Day:
Monday, November 4, 2019
Time:
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location:
Coral, Lobby Level
First Learning Outcome: Attendees will leave equipped to immediately establish effective partnerships with faculty at their own institutions.
Second Learning Outcome: Attendees will understand how to structure engagements with classes in a way that maximizes the relevance and usefulness of students' work.
Third Learning Outcome: Attendees will appreciate the benefits of engaging students and faculty as meaningful partners in design.
Core Competencies: Collaborative Decision-Making and Consensus-Building, Problem Solving
Proficiencies: Enrollment Management: SEM Leadership
Intended Audience: Some experience in the profession, Faculty
Engaging Students and Faculty in Design
Category
Session
Description
Partnership between administrators launching new initiatives, faculty teaching courses, and students engaged in learning is a win for everyone. Students learn a discipline through authentic experience with real-world problems. Faculty get support for high-impact instructional delivery. Administrators get new systems and structures more likely to succeed because they have been designed the right way—with significant participation from their ultimate users.
In this session, presenters representing the administration, faculty, and students will share our manual for fruitfully engaging faculty and students in the design of key institutional initiatives. With a particular focus on engaging classes of students in the context of their coursework, we will share a step-by-step process for identifying opportunities, engaging faculty, and setting students up to make meaningful contributions. We will illustrate our process with examples drawn from our own experiences in the design of new University initiatives, such as the creation of a one-stop center for campus enrollment services. Partnership with undergraduate and graduate courses as a “client” for semester-long projects netted real, rich, student-centered products the new center and other initiatives have implemented to the benefit of all. The session will also address common challenges and lessons learned from mistakes and missed opportunities.
Brilliant solutions to thorny problems start with a human-centered design process that engages the end-user in identifying needs and generating and testing ideas. Educational institutions are uniquely positioned to accomplish this: we build programs and systems for students and faculty who surround us every day and bring deep expertise in relevant areas. Done right, making these connections can also contribute to the educational mission of the institution: partnerships between administrators and individual classes can offer rich and authentic experiential learning opportunities for students that advance their educational outcomes and progress toward degree. This session will share practical guidance for leveraging the unique resources at our disposal to create wins for the entire community.
Submission ID:
6475
Presenter(s):
Leslie Hall University of Texas at Austin
Brad Love University of Texas at Austin
Winner Status
- Session