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An Instructional Designer, a Faculty Member and a Student Walk Into a Bar

Ensuring Faculty Buy-in

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Who we are

Diana Ruggiero, Faculty

Trish Lange, Instructional Designer

Elvis Martinez & Lynn Edwards, Students

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Do Faculty Think Their Courses Need Improvement?

How do you persuade faculty their course or assignments need improvement?

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Do Faculty Think Their Courses Need Improvement?

Do YOU?

POP QUIZ!

What’s the BEST way to tell if your course needs help? Choose from:

Ask the students either in person or with a Early Semester Survey
Look at students results for assignments
Check your end of term student survey scores
Check out your score on RateMyProfessor

Trish Do you think your course needs NO work? Some? A LOT?

It’s the faculty who think their course is fine who we really need buy in from. How do we persuade them that there’s always room for improvement. How do we know this?

Ask the students
Look at students results for assignments
Check your end of term student survey scores
Rate my professor

Ask students: mid semester survey (or after 3 weeks) OR just ask them (Diana can write this)
Look at individual assign results: what was the intent of the assignment? Why didn’t it work. Start here. Clear instructions, examples, anticipate helping needs (Trish writes this)
Check end of term evaluation-- administration, too late, this group of students has moved on and doesn’t affect them (Trish)
Rate my professor. YIKES!!!! Can be really accurate (Guest student)

Then discuss these

What is working in your course?

What isn’t?

If you could change one thing, what would it be?

Is there one activity that isn’t working the way you intended it to be?

Google translate example

Students know they are should make 100%

So, instead

What do you think your students want?

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Method 1: Mid Semester Survey

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Method 2: Current Assignments

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Method 3: End of Term Student Evaluation Surveys

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Method 4: Rate My Professor

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Conclusions & Contact