"Imagining the Future of Higher Education: the critical role of instructors and pragmatic strategies for course design”

Regardless of discipline, what would it look like to design our courses for the most pressing needs of our present and future? As instructors, are we each doing the most we can to prepare students for a future reshaped by powerful challenges and opportunities? The discourse and events of recent years suggest that educators need a new narrative for the role we can play shaping a sustainable future, one that prioritizes both integrative learning (cultivating the traits that are most human) and inclusive excellence (seeking success for the broadest range of students). In this space of integration and inclusion, every educator (instructors of all kinds, academic staff) has a critical role. This interactive presentation will explore the ways individual instructors can contribute via course design and classroom instruction. Participants will leave with pragmatic strategies for implementing engaged learning, collecting data on teaching effectiveness, and meeting the demands that are now being placed on higher education.

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