Learn how a program management process and a single document can support your faculty and also your course/program reviews. Elevate the instructor’s workbook into a tool that not only provides situational awareness and pedagogical foundations, but also helps to connect remote faculty and capture ideas and experiences in a hectic and demanding environment. Presuming that all faculty are experts in a course’s subject matter, the workbook does not focus on substantive knowledge. Rather, it helps to blend practical resources, pedagogical foundations, and experiential tips from prior teachers and students. Since Spring 2019, faculty in UNH’s online M.S. Cybersecurity Policy & Risk Management courses have utilized our workbooks and related processes. Our faculty especially value the workbook’s support with pedagogy and the learning management system, as well as the workbook’s accessibility and inclusion features that encourage each instructor to add comments and suggestions for improvement. In this Fastpitch Session, Prof. Maeve Dion provides an exemplar workbook, highlights the core features, and shares how the workbooks are utilized as part of our collaborative curriculum development and course review processes. Whether full-time academics or full-time practitioners, our faculty’s lives are busy and complicated. The COVID-19 situation has increased the complexity: more learning is remote, and instructors are delving more deeply into the functionalities of our learning management systems/tools and the best practices for online learning and teaching. Raise your concept of a workbook to a new level and explore how you might want to adapt it for your course or program.
Maeve Dion, Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire