Hello Fellow POD Members:
This is a final announcement about the Annual National
Workshop on “Designing Courses for Greater Student Engagement & Better
Learning” that is scheduled for May 18-20, 2012 and is described
below.
If you or people you know have been thinking about signing up
for this workshop, it would be good to do so in the next week or two.
We hope you will consider joining us; it will be one of the best
workshops you ever attended.
My Best, Dee
Fink
P.S.: If you have
questions, please email me at: dfink40@gmail.com
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Dee
Fink & Associates
Designing Courses
for Significant Learning
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This coming May 18-20, 2012, Dee Fink & Associates will
host their Annual National Workshop on “Designing Courses for Greater Student
Engagement & Better Learning” in Chicago, Illinois at the Hyatt Regency
O’Hare.
This workshop teaches participants
how to design their courses in a way that leads to greater student engagement
and better student learning.
What We Will Do At the Workshop
The workshop lasts 2½ days, starting Friday
morning and ending on Sunday at noon. During that time, we will
work through a learning-centered approach to designing courses.
During each phase, participants will have time to apply the ideas that
have been introduced, to the design of a course of their own choosing.
Special Value of This Workshop
We do many workshops for college
campuses on this topic, and they are good. But this national
workshop is the most powerful workshop we do, for two reasons:
1. We have more time – 2½ days.
· On most campuses
– with the demands on faculty time, we only get ½ to one day of workshop
time.
· At this workshop,
we have 2-5 times as much time.
2. Every participant gets frequent, individualized feedback on their work.
· We have Feedback
Facilitators for every group of 6-8 participants.
· In each phase of
the process, each participant gets feedback from the other participants and from
the Feedback Facilitator – and gets to see the work of other participants.
The other special characteristic of this workshop is that
it is a “Doing” workshop, not a series of “talking heads.”
Over 50% of the workshop time is spent actually designing a course of
your own choosing – and getting feedback on that design.
What are the “Take-Away’s”?
When participants complete this
workshop, they will have accomplished two things. They will
have…
1) Learned how
to design any set of instructional activities, from a few class sessions to a
whole course to a program curriculum.
2) Completed the
design of one course of their own choosing.
For Whom Is This Workshop Intended?
This workshop has major value for
two groups of people:
1. Faculty
Members learn the principles of good course design which they can then apply
to all their own courses in the future.
2. Faculty Developers learn the principles of good course design AND how to lead a workshop on this topic themselves.
Impact of This Workshop
Participants in past years have made the
following comments about this workshop:
“Really, this is probably the best, most cohesive,
well-organized and well-paced workshop I have ever attended!”
“Reading the book was valuable, but talking about
the concepts made it actionable.”
“When I tried these ideas, the energy in my classroom increased significantly…in fact the new energy was palpable.”
Where Can You Find Information About
Registering for This Workshop?
You can find additional information about the
workshop itself, its cost, lodging, and procedures for registering, on our
special webpage for this workshop: www.deefinkandassociates.com/index.php/workshops/chicago-2012/
Note: There is a
Group Discount of 25% if 4 or more people from the same institution
register for the workshop.
We hope you will consider attending!
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