational Developer, Arizona State University

Karen Bossen

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) SIG
Audience Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers, Experienced Educational Developers
Topic Signature Programs/Program Planning and/or Curricula

12:00am EDT

Understanding and enhancing organizational resilience in academic support units

Interactive On-Demand, Organizational Development

People working in higher education have experienced extraordinary levels of change resulting in massive uncertainty and crushing workloads. Members of support units that focus on educational development, educational technologies, student services, and equity and inclusion have been especially hard hit. With such volatility, how do we find our footing without changing everything? Focusing on the resilience of our support units provides one option. We share a framework of organizational resilience (OR) to reflect on our experiences and identify new ways to bolster our resilience. Through this session, participants will identify how they can apply OR concepts to their organizational context.

Presenters

Donna Ellis

Director, University of Waterloo

Donna Ellis is a Past President of the POD Network and President-Elect of the International Consortium for Educational Development. She directs the Centre for Teaching Excellence at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada), and has worked as an educational developer for more than... Read More →

Veronica Stephenson

Sr. Educational Developer, Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo

At our centre, I lead our curriculum team, which support 30-40 departments annually with their curriculum design and program assessment activities. I also manage our centre's assessment team, which looks at the impact of our centre's activities.I'm also part of POD's Membership Committee... Read More →

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

Audience POD Network Members, Center Directors
Topic Organizational Development

12:00am EDT

Working Together with What We Have: Assessment Techniques for Resilience

In times of crisis, Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) must adapt to meet changing campus, instructor, and student contexts, making the necessity of assessing campus needs and Center impact more critical than ever. What if assessment methods could not only provide insight into CTL operations, but also cultivate Center resilience and inclusivity? In this session, participants will engage with an assessment technique that utilizes existing data sets, meaningfully includes the voices of the stakeholders being assessed, and fosters a sense of community. Participants will leave with an embedded, inclusive assessment plan relevant to their own goals and contexts.

Presenters

Caitlin DeClercq

Melissa Wright

Abby Schroering

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

Interactive On-Demand, Assessment

SIG/Committee Alignment Graduate student/Professional student/and Postdoctoral scholar Development SIG
Audience Experienced Educational Developers, Graduate and Professional Students and Postdocs (and those who work with them)
Topic Assessment

12:00am EDT

Beyond Course Design: Assessing Engagement in Online Courses

Poster, Online Hybrid and/or Asynchronous Teaching & Learning

During the recent pandemic, most faculty had little choice but to embrace online instruction. In asynchronous and synchronous courses, many felt challenged to maintain their commitment to student engagement. The poster describes Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University's process for voluntary, formative, peer evaluation of online teaching, developed in 2020 by the Center for Innovative Teaching & Engagement. To distinguish these efforts from our ed tech department's evaluation of course design, we focus on assessing the faculty member's engagement of students.

Presenters

Angus Woodward

Director, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University

Angus Woodward is the director of the Center for Innovative Teaching & Engagement at Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is also a professor of writing and a writer.

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Small Colleges SIG
Audience Small Colleges and Universities, New/recent educational developers (5 years or less)
Topic Online/Hybrid and/or Asynchronous Teaching & Learning

12:00am EDT

Creating a Campus-wide Faculty Development Partners Group to Better Serve Diverse Faculty Needs

Faculty development at large universities is seldom centralized. While there may be centralized units responsible for advancing excellence, there are simultaneously many initiatives run by colleges, departments, centers, etc. targeted to subgroups who have distinct and specialized needs. Often the centralized units and these distributed programs operate in silos which can lead to inefficiencies and missed opportunities. This poster explores one NC State's experience in forming and sustaining a campus-wide faculty development partners group. Group structure, challenges and successes, best practices, and challenges will be addressed, as well as how this can be implemented at other institutions.

Presenters

Diane Chapman

Executive Director & Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development, NC State University

Dr. Diane Chapman serves as the Executive Director & Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development in the Office for Faculty Excellence at NC State University. She is also a Teaching Professor and advises students and teaches in the Community College Leadership EdD program. She... Read More →

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

Poster, Organizational Development

Audience Large Colleges and Universities, Center Directors
Topic Ed Development Programs/Programming/Curricula

12:00am EDT

Department-Level Graduate Student Peer Teaching Workshops Improve Community and Instruction

Poster, Graduate and Professional Student and Postdoc Development

Institutional and resource constraints at many universities have led to an increased reliance on graduate student instructors, while comprehensive pedagogical training for them is often not available. How can educational developers work to support graduate student instructors in this context? This poster will describe a peer led department-level teaching workshop series designed to promote a community of pedagogical practice to supplement university-wide teaching training, while expending few resources. The session will guide participants through implementing the peer workshop model, providing space to collaboratively answer discussion questions about its applicability to different institutional contexts.

Poster is provided in the presentation files as a PDF and a short video.
Link to Padlet for asynchronous discussion: https://padlet.com/obrochta/pod2021
Link to write-up on the program: https://williamobrochta.net/files/PeerTeachingMentoring.pdf

Presenters

William O'Brochta

Assistant Professor, Louisiana Tech University

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Graduate student/Professional student/and Postdoctoral scholar Development SIG
Audience Graduate and Professional Students and Postdocs (and those who work with them), New/recent educational developers (5 years or less)
Topic Graduate and Professional Student and Postdoc Development

12:00am EDT

In practice: Bringing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion work into a Catholic university biology dept.

Poster, Diversity Equity & Inclusion

We discuss how one biology department has approached the problem of exclusion and oppression in the sciences. This poster is a process and solutions-based approach rather than a problems-based approach. The goal is that by showing concrete examples of the steps we are taking as a department to address inequity, other departments in other universities may find some ideas that they are able to implement at their home institutions. We wish to continue the conversation on how to build an academic program that is more inclusive to all and is also based in rigorous honesty with ourselves and our students.

Presenters

Lis Kenneth Regula

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience Administrators (Assoc. Deans/Deans/Vice Provosts/Assoc. VPs), Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers
Topic STEM

12:00am EDT

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Exploring Students' Experiences during Remote Teaching

Poster, Teaching & Learning in Practice

Our poster session explores students' learning experiences with remote learning in a large, public university during 2020 and 2021, as a result of the pandemic. We aim to understand students' perceptions regarding: a) what helps students learn and b) what limits student learning, including teaching practices that support engagement, equity, and inclusion. These findings may help Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) design faculty development programs that combine remote teaching with various levels of in-person instruction. The presentation also provides insight into the use of mid-quarter inquiry surveys as a tool that can support reflective teaching for equity and inclusion.

Presenters

Cecilia Gomez

Education Specialist, UC Davis

Patricia Turner

Education Specialist, University of California, Davis

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

Audience Large Colleges and Universities, POD Network Members
Topic Online/Hybrid and/or Asynchronous Teaching & Learning

12:00am EDT

Meeting in the Middle: Student Mental Health and Academic Success

Poster, Diversity Equity & Inclusion

This poster presentation synthesizes instructors' and students' testimonials about their efforts to reach academic milestones while caring for students' mental health. These testimonials were collected as part of the University of Pittsburgh's University Center for Teaching and Learning's "Understanding Our Students" series, which involved two separate events - one faculty-centered, the other student-centered. Our qualitative analysis of instructors' and students' answers to five open-ended questions emphasizes areas where both instructors and students converge in valuing mental health. Using a trauma-aware lens, our poster aims to assist instructors in effectively supporting their students as they contend with effects of the pandemic.

Presenters

Lizette A. Muñoz Rojas

Teaching & Learning Consultant, University Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Pittsburgh

Josie L. Rush

Michael W. Bridges

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience POD Network Members, Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

12:00am EDT

Not another survey!: Gathering Evidence of Co-Curricular and Transdisciplinary Learning

Transitioning to online environments has been a universal challenge but has also led educators to innovate in both curricular and co-curricular settings, in turn creating a need for innovative assessment methods. Specifically, co-curricular contexts call for methods that are easy to implement virtually, engaging for students, and help reduce survey attrition and survey fatigue. In this poster, we share assessment techniques that serve to engage students in active learning while also generating documentation that can serve as evidence of student learning. We discuss the strengths, limitations, applicability and considerations for adapting activities for a range of virtual/hybrid environments.

Presenters

Suzanne Horwitz

Northeastern University

Katherine Simeon

Senior Assistant Director, Center for Advancing Teaching & Learning Through Research, Northeastern University

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

Poster, Assessment

Audience Experienced Educational Developers, Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers
Topic Assessment

12:00am EDT

Right-Sizing Faculty Development to Spur Adoption of Targeted Teaching Practices

Poster, Adjunct & Part-time Faculty Development

Perceived time constraints are one of the most common barriers to faculty uptake of new tools and practices. The KCTCS Optimizing Online Learning (KOOL) Challenge is a series of application-focused weekly tasks designed to help faculty incorporate quality practices into their online courses. Each week's challenge is designed so that participants should be able to complete it in well under an hour.

This poster will detail the framework of the KOOL Challenge. Viewers will receive a replicable, adaptable framework for targeted professional development that focuses on the identification and adoption of desired behaviors.

Presenters

Kim Calebs

Online Learning Manager, KCTCS

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty SIG
Audience Experienced Educational Developers, Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers

12:00am EDT

Supporting our Weary Colleagues Well: Modeling UDL in Faculty Development

Poster, Faculty Professional Development

When colleagues are working tirelessly to support students in quarantine and to redesign their teaching methodologies, it is hard to come alongside and support these colleagues whether on campus or online. Thus, we created a curriculum map for the Spring of 2021 utilizing UDL principles. In doing so, we hoped to both meet the varying needs of the faculty and model strong pedagogy that could be transferable to their classrooms. This poster will provide the research supporting our approach to curriculum design and highlight specific programming that has resulted in innovative means of reaching both students and faculty. Attached you will find our poster with a QR code which will link to our Spring 2021 and Fall 2021 Faculty Development Syllabi.

Presenters

Carie King

Associate Professor of English, Taylor University

Timothy Berkey

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Professional Development Committee
Audience POD Network Members, Center Directors
Topic Faculty Professional Development

12:00am EDT

Supporting peer feedback in a graduate course design workshop

Poster, Graduate and Professional Student and Postdoc Development

This poster presents methods for supporting peer feedback within a hybrid, multi-institutional workshop about course design for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. Trainees developed college courses based on research expertise, posted works-in-progress online for peer review, and met weekly with facilitators at home institutions. We will demonstrate that peer feedback was a highly utilized and valued workshop component. In addition, we will share student insights regarding what impacts the perceived value of feedback, benefits/drawbacks associated with peer feedback modes, student motivation to give feedback, and perceived benefits from giving feedback. Finally, we will share recommendations we have for future improvement.

Presenters

Katelin E. Dannen

Associate, University of Iowa

Darren Hoffmann

Associate Professor, The University of Iowa

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Graduate student/Professional student/and Postdoctoral scholar Development SIG
Audience Experienced Educational Developers, New/recent educational developers (5 years or less)
Topic Online/Hybrid and/or Asynchronous Teaching & Learning

12:00am EDT

Tracking the Transfer of Research-Based Instructional Social Presence Practices via Faculty and Student Voice

Challenged by teaching remotely for the first time, faculty felt distanced and disconnected. Since social presence and relationship-building instructional practices promote student success (Glazier, 2016; Richardson, et al., 2017), our teaching center developed a course design institute in which faculty engaged with course climate-focused learning objects to lower the technology barrier, remove fear of new virtual tools, and turn "pandemic teaching" into a positive experience. This poster uses longitudinal data gathered from two years of the design institute to chronicle how faculty self-efficacy increased in implementing instructional practices to develop a course environment that energizes student learning.

Robert J. Menges Award for Outstanding Research in Educational Development 2021The Robert J. Menges Award for Outstanding Research in Educational Development honors sessions by POD Network members that focus on original, transformative research characterized by rigorous, systematic investigation and evidence-based conclusions. Additional details are found on the POD Network website.

Presenters

Dr. S. Raj Chaudhury

Executive Director Innovation in Learning Center and USAonline Associate Professor of Physics, University of South Alabama

Dr. Chaudhury was trained as a physicist, receiving his B.A. from Vassar College and M.S. and Ph.D. from UCLA. He spent ten years as a physics faculty member at Norfolk State University. His work in STEM education has been funded by agencies such as NASA & NSF. His educational publications... Read More →

Lisa LaCross

Associate Director, Faculty Development, University of South Alabama

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David S. Williams

Assistant Dean, Institutional and Academic Success | Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine, University of South Alabama

Dr. Williams leads and oversees academic support programs that the Whiddon College of Medicine provides to its students, including individual counseling of students, workshops to help students understand how to achieve academic success, a method for more closely monitoring student... Read More →

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

Poster, Assessment

SIG/Committee Alignment Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) SIG
Audience POD Network Members, Center Directors
Topic Assessment

12:00am EDT

Adoption of a Cross-Campus Collaboration for the Implementation of Equity-Focused Faculty Development

Research, Diversity Equity & Inclusion

At a mid-sized public institution, a working group undertook cross-divisional collaboration to foster more inclusive, equitable classroom environments. We secured IRB approval to conduct minoritized students focus groups to better understand their experience. We utilized our findings in generating conversations that brought insight into the ways in which classrooms and campuses may be much less fair and more unwelcoming than faculty realize. We describe resulting data, themes and insights, as well as faculty development efforts that resulted from our data analysis. Additionally, we gathered reflections from working group members which establish the advantages of cross-campus collaboration in advancing DEI work.

Presenters

Anne Victoria Kelsch

Director of Faculty Development, University of North Dakota

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience Center Directors, POD Network Members
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

12:00am EDT

Assessing the Effectiveness Wellness and Self-Care in Faculty Development

Research, Faculty Professional Development

This research reports on Mind/Body Skills training to increase resilience in times of stress. Through surveys and the Professional Quality of Life Scale we address the following questions: Does participation in faculty mind/body skills training result in a perceived decrease of "compassion fatigue"? Does participation in mind/body skills training result in a perceived sense of stress resiliency? Why do people resist learning these skills? We find that participants do report feeling more resilient and more capable of coping with stress after taking a mindfulness training seminar. Non-participants report that they don't have time for this training.

Presenters

Ruth Benander

Instructional Designer, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College

I am a professor in the Department English and Communication. I also serve as an instructional designer for our Learning and Teaching Center. In addition, I facilitate the mind/body skills offerings for our Center.

Brenda Refaei

University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College

Brad Mallory

J.A. Carter (she/her)

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Professional Development Committee
Audience Center Directors, Administrators (Assoc. Deans/Deans/Vice Provosts/Assoc. VPs)
Topic Faculty Professional Development

12:00am EDT

Collaborative dynamics in a multi-institution community of practice support wellbeing

Research, Development of Educational Developers

In this poster, we characterize a Community of Practice that emerged among facilitators of a hybrid, cross-institutional, seven-week workshop series on course design for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. The Community of Practice consisted of 19 leaders at eight institutions who are developers of trainees and represent various professional roles and career stages. We share our survey examining the functional and sustaining features of the community. We illustrate the factors that contributed to the community's success in supporting members' collective activities. Furthermore, we demonstrate the importance of the community, and specifically a multi-institutional community, for members' wellbeing during the pandemic.

Presenters

Thomas Colclough

University of California, Irvine

William Howitz

Katherine Kearns

Assistant Vice Provost for Student Development; Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

I collaborate with academic programs, campus offices, and student organizations to support the professional development of graduate students and postdoctoral trainees on the IU Bloomington campus and direct the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs. I cultivate networks and resources that... Read More →

Danny Mann

Director of Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Scholar Instructional Development, University of California, Irvine

Darren Hoffmann

Associate Professor, The University of Iowa

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Graduate student/Professional student/and Postdoctoral scholar Development SIG
Audience Experienced Educational Developers, New/recent educational developers (5 years or less)
Topic Assessment

12:00am EDT

Elevating Student Equity and Success through Adaptive and Active Learning

Adaptive learning systems are emerging as promising digital environments, potentially personalizing content to students' diverse learning needs. Research has focused primarily on course completion, grade achievement and adaptive platform use. Fewer studies have examined student perspectives on adaptive blended course organization and design, which may provide insight into the variability of student outcomes found in current adaptive literature. This session presents a two-year study of student's adaptive experiences in 108 undergraduate courses representing 11 disciplines. Changes in course pass rates and students' perspectives on effective adaptive blends prompted changes in faculty educational development toward transformative, inclusive, adaptive blended learning.

Presenters

Raiza L. Dottin

Associate Director of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, Portland State University

Janelle Decarrico Voegele

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

Research, Technology

SIG/Committee Alignment Teaching with Technology SIG
Audience Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers, Instructional Designers/Technologists and Technology Integration Specialists
Topic Teaching & Learning

12:00am EDT

Formal graduate-level pedagogy training benefits perceived quality of life

Research, Graduate and Professional Student and Postdoc Development

In response to the graduate student mental health crisis and detriments to students' perceived quality of life (e.g., difficulty managing work-life balance), institutions need to examine opportunities for holistic support for professional and emotional needs. Our qualitative case study investigated how pedagogy courses impact perceived quality of life for doctoral students. We found courses promoted a sense of belonging and inclusion, a source of stability and support, and a greater self-confidence in teaching, research, and entering the job market. In this session, we discuss our findings and the role for pedagogy courses in supporting graduate students' wellbeing and professional development.

Presenters

Ashley Hooper

Matthew Mahavongtrakul

Danny Mann

Director of Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Scholar Instructional Development, University of California, Irvine

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Graduate student/Professional student/and Postdoctoral scholar Development SIG
Audience Graduate and Professional Students and Postdocs (and those who work with them), Center Directors
Topic Graduate and Professional Student and Postdoc Development

12:00am EDT

Student Perceptions of Instructors' Race and Gender

Research, Research & Scholarship (SoTL/DBER/SoED)

Although instructors experience race- and gender-related bias, no research explores how students' perceptions may differ when instructors' race and gender varies within the context of a learning-focused course. This research session shares the results of a mixed-methods study at an R1 institution that identifies the impact of race and gender on students' perceptions of faculty and syllabi. Educational developers must understand how instructor race and gender affect students' perceptions, particularly for learning-focused courses. Without this information, we cannot know whether learning-centered course design recommendations apply equally to all instructors, and we therefore cannot meet the needs of a diverse professoriate.

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Presenters

Lindsay Wheeler

Assistant Director of STEM Education Initiatives, University of Virginia

Emily Gravett

Adriana Streifer

Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

SIG/Committee Alignment Scholarship Committee
Audience POD Network Members, Experienced Educational Developers
Topic Research & Scholarship (SoTL

12:00am EDT

Virtual Mentoring: Avoiding Unstable Connections

The current COVID pandemic exposed ongoing issues and surfaced ongoing inequities in education generally, but particularly as it relates to the recruitment, persistence and mentoring of underrepresented groups (URG) in STEM fields. As we transition to virtual spaces for the foreseeable future, how do we move forward to meet the unique needs of this group? This research sought to identify both: current best practices as well as critical gaps in mentoring literature as it relates to URG in STEM. The results of this systematic literature review have implications for all faculty and educational developers working with URG in STEM spaces.

Presenters

Beth White

Education Manager, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

I am an Education Program Manager with the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) STEM Workforce Development section. Prior to joining ORISE, I was an educational development professional and professor. I currently administer appointments for the U.S. Department of... Read More →

Monday October 25, 2021 12:00am - 12:00am EDT
On Demand

Research, STEM

SIG/Committee Alignment Science Technology/Engineering/Mathematics (STEM) SIG
Audience Experienced Educational Developers, New/recent educational developers (5 years or less)
Topic STEM

1:00pm EST

AAPI Ed Developers and Learners Roundtable

After a year and half of increasing anti-Asian violence, AAPI Ed Developers and their allies seek community within POD to create a safe and supportive space to discuss ways that POD, our profession, and our centers can better support us and our work. This roundtable addresses the following concerns: how our intersectional identities inform our work and advancement; how we fit into recent DEI initiatives within POD and at our home institutions; how we can better represent and support AAPI faculty, staff, and students at our institutions; and resources for those who want to integrate AAPI experiences in their teaching.

Presenters

Linda Hasunuma

Assistant Director, Temple University

Hi, Everyone!I am an Assistant Director at the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Temple University and began my career in Ed Development in January 2020--three months before we went fully remote for the pandemic. I am a recovering Political Scientist who was on the tenure... Read More →

Wei Ming Dariotis

Faculty Director, San Francisco State University

My interests: Critical Mixed Race Studies, queer and mixed race science fiction and fantasy literature and media, community-based arts and culture, Chinese American literature and culture, Asian American San Francisco, Asian American women in academia, anti-racist academia and academic... Read More →

Monday November 8, 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Live

1:00pm EST

Coming Together at the Commons

As institutions quickly pivoted to respond to the pandemic, many created resources for “teaching during disruption” that were posted on institutional websites for sharing with internal communities. While some were adapted across institutions, many more could have been shared across institutions with modifications to account for contextual differences to help reduce the workload and streamline the general message. In an effort to explore intentionally connecting across institutions: what might a consortium of centers -- a "Teaching Commons For All" --which creates these shared resources look like? What might the benefits and challenges to such a consortium be?

Presenters

Gloriana Trujillo

Director, Academic Teaching Programs, Stanford University

Kenji Ikemoto

Academic Technology Specialist, Stanford University

Monday November 8, 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Live

1:00pm EST

Faculty Development Across Borders: International and Local Opportunities

Remote teaching enabled opportunities for international and glocal (local + global) faculty development while everyone worldwide was learning and teaching online. Going forward, what have we learned? What opportunities lie ahead? We recommend sharing some introductory expertise via the chat (chatterfall) then dividing participants into groups of 4 or 5 and doing a "Conversation café" format with a focusing question: Where might there be opportunities for international or glocal faculty development in the future? What are some experiences you learned from during the pandemic period?" for 30 minutes, taking notes on a shared slide deck. Afterwards, each group presents their findings.
Here is a link to the slide deck including the group notes:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jEsE90ecAzfy9SbWQQ8bSvCQ9hegDilWuqVlQpbCHGc/edit?usp=sharing

Presenters

Maha Bali

Professor of Practice, American University in Cairo

Maha Bali is Associate Professor of Practice at the Center for Learning and Teaching at the American University in Cairo. She has a PhD in Education from the University of Sheffield, UK. She is co-founder of virtuallyconnecting.org (a grassroots movement that challenges academic... Read More →

Woden Teachout

Talk to me about faculty development in online and global settings! I'm interested in fostering engaging, inspiring, respectful learning circles among faculty members. And I have been doing a lot with heutagogical (choose your own adventure) programming recently. In my day job... Read More →

Monday November 8, 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Live

1:00pm EST

Using Analytical Data to Improve Undergraduate Student Success

Institutional implementation of Learning Analytics (LA) calls for thoughtful management of cultural change. During this session participants will be encouraged to discuss how LA can play an active and collaborative role in supporting key LA initiatives at their institutions. Furthermore, participants will have a chance to share with each other what is happening on their campuses now, and identify opportunities to foster collaborations with programs that might not be considered typical partnerships for their teaching centers. Participants will also consider ways to provide LA data to teachers, academic support units,and program directors at their institutions by creating multidisciplinary FLCs.

Presenters

Marsha Lovett

Director of Eberly Center, Teaching Professor of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Marsha Lovett is Director of the Eberly Center and a Teaching Professor in the Department of Psychology. At the Eberly Center, she applies theoretical and empirical principles from cognitive psychology to help instructors improve their teaching. In her research, Dr. Lovett studies... Read More →

George Rehrey

Director Center for Learning Analytics and Student Success, Indiana University Bloomington

George Rehrey is the founding director of Indiana University’s Center for Learning Analytics and Student Success (CLASS). From 2007-18, he was the director of the award winning Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Program at Indiana University’s Bloomington, leading efforts to... Read More →

Monday November 8, 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Live

2:15pm EST

Compressing the Time Not the Learning: Supporting Faculty Transitioning to Shorter Terms

How do instructors adjust their courses when an institution moves from offering courses in a 16-week format to shorter terms, especially 8-week semesters or J-Terms? How can teaching and learning center staff best support faculty who must negotiate such a change? How can administrators and educational developers respond to fears that shorter terms reduce academic rigor? What are the new learning opportunities that might emerge in shorter courses? Join us to discuss these questions and more as we explore the impacts of shortening length of term on course design, student learning, and faculty attitudes and support.

Presenters

Joyce Langenegger

Executive Director of Academic Success, Blinn College

Professional development, any ideas for hy-flex course delivery, active learning strategies

Beate Brunow

Associate Research Prof, Penn State

Monday November 8, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Live

2:15pm EST

Fostering institutional sustainability as educational developers

As educational developers, we play a unique role in fostering cultural and institutional change in our in institutions. As urgency around sustainability grows, and institutional practices re-form in the wake of COVID, how can we leverage that expertise and knowledge to help foster more environmentally-responsible institutions that will help tackle the crises of climate change, environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss? Join us to share approaches you've tried at your own institution, learn from others, and brainstorm new possibilities for how we as educational developers can foster a more sustainable future.

Presenters

Heather Keith

Executive Director of Faculty Development, Professor of Philosophy, Radford University

Course and curriculum innovation, incorporating wicked problems across the curriculum, brave pedagogy

Kelsey Bitting

Asst. Prof., Env. Studies; Asst. Dir., Ctr. for Teach. & Learn., Elon University

POSTER TITLE: TA Teaching Beliefs, Undergraduate Interest, and Learning in Introductory Geology Courses: Preliminary Results from the PandemicTHEME: Student experiences and affect

Bart Everson

Creative Generalist, Xavier University of Louisiana

Christina Fabrey

Director, Student Success Center, Virginia Tech

Monday November 8, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Live

2:15pm EST

Managing the Emotional Toll from Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Work

How have you managed the increased calls for professional development in inclusive teaching practices that arose as a result of the past year’s events? Let’s share challenges and exchange ideas on how to sustain our own teaching and learning and maintain others’ newfound commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. For example, how do you recover from facilitating others’ learning, while facing myriad challenges yourself on the very issues we are asked to help others with—dealing with the impacts of racism, sexism, homophobia, etc., and the subtle and not so subtle forms of exclusion we may face in our professional lives?

Presenters

Jean Otsuki

Melina Ivanchikova

Associate Director, Cornell University

Monday November 8, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Live

2:15pm EST

Teaching with Texts: Practices to Promote More Effective Reading

Our aim for this session is facilitate a conversation in which we unpack some of the challenges associated with teaching with and learning from texts across the disciplines, and further, to exchange curricular, instructional, and assessment practices which promote effective analytical and critical reading, in particular. Initial discussion questions include: (1) How do college teaching with text practices differ from those of K-12 instructors? (2) How and why do reading demands vary across disciplines? and, (3) How does a specific course context (e.g. goals, lecture material, other assigned texts, assignments) influence the reading demands encountered by students?

Presenters

Nic Voge

Senior Associate Director, McGraw Center for Teaching & Learning, Princeton University

I oversee the Center's undergraduate and graduate student-facing learning programs. My expertise is in socio-cultural and cognitive approaches to learning from instruction, including the "invisible curriculum". I also have expertise in motivation, in particular achievement motivation... Read More →

Hugh Kesson

Princeton University

Monday November 8, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Live

3:30pm EST

Infusing Our Learning Environments with Playful Active-Learning & Games

Do you use play to stimulate interest and engagement in your educational settings? Have you deepened student understanding and helped to hone students' academic skills through learning games? If so, join us to talk about the power of play! Let's discuss a range of ludic approaches for online and face-to-face courses. From escape rooms, to role-playing, to puzzles and quests, we want to hear what's working for you and your students. Bring your favorite links to open resources and we'll consider it a share-fest.

Presenters

Victoria Mondelli

Founding Director, University of Missouri

Game-Based LearningAllureofplay.com

Timothy Schaffer

Senior Educational Technologist, NYU

Monday November 8, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

3:30pm EST

Meeting in the Meso: Educational Development with Departments and other Groups

Whether through supporting curriculum design, large-enrollment course coordination, accreditation efforts, or similar endeavors, educational developers working with departments or other groups need particular facilitation skills focused on complex group dynamics. These skills can bridge gaps between individual instructional development and broader organizational development. In this BoF session, participants will share frameworks, resources, and strategies for approaching this type of educational development. The conversation will focus on the relationships between educational development at the meso (department/unit), micro (individual), and macro (institutional) levels.

Presenters

Jessica Taggart

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia

Elizabeth Dickens

Assistant Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia

Monday November 8, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

3:30pm EST

Putting collegiality back into “college”

This BoF-session will explore what its hosts perceive as an increasing lack of social cohesion in academic environments (intensified by the CoVid pandemic) and delineate means and ways to overcome it. We work and think more effectively in the context of a community as opposed to a collection of separate individuals, so how can Faculty Development Centers help counteract overzealous rivalry, exclusion, and marginalization in the ever more competitive environment prevalent in higher education today? How do we create continuous and effective faculty development that not merely promotes new skills but, more importantly, fosters a collegial spirit and a sense of belonging across all ranks and campus boundaries?

Presenters

Jorg Waltje

Executive Director, CFE, TWU

Dr. Jörg Waltje is the Executive Director of the Center for Faculty Excellence. He works with faculty and institutional leaders to collaboratively assess needs, develop programming, and evaluate strategies to enhance the knowledge and skills of faculty in achieving their goals related... Read More →

Carmen Macharaschwili

Monday November 8, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

3:30pm EST

Whose Justice? Faculty Developers in Authentic Dialogue about Our Positionality and Implications for Practice

This session aims to provide an opportunity for all participating colleagues to pause and reflect, as an intentional act of justice, self-care, and connection, on how we situate ourselves in the work of conceptualizing, planning, and facilitating faculty development praxis for social justice. Co-facilitators invite attendees to join them and engage in authentic dialogue about the ways our positionalities (e.g. social identities, cultural competencies, epistemological paradigms) shape the educational development experiences we design, how we build rapport in those spaces, and how we strive to support everyone’s growth as we each own our learning journeys with agency, justice, and generosity.

Participants' Google Drive Folder

Presenters

Anna Santucci (she/lei/sie/ella)

CIRTL Senior Lecturer, Teaching & Learning Enhancement, University College Cork

Hello dear colleagues!My values: I believe in education for liberation and its power to perform better futures into existence. I cherish human connections, collaborative exploration, and the playful adventure of encountering each other authentically, with curiosity and generosity... Read More →

Annemarie Vaccaro

Monday November 8, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

4:45pm EST

Virtual Social Session for Introverts, Zoom Zombies, and Fatigued Faculty

Are you acutely Zoom-fatigued? Are you exhausted by the mere thought of professional academic socializing/networking via webcam? Are you hoping to make new connections with other educational developers at POD but horrified by the idea of doing karaoke in any modality? Then this is the virtual social session for you. In our camera-optional meeting space, we will provide moral support by collectively recognizing (via shared documents, in Chat, or small breakout rooms) our everyday challenges and share our best strategies for mitigating burnout. We'll also build our own networks by sharing in writing or live mic our ED "elevator speech."

Presenters

Jessamyn Neuhaus

Professor and Interim Director, State University of New York at Plattsburgh

Jessamyn Neuhaus is a professor of U.S. history and popular culture at SUNY Plattsburgh and Interim Director of the Plattsburgh Center for Teaching Excellence. Recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, she is the author of Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals... Read More →

Monday November 8, 2021 4:45pm - 5:45pm EST
Live

Social & Wellness

4:45pm EST

Membership Committee First-Timers Welcome Session

The 1st Time Attendees Event welcomes all new and returning conferees to learn about the opportunities available at the 2021 PODNetwork Conference. Participants of the 1st Time Attendees Event will be introduced to the Executive Committee, Conference Committee, and the Membership Committee. During the event, participants will be given the opportunity to meet other 1st Time Attendees and hear from experienced mentors on how to engage with and get the most out of the POD Network Conference and organization. Please join us!

Presenters

Elizabeth Luoma (she/her)

Assistant Director, Faculty Teaching Initiatives, Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning

Jim Berger

Director, Georgia College

Jim Berger is the Director for the Center for Teaching and Learning at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, GA. He is currently in his third year as director and works with a staff of six others in the office. He has earned a Ph.D. in Adult Education from the University... Read More →

Monday November 8, 2021 4:45pm - 6:00pm EST
Live

Audience POD Network Members, New/recent educational developers (5 years or less)

11:30am EST

Welcome to POD21

Presenters

German Vargas Ramos

POD DRI Committee Co-Chair & POD Core Committee Member, Otterbein

Claudia Cornejo Happel

Associate Director Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP With my colleagues, Lauren Barbeau, I co-authored Critical Teaching Behaviors: Defining, Documenting, and Discussing Good Teaching (now available for pre-order from Stylus Publishing, 2023). The Critical Teaching Behaviors (CTB) framework and aligned tools offer... Read More →

Jerod Quinn

POD Conference Program Co-chair, Wake Forest University

I'm an instructional designer working in higher ed in Missouri, but for a university in North Carolina. I've working in higher ed my whole adult career, and I absolutely love all things teaching and learning. I also wrote a book with the help of a ton of great folks here in POD. The... Read More →

Tammy M. McCoy

POD Conference Program Co-Chair, Georgia Institute of Technology

Hi everyone! I'm Tammy. I'm located at Georgia Tech in the Center for Teaching and Learning. I work as the TA Development and Future Faculty Specialist. Talk to me about anything related to preparing future faculty, TA development, and all things DEI.

Hoag Holmgren

Executive Director, POD Network

Tuesday November 9, 2021 11:30am - 11:45am EST
Live

11:45am EST

Presidential Address

Presenters

Francine Glazer

Associate Provost for Educational Innovation & Director, CTL; President, POD Network, New York Institute of Technology

Tuesday November 9, 2021 11:45am - 12:45pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Teaching & Learning in Practice

1:00pm EST

Evolution of Teaching Practice Through Experience with OER-enabled Pedagogy

The need for instructor reflection on their role within the classroom is more important than ever. Economic and social unrest make inclusive and meaningful student experiences critical. How can instructors achieve this goal when doing so may require a philosophical shift? This session presents findings from research with six instructors who taught a course utilizing OER-enabled pedagogy first in 2019 then again in 2020. Their insight suggests this approach catalyzed a teaching evolution to one fostering greater student engagement and agency. Attendees will consider how these findings may be generalized to various forms of active learning and any learning modality.

Presenters

Eric Werth

Professional Development Manager, University of Pikeville

I am the Professional Development Manager at the University of Pikeville, where I work on campus-wide initiatives aimed and improving student learning in face-to-face, blended, and online courses and research into open education. Specifically, my research has focused on motivation... Read More →

Katherine Williams

Professional Development Educator, University of Pikeville

I am the Professional Development Educator at the University of Pikeville in Pikeville, KY. My current research at the institution focuses on Open Pedagogy and OER-enabled Pedagogy as means to promote equity in learning, particularly when looked through the lens of Critical Pedagogy... Read More →

Tuesday November 9, 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Professional Development Committee
Audience Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers, Experienced Educational Developers
Topic Teaching & Learning

1:00pm EST

Toward BIPOC Faculty Equity: Investigating Professional Development Needs

Understanding and embracing BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) faculty development needs are critical components in the ongoing pursuit of equity through fair access, power-sharing, and decision-making. A literature overview of the major challenges faced by BIPOC faculty at predominantly white institutions will be presented. With that foundation, this session will critically examine a case study of creating a BIPOC professional development needs study, with specific emphasis on the institutional context, the inquiry process, and preliminary survey data. Participants will co-examine their institutional contexts and inquiry processes related to ascertaining BIPOC faculty development needs. Promising, responsive practices will be explored.

Presenters

Gilpatrick Hornsby

Flipping the Group Project Presentation

Ed Brantmeier

Tatjana Titareva

Tuesday November 9, 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Signature Programs Program Planning and/or Curricula

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience Center Directors, Administrators (Assoc. Deans/Deans/Vice Provosts/Assoc. VPs)
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

1:00pm EST

What's the Special Sauce? Evolution Toward High-Impact Course Design Institutes

CTLs frequently rely on course design institutes (CDIs) to help instructors develop equitable and engaging learning environments. To learn more about the diversity of formats, suss out the most impactful elements, and identify best practices for development, we undertook a large-scale survey of CDIs offered around the US. From this, we developed a model that attempts to describe the essential features most responsible for high impact, or what we've come to call CDIs' "special sauce." Participants in this session will explore the results of our survey and our model, and discuss how those may shape their current or future CDIs. **SESSION WAS RECORDED**

Presenters

Michael Palmer

Director & Professor, University of Virginia

Michael Palmer joined UVA's Center for Teaching Excellence in the Fall of 2003. As director, he leads a dynamic team committed to promoting the academic professional excellence of UVA faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate student instructors. His educational development research... Read More →

Carol Hurney

Associate Provost of Faculty Development and Diversity; Founding Director of the Center for Teaching & Learning, Colby College

Lori Hostetler

Faculty, College of Education, James Madison Univeristy

Lori H. Leaman is a faculty member in the College of Education at James Madison University. Dr. Leaman earned her undergraduate degree in Special Education and an Ed.D. in Higher Education Leadership. Her scholarly interests include instruction for diverse learning and cultural needs... Read More →

Jordan Troisi

Senior Associate Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Colby College

Mary Wright

Associate Provost for Teaching and Learning; Executive Director, Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning; Professor of, Brown University

Tuesday November 9, 2021 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Live

Audience POD Network Members, Experienced Educational Developers
Topic Signature Programs/Program Planning and/or Curricula

2:15pm EST

Showing Up When We're Not Really There: Rethinking Resilience Expectations

Many educational developers and the people we support are running low on resilience reserves amidst concurrent, prolonged crises and traumas. We zoom between meetings, despite the increased cognitive-emotional labor the virtual context exacts. We facilitate programs to help people adopt resilient pedagogy, leadership, and personal practices. Often we/they show up physically but aren't really there mentally or emotionally. This session draws upon three facilitators' expertise in diversity, equity, inclusion, grief, narrative, and coaching. They will lead participants in rethinking expectations (of themselves and others) and applying a trauma-informed ethic of care approach for planning more inclusive resilience programming.

Presenters

Esther Jordan

CETL-Faculty Success, Director, Kennesaw State University

Chinasa Elue

Associate Professor & Faculty Success Coach, Kennesaw State University

Laura W. Howard

Tuesday November 9, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Development of Educational Developers

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience POD Network Members
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

2:15pm EST

What an Educational Developer Should Know About Learning Analytics (PDS)

POD Sponsored Professional Development Session (PDS)

This interactive session will guide a discussion of what is learning analytics and how can educational developers harness the information it provides to support instructors. It will build a community of learners, including those who are curious about, considering and/or doing learning analytics and provide opportunities to learn from each other. Examples of data will provide a springboard for conversations about what can (and can't) be gleaned about a course, student engagement, and student learning from learning analytics.

The participant folder with resources and materials used during the session are available at https://go.rutgers.edu/POD21LA

Presenters

George Rehrey

Director Center for Learning Analytics and Student Success, Indiana University Bloomington

Christina Bifulco

Associate Director for Teaching & Learning Analytics, Rutgers University

Amy Chan-Hilton

Director of CETL, University of Southern Indiana

Rebecca Campbell

Professor, New Mexico State University

Tuesday November 9, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Learning Analytics Community SIG
Audience POD Network Members

3:30pm EST

Coaching for Graduate Students? Models and Ideas

In this round-table discussion we will explore coaching as a mode of holistic support for graduate students. The goal is to share ideas, best practices, resources, and/or outcomes from established programs, while also welcoming colleagues who may be interested in developing new coaching initiatives to promote grad student thriving. As background, over the past academic year we launched our institution's first-ever graduate peer coaching program; we look forward to connecting with colleagues who are interested in and/or already engaged in various forms of coaching to support grad students.

Note from the Conference Team: Engage With Small(er) Groups in Roundtable Sessions

Roundtable Discussions are intended to provide an opportunity for interactions in a smaller group setting. To accomplish the goal of more focused and personal conversations, we recommend presenters limit attendance for roundtable discussions to 30 participants.
If you are unable to join a roundtable because it has reached the maximum number of participants, we encourage you to check-out one or more of the on-demand sessions available to you.

Presenters

John Schulz

PhD Candidate; Senior Graduate Fellow, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning-Princeton University

I'm a PhD Candidate at Princeton University and a Senior Graduate Fellow at Princeton's McGraw Center of Teaching and Learning. At McGraw, I've co-developed two major initiatives related to graduate student learning: a graduate peer-coaching program and Discerning Dissertating, a... Read More →

Laura Murray

Assistant Director, Learning Programs, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning - Princeton University

BIOI lead a program to support graduate students to learn and thrive while at Princeton. My favorite part of this role is engaging directly with emerging scholars to help them identify and work toward authentic goals while cultivating a sense of purpose and meaning both within the... Read More →

Tuesday November 9, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

Roundtable, Graduate and Professional Student and Postdoc Development

SIG/Committee Alignment Graduate student/Professional student/and Postdoctoral scholar Development SIG
Audience Center Directors, Administrators (Assoc. Deans/Deans/Vice Provosts/Assoc. VPs)
Topic Graduate and Professional Student and Postdoc Development

3:30pm EST

From Margin to Center: Supporting BIPOC Graduate Students in TLC's

Amid heightened alienation and racial marginalization in the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching and learning centers are poised to offer focused measures for BIPOC graduate students to address departmental inadequacies. Yet attempting to create BIPOC-focused measures leads many educational developers, including this session's presenters, to confront institutional barriers rooted in white supremacy. This session's facilitators will share their experiences with these barriers in order to facilitate inter-institutional inquiry and collaboration. Equipped with intersectional inquiry of educational development, participants will recognize how institutional resistance to BIPOC pedagogies protects a classed and gendered white fragility, and to develop subversive strategies to support BIPOC communities.

Note from the Conference Team: Engage With Small(er) Groups in Roundtable Sessions

Roundtable Discussions are intended to provide an opportunity for interactions in a smaller group setting. To accomplish the goal of more focused and personal conversations, we recommend presenters limit attendance for roundtable discussions to 30 participants.
If you are unable to join a roundtable because it has reached the maximum number of participants, we encourage you to check-out one or more of the on-demand sessions available to you.

Presenters

Anne Van

Deja Beamon

Shadia Siliman

Tuesday November 9, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

Roundtable, Development of Educational Developers

SIG/Committee Alignment Graduate student/Professional student/and Postdoctoral scholar Development SIG
Audience Graduate and Professional Students and Postdocs (and those who work with them), POD Network Members
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

3:30pm EST

The Privilege of Failure: Supporting Equitable Discussions of Pedagogical Failures

This round-table discussion invites educational developers to critically examine the practice of sharing and learning from pedagogical failures. Pedagogical (or instructional) failures are the personal, complex and unanticipated outcomes that emerge from well-intentioned interactions with students. Publicly sharing failures can prove risky, socially challenging, and punitive for marginalized faculty who already face biases in higher education. Educational developers are therefore in a position to support the cultivation of inclusive spaces that can address all experiences of instructional failures. Participants will experience an anonymous storytelling activity to uncover reasons behind pedagogical failures and speculate ways for sharing these stories equitably.
Session Handouts: All materials will be shared prior to the session for review.

Note from the Conference Team: Engage With Small(er) Groups in Roundtable Sessions

Roundtable Discussions are intended to provide an opportunity for interactions in a smaller group setting. To accomplish the goal of more focused and personal conversations, we recommend presenters limit attendance for roundtable discussions to 30 participants.
If you are unable to join a roundtable because it has reached the maximum number of participants, we encourage you to check-out one or more of the on-demand sessions available to you.

Presenters

Gemma Henderson

Director of Learning Platforms, University of Miami

Amanda Valdespino

Sr. Instructional Designer, Learning Innovation and Faculty Engagement, University of Miami

Amanda Valdespino, Sr. Instructional Designer, works on faculty development initiatives and programming related at the University of Miami. In her role, Amanda performs duties such as consultations with faculty, facilitating workshops, facilitating faculty reading groups, and other... Read More →

Tuesday November 9, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

Audience Experienced Educational Developers, New/recent educational developers (5 years or less)
Topic Ed Development Programs/Programming/Curricula

4:45pm EST

Developing Expertise: a practical approach to teaching in hands-on settings

Experiential and hands-on learning activities are increasingly common in higher education curricula because they offer great opportunities to develop both disciplinary and transversal skills. While macro aspects, ie course design, monopolise pedagogical efforts, how teachers and TAs interact with students during practical learning activities is essential to skill development. Drawing on research on the nature and development of 'expertise', we illustrate how to structure questions, feedback, and explanations to maximise the rich learning potential of hands-on environments. This session includes role play and case study activities from our TA training workshops, as well as material from our recent book.

Presenters

Siara Isaac

researcher, Centre for Learning Sciences, école polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Please help us find candidates with STEM backgrounds who are interested in doing a fully-funded PhD in education in Switzerland at the new EPFL-ETH joint doctoral program in Learning Sciences - application deadline is December 1st. https://lnkd.in/dZgteFEUMy book, Facilitating Ex... Read More →

Roland Tormey

Cécile Hardebolle

Ingrid Le Duc

Tuesday November 9, 2021 4:45pm - 5:45pm EST
Live

Workshop-in-a-Box, Faculty Professional Development

Audience Experienced Educational Developers, Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers
Topic Faculty Professional Development

4:45pm EST

Encapsulating and (re)inventing your scholarly agenda: The "Personal Intellectual Project"

In the spirit of "holistic educational development" (Sutherland, 2018), where developers support faculty in all aspects of their roles, this workshop-in-a-box addresses research conundrums many faculty face: How do I encapsulate my research for disciplinary outsiders? How do I choose new projects wisely?

You'll engage in a three-step process involving exploration and dialogue to capture your own "Personal Intellectual Project" (Boden, Epstein, & Kenway, 2005) - the big-picture overview of your research.

A staple for seven years at Seattle University, this researcher-development session is easily adapted to different institutions and faculty groups.

Please bring an up-to-date CV.

NOTE: The slides for this session will be uploaded afterwards for you to use at your own institution. All materials are CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

Presenters

David Green

Director, Center for Faculty Development and Clinical Professor of International Studies, Seattle University

Tuesday November 9, 2021 4:45pm - 5:45pm EST
Live

Workshop-in-a-Box, Signature Programs Program Planning and/or Curricula

Audience POD Network Members, Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers
Topic Signature Programs/Program Planning and/or Curricula

4:45pm EST

Rigor as Inclusive Practice: Beyond Deficit Models

Rigor and inclusion are often seen in academia as being in opposition to each other, despite the evidence that inclusion necessitates rigor to empower all of our students to grow, build on their strengths, and learn. This interactive workshop seeks to illuminate the ways that rigor is often misused or misunderstood to move participants to a more inclusive (and dare we say, more rigorous!) definition and enactment of rigor in their course design. Our goal is for POD participants to leave with a template to facilitate a critical discussion of rigor with faculty from any institution or discipline.

Presenters

Julie McGurk

Director of Faculty Teaching Initiatives, Yale University

Jamiella Brooks

Director, Student Equity & Inclusion Initiatives, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Tuesday November 9, 2021 4:45pm - 5:45pm EST
Live

Workshop-in-a-Box, Diversity Equity & Inclusion

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience POD Network Members, Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

7:00pm EST

GPPD Networking Coffee Break

Grab your favorite beverage and join us for a virtual networking event! The GPPD SIG invites all graduate/professional students, postdocs, and those whose work focuses on supporting these populations to join us for afternoon coffee/tea and conversation. Participants will be broken into Zoom rooms based on areas of interest and provided with guiding questions to kick off discussion. Register to join the conversation. Door prizes will be distributed to randomly selected attendees of this session.

Presenters

Vanessa Doriott Anderson

Senior Director of Professional Development Programming, North Carolina State University

Gina Hurley

Assistant Director, Graduate and Postdoctoral Teaching, Yale University

Michelle Gaston

Assistant Director, Graduate Student Development, University of Texas

Ashley Harlow

Coordinator of Faculty and Graduate Student Development, University of Georgia

I am passionate about creating both inclusive and equitable learning environments in higher education classrooms.

Joe Lampert

Tuesday November 9, 2021 7:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Live

Social & Wellness

11:30am EST

Building Community and Facilitating Active Learning in Online STEM Courses

The University of California, Irvine, a large research-intensive institution, and Santa Ana College, a small community college, were awarded the California Learning Lab Grant to create a three-part faculty development program to reduce equity gaps in introductory online STEM courses. The aims of this program are to teach faculty how creating a sense of community leads to increased self-efficacy, leveraging technology facilitates effective online active learning, and incorporating peer mentors enhances learning. In this live interactive session, we will outline the program components and share data from the first faculty cohort. In addition, we will demonstrate community building exercises.

Presenters

Matthew Mahavongtrakul

Andrea Aebersold

Director, Faculty Instructional Development, UC Irvine

Minhan Dinh-Mahavongtrakul

Wednesday November 10, 2021 11:30am - 12:30pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Online Hybrid and/or Asynchronous Teaching & Learning

SIG/Committee Alignment Science Technology/Engineering/Mathematics (STEM) SIG
Audience Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers, Small Colleges and Universities
Topic STEM

11:30am EST

Contexts for Agency: Leveraging Fractal Reflection through and beyond Crisis

In this session, participants will learn about a form of reflective practice called fractal reflection, developed by a cross-institutional research collaborative of 18 educational developers. Participants will have the opportunity to discover and practice one application of this methodology, a "contexts for agency" framework, that can help developers navigate unforeseen situations and challenges, or act in the face of uncertainty. Further applications of the methodology and framework will be discussed.

Presenters

Christine Rener

Vice Provost for Instructional Development and Innovation, Grand Valley State University

Lindsay Wheeler

Assistant Director of STEM Education Initiatives, University of Virginia

Deandra Little

Associate Provost of Faculty Development, Professor of English, Elon University

Eric Kaldor

Senior Associate Director, Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University

Anna Flaming

Director, Center for Teaching, University of Iowa

Kathleen Landy

Associate Director for Assessment & Evaluation, Cornell University

Suzanne Tapp

Assistant Vice Provost of Faculty Success, Teaching, Learning, and Professional Development Center, Texas Tech University

Laurie Grupp

Dean, School of Education and Human Development, Fairfield University

Wednesday November 10, 2021 11:30am - 12:30pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Development of Educational Developers

SIG/Committee Alignment Professional Development Committee
Audience POD Network Members, Center Directors
Topic Development of Educational Developers

11:30am EST

Success of the Siloed: Strategies for Retaining Black Women Faculty

Despite diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, many Black women faculty still face difficulties - including hostile work environments, a lack of mentorship, and unfair critiques. We conducted a mixed-methods study that touched on these issues from the perspective of the strategies and support structures that allowed these women to persevere despite these difficulties. Our presentation will discuss these findings and provide suggestions to institutional leaders, faculty colleagues, and aspiring Black women faculty for how to create access to these paths of success, and more equitable spaces for these valuable members of the academy.

Presenters

Allison Brckalorenz

Allison BrckaLorenz, Ph.D. is the director of the College + University Teaching Environments, project manager for the Faculty Survey of Student Engagement and a research scientist for the National Survey of Student Engagement. In her work at the Center for Postsecondary Research... Read More →

Josclynn Brandon

Wednesday November 10, 2021 11:30am - 12:30pm EST
Live

Plenary, Diversity Equity & Inclusion

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience Administrators (Assoc. Deans/Deans/Vice Provosts/Assoc. VPs), POD Network Members
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

12:45pm EST

Design Justice and Equity in College Teaching and Learning

The pandemic has illuminated and exacerbated inequities in higher education and expanded teaching efficacy beyond familiar tools and modalities. How can we build from this and move forward with informed intent to create equitable learning environments and experiences? Design Justice, an equity-based framework, can guide us to center those traditionally marginalized in higher education as we design courses, learning experiences, faculty development programming, and more. This workshop will review the Design Justice framework and provide a space for participants to explore the potential of applying it to their practice in instructional design, faculty development, and higher education in general.

Session Materials can be accessed here.

Presenters

Pauline Carpenter

Instructional Design and Technology Specialist, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey

David Goldman

Director of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment, Rutgers University

Eliza Blau

Instructional Design and Technology Specialist, Rutgers University

Wednesday November 10, 2021 12:45pm - 2:00pm EST
Live

Audience Experienced Educational Developers, Instructional Designers/Technologists and Technology Integration Specialists
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

2:15pm EST

Center Advisory Boards: Structures, Objectives, and Strategies

Advisory boards/committees are key vehicles for faculty engagement at CTLs. However, there is no systematic study of them, meaning that educational developers must piece together information on their own. This session fills that gap by engaging participants in examining national data and the potential for their own center's governance. How many centers have boards, how large are they, what are members' campus roles, and how do characteristics vary by institutional type and size? With this framing, participants will engage with questions of purpose and focus. Why have a board and, based on objectives, what are collaborative strategies?

Presenters

Mary Wright

Associate Provost for Teaching and Learning; Executive Director, Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning; Professor of, Brown University

Wednesday November 10, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Start-up

Audience Center Directors, Administrators (Assoc. Deans/Deans/Vice Provosts/Assoc. VPs)
Topic Start-up

2:15pm EST

DEI as Practice: Insights Learned through Collaborative DEI Statement Consultations

In an effort to contribute to the sparse body of resources supporting educational developers (EDs) who review diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) statements, this session shares insights gained from three EDs during the process of (1) conducting DEI statement consultations, and (2) coding and analyzing a pool of DEI statements submitted for review. Participants will observe specific examples of common DEI statement pitfalls, strategize ways to coach writers to be more self-reflective in articulating their DEI contributions, and self-reflect on how consultations can shed light on the ways DEI practice appears in their own work.

You can find all of the materials for the session here.

Presenters

Molly Hatcher (she/her)

Assistant Vice Provost, Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, UT Austin

Molly Hatcher (she/hers) is Assistant Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning, and Director of Center for Teaching and Learning at UT Austin. She leads a team in advancing an energetic culture of teaching and learning at UT by partnering with instructors, students, and staff to create... Read More →

Kaitlyn Farrell Rodriguez

Laura Struve

Wednesday November 10, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Development of Educational Developers

SIG/Committee Alignment Graduate student/Professional student/and Postdoctoral scholar Development SIG
Audience Experienced Educational Developers, Graduate and Professional Students and Postdocs (and those who work with them)
Topic Development of Educational Developers

2:15pm EST

Strategies for Reviewing Scholarly Publications as an Educational Developer (PDS)

POD Sponsored Professional Development Session (PDS)
Constructive peer review of scholarship is both a critical service to the profession and an important way that new and experienced educational developers can keep up with cutting-edge scholarship and gain insights about their own writing and research. Join editors from publications of interest to educational developers, including International Journal for Academic Development, Journal of Faculty Development, Teaching & Learning Inquiry, and To Improve the Academy, for an interactive session in which we will examine real peer reviews to identify concrete strategies for writing an effective and constructive review. Participants will also have opportunities to learn more in optional follow-up sessions.

Presenters

Gemma Henderson

Director of Learning Platforms, University of Miami

Laura Cruz

Associate Research Professor, Penn State

Anna Flaming

Director, Center for Teaching, University of Iowa

Elizabeth Dickens

Assistant Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia

Jeanne Andreoli

Assistant Director, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Anastasia Williams

Assistant Director, University of Iowa

Wednesday November 10, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Research & Scholarship (SoTL/DBER/SoED)

SIG/Committee Alignment Scholarship Committee
Audience Experienced Educational Developers, New/recent educational developers (5 years or less)

3:30pm EST

Q&A: Advancing Equity

This session is an opportunity for participants to have a Question and Answer (Q&A) time with presenters who presented an on demand session. There’s no presentations, just the time and space for attendees to talk with on demand presenters about the work they have shared at the conference this year. The on demand sessions have been clustered around a shared theme. Each theme has an hour long, live Zoom session where attendees can jump in and out. So all presentations connected to a theme will be together in the same Q&A time slot. The theme for this session is:

Advancing Equity
These sessions share the same theme of practical approaches to advancing equity in the classroom, teaching centers, and in higher education.

Presenters

Lindsay Wheeler

Assistant Director of STEM Education Initiatives, University of Virginia

Emily Gravett

Lis Kenneth Regula

Adriana Streifer

Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia

Wednesday November 10, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

3:30pm EST

Q&A: Building Resilience

This session is an opportunity for participants to have a Question and Answer (Q&A) time with presenters who presented an on demand session. There’s no presentations, just the time and space for attendees to talk with on demand presenters about the work they have shared at the conference this year. The on demand sessions have been clustered around a shared theme. Each theme has an hour long, live Zoom session where attendees can jump in and out. So all presentations connected to a theme will be together in the same Q&A time slot. The theme for this session is:

Building Resilience These sessions focus on creating environments where learner resilience can grow and learners can thrive.

Presenters

Donna Ellis

Director, University of Waterloo

Krysten Gorrivan

Assistant Lecturer, University of New England

Eric Kaldor

Senior Associate Director, Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, Brown University

Marc Ebenfield

Director, CETL, University of New England

Caitlin DeClercq

Adriana Streifer

Assistant Professor and Assistant Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia

Melissa Wright

Abby Schroering

Arabella Perez

Lane Clarke

Christina Leclerc

Anuja Doshi

Kimberly Fournier

Director of Teaching Support at the Center for Teaching and Learning, University of New Mexico

Maggie Vecchione

Melissa Kane

Senior Associate Director of Online Program Development, Brown University

Carl S. Moore

Veronica Stephenson

Sr. Educational Developer, Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo

Wednesday November 10, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

3:30pm EST

Q&A: Creating Community

This session is an opportunity for participants to have a Question and Answer (Q&A) time with presenters who presented an on demand session. There’s no presentations, just the time and space for attendees to talk with on demand presenters about the work they have shared at the conference this year. The on demand sessions have been clustered around a shared theme. Each theme has an hour long, live Zoom session where attendees can jump in and out. So all presentations connected to a theme will be together in the same Q&A time slot. The theme for this session is:

Creating Community The core of these sessions looked at ways to create, build, or maintain a community of learners, in the classrooms and beyond.

Presenters

Paula Rees

Carol Hurney

Associate Provost of Faculty Development and Diversity; Founding Director of the Center for Teaching & Learning, Colby College

William O'Brochta

Assistant Professor, Louisiana Tech University

Beth White

Education Manager, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

Kirsten Helmer

Senior Lecturer and Director of Programming for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Diane Chapman

Executive Director & Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development, NC State University

Neena Thota

Jonique R. Childs

Cassandra Volpe Horii

Martin Springborg

Director of Teaching and Learning, Inver Hills Community College

Elizabeth Luoma (she/her)

Assistant Director, Faculty Teaching Initiatives, Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning

Wednesday November 10, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

3:30pm EST

Grading the Personal: A Framework for Assessing Storytelling Projects

Storytelling projects are an effective way of bringing student experiences and their complex identities into the classroom, making students co-creators of course content and learning. However, an important question arises when grading these projects: How do we evaluate such work objectively, fairly, and respectfully, when these assignments can be subjective and personal in nature? This roundtable gives attendees an opportunity to share unique challenges and effective practices for assigning and assessing such work. We will generate resources, rubrics, and guidelines for a new framework for assessing storytelling projects that is effective and sensitive to our diverse student body.

Note from the Conference Team: Engage With Small(er) Groups in Roundtable Sessions

Roundtable Discussions are intended to provide an opportunity for interactions in a smaller group setting. To accomplish the goal of more focused and personal conversations, we recommend presenters limit attendance for roundtable discussions to 30 participants.
If you are unable to join a roundtable because it has reached the maximum number of participants, we encourage you to check-out one or more of the on-demand sessions (available throughout the conference) or a Q&A session scheduled for the same time from Wednesday to Friday.

Presenters

Ariel Siegelman (she/her)

Lead Digital Media Specialist, Temple University, Center for the Advancement of Teaching

Hello! My name is Ariel Siegelman, and I am an instructional designer and educational technology specialist, with expertise in multimedia content creation. I am currently writing a book with my colleague, Linda Hasunuma, about digital storytelling as an inclusive teaching practice... Read More →

Linda Hasunuma

Assistant Director, Temple University

Wednesday November 10, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

Roundtable, Development of Educational Developers

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience Adjunct & Part-time Faculty, Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

3:30pm EST

Higher Ed Behaving Badly: Identifying and Addressing Academic Bullying

As educational developers, we work hard to help our faculty and institutions shape academia into a safe and welcoming space for students. But have we done enough to make academia safe and welcoming for all who work within it -- faculty, staff, and even ourselves? Research tells the story of many who have suffered academic bullying, with negative mental, physical, and organizational consequences. This roundtable will explore and define bullying behaviors and experiences within the higher ed environment. We will identify components of academic culture that might facilitate bullying and consider ways to initiate discussions on bullying within your institution/organization.

Note from the Conference Team: Engage With Small(er) Groups in Roundtable Sessions

Roundtable Discussions are intended to provide an opportunity for interactions in a smaller group setting. To accomplish the goal of more focused and personal conversations, we recommend presenters limit attendance for roundtable discussions to 30 participants.
If you are unable to join a roundtable because it has reached the maximum number of participants, we encourage you to check-out one or more of the on-demand sessions (available throughout the conference) or a Q&A session scheduled for the same time from Wednesday to Friday.

Presenters

Adam Smith

Penn State University

Allison Boye

Founding Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Collin College

Dr. Boye has over 16 years of professional experience in the fields of teaching and learning and faculty development in higher education. Prior to joining Collin College as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, she worked at Texas Tech University, where she... Read More →

Wednesday November 10, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Professional Development Committee
Audience POD Network Members, Administrators (Assoc. Deans/Deans/Vice Provosts/Assoc. VPs)

3:30pm EST

Leveraging Rapid Prototyping to Implement Online Communities of Practice

Implementing professional development that is responsive to current events requires creating and revising quickly. During this interactive round table discussion, participants will learn how rapid prototyping was used at Ohio State University to implement a virtual community of practice focused on developing strategies to meet the challenges of remote clinical teaching. Participants will discuss their needs for rapid prototyping and virtual communities as well as obstacles to implementing professional development programs in the current environment. The facilitators will share experiences and templates for using the rapid prototyping process and consult with participants as they create their own plans.

Note from the Conference Team: Engage With Small(er) Groups in Roundtable Sessions

Roundtable Discussions are intended to provide an opportunity for interactions in a smaller group setting. To accomplish the goal of more focused and personal conversations, we recommend presenters limit attendance for roundtable discussions to 30 participants.
If you are unable to join a roundtable because it has reached the maximum number of participants, we encourage you to check-out one or more of the on-demand sessions (available throughout the conference) or a Q&A session scheduled for the same time from Wednesday to Friday.

Presenters

Larry Hurtubise

Curriculum and Instruction Consultant, The Ohio State University College of Medicine

I encourage educational development through consultation on curriculum and instructional design and engagement in collaborative educational research. I have written journal articles and been an invited speaker at regional and national medical education conferences on competency-based... Read More →

Melinda Rhodes-Disalvo

Associate Director-Strategic Partnerships, The Ohio State University Institute for Teaching and Learning

As associate director of the Institute for Teaching and Learning, Melinda serves on the leadership team with a focus on strategic planning and partnerships, communications signature programs, operations, policy creation, and initiative management. She contributes to and promotes the... Read More →

Wednesday November 10, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

Roundtable, Healthcare Educational Development

SIG/Committee Alignment Healthcare Educational Development SIG
Audience Experienced Educational Developers, Instructional Designers/Technologists and Technology Integration Specialists
Topic Healthcare Educational Development

4:45pm EST

Department Chairs Mentoring for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

A growing body of work continues to demonstrate the extent to which faculty of color and other marginalized faculty face bias and confront microaggressions in overt and less visible ways across their faculty roles at various stages of their academic careers (Gutierrez y Muhs, 2012; Huston, 2006; Rideau & Robbins, 2020). Recognizing that department chairs are well-positioned to "perpetuate" or "disrupt" inequities and bias (Beddoes & Schimpf, 2018), this workshop positions department chairs as active rhetorical agents in supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion. Participants will explore practical strategies aligned with department chairs' roles as mentors, sponsors, and advocates.

Presenters

Letizia Guglielmo

Faculty Success Fellow and Professor, Kennesaw State University

Wednesday November 10, 2021 4:45pm - 5:45pm EST
Live

Workshop-in-a-Box, Diversity Equity & Inclusion

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience Administrators (Assoc. Deans/Deans/Vice Provosts/Assoc. VPs), POD Network Members
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

4:45pm EST

The Four Presences: An Inclusive Workshop for Diverse Faculty Audiences

The Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework, which has a focus on presences - teaching, cognitive, social - has the ability to unite faculty through the shared goal of creating more inclusive courses. The three presences, plus the addition of emotional, provide the foundation for this session, designed to support educational developers tasked with offering workshops that are relevant to cross-disciplinary faculty audiences. The presenters model a workshop on the presences and highlight their ability to transcend disciplines and modalities. Upon completion, participants should feel prepared to return to their campuses with blueprints and materials to host their own workshops.

Link to Google Drive

Presenters

Melissa Jones

Instructional Systems & Learning Technologies, Florida State University

My primary area of research is in how we can create inclusive and equitable spaces for students in online learning environments. Situated between studies in both the cognitive and affective domains, my work explores the ways in which marginalized learners understand their identities... Read More →

Carla Nevarez

Instructional Designer, University of Central Florida

I joined the Center for Distributed Learning at the University of Central Florida (UCF) Go Knights! as an instructional designer with over 15 years of experience working in higher education. Holding an MBA with a focus on Computer Information Systems from the University of Turabo... Read More →

Wednesday November 10, 2021 4:45pm - 5:45pm EST
Live

Workshop-in-a-Box, Online Hybrid and/or Asynchronous Teaching & Learning

4:45pm EST

What to Do in the Moment: Addressing DEI&J in Teaching

Encountering racism, implicit bias and microaggressions in the classroom presents an opportunity for learning; however, it is challenging to address these comments in the moment. This Workshop-in-a-Box session creates a space for dialog and sharing strategies that attend to participants' different contexts and identities. We begin with guiding principles for addressing racism in the classroom, and then move into small breakout room discussions based on case studies.

We have successfully presented this synchronous virtual workshop in several venues and believe it will positively impact instructors seeking to build confidence in confronting racism.

Presenters

Kimber Andrews

Assistant Director, Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Cincinnati

Beth Faller

Assistant Director, Center for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning, University of Cincinnati

Anna Donnell

Wednesday November 10, 2021 4:45pm - 5:45pm EST
Live

Workshop-in-a-Box, Diversity Equity & Inclusion

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience POD Network Members
Topic Teaching & Learning

11:30am EST

Alienate or Appease? How to Effectively Address Prejudice in Consultations

Interest in inclusive teaching is at an all-time high. Unless mandated, educators who want help addressing the needs of diverse learners are likely already contemplating or actively making changes. But what about educators who do not recognize a need to change or are resistant to it? What if--in the context of a consultation on a seemingly unrelated issue--educators offer a perspective or practice that suggests prejudice towards others? We offer a framework for deciding whether, when, and how to address "isms" (racism, classism, ageism, etc.) in ways that advance social justice and engage, rather than alienate or appease, our clients. (MAIN ROOM WILL BE RECORDED)

Presenters

Roben Torosyan he/his

Senior Associate Director for Assessment, Northeastern University

Appreciative anti-racist inquiry. Center impact. Time. Feedback. Integrating human flourishing. Facilitating transformation.

Edna Pressler

Associate Director, Northeastern University, Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning through Research

Thursday November 11, 2021 11:30am - 12:30pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Development of Educational Developers

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience Experienced Educational Developers
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

11:30am EST

Beyond counting clients and surveying satisfaction: Directly measuring CTL impacts

Evidence-based practice is a POD Network core value (2018) and includes leveraging data to iteratively refine CTL services. However, CTL data for consultations are often limited to attendance or satisfaction surveys, rather than direct measures of outcomes (Beach et al., 2016; Haras et al., 2017). We compared pre/post assessments of syllabi from 32 faculty and 62 graduate students receiving course and syllabus design consultations to a comparison group not receiving consultations. We also examined whether CTL seminar attendance influences consultation impacts. Attendees will collaboratively generate additional strategies for directly measuring outcomes for formatively improving CTL consultation services.

Please find our session materials here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uP9e9WHNFMH6c8ns5Hq2lfQjZGs0VprWfC0x7c5w_T8/edit?usp=sharing

Presenters

Laura Pottmeyer

Emily Daniels Weiss (she/her)

Senior Teaching Consultant, Carnegie Mellon University

Chad Hershock

Carnegie Mellon University

Thursday November 11, 2021 11:30am - 12:30pm EST
Live

Audience Center Directors, POD Network Members
Topic Development of Educational Developers

11:30am EST

Fellow Travelers: Re-thinking faculty fellowship for the Post-COVID Age

This session is based on a recently completed web-scraping study conducted by the presenters examining the aims of 220 faculty fellows programs in the United States (Colby et al., under review). The study identified five modalities that describe the primary purpose of fellows programs, including Honor, Learning, Advocacy, Extension, and Capacity. In this interactive session, these modalities are used heuristically to help participants plan to design, revitalize, or redesign a fellows program. Participants connect with others interested in designing and researching fellows programs that provide measurable return on investment and that raise the organizational development capacity of their institutions.

Presenters

Susan Colby

Director of Faculty Professional Development, Appalachian State University

Laura Cruz

Associate Research Professor, Penn State

Danielle Cordaro

Associate Professor, Director, Center for Faculty Development, University of Mount Union

Thursday November 11, 2021 11:30am - 12:30pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Start-up

Audience POD Network Members, Center Directors
Topic Signature Programs/Program Planning and/or Curricula

12:45pm EST

Educational Developers as Change Agents for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Navigating change and planning for the future as educational developers is complicated given the current realities facing colleges and universities. For example, changing demographics, twin pandemics (health and racial), a divided political landscape, social and cultural health disparities, inequities in access to social resources, challenges to racial reckoning and theoretical frameworks, and resistance to change and resurgence in white supremacist attitudes and behaviors. As educational developers, many of us have encountered these issues (and more) at the individual and institutional levels. This virtual session offers an opportunity to interact with two POD past presidents as we explore personal and professional perspectives, concrete strategies, and applicable frameworks as we work to become better agents of change for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Sponsored by ACUE.

Presenters

Mathew L. Ouellett

Executive Director, Center for Teaching Innovation, Cornell University

Christine Stanley

Sponsors

ACUE

At ACUE, we believe in the transformational power of education. We’re on a mission to partner with colleges and universities in America to ensure student success and equity in every class. Endorsed by the American Council on Education (ACE), our certification programs equip faculty... Read More →

Thursday November 11, 2021 12:45pm - 2:00pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Development of Educational Developers

2:15pm EST

Career Moves: Preparing Yourself for Work That Matters (PDS)

POD Sponsored Professional Development Session (PDS)
In this interactive session, panelists representing broad experience in the educational development profession will offer insights from their various positions and career moves to attendees interested in entering the field.

Panelists will facilitate conversations on:

the rewards of a career in educational development, including advancing professional value for ourselves and colleagues;
similarities and differences between faculty and educational development positions;
strategies for job-market success and perspectives from hiring committees; and
the skills, knowledge, and expertise needed to successfully engage in this work

We will also explore emerging opportunities within our field.

View the session presentation here
View the session handout here

Presenters

Kristi Verbeke

Director, Wake Forest University

Kristin Rudenga

University of Notre Dame

Lisa Rohde

Associate Director of Teaching and Research Development, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Victoria (Tori) Mondelli

Thursday November 11, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Graduate student/Professional student/and Postdoctoral scholar Development SIG
Audience Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers, Graduate and Professional Students and Postdocs (and those who work with them)
Topic Development of Educational Developers

2:15pm EST

Leadership that Transforms: Developing Equity-Minded Faculty Leaders

Faculty are often expected to lead complex programs, departments, initiatives, and grants in diverse institutions, often with little to no formal professional learning in leadership skills. Providing development for faculty leaders in how to lead with equity-minded intentionality through transformative leadership approaches can serve both the leaders and the institution while building collective power to transform the institution. This workshop will engage participants in learning about equity-minded and transformative leadership and will guide participants in identifying strategies to build faculty leadership development that transforms.

Presenters

Cindy Walker

Faculty Success Center Coordinator, Chaffey College

I have been a faculty member in higher education since 1995, mostly in community colleges. For the past ten years, I have been leading faculty and professional development at my college. I have a passion for equipping and empowering faculty in equity-minded practices, inclusive and... Read More →

Thursday November 11, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Faculty Professional Development

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience Center Directors, Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Topic Faculty Professional Development

2:15pm EST

Mentoring the New PhD: Identifying Our Values

While academic jobs have long been in decline, the scarcity that graduate students, postdocs, and contingent faculty face worsened during the pandemic. As emerging PhDs face an uncertain job market, what role can faculty developers play in offering professional mentorship? How can we help prepare them for a range of careers, inside and outside of the academy? What unrecognized work do we do to help PhDs negotiate career and life choices? In this interactive session, faculty developers will clarify their values as mentors, understanding how their professional and academic identities make them an important part of emerging PhDs' mentorship networks.

Presenters

Suzanne Young

Director, Graduate and Postdoctoral Teaching Development, Yale University

Gina Hurley

Assistant Director, Graduate and Postdoctoral Teaching, Yale University

Thursday November 11, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Graduate and Professional Student and Postdoc Development

SIG/Committee Alignment Graduate student/Professional student/and Postdoctoral scholar Development SIG
Audience Graduate and Professional Students and Postdocs (and those who work with them), Experienced Educational Developers
Topic Graduate and Professional Student and Postdoc Development

3:30pm EST

Q&A: POD Innovation Award Nominees

This session is an opportunity for participants to have a Question and Answer (Q&A) time with presenters who have been nominated for the POD Innovation Award.

Originally called the Bright Idea Award, the POD Network Innovation Award seeks to recognize the original, innovative ideas of new and experienced educational developers that improve teaching and learning, help to enhance the effectiveness of higher education faculty, and contribute to the field of educational development. From a highly competitive pool of proposals, the selection committee recognizes finalists who present their innovative ideas in a special poster session during the poster session (On-Demand at conference website). Each finalist will be recognized at the closing session where the winner of the award will be announced.

2021 Network Innovation Award Finalists:
Put it into Practice (PIP): A Community-Building Support Model for Instructional Innovation - Laura Cruz, Deena Levy, Beate Brunow (Schreyer Institute for teaching Excellence, Penn State University

Educational Developers Thinking Allowed (EDTA) – Celia Popovic, York University, and Fiona Smart, Edinburgh Napier University

Healthy Academics Initiative – Claire Barrett, Katherine Loving, Paris Wicker, and Kelsey Weddig; University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Healthy Academics Initiative at UW-Madison aims to equip faculty, instructional staff, TAs, and advisors with the knowledge, skills, and resources to create academic environments in which all students can thrive. The Healthy Academics Toolkit is a product of this Initiative and incorporates both a campus-wide data visualization and evidence-based strategies and campus resources for faculty, TAs, instructional designers, and other members of the campus community.

Revealing the expert blindspot on a $7 budget - Lew Ludwig, Denison University; Ben Haywood, Furman University

Presenters

Deena Levy

Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, Ph.D., M.Ed.

Celia Popovic

Associate Professor, York University

Laura Cruz

Associate Research Professor, Penn State

Benjamin Haywood

Associate Director, Faculty Development Center, Furman University

Lew Ludwig

Director, Center for Learning and Teaching, Denison University

Beate Brunow

Associate Research Prof, Penn State

Fiona Smart

Claire Barrett (she/her)

Healthy Academics Manager, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Katherine Loving

Paris Wicker

Graduate Project Assistant, Prevention and Campus Health Initiatives, University of Wisconsin- Madison

Kelsey Weddig

Thursday November 11, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

3:30pm EST

Q&A: Thriving Online

This session is an opportunity for participants to have a Question and Answer (Q&A) time with presenters who presented an on demand session. There’s no presentations, just the time and space for attendees to talk with on demand presenters about the work they have shared at the conference this year. The on demand sessions have been clustered around a shared theme. Each theme has an hour long, live Zoom session where attendees can jump in and out. So all presentations connected to a theme will be together in the same Q&A time slot. The theme for this session is:

Thriving Online Online learning has become a common experience in higher education. These courses look at approaches that tap into the richness of the online space to create significant learning experiences.

Presenters

German Vargas Ramos

POD DRI Committee Co-Chair & POD Core Committee Member, Otterbein

Erica Jansen

Adjunct Support Associate, Park University

At our Faculty Center for Innovation, I develop and execute programming specifically targeted towards our adjunct instructors.

Angus Woodward

Director, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University

Jamie Els

Programming Director, Faculty Center for Innovation, Park University

Amber Dailey-Hebert

Professor & Director, Faculty Center for Innovation, Park University

Thursday November 11, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

3:30pm EST

Q&A: Valuing Evaluation

This session is an opportunity for participants to have a Question and Answer (Q&A) time with presenters who presented an on demand session. There’s no presentations, just the time and space for attendees to talk with on demand presenters about the work they have shared at the conference this year. The on demand sessions have been clustered around a shared theme. Each theme has an hour long, live Zoom session where attendees can jump in and out. So all presentations connected to a theme will be together in the same Q&A time slot. The theme for this session is:

Valuing Evaluation Measurability may not be everything, but it can be a critical component of programs and classrooms. These session examine different approaches to meaningful evaluation.

Presenters

Suzanne Horwitz

Northeastern University

Katherine Simeon

Senior Assistant Director, Center for Advancing Teaching & Learning Through Research, Northeastern University

Janel Seeley

Director, Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning

Janel Seeley is an instructional designer and assistant lecturer with the Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning.

Devshikha Bose

Senior Educational Development Specialist, Boise State University

Senior Educational Development Specialist at Boise State University, CTL, with over 10 years of experience supporting faculty with SoTL research, student success strategies, and EBIP integration.

Megan Mittelstadt

Director, University of Georgia Center for Teaching

Alice Hunt

Asst. Director for Instructional Development, University of Georgia

Laura Lukes

Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

Nicole Frank

Faculty Development Coordinator, Fort Hays State University

Katie Walsh

Senior Teaching Consultant, Carnegie Mellon University

Christopher Kilgore

Associate Director for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Sharon Ultsch

Elina Salminen

Co-Chair, ISSOTL Publications Committee; Chair, POD SoTL SIG

Deanna Matthews

Thursday November 11, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

Roundtable, Organizational Development

3:30pm EST

Leveraging our COVID-momentum for cultural change through strategic campus alliances

The pandemic placed education developers across the globe in the limelight; a unique opportunity to expand the role of CTLs from consultations to change agents with a potential to impact institutional culture. To sustain the momentum, strategic campus alliances are key; we present a framework to identify important stakeholders to widen and strengthen the influence of CTLs and illustrate this through our example of synergies with key campus units. Participants will map their own current and yet-underutilized connections, discuss successful strategies for collaborations and create a plan to sustain and grow their network to support cultural change at their institutions.

Note from the Conference Team: Engage With Small(er) Groups in Roundtable Sessions

Roundtable Discussions are intended to provide an opportunity for interactions in a smaller group setting. To accomplish the goal of more focused and personal conversations, we recommend presenters limit attendance for roundtable discussions to 30 participants.
If you are unable to join a roundtable because it has reached the maximum number of participants, we encourage you to check-out one or more of the on-demand sessions (available throughout the conference) or a Q&A session scheduled for the same time from Wednesday to Friday.

Presenters

Kata Dosa

Director of CTL, Budapest Business School

Lilla Sebestyen

Educational developer, Budapest Business School

Katalin Tóth

Thursday November 11, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

Audience Center Directors, POD Network Members
Topic Organizational Development

3:30pm EST

Meeting Instructors Where They Are: Professional Development Pathways in Inclusive Pedagogy

Recent racial injustice has prompted universities to confront their roles in perpetuating educational inequities. Instructors have shown greater interest in learning to teach inclusively, but the global pandemic and remote instruction has pushed many to burnout. How do we balance accountability for progress with compassion for overwhelmed instructors? In this roundtable, participants will explore the IDEAL Pedagogy program, a tiered set of participation options that Stanford University developed for professional development in inclusive instruction. Faculty developers will share their own range of options, and how they navigated the diverse needs, levels of expertise, constraints, and motivations of their audiences.

Note from the Conference Team: Engage With Small(er) Groups in Roundtable Sessions

Roundtable Discussions are intended to provide an opportunity for interactions in a smaller group setting. To accomplish the goal of more focused and personal conversations, we recommend presenters limit attendance for roundtable discussions to 30 participants.
If you are unable to join a roundtable because it has reached the maximum number of participants, we encourage you to check-out one or more of the on-demand sessions (available throughout the conference) or a Q&A session scheduled for the same time from Wednesday to Friday.

Presenters

Melissa Ko

Science and Engineering Education Fellow, Stanford University

Kritika Yegnashankaran

Gloriana Trujillo

Director, Academic Teaching Programs, Stanford University

Thursday November 11, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

Roundtable, Signature Programs Program Planning and/or Curricula

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience Experienced Educational Developers, Center Directors
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

3:30pm EST

Reflect, Engage, and Act: Collaborating to Foster Inclusive Learning Environments

Recent national and local events have served as the catalyst for greater action in dismantling teaching practices that perpetuate inequity. In partnership with the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and individual experts, our Center for Teaching and Learning has developed an Inclusive Teaching Faculty Learning Community and an ongoing Faculty Anti-Bias workshop series.

In this Roundtable Discussion, we share our strategies in developing programs that create learning environments that are equitable and inclusive. We invite participants to reflect on their efforts, engage with others, and begin planning actions that promote equitable and inclusive learning environments within their own universities.

Note from the Conference Team: Engage With Small(er) Groups in Roundtable Sessions

Roundtable Discussions are intended to provide an opportunity for interactions in a smaller group setting. To accomplish the goal of more focused and personal conversations, we recommend presenters limit attendance for roundtable discussions to 30 participants.
If you are unable to join a roundtable because it has reached the maximum number of participants, we encourage you to check-out one or more of the on-demand sessions (available throughout the conference) or a Q&A session scheduled for the same time from Wednesday to Friday.

Presenters

LeighAnn Tomaswick

Innovation Learning Design Specialist, Kent State University

LeighAnn Tomaswick is the Innovation Learning Design Specialist at the Center for Teaching & Learning. She completed her BS in Biochemistry, MS in Chemistry and A Masters in Curriculum, Instruction & Teacher Education. She has worked with graduate students, post doctoral fellows and... Read More →

Jennifer Marcinkiewicz

Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Kent State University

Judy Lightner-Noll

Faculty Development Specialist, Kent State University

Michelle Corvette

Assistant Director, Kent State University

Thursday November 11, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

Workshop-in-a-Box, Mindfulness and Contemplative Pedagogy

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience POD Network Members, Center Directors
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

4:45pm EST

Beyond the Classroom: A Broader Perspective for Inclusion and Equity Across Institutions

This year the POD Network Diversity Committee’s Donald H. Wulff Diversity Fellows will discuss ways to bring in a broader perspective to view inclusion and equity across a range of institutional contexts. From equitable assessment, embodied learning and pedagogy, to a five-themed framework for inclusive teaching, and support for disabled faculty, the Wulff Diversity Fellows will share their work, experiences, and strategies on how to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity within and beyond the classroom.

Donald H. Wulff Diversity FellowshipsThe Donald H. Wulff Diversity Fellowship is aimed at increasing the participation of people from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups and individuals from underrepresented institutions in the field of educational development into the POD Network. The fellowship also encourages recipients to explore their particular interests and questions related to diversity and educational development. The fellowship is named after a former POD Network President, the late Donald Wulff, who was unequivocally committed to advancing diversity issues within the field of educational development and advocating for diversity issues within the POD Network. Every time we select new recipients for the diversity fellowship, we honor his legacy to the POD Network and commitment to diversifying the POD Network’s membership.
The POD Network, upon recommendation of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, awarded the Wulff Fellowship to the following recipients:

Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, Professor of Philosophy, Gallaudet University
Shavonne Coleman, Inclusive Teaching and Learning Educational Developer, University of Texas at Austin
Ching-Yu Huang, Assistant Professor of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University
Stephanie Kusano, Assistant Director of Assessment, University of Michigan

Presenters

Carol Hernandez

Senior Instructional Designer and Faculty Developer, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Stony Brook University (NY)

Research Interests:Latina scholars working in higher educationMultiple identities in the workplaceWomen of color at workLeadership in higher educationCritical pedagogyI'm a daughter of immigrants, Ecuadorian-American, first generation college grad, native Spanish speaker, and an adjunct... Read More →

Thursday November 11, 2021 4:45pm - 5:45pm EST
Live

Roundtable

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee

4:45pm EST

Growing Together: How Nurturing Educator Mindsets Can Lower Stress

Carol Dweck's (2008) work shows how a Growth Mindset can positively impact student academic performance. Less focus has been put on the importance of the educator mindset in this context. Recently it has been found that instructors' mindsets about their students' abilities and themselves affect student academic, belonging, and purpose mindset. In this session, educators will 1) learn about current developments in mindset research and associated brain research 2) explore the impact their mindsets have on their work and life and 3) share creative and mindful awareness practices that can help reshape mindsets during times of increased demands and stress.

Presenters

Stefanie Baier

Director, Graduate and Postdoc Teaching Development, Michigan State University

Dr. Stefanie Baier is the Director of Instructional Development of Graduate Students and Postdocs at the Graduate School at Michigan State University. In her role she is in charge of Teaching Assistant (TA) training and supports the professional and career development of graduate... Read More →

Marybeth Heeder

Sr Consultant and Proj Mgt Student Learning and Success; Faculty First Year Writing, Michigan State University

Hima Rawal

Graduate Student, Michigan State University

Thursday November 11, 2021 4:45pm - 5:45pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Mindfulness & Contemplative Pedagogy SIG
Audience Center Directors, Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers
Topic Faculty Professional Development

4:45pm EST

Metacognition: Helping Students Monitor their Own Learning

Metacognition is a complex phenomenon that is rarely both clearly and succinctly defined. Further, many instructors have not learned to intentionally prompt students for engagement in metacognitive practices. However, doing so is a key strategy for increasing equity across our students' educational experiences. In this Workshop-in-a-Box session you will get first-hand experience with my field-tested, well-paced, 60-minute synchronous workshop on Metacognition. This and additional resources (e.g., a link to my YouTube channel!) will prepare you to engage your own faculty in a conversation dedicated to identifying strategies that will support and trigger metacognitive awareness and self-regulating behaviours in students.

Presenters

Ruth Poproski

Associate Director for Teaching and Learning, University of Georgia

In my work I lead my CTL’s team focused on educational development for all instructors, TAs and future faculty across campus, learning technologies, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. I got my start in educational development at Carnegie Mellon University, where I also... Read More →

Thursday November 11, 2021 4:45pm - 5:45pm EST
Live

Workshop-in-a-Box, Teaching & Learning in Practice

Audience Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers, Experienced Educational Developers
Topic Teaching & Learning

9:00pm EST

Virtual POD Karaoke and Dance Party

We can’t be in person but we can still have POD Karaoke and Dancing! Please join your fellow PODsters for the 2nd Annual Virtual POD Karaoke Party! If you missed last year, don’t make that mistake again. We had a blast singing and rocking out in our Zoom Room with folks in their homes and backyards across the country. Jump in and sing/dance along. All are welcome!

Presenters

Teresa Focarile

Associate Director for Educational Development, Boise State University

Teresa has taught at the college level for 16 years, the past ten for Boise State, and the previous six for the University of Connecticut. Her scholarly work has focused on best practices for supporting adjunct faculty. At the CTL, she supports a variety of CTL and University-wide... Read More →

Thursday November 11, 2021 9:00pm - 11:30pm EST
Live

Social & Wellness

11:30am EST

Authentic Assessments: A Tool to Decenter Whiteness in CTL Hiring

Hiring practices play an important role in shaping academic workplaces -- they are oftentimes the first introduction a prospective candidate has to the workplace culture and the potential barriers a candidate may face if employed (Artze-Vega 2019). This workshop is designed to engage participants at all career stages in a critical reflection of hiring practices using the lens of authentic assessments. Authentic assessments mimic real-world situations in which learners engage in realistic decision making, demonstrating a thoughtful understanding of the situation. We propose authentic assessments as a tool to prioritize equity in CTL hiring and help decenter whiteness in our field.

Presenters

Marisella Rodriguez

Inclusive Teaching Lead, UC Berkeley

I am the Inclusive Teaching Lead at UC Berkeley’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). I partner with campus educators and resource units to design and assess equitable and inclusive learning spaces on campus. In my work as an educational developer, teacher, and researcher, I... Read More →

Sarah Silverman

Friday November 12, 2021 11:30am - 12:30pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Development of Educational Developers

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience POD Network Members, Center Directors
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

11:30am EST

Collaborative Facilitation of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conversations in STEM

Links/resources from the session:

Feedback form: https://bit.ly/pod-stemdei-feedback21
Sign-in sheet (please add your name if you'd like to connect with other educational developers, even if you couldn't attend live): https://bit.ly/pod-stemdei-attendee
Conference presentation slides, including participant input: https://bit.ly/pod-stemdei-slides21
Community Norms living document: http://bit.ly/stemsig-norms
Resources (includes link to VIDS video case studies in April/June events, and the case study we created for our October/November events): http://bit.ly/stemsig-socres

Renewed attention and urgency has been placed on promoting conversations regarding systemic biases and the experiences of historically marginalized individuals. Our team launched a new series to address the need for these conversations within STEM. A distinctive factor in the events' success was collaborative facilitation: a multi-institutional team of CTL directors, researchers, and education project managers built rapport that allowed us to critically evaluate the tensions in this work. Session participants will experience a condensed version of our event, and they will engage in dialogue to support individual reflection and strategize how to form their own collaborative facilitation teams.

Presenters

Erin Whitteck

University of Missouri St. Louis

Tracy Wacker

CTL Director, University of Michigan-Flint

I am a faculty developer and am interested in learning more about topics that my faculty have expressed interest in. At the top of this list are digital accessibility, equity issues in the online environment, and instructor presence.

Christine O'Donnell

Education Program Manager, American Physical Society

Christine O’Donnell (she/her) is an Education Program Manager at the American Physical Society. Christine leads efforts to strengthen departments' abilities to recruit and retain students, implement more effective courses, and attend to equity, diversity, and inclusion (Effective... Read More →

Beth White

Education Manager, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

Tris Utschig

Director for Scholarly Teaching, Kennesaw State University

Ask me about Process Education, Team-Based Learning, 3D-PLE (3D printed lab equipment), Peace Corps, Ninja Warrior...

Carie Cardamone

Associate Director CELT, Tufts University

Ken Yasuhara (he)

Director, Engineering Teaching & Learning, University of Washington, Seattle

Friday November 12, 2021 11:30am - 12:30pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Science Technology/Engineering/Mathematics (STEM) SIG
Audience POD Network Members
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

11:30am EST

I don't do computers: Self-efficacy of faculty with low technology skills

Faculty with low technology skills who may have resisted or avoided integrating technology in their teaching in the past found themselves with no option but to use technology to teach during the pandemic. The pivot to online learning was especially challenging for faculty with low computer self-efficacy (CSE), that is, low confidence in their ability to use technology. They turned to our centers for support, and we have learned much from the experience. In this session, we look at approaches and strategies used to develop faculty technology skills and build confidence to use technology in their teaching practice.

Presenters

H. Naomie Nyanungo

Director, Educational Technology, Temple University

Denise Hardiman

Educational Technology Specialist, Temple University

Friday November 12, 2021 11:30am - 12:30pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Technology

SIG/Committee Alignment Teaching with Technology SIG
Audience Instructional Designers/Technologists and Technology Integration Specialists, Experienced Educational Developers
Topic Technology

12:45pm EST

Assessment as Educational Development: Using Evidence Across Traditional Silos to Improve Student Learning

Educational developers (EDs) have been expanding their reach and using their skills and knowledge to inform and advance larger, institutional efforts (Beach et al; Schroeder.). This session, run by both EDs and IR directors, will provide two brief case studies of their collaborative work helping faculty and programs improve learning and curricula by engaging them with assessment evidence. We will introduce possible models for this work in different contexts (a small, liberal arts college and a larger, R2 public university), share principles, strategies, & resources for engaging, and help participants apply what they have learned to their own contexts.

Presenters

Michael Reder

Director, Shechtman Mankoff Center for Teaching & Learning, Connecticut College

Michael Reder is the Director of the Joy Shechtman Mankoff Faculty Center for Teaching & Learning at Connecticut College, where he teaches contemporary literature & culture in the college's First-Year Seminar Program and the Department of Literatures in English. His areas of interest... Read More →

Teresa Focarile

Associate Director for Educational Development, Boise State University

Shari Ellertson

Director, Institutional Research, Boise State University

John Nugent

Friday November 12, 2021 12:45pm - 2:00pm EST
Live

Plenary, Organizational Development

SIG/Committee Alignment Small Colleges SIG
Audience POD Network Members, Center Directors
Topic Organizational Development

2:15pm EST

Motivating and Supporting the Development of Anti-Racist White Educators

There is growing consensus about the pervasiveness of systemic racism in America and the need for people of all racial backgrounds to deeply engage in dismantling it. There are predictable barriers for White people -- and in our case, White educators -- as they consider committing to this challenging and courageous work. This session investigates what we as educational developers can do to help White instructors develop as anti-racist educators. Participants will explore a community of practice model that our institution has adapted from several leading racial justice initiatives and we will discuss the impact of this program and its continued evolution.

NOTE: While the content of this session is focused on working with White instructors, the session itself is intended for educational developers of all racial and ethnic identities who are interested in doing this work.

Presenters

Josh Bookin

Associate Director of Instructional Support and Development, Harvard Graduate School of Education

My work centers on developing and promoting teaching equity and excellence at HGSE. The bulk of my current focus is on helping our school work towards its anti-racist aspirations. I co-chair our Anti-Racist Teaching and Advising (ARTA) Initiative, and I co-facilitate both our Developing... Read More →

Katherine Farrar (she/her)

Pedagogy and Assessment Specialist, Harvard Graduate School of Education

As a member of the TLL team, I support faculty in creating inclusive, learner-centered experiences. I advise the Student Experience Team, a terrific group of master’s students who partner with the school to bring student voices into the design of HGSE experiences. I also partner... Read More →

Friday November 12, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Graduate and Professional Student and Postdoc Development

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience Experienced Educational Developers, Faculty and faculty who are also part-time educational developers
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

2:15pm EST

Networked Agents of Change: Development of a Statewide Teaching and Learning Consortium

The current landscape of higher education challenges educational developers to respond effectively and efficiently to equip instructors with inclusive teaching strategies they can implement in their current courses and as they plan for delivery of future courses. This workshop presents the Ohio College Teaching Consortium as a model and guides participants in envisioning and discussing how they might network to scale professional learning across institutions.

Presenters

Melinda Rhodes-Disalvo

Associate Director-Strategic Partnerships, The Ohio State University Institute for Teaching and Learning

Kay Halasek

Director, Ohio State University

Kay Halasek (she/her/hers) was named inaugural director of the University Institute for Teaching and Learning (now the Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning) at The Ohio State University in 2016. She also holds an appointment as professor of English. As director of... Read More →

Friday November 12, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Live

Interactive Live, Start-up

SIG/Committee Alignment Professional Development Committee
Audience Administrators (Assoc. Deans/Deans/Vice Provosts/Assoc. VPs), Center Directors
Topic Organizational Development

2:15pm EST

The GPPD Showcase: Adapting and Leading in Uncertain Times

The 5th Annual GPPD Showcase features programs chosen for innovation, effectiveness, creative use of resources, and transferability to a range of institution types and sizes. Participants will discuss how they've translated best practices to uncertain times, discussing successful support programs for graduate students and postdocs. During timed mini-sessions, participants will enter breakout rooms where a facilitator will describe their programming, providing a digital handout that describes objectives, implementation, and use of resources. At the end of the session, participants will reflect on ways the presented programs can be adapted to the changing circumstances we all face at our home institutions.

Presenters

Anna Divinsky

Assistant Teaching Professor of Art, The Pennsylvania State University

Anna Divinsky is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Art at the Office of Digital Learning, Penn State University. She is also the Digital Arts Certificate and Digital Multimedia Design Program Coordinator. Her passion and research focus on exploring best teaching and learning practices... Read More →

Vanessa Doriott Anderson

Senior Director of Professional Development Programming, North Carolina State University

Alison Fedyna

Shelly Bayer

Director of Multicultural Affairs, South Dakota State University

I've spent the past seven years as Assistant Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, and I have had the opportunity to focus on supporting graduate students in their desires to be more effective teaching assistants and eventually highly effective teaching... Read More →

Megan Frary

Coordinator for Graduate TA Support and Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Boise State University

Rachel Nickens

Rachel Stumpf

Academic Coach, Stanford University

Brisa Smith Flores

Friday November 12, 2021 2:15pm - 3:15pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Graduate student/Professional student/and Postdoctoral scholar Development SIG
Audience Graduate and Professional Students and Postdocs (and those who work with them), POD Network Members
Topic Graduate and Professional Student and Postdoc Development

3:30pm EST

Q&A: Enriching Teaching

This session is an opportunity for participants to have a Question and Answer (Q&A) time with presenters who presented an on demand session. There’s no presentations, just the time and space for attendees to talk with on demand presenters about the work they have shared at the conference this year. The on demand sessions have been clustered around a shared theme. Each theme has an hour long, live Zoom session where attendees can jump in and out. So all presentations connected to a theme will be together in the same Q&A time slot. The theme for this session is:

Enriching Teaching These sessions offer concrete approaches to enrich the classroom experience for our learners, from feedback to learners to frameworks for course design.

Presenters

Ashley Montgomery

Assistant Dean of Teaching, Learning and Assessment, University of Maine at Farmington

Sarah Wyman

Director, Faculty Development Center, SUNY New Paltz

Sustainability Education; Community Building; Eddy at New Paltz (https://hawksites.newpaltz.edu/eddy/events/); International Mother Language Day; new faculty mentoring

Dr. S. Raj Chaudhury

Executive Director Innovation in Learning Center and USAonline Associate Professor of Physics, University of South Alabama

Tracy Bartholomew

Director for Learning Assessment and the Center for Teaching & Learning, University of the Arts

Heather Keith

Executive Director of Faculty Development, Professor of Philosophy, Radford University

Course and curriculum innovation, incorporating wicked problems across the curriculum, brave pedagogy

Melissa Eblen-Zayas

Professor of Physics, Carleton College

Carie King

Associate Professor of English, Taylor University

Lisa LaCross

Associate Director, Faculty Development, University of South Alabama

Ask me about my cats! Please! :)

Katelin E. Dannen

Associate, University of Iowa

Darren Hoffmann

Associate Professor, The University of Iowa

Abby Schroering

Lew Ludwig

Director, Center for Learning and Teaching, Denison University

Bart Everson

Creative Generalist, Xavier University of Louisiana

Timothy Berkey

David S. Williams

Assistant Dean, Institutional and Academic Success | Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine, University of South Alabama

Elizabeth Roderick

Friday November 12, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

3:30pm EST

Q&A: Fostering Wellness

This session is an opportunity for participants to have a Question and Answer (Q&A) time with presenters who presented an on demand session. There’s no presentations, just the time and space for attendees to talk with on demand presenters about the work they have shared at the conference this year. The on demand sessions have been clustered around a shared theme. Each theme has an hour long, live Zoom session where attendees can jump in and out. So all presentations connected to a theme will be together in the same Q&A time slot. The theme for this session is:

Fostering Wellness Care of the whole person is a value deeply rooted in POD culture. These sessions address approaches to fostering welling in both our learners and ourselves as practitioners.

Presenters

Ruth Benander

Instructional Designer, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College

Thomas Colclough

University of California, Irvine

Ashley Hooper

Matthew Mahavongtrakul

Brenda Refaei

University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College

Brad Mallory

J.A. Carter (she/her)

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College

William Howitz

Katherine Kearns

Assistant Vice Provost for Student Development; Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

Danny Mann

Director of Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Scholar Instructional Development, University of California, Irvine

Darren Hoffmann

Associate Professor, The University of Iowa

Alexia Ferracuti

Lizette A. Muñoz Rojas

Teaching & Learning Consultant, University Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Pittsburgh

Josie L. Rush

Michael W. Bridges

Friday November 12, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

3:30pm EST

Q&A: Strengthening Curriculum

This session is an opportunity for participants to have a Question and Answer (Q&A) time with presenters who presented an on demand session. There’s no presentations, just the time and space for attendees to talk with on demand presenters about the work they have shared at the conference this year. The on demand sessions have been clustered around a shared theme. Each theme has an hour long, live Zoom session where attendees can jump in and out. So all presentations connected to a theme will be together in the same Q&A time slot. The theme for this session is:

Strengthening Curriculum These sessions focus on the curriculum and how to strengthen this core component of coursework form the individual class level to the university system as a whole.

Presenters

Reba Wissner

Mary C. English

Associate Director, CATLR, Northeastern University

My areas of expertise include problem- and project-based learning (PBL), self-regulated learning, self-directed learning, course design, online learning, and service-learning.

Patricia Guillen

Director, Instructional Services, Maricopa Community Colleges

Liz Cummins

Faculty Developer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide

Jessica Taggart

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia

Kim Calebs

Online Learning Manager, KCTCS

Lynn Mandeltort

Assistant Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia

Derek Thurber

Senior Learning Designer and Educational Developer, Arizona State University

Laurie Poklop

Northestern University

Elizabeth Dickens

Assistant Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Virginia

Kristin Morley

Faculty Development Manager, Salt Lake Community College

Sarah Oliver

Program Outcomes Specialist, Creighton University

Douglas Jerolimov

Instructional Consultant, IUPUI

Karen Bossen

Friday November 12, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

Roundtable, Organizational Development

3:30pm EST

From Adaptation to Evolution: A Framework for Intentional EdTech/EdDev Collaboration

Educational development (EdDev) and Educational technology (EdTech) are often organizationally and philosophically separated, yet supporting instructors through the crises of 2020 challenged EdDevs and EdTechs to combine forces. Building on months of reflective writing by educational developers from eighteen diverse institutions, we developed a framework exploring the various successful adaptations EdDevs and EdTechs used to work collaboratively. Participants will identify the adaptations that occurred in their own context, analyze a framework for leveraging successful adaptations to intentionally evolve future effective collaborations, and plan next steps for developing more intentional collaboration within their own contexts.

Note from the Conference Team: Engage With Small(er) Groups in Roundtable Sessions

Roundtable Discussions are intended to provide an opportunity for interactions in a smaller group setting. To accomplish the goal of more focused and personal conversations, we recommend presenters limit attendance for roundtable discussions to 30 participants.
If you are unable to join a roundtable because it has reached the maximum number of participants, we encourage you to check-out one or more of the on-demand sessions (available throughout the conference) or a Q&A session scheduled for the same time from Wednesday to Friday.

Presenters

Anna Flaming

Director, Center for Teaching, University of Iowa

Carol Hurney

Associate Provost of Faculty Development and Diversity; Founding Director of the Center for Teaching & Learning, Colby College

Katie Walsh

Senior Teaching Consultant, Carnegie Mellon University

Joshua Caulkins

Director, Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott Campus

Kimberly Fournier

Director of Teaching Support at the Center for Teaching and Learning, University of New Mexico

Carie Cardamone

Associate Director CELT, Tufts University

Friday November 12, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

Audience Center Directors, Administrators (Assoc. Deans/Deans/Vice Provosts/Assoc. VPs)
Topic Organizational Development

3:30pm EST

JEDI Mind Trick? "Not the assessments you are looking for…"

In exposing more visibly the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) challenges of our educational institutions, times of crises also simultaneously offer potential opportunity windows to foster lasting change. The COVID pandemic era carried situational factors that no pedagogical plan could ignore, leading to reconsidering assessment designs to make courses more accessible and manageable for both students and instructors. Participants in this roundtable will highlight strategies to leverage the current moment, nurture a JEDI culture that values and rewards equitable assessments, and help shape a future in which our institutions might sustain their continued implementation.
Participants' collaborative Google Drive folder

Note from the Conference Team: Engage With Small(er) Groups in Roundtable Sessions

Roundtable Discussions are intended to provide an opportunity for interactions in a smaller group setting. To accomplish the goal of more focused and personal conversations, we recommend presenters limit attendance for roundtable discussions to 30 participants.
If you are unable to join a roundtable because it has reached the maximum number of participants, we encourage you to check-out one or more of the on-demand sessions (available throughout the conference) or a Q&A session scheduled for the same time from Wednesday to Friday.

Presenters

Anna Santucci (she/lei/sie/ella)

CIRTL Senior Lecturer, Teaching & Learning Enhancement, University College Cork

Sara Nasrollahian Mojarad

Assistant Director, University of Iowa

I am a SoTLer and a qualitative researcher. My passion in Educational Development is to promote Pedagogical Praxis in Higher Education through fostering equitable assessments and reflective teaching practice.

Friday November 12, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience POD Network Members, New/recent educational developers (5 years or less)
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

3:30pm EST

Supporting Faculty in Exploring Disciplinary Legacies of Racism and Colonization

The curriculum is a primary site where institutions of higher education reproduce ideas that lead to the systemic oppression of marginalized communities (e.g., Swanner 2013, Grenier 2020). As such, it is imperative that educational developers support faculty in grappling with these questions, even though it may be difficult and emotionally painful to reflect upon them. In this interactive roundtable, participants will discuss strategies and approaches for encouraging faculty to reflect upon their disciplinary legacies of racism and colonization. By the end of the workshop, we hope to identify next steps for continuing these conversations at our own institutions.

Note from the Conference Team: Engage With Small(er) Groups in Roundtable Sessions

Roundtable Discussions are intended to provide an opportunity for interactions in a smaller group setting. To accomplish the goal of more focused and personal conversations, we recommend presenters limit attendance for roundtable discussions to 30 participants.
If you are unable to join a roundtable because it has reached the maximum number of participants, we encourage you to check-out one or more of the on-demand sessions (available throughout the conference) or a Q&A session scheduled for the same time from Wednesday to Friday.

Presenters

Ryan Rideau

Assistant Provost for Faculty Development, Tufts University

Heather Dwyer

Tufts University

Friday November 12, 2021 3:30pm - 4:30pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee
Audience POD Network Members
Topic Diversity Equity & Inclusion

4:45pm EST

Closing Session and Awards

The Awards and Closing Session recognizes the individuals who received grants and awards during the past year by the POD Network and its Committees and SIGs. It includes recognition of this year’s winners of the Spirit of POD Award, Christine A. Stanley Award, Menges Award, and Innovation Award.

Presenters

Jerod Quinn

POD Conference Program Co-chair, Wake Forest University

Tammy M. McCoy

POD Conference Program Co-Chair, Georgia Institute of Technology

Stacy Grooters

Executive Director, Boston College

Friday November 12, 2021 4:45pm - 5:45pm EST
Live

12:00pm EST

Exec Meeting with SIG/ Committee Chairs

This meeting is limited to chairpersons and chairs-elect of Committee/ SIGs.

Monday November 15, 2021 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Live

1:30pm EST

GPPD SIG

Presenters

Joe Lampert

Monday November 15, 2021 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Graduate student/Professional student/and Postdoctoral scholar Development SIG

1:30pm EST

Small College SIG

Presenters

Michael Reder

Director, Shechtman Mankoff Center for Teaching & Learning, Connecticut College

Monday November 15, 2021 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Small Colleges SIG

1:30pm EST

STEM SIG

Presenters

Audrey Dentith

Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, North Carolina A&T State University

Monday November 15, 2021 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Science Technology/Engineering/Mathematics (STEM) SIG

3:00pm EST

Adjunct Faculty SIG

Presenters

Kristin Morley

Faculty Development Manager, Salt Lake Community College

Monday November 15, 2021 3:00pm - 4:00pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty SIG

3:00pm EST

Learning Analytics SIG

Presenters

George Rehrey

Director Center for Learning Analytics and Student Success, Indiana University Bloomington

Monday November 15, 2021 3:00pm - 4:00pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Learning Analytics Community SIG

3:00pm EST

Mindfulness and Contemplative Pedagogy SIG

Welcome to the MCP SIG!

We have openings for several roles on the Steering Committee. Please have a look at this list of positions, including a description of duties and time commitments:

https://forms.gle/f3YQtF6zDLjPruwcA

Self-nominations are open now, and will remain open until our business meeting on Nov. 15. Thank you for your support!

Presenters

Susan Hrach

Distinguished Research Chair, Fulbright Canada

I'm interested in embodied cognition, experiential learning, and coaching for faculty and educational developers. Happy to chat with anyone about ideas from my book, Minding Bodies: how physical space, sensation, and movement affect learning (WVU Press, 2021).

Monday November 15, 2021 3:00pm - 4:00pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Mindfulness & Contemplative Pedagogy SIG

4:30pm EST

Earth-Centered SIG

Presenters

Bart Everson

Creative Generalist, Xavier University of Louisiana

Monday November 15, 2021 4:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Earth-Centered SIG

4:30pm EST

Healthcare Educational Developers SIG

Presenters

Todd Zakrajsek

Associate Director Faculty Development Fellowship, UNC at Chapel Hill

Todd D. Zakrajsek, PHD, is an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at UNC - Chapel Hill and President of the International Teaching Learning Cooperative. Todd was a tenured associate professor of psychology and built faculty development efforts at three universities... Read More →

Monday November 15, 2021 4:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Healthcare Educational Development SIG

4:30pm EST

Professional Development Committee

Presenters

Emily Magruder

I support professional development for faculty, with an emphasis on effective and equitable teaching, across the 23 campuses of the California State University. This year I am particularly eager to learn about proven strategies for improving outcomes and closing equity gaps in large... Read More →

Monday November 15, 2021 4:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Professional Development Committee

4:30pm EST

SoTL SIG

Outgoing Chair: Janel Seeley
Chair for 2021-22: Laura Lukes
Incoming Chair for 2022-23: Lauren Barbeau

Tentative Agenda:
1. Introductions and what you hope to get out of the SIG (in the chat)
2. Brief Overview of SIG, Recent Activities, and How to Get Involved
3. Jamboard: Determining SIG Priorities for 21-22
4. Discussion/Breakout rooms: Share what you are doing; Exchange ideas and tips

Presenters

Janel Seeley

Director, Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning

Janel Seeley is an instructional designer and assistant lecturer with the Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning.

Laura Lukes

Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

Monday November 15, 2021 4:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) SIG

12:00pm EST

EPOC

Presenters

Christine Rener

Vice Provost for Instructional Development and Innovation, Grand Valley State University

Tuesday November 16, 2021 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Live

12:00pm EST

Scholarship Committee

The mission of the POD Network Scholarship Committee is to support the POD Network’s strategic goal of “advancing evidence-based practice” through the fostering of the development, application, and dissemination of research, scholarship, and creative works related to educational development and the membership of the POD Network.
New members are invited to help w/ POD Reads, POD Speaks & more. No special expertise/experience required.
Learn more: https://podnetwork.org/governance/committees/scholarship-committee/

Presenters

Anna Flaming

Director, Center for Teaching, University of Iowa

Tuesday November 16, 2021 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Scholarship Committee

1:30pm EST

Co-Creation through Partnership

Presenters

Adriana Signorini

Educational Assessment Coordinator, University of California, Merced

Adriana Signorini is the Assessment Coordinator for the Center for Engaged Teaching and Learning. Her main responsibility in the Center is to coordinate the Students Assessing Teaching and Learning (SATAL) Program and consult with faculty on the assessment of teaching and learning... Read More →

Alison Cook-Sather

Professor of Education and Director, Peace, Conflict and Social Justice concentration and Director, Teaching and Learnin, Bryn Mawr College

Alison Cook-Sather is the Mary Katharine Woodworth Professor of Education and Director of the Peace, Conflict and Social Justice Studies concentration at Bryn Mawr College, and Director of the Teaching and Learning Institute at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges.Alison holds a Ph.D... Read More →

Tuesday November 16, 2021 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Co-Creation through Partnership

1:30pm EST

DRI Committee

Presenters

Lindsay Doukopoulos

Associate Director for Educational Development, Auburn University

German Vargas Ramos

POD DRI Committee Co-Chair & POD Core Committee Member, Otterbein

Tuesday November 16, 2021 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Live

3:00pm EST

Strategic Planning Committee

Presenters

Carol Hurney

Associate Provost of Faculty Development and Diversity; Founding Director of the Center for Teaching & Learning, Colby College

Tuesday November 16, 2021 3:00pm - 4:00pm EST
Live

3:00pm EST

Teaching with Technology SIG

Welcome to the SIG Teaching with Technology.

Please join us to

Hang out with others who are interested in teaching with technology. Bring a friend!
Learn what we as a team accomplished over the last year.
Brainstorm what we want to do over the next year.
Vote for new leadership. Debbie and Wiebke have been co-chairing for 2 years now, and, according to our new charter, this should mean that we both roll off - not allowing for overlap (ok, so last year, we should have voted, but last year was just too crazy). So, please consider co-chairing this laid-back SIG. More on duties at the meeting. If you are interested, please don’t hesitate to send an email ahead of time. If you want to wait until the session, that is fine, too. We will do a quick online poll during the meeting.

Presenters

Wiebke Kuhn

Director, Academic Technology, Carleton College - Northfield, MN

I am working with all sorts of physical and virtual learning spaces

Debbie Beaudry

Tuesday November 16, 2021 3:00pm - 4:00pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Teaching with Technology SIG

4:30pm EST

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Committee

Presenters

Dan Guberman

Senior Instructional Developer, Purdue University

Tuesday November 16, 2021 4:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Live

SIG/Committee Alignment Diversity Committee

4:30pm EST

Membership Committee

Presenters

Jim Berger

Director, Georgia College

Tuesday November 16, 2021 4:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Live

1:30pm EST

BIPOC

The POD Network is pleased to invite your participation in the 2021 POD Network Conference Affinity Group meetings. The goals of these affinity group meetings is to:

Establish or strengthen the sense of connection, solidarity, and mutual support amongst group members;
Offer sustenance to members who might be subject to alienation, institutional hostility, and burnout in their roles in and beyond POD; Begin building a shared sense of purpose and expectations.

These meetings will be facilitated by conveners who will take notes and provide members of the POD Affinity Group ad hoc Committee with ways POD can support future affinity group meetings. Each group will have access to a sample meeting agenda, but are also welcome to develop their own. We hope these groups provide opportunities for personal connections and conversations. More importantly, we hope you identify topics of common interest that support your well being.

Although allyship is important please only attend groups that reflect your own, lived experience.

Presenters

Ching-Yu Huang

Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

Wednesday November 17, 2021 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Live

3:00pm EST

Asian/Pacific Islander/Asian American/South Asian

Presenters

Heeyoung Kim

Director of Faculty Development, Rider University

Wednesday November 17, 2021 3:00pm - 4:00pm EST
Live

3:00pm EST

Latinx/Latine/Hispanic/Latin American

Presenters

Catalina Suarez

Reserch assistant, Universidad del Norte

Wednesday November 17, 2021 3:00pm - 4:00pm EST
Live

4:00pm EST

2SLGBTQ+

Presenters

Michele DiPietro

Executive Director, CETL, Kennesaw State University

I am interested in learning sciences, diversity and inclusion, leadership development, and advancing the field of educational development.

Wednesday November 17, 2021 4:00pm - 5:00pm EST
Live

4:00pm EST

Black/African/African American/Afro Caribbean

Presenters

Dawn Hinton

Director of CETL, Saginaw Valley State University

I am new to the position - 10 months in. Our office is engaged in Faculty Learning Communities, SoTL, New Faculty Orientation and Adjunct Faculty support. I would love to have conversations with centers who are also engaging in these same activities.

Wednesday November 17, 2021 4:00pm - 5:00pm EST
Live