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Leveraging Digital Courseware to Support Collaborative Course Redesign

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Intended Audience:

This service is for institutional teams consisting of academic administrators and leaders, teaching and learning leadership, student success leaders, and instructional technology experts. Faculty leadership and course coordinators are encouraged to participate. Note: APLU will support participating institutions in identifying ideal candidates based on institutional contexts, need, and capacities.

Service Model:

Cross-functional team experience

Modalities:

Blended, eLearning, Facilitated scheduled, workshop, community of practice

Educational technologies, such as digital courseware, drive collaborative course redesign within and across academic departments. When effectively implemented alongside quality pedagogy and instructional design, digital courseware provides faculty with valuable data to inform instructional practices and student interventions. It also enhances student engagement and facilitates personalized learning experiences. During this three-to-five-month service engagement, APLU will help academic leadership and key stakeholders to:

  1. Build critical relationships and allocate resources to support faculty and students in redesigned courses
  2. Identify and engage target faculty and programs for participation
  3. Develop a plan to combine digital courseware, evidence-based practices, and data analytics to improve student learning outcomes in introductory courses

Institutions can also sign up for Part II to further onboard and prepare faculty to launch course redesign initiatives.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this service, participants will be able to:

  • Understand how digital courseware, evidence-based instructional practices, and applications of student data can be combined to improve the quality of teaching and learning and increase student success outcomes in introductory courses
  • Build institutional capacity to develop, implement, assess, refine, and scale collaborative course redesign initiatives that can be employed across departments and programs in any course modality (face-to-face, hybrid, online)
  • Identify and use key data points to target opportunities for improving student outcomes in introductory and high priority courses at your institution
  • Learn how to support the creation and use of data collection tools and processes that will enable faculty to use student and course level data analytics for personalized instruction and continuous improvement of introductory courses
  • Academic leadership feels prepared to effectively reach out to and support faculty or departmental teams for course redesign initiatives

Service Deliverables

  1. Establish a collaborative, cross-functional institutional team that is ready to support a faculty team or academic department to adopt digital courseware and implement a course redesign initiative
  2. Identify target courses, faculty, or programs to include in a course redesign initiative
  3. Develop a detailed action plan for initiating and comprehensively supporting a course redesign project that integrates digital courseware, evidence-based instructional practices, and use of student learning data

Service Duration

This service is designed as a 12 or 16 week engagement, depending on institutional or cohort needs and capacities. This service may also be offered as an intensive, two-day, in-person “boot-camp” for institutions or cohorts.

Contact Hours

Five 90-minute synchronous, online workshops for the institutional team and four total 60-minute coaching sessions

Time on Task

22 total hours for team members and 34 total hours for project lead

Capacity

As designed, this service can accommodate up to five teams simultaneously. For each institutional team, there should be a minimum of four participants. We recommend no more than 8 participants per team. Intermediaries interested in serving more than five institutions may inquire.

Facilitated Workshops Include

  1. Preparing for Academic Course Change to Higher Student Success
  2. The Case for Digital Courseware as a Driver for Improved Academic Success
  3. Exploring your Institutional Context and Identifying Opportunities for Transformation
  4. Building Institutional Capacities to Support Collaborative Course Redesign and Digital Courseware Implementation
  5. Assessing and Refining Your Project to Scale Best Practices at Your Institution
 

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