Leaning on the theme of Connection: Closing the Distance, we encouraged proposals for the conference that explored how human and digital connection can be intentionally leveraged by the educational development community to promote authentic connection in our ever-changing higher education landscape.
Friday, April 26, 1–2 EST Facilitators: Lindsay Wheeler, University of Virginia and Eric Kaldor, University of Rhode Island Have you engaged in educational development research and/or assessment and want to take your work to the next level? Are you not sure how to conduct educational development research that will be meaningful for the field and…
Friday, March 22, 2019, 1–2 EST Facilitators: Esther Jordan, Kennesaw State University We all experience conflict in our lives, in our educational development work and beyond. While some of us dread it and others thrive in it, there are principles from the literature in organizational psychology and conflict management that can make our conflict engagements…
Friday, December 7, 2018, 1–2 EST Facilitators: Katie Linder, Research Director, Oregon State University Ecampus Although academic publishing can be a bit mysterious, there are some tried and true methods for getting your work placed in academic journals, edited collections, and other mediums. In this interactive webinar, Dr. Katie Linder will share strategies for targeting…
Leadership and managing change are two of the most pressing concerns POD Network Members face in their institutions and in the educational development profession. We believe that these two concepts, leadership and change, are naturally intertwined and combined them to form the 2018 conference theme.
Sessions addressing this theme considered the questions: Where in higher education is change already happening? And where is change needed but not happening—or not happening quickly enough? What kind of professional development do we need to become the leaders who are successful in navigating the changes on the horizon?
Friday, September 21, 2018 1–2 EST Facilitators: Megan Frary and Teresa Focarile, Boise State University To reach faculty that don’t regularly engage in professional development around teaching, we developed the “Sparkshop”, a 15 minute, active-learning based workshop that can be facilitated in a department meeting. Each Sparkshop asks faculty members to look at data supporting…
June 15, 2018, 1–2 EST Facilitators: Laurie Grupp, Providence College and Deandra Little, Elon University As educational developers are called upon to serve as agents of change across various campus contexts, we need to recognize the skills, characteristics, and dispositions that we bring to our work, as well as those that we can (or perhaps…
Friday, April 27, 2018, 1–2 EST Facilitators: Katie Walsh, Carnegie Mellon University and Megan Sanders, Colorado School of Mines Would you like to be more engaged with current education research for your own professional development or to support the work of your center? Do you need ideas about how to accomplish this task without overburdening…
April 6, 2018, 1–2 EST Facilitators: Allison Boye, Texas Tech University As educational developers, we focus on helping others, experiencing the same stressors faced by the faculty with whom we work and then some, but perhaps without enough opportunities to reflect on our own well-being. Through discussion of research, collective experience, surveys and interviews, participants…
Friday, December 8, 2017, 1–2 EST Facilitators: Brenda Boyd, Quality Matters; Anna Donnell, University of Cincinnati; Angela Linse, Pennsylvania State University Are you interested in taking some of your programming online? What is your purpose in doing an online event? Join us to explore whether an interactive webinar format may be appropriate and how we…