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Possible categorization of these issues:
- Diagnose
- Discovery
- Design
- Development
- Delivery
- Dissemination
| Potential Themes ("Bins" / "Sub-Committees") | Interested Individuals | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Curricular Flexibility | Sandi Connelly Alex Lobos William Snyder | Design |
| Credentials / competency / skills / badges | Neil Hair | Delivery |
| Pedagogy / Learning Theories / Instructional Design Theories | Nilay Yildirim Elizabeth Perry | Design |
| Cross-College Co-Teaching | Sandi Connelly Alex Lobos William Snyder Sharon Lonthair | Delivery |
Educational Technology Access services | Anne Canale | Design, Development |
| Entrepreneurship | Elizabeth Perry (social entrepreneurship!) | Dissemination |
| College/department and institutional support for faculty | Anne Canale Neil Hair William Snyder Sharon Lonthair Elizabeth Perry | All of the above |
| Development of Co-Curricular (cross college) Certificate programs | Anne Canale Alex Lobos William Snyder | Design, Delivery |
| Designing Learning Outcomes & Assessment Strategies for Curricula | Elizabeth Perry | Diagnose |
| Current state of RIT programs' curriculum to identify the gaps (Are they innovative? Student-centered? Designed well? Engaging? etc...) | Nilay Yildirim William Snyder | Diagnose |
| Design, development, delivery, dissemination of innovation and creativity in the curriculum. (possible organizing themes). | Neil Hair Sharon Lonthair Elizabeth Perry | NA |
| IDEAS PROPOSED ("Brain Dump") | Interested Individuals | |
Linking In Class to Real Life: Thinking Beyond Definitions | Sandi Connelly | Design, Development |
| Situated Learning - Building Communities of Practice or connecting RIT students with already existing Communities of Practice | Nilay Yildirim William Snyder Sharon Lonthair | Dissemination
|
"Professor for a Day" - required for all classrooms (bring in Alumni, regional business folks, etc., to teach | Sandi Connelly William Snyder Sharon Lonthair | Discovery |
| Design thinking outside of "design programs" | Design | |
| Alternate class schedule to encourage alternate learning | Sandi Connelly William Snyder | Delivery |
Co-op Pay It Forward - | William Snyder Sharon Lonthair | Discovery |
2+2 curricula - establish foundations in first 2 years "traditionally", | Sandi Connelly | Design, Development |
Showcase Learning, "Celebrations of Learning", etc. - If students | Dissemination | |
"Old School" Teaching and Learning - When chalk talks far outweigh powerpoint for true teaching and learning | Design | |
"Uncover more" vs. "Cover more" - changes in curriculum that allow more in-depth discovery (more cake!), rather than just the broad superficial knowledge (all icing!) | Design | |
| "Programs of Emphasis" vs. Majors | Sandi Connelly | Design |
Educational Infrastructure - redesign of classrooms to meet needs | Design, Development | |
Online Assessment of Training Students (OATs) - (title needs work!) | Diagnose | |
Bring back recess! A fixed "break in the day" for students / staff / faculty / admin "required" attendance 3 times per semester for EVERYONE on campus! Wow – that's gonna be a lot of "Hello My Name Is:" stickers! | Delivery | |
| Define "What does an RIT graduate look like?" (e.g. http://www.kent.edu/provost/upload/capabilities-of-kent-state-graduates.pdf) | Diagnose | |
Bring in recent RIT alums (focus group?) and learn their perspective on | Anne Canale William Snyder Sharon Lonthair | Discovery |
We should consider the 2014 Horizon Reports http://www.nmc.org/horizon-project Looking at the older versions will provide insight as to which of the "innovations" recommended were fads, trends, The NMC Horizon Project charts the landscape of emerging technologies for teaching, learning, and research, creative inquiry. | Anne Canale | Diagnose |
RIT's Innovation Curriculum Symposium - similar to : http://www.kent.edu/provost/innovative-curriculum-summit.cfm
| Anne Canale | Dissemination |
| Faculty Incentives - rewards and recognition for faculty at all ranks for their curricular innovation and creativity. | Anne Canale Sharon Lonthair | Design, Development |
| Engaging our students - Student Engagement (how, who, when, where, why ... outcomes of....) | Anne Canale Sharon Lonthair | Delivery |
| Introducing/educating faculty (and providing on-going support) on new/experimental/innovative teaching techniques and learning environments that can promote creativity (e.g. gamification, constructionism, problem-based learning, constructivist learning environments, etc.) | Nilay Yildirim | Dissemination |
| Providing events outside of classrooms (e.g. design charrettes, hackatons, gamejams, sciencejams, etc.) and encouraging student attendance through incentives. | Nilay Yildirim | Design, Development |
| Innovating the way credentials are perceived by students AND faculty. Gamifying the learning outcome along the lines of badges / alternative forms of recognition that force creative thinking by our faculty regards what learning outcomes look like. | Neil Hair | Design, Development |
| World class 'delivery' of content, across platform including mobile. | Neil Hair | Design, Developent |
| Creating curriculum that is modular in nature, which can then be shared globally in creative ways in order to enhance our brand - perhaps offering this to graduating students as a means of staying current. This speaks to the need to be better at disseminating what we do well at RIT. | Neil Hair | Delivery |
Design courses, programs and instruction that foster civic engagement and volunteerism; that develop awareness of national and global issues. Use innovation and creativity for tackling global issues. Engage alumni in learning outside the classroom together with students. Launch "alternative spring break" work experiences and volunteer opportunities. | Sharon Lonthair | Discovery |
| Imagine fest part two - focused on Teaching and Learning across the wider Rochester educational community | Deb Blizzard | Dissemination |
(Nilay) Brain-dumping About the Organization of Themes:
Sorry for breaking the current table structure 
3 commentaires
Kevin Surace dit :
Offer a class on Innovation. True innovation comes from being open to taking risks. The more risk a human is willing to take the more the innovation. They must subject themselves to potential shame and must be willing to be vulnerable (read Brene Brown). Open to ridicule, firing, losing, and going broke....simply being wrong. Then get up and innovate again.
If we want to be the innovation university...we might wish to teach students HOW to be innovative. Frankly, its not for everyone. And even that is worth learning.
Neil Hair dit :
Preparation / activity / outcome = possible categorization (suggestion from Alex)
Alternatively a way of categorizing each idea.
Cynthia Sanders dit :
Should we shift from grading paradigm to competency paradigm? More universities are adopting competency assessment. It is a growing trend now. Should we take advantage of this opportunity to make a change? Open for discussion.