Although learning innovations have proliferated in recent years, many faculty are still hesitant to experiment in the classroom. They often lack the time, training, or professional incentives necessary to try alternative teaching techniques.
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This toolkit is designed to help you identify the faculty innovators on your campus, reduce the risk of adopting new classroom techniques, and turn grassroots efforts to innovate into a priority. The eight tools include process maps, question banks, and samples.
Download the full toolkit or select from the options below to learn more about each tool.
- Tool 1: Campus Support Service Climate Survey
- Tool 2: Seed Funding Application Audit
- Tool 3: Innovation Analytics Process Map
- Tool 4: Campus Innovator Identification Guide
- Tool 5: Pilot Assessment Question Bank
- Tool 6: Course Redesign Selection Criteria
- Tool 7: Complementary Hybrid Scheduling Planner
- Tool 8: Alternative Tenure Requirements Sampler
Campus Support Service Climate Survey
This climate survey can be adapted through an online or print survey tool and delivered to faculty members to gauge their attitudes toward campus support services for learning innovation. Use the results to publicize overlooked services and adjust service offerings to meet innovators’ needs.
Seed Funding Application Audit
This resource guides administrators through an audit of their instructional seed funding process and surfaces pain points and other bottlenecks that faculty may encounter as they attempt to secure resources to explore learning innovation.
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Innovation Analytics Process Map
This process map provides guidance for how to choose metrics to evaluate learning innovations, centralize data, and use the findings to spread effective instructional techniques across campus.
Campus Innovator Identification Guide
This guide will help you identify pioneering professors and assess the value of their instructional innovations for the institution as a whole.
Pilot Assessment Question Bank
Rigorous, thoughtful assessments ensure that innovations can move beyond a pilot phase. These questions will help you generate proofs of concept and lessons learned from initial trials of new techniques.
Course Redesign Selection Criteria
At Austin Peay State University, academic leaders encouraged faculty members to redesign courses through a redesign grant competition. Proposals that met the criteria below received support from the institution’s Center for Teaching and Learning.
Complementary Hybrid Scheduling Planner
Institutions that pair hybrid courses with complementary schedules in the same classroom are better able to maximize space utilization. This guide will help academic leaders and registrar staff determine which courses have non-overlapping space needs.
Alternative Tenure Requirements Sample
At the University of Minnesota-Rochester, tenure-track “design faculty” must fulfill a research requirement to obtain tenure. Rather than focusing primarily on their field of study, their research must focus first and foremost on student learning. See an excerpt from the institution’s departmental statement.
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