Tuesday, June 24
11:00am - 12:15pm EDT
10:00am - 11:15am CDT
9:00am - 10:15am MDT
8:00am - 9:15am PDT/MST
10:00am - 11:15am CDT
9:00am - 10:15am MDT
8:00am - 9:15am PDT/MST
These concurrent sessions will take place in different Zoom rooms.
Lightning talks will be held consecutively in the same Zoom room.
Session Description
Invite participants to read a short text and reflect with us in real time
Key Takeaways
Fiction can be a useful educational development tool to unlock different reflections and conversations around teaching and learning.
Educational developers can use creative work to encourage faculty to wrestle with tensions between their teaching practices and values.
There is space for light-touch facilitation in community spaces combined with no clear outcomes.
We must find places and spaces of joy to counter institutional, systemic, and other external pressures in our educational development work.
Invite participants to read and reflect with us in real time.
Breakout rooms: optional; Written engagement: optional; Spoken engagement: optional
Session Description
Session activities will include generating characteristics of ‘ideal’ (not real) educational developers based on job ads, personal experiences, and implicit norms observed in our field. Facilitators and participants will critique these expectations and consider alternative frameworks. Participants will identify values and then generate possibilities for resistance to ‘ideal’-istic expectations. A balance of presenting core ideas, critiquing existing models, engaging in reflection as well as small-group and large-group conversations is meant to make this session easy to engage with for participants. Feel free to bring your perspectives, questions, and ideas for discussion.
Key Takeaways
Participants will engage with explicit and implicit expectations of being an ‘ideal’ educational developer through examining job ads and through conversation
Participants will consider the potential harm of internalizing these ideals and not recognizing the role that their values/strengths/limitations can play in making educational development more diverse, inclusive, and human(e)
Participants will consider possibilities for resistance: identifying/articulating values and generating ways to promote and advocate for values that they see lacking or unaddressed in our work/field
Participants will collaborate to articulate a vision of a more diverse and inclusive educational development, a more human (‘good enough’) educational developer, and form community and commitments around continuing these conversations.
Session Description
Our overarching goal for this unconference-style session is to create an environment that supports attendees in finding and developing collaborative communities of educational developers beyond colleagues at their own institutions, both during the session itself and in future activities. First, we will provide a concise overview of how our micro-community of educational developers from three different institutions connected and worked collaboratively to achieve shared goals. Then, with participants and using Google Workspace tools, we will co-develop a structure and approach to creating professional collaboration profiles by identifying and articulating areas of professional interest or specific goals (e.g. publishing more academic writing, conducting a specific scholarship of teaching and learning project). While we want the emerging collaborations to explore a wide array of possible topics and goals, including those we have not yet conceived of, we will also provide and ask participants to share existing calls that may spark interest for potential collaboration, from journals, conferences, and other spaces. Finally, we will identify groups that share goals and provide time and space for them to introduce themselves and begin strategizing a plan for ongoing communication and collaboration. We will provide information and tools for planning, starting, and sustaining collaboration. We hope that attendees will finish the session having not only made initial connections with potential cross-institutional collaborators but also taken concrete steps toward building their micro-communities.
Key Takeaways
Participants in this unconference session will work on:
Co-constructing a professional collaboration profile by reflecting on their own professional interests and goals.
Connecting with other educational developers with similar interests and goals for ongoing collaborative projects.
Identifying potential avenues for sharing collaborative projects through institutional, scholarly, and public forums.
Strategizing communication and collaboration plans (for newly formed groups or ability to do this with future groups).