Program for Notre Dame
Site In order to explore the questions surrounding the design and
implementation of a successful first year course, participants will
take part in a set of team design exercises that are intended to
highlight key issues in the curriculum design process. Participants
should expect take home ideas for curricula that may be useful at
their own institutions, as well as strategies and processes that
may be useful in creating curricula appropriate to their contexts.
(All sessions will be held at Jordan Hall of Science).
Sunday
Aug 2
3:00PM-6:00PM
Registration
at Jordan Hall of Science
3:30PM-5:00PM
Notre
Dame campus tour for those interested
5:00PM-6:30PM
Reception/buffet
dinner
6:30PM-8:00PM
Global
Plenary Videoconference
Opening remarks:
Jay Brockman, Notre Dame
Stephanie Couch, CENIC
Roger Hadgraft, University of Melbourne
Keynote address: (invited
speakers being confirmed) “A user-centered approach to curriculum
design”
8:00PM-9:00PM
Small
Group Exercise: Understanding
Your Context and Dropping Your Baggage
Input for workshop organizers
to form teams of attendees
Monday
Aug 3
7:30AM-8:30AM
Continental
breakfast
8:30AM-9:00AM
Meet
your team
9:00AM-10:00AM
Team
Exercise: Defining the Learning Environment
• Each team works as a
group to define a shared first-year course design problem. This
exercise focuses on student attributes and other elements
of the learning environment. Teams post findings
in their workspace.
10:15AM-11:00
Team
Exercise: Course Vision and Outcomes
• Teams develop a vision
and high level outcomes for their first-year course and
post them in their workspace.
11:00AM-11:45AM
Sharing
of findings between teams
• Participants are free
to circulate between team spaces, and to look at and discuss
the frameworks and vision statements that have been generated.
12:00PM-2:00PM
Lunch
and Shopping Spree: Poster and Demonstration Session
• All attendees are encouraged
to share ideas from their home institution as posters or
demonstrations
• Teams shop for ideas to
use in the design of their first-year course
2:00PM-2:30PM
Break
2:30PM-5:00PM
Team
Exercise: Strawman Course Design
• Primed with ideas from
the poster session/shopping spree, teams develop three
alternative high-level designs for their course
• Teams prepare posters
for sharing their strawman designs
5:30PM-7:00PM
Reception/Dinner
7:00PM-8:30PM
Global
Plenary Videoconference
• Focus on sustaining
change (invited speakers being confirmed)
8:30PM-9:30PM
Evening
event in ND digital visualization theater
Tuesday
Aug 4
8:30AM-9:00AM
Local
plenary
• Reflection on prior
day’s events
• Go over today’s assignments
and schedule
9:00AM-10:00AM
Sharing
course concepts
• Participants are free
to circulate between team spaces, and to look at and discuss
the course concepts that have been generated.
10:00AM-12:00AM
Team
Exercise: Taking it home
• Participants reflect
on the work they did the previous day, and build a plan
for how they will engage others in designing a first year
course at their own institution.
• Teams discuss strategies
for staffing and sustaining their courses
