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Strategic Learning Outcomes:. Developing a scalable training program to facilitate restructuring of MPU educational systems. 7.17.08 Executive Leadership Forum. Vision Statement. Mashed Potato University will be a leader among elite research universities in providing
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Strategic Learning Outcomes: Developing a scalable training program to facilitate restructuring of MPU educational systems 7.17.08 Executive Leadership Forum
Vision Statement Mashed Potato University will be a leader among elite research universities in providing student centered active learning experiences.
What are Learning Outcomes? • Traditional inputs/outputs contrasted with new measures of educational effectiveness • Documentation and demonstration of acquired competencies • Broad outcomes such as critical thinking • Specific outcomes vary by academic discipline • Responds to multiple learning styles
Why Change? • Increases potential employer confidence • Provides authentic student experience • Increases quality of faculty work life • Lowers per student cost • Increases access to higher education • Aligns strategic institutional vision • Leverages institutional strengths
Assumptions • Builds on existing campus partnerships & tools • Program development utilizes available resources • Curriculum redesign creates net per-student savings. • New policies will respond to P&T concerns to motivate faculty participation
Risks • Lack of faculty and staff support (time, vision & rewards) • Difficult to adapt to shared goals campus-wide • Program will require future investment • Inadequate assessment
Training Program • “Train the Trainer” pyramid-style training insures broad diffusion of innovation • Sustained through an online community of practice • Provides outcomes-based model rubrics
Generation of exit outcomes Phase outcomes Course outcomes Lesson outcomes Design Process for Learning Outcomes
Program Goals • Develop models for outcome based learning • Engage faculty/staff in change process • Provide new skill sets • Foster culture of instructional innovation & collaboration • Leverage existing partnerships & resources
Assessment • Increased use of virtual course content • Faculty adoption of community of practice resources • Measurable decrease of per student cost • Student & faculty satisfaction increase • External advisors will assess and report increased 21st century work skills
Budget Year One - Opportunity Cost: Project & support staff reallocation Year Two – Expand Hardware & Storage Space Absorbed through CIO budget allocations Year Three – Staff & Hardware Investment supported by increased enrollment revenue
Task Force Acknowledgement • Drew MacGregor, Sr. Vice Provost – sponsor • Cheryl Diermyer, Senior Strategist, CIO • Sarah McDaniel, Dir., CTLR • Hope Adams, Chair, Faculty Senate • Sam Eneman, Dir. Academic Computing • Lisa Stephens, Sr. Academic Tech. Officer • Paul Gunther, Senior Instructional Designer • Robert Griffiths, Associate Dean, Libraries