Consultations
This semester, I hosted around 15 consultations with faculty from a variety of disciplines including Math, ESL, Spanish, English, CBOT, and Astronomy.
- Consultation Topics have included:
- Alternative Grading Strategies, i.e., Contract Grading and Outcomes-Based Grading
- Course Design Feedback & Guidance
- Long-Term Leave Project Support
- Assessment Improvement Brainstorming
In the future, I’d like to increase the number of consultations that faculty are booking with me and have more clear guidance for faculty who are looking for Instructional Design Support, but aren’t sure what form of support they need.
Workshops
I offered a variety of workshops this semester in the Faculty Teaching & Learning Center and Lounge, as well as the new Instructional Technology & Design Center.
Common feedback that I received was that faculty enjoyed sessions that offered many small tips and best practices because they felt like they could always walk away with at least one tip that applied to them. Faculty also appreciated sessions where they could hear from other faculty about how they do things. For next semester, I’ll need to consider offering these types of sessions more often, and also some better dates and times to offer workshops.
AI Workshop Series
- 9/13: AI Listening Session
- 10/4: All About AI – Part One
- 10/11: All About AI – Part Two (Flex Day Session)
- 10/11: Course Equity Audits – A Simple Way to Find Easy Equity Fixes in Your Course (Flex Day Session)
- 11/14: AI Strategies Share Out
Instructional Design Workshops
- 9/12: 3 Simple Online Engagement Strategies
- 9/20 2pm-3pm: What is a Cañada Instructional Designer?
- 10/10 1pm-2:30pm: 5 Tips for Equitizing Grading & Communication
- 10/18 2pm-3:30pm: What Was Your Best First Day of Class?
Peer Online Course Review (POCR) – Accessibility Reviews
I completed two POCR Accessibility Reviews for COMM 110 and LING 200. I worked on these reviews alongside our Instructure Instructional Designer to learn how we are doing our accessibility reviews in our POCR process.
Faculty have been very receptive to review feedback and grateful that we now have the Instructional Designer position for support on aligning their courses with the rubric. Next semester, I’d like to offer an accessibility series that supports faculty in making their courses more aligned with Section D of the OEI Course Design Rubric before starting the POCR process.