Global Education Engagement

Dates of Program

Course platform opens: 5 November 2021
Synchronous sessions on the following dates from 8:00 am to 9:30 am Eastern Standard Time (New York time):

• 9 November 2021
• 11 November 2021
• 16 November 2021
• 18 November 2021
• 23 November 2021
• 30 November 2021
• 2 December 2021
• 7 December 2021

Course platform closes: 15 December 2021

Key Goals

• Transform your teaching with cutting edge pedagogies that support student engagement and active learning, including discussion-based, hands-on, community-based, and online pedagogies
• Ground your teaching in theories of engaged learning, motivation, and adult learning
• Network with peers from around the world to consider how these new ways of working can be adapted for your own context
• Explore how universities can support new forms of teaching and learning
• Learn how assessment can be used to further student learning

The Online Institute Experience

This online institute is specifically designed to provide an environment for learning with others:

• You will be invited to join the course with a team of 2-4 instructors from your own institution, working on a common project situated in your context
• You will have the opportunity to network with counterparts to compare methods and contexts with other teams of higher education colleagues from around the world
• This interactional work is facilitated by MSU faculty, graduate students, and alumni, drawing on MSU’s longstanding commitment to reciprocal relation-building
• Instructional formats will include synchronous sessions with leading researchers and distinguished teachers from MSU, as well as asynchronous sessions that allow participants to work on their own and with a community of peers
• Because our participants come from a range of language backgrounds, all presentations and resources will be in English

Each module making up the program will include explicit discussion of the translational work required to adapt research-informed practices to best serve particular programs, and opportunities for reflection and application.

All participants will take part in the four-week intensive professional development program; teams also have the option of signing up for an extended opportunity for team-specific pedagogical coaching over the following semester.

Contributing Faculty

The following list illustrates some of the range of faculty who will be contributing to the institute:

Dr. Marilyn Amey
Dr. Ann Austin
Dr. Kristine Bowman
Dr. Samantha Caughlan
Dr. John Dirkx
Dr. Alyssa Dunn
Dr. Christine Greenhow
Dr. Upenyu Majee
Dr. Joanne Marciano
Dr. Lynn Paine
Dr. Gail Richmond
Dr. Julie Sinclair
Dr. Vaughn Watson
Dr. Matt Wawrzynski
Dr. Bethany Wilinski

Price and Refund Policy

Special inaugural price: $1,100 per participant.

Additional cost for optional supplementary coaching during spring semester, beginning January 2022: $1,500 per participant. More information to come.

Refund Policy:

All requests for cancellations and refunds must be submitted in writing to the Global Education Engagement office by email edoise@msu.edu.

• Full Refund: Cancellation on or before 25 October 2021 Eastern Standard Time
• 50% Refund: Cancellation between 26 October 2021 and 3 November 2021 Eastern Standard Time
• No Refund: Cancellation on or after 4 November 2021 Eastern Standard Time

Refunds WILL NOT be issued after the posted cancellation dates for any reason including early withdrawal due to absences, illness, participant connectivity issue, or unforeseeable events not within the control of the Global Education Engagement at Michigan State University. Please note that refunds may take up to four weeks for processing.

Should the Global Education Engagement cancel the program, full refund will be issued to all enrolled participants.

Refund is based on USD. WE WILL NOT CALCULATE CURRENCY RATE CHANGES.

Overview

The program will include a blend of synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities. Much of the programming is asynchronous to allow participants to work around their own schedule constraints. Short videos and readings by MSU faculty will introduce each topic. Participants will interact on discussion boards and share their experiences and their questions. These posts will prompt further videos and readings to address specific areas of interest, chosen by MSU facilitators. Participants may choose among these readings and activities.

Eight synchronous meetings held over the four and a half weeks will provide opportunities for live discussions among participants and MSU faculty and graduate students, while institutional teams are expected to make time to work together independently. Synchronous meetings will be scheduled to accommodate participants in different time zones and will be recorded for viewing by those who cannot make them.

Theme 1: Foundational principles

Topics:

• Intro to course – how the site works, the weekly schedule, expectations
• Principles of adult learning
• Foundational principles of motivation and engaged learning

Theme 2: Introduction to Engaged Pedagogy

Topics:

• Examples of engaged pedagogies:
  • Class discussion as an example of encouraging active participation in learning
  • Problem/project-based learning as a framework for designing experiences in STEM and other areas
• Challenges in implementing interactive pedagogies – tradition, large class sizes, etc.

Theme 3: Pedagogy and Supports

Topics:

• Pedagogies:
  • Community-engaged learning
  • Online pedagogies that engage students
• Institutional supports for engaged learning

Theme 4: Assessment and Contexts

Topics:

• Formative assessment as learning
• Evaluating the impact of changes in curriculum and pedagogy
• The role of cultural, institutional, and curriculum context on choosing and translating innovation to maximize student learning