Session 1: Exploring the Four Themes
Session 1: Exploring the Four Themes
The field of High-Impact Practices is more than 10 years old. There has been a lot of groundbreaking and important research conducted and practices implemented. Many of you have played an important role in this work.
As we look to the future, and listen to the members of this HIPs in the States Community of Practice, we have learned of four major areas, or themes, prime for further investigation and work.
In this first session, we would like to begin a conversation around each of these themes:
Delivery and assessment of high-impact practices in online or hybrid modalities (curricular and co-curricular)
Intentional efforts to make HIPs more equitable through social and racial justice, including developing HIPs that take up social and racial justice issues as well as high impact instructional approaches that increase learning, retention, and post-graduation success for underrepresented student populations
Institutional scaling of high-impact experiences, including the tracking and assessment of student learning and success
Designing high-impact courses and experiences that are aligned to the central features of high-impact practices and experiences, with a focus on professional development, inclusiveness, and universal design
In this 60-minute session, we will divide into breakout rooms in Zoom and crowd-source your thoughts on each of these areas. What are the challenges in conducting research and doing assessment work within each theme/area? What are the challenges in practice and in implementation? Are there opportunities? What might you explore or examine on your own campus related to one or more of these areas?
At the conclusion of this session, we request that you view some interviews we have conducted and recorded with several thought leaders in the field. Our intention is to break up into breakout rooms again for Session # 2 to discuss and examine what these thought leaders have to say and how their message(s) relate the work we are doing (or need to do) on our own campuses.