1. Designing Learning Outcomes
Student Affairs Workshop
March 12, 2019
Tine Reimers and Kathleen Bortolin
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning

2. Introductions

3. What are we doing?

4. 2 Questions
What should students have learned as a result of interactions with your unit when they leave VIU?
2. How does your area have an impact on the student experience at VIU?

5. CIEL
What should students (faculty) have learned as a result of interactions with (the CIEL) when they leave VIU?
Faculty will have more tools and strategies to use moving forward given their specific questions about student learning and their context
Faculty will know how to create engaging classes
Faculty will have created relationships with specialists and know that they can come to us when they have questions or ideas

6. Learning experiences can become more student-centered and engaging
How does your area (the CIEL) have an impact on the faculty and student experience at VIU?
Learning experiences can become more student-centered and engaging
Assessment and evaluation can become more in-line with learning outcomes
Educational technologies can be leveraged for greater accessibility in learning
Classrooms can become more inclusive and safer
Faculty can become more confident and find more joy in teaching

7. Your turn…
1. What should students have learned as a result of interactions with your unit when they leave VIU?
2. How does your area have an impact on the student experience at VIU?

8. Once you have your statements written…
Write them onto the giant post-its provided, and stick them on the wall.

9. Gallery Walk: read others’ answers
Place a coloured sticky note next to items that seem to pertain to 2 or more units in Student Affairs
(if there’s already one there, don’t bother adding!)
See what you get done in Student Affairs!
And see the specific contributions each area makes to the whole impact of Student Affairs

10. What do we (CIEL) DO to make these things happen?
What should the faculty have learned as a result of interactions with your unit (the CIEL)?
Faculty will have more tools and strategies to use moving forward given their specific questions about student learning and their context
Faculty will know how to create engaging classes
Faculty will have created relationships with specialists and know that they can come to us when they have questions or ideas
Offer individual consultations aimed at analyzing faculty needs and context, and devising appropriate tools to reach faculty goals
Offer Course (Re)design Intensives focused on student engagement
Offer workshops emphasizing tools for student engagement and learning
Follow up with faculty who have contacted us, meet them where and when they wish it, and keep all our communication confidential.

11. What do we (CIEL) DO to make these things happen?
How does your area (the CIEL) have an impact on the faculty and student experience at VIU?
Offer individual consultations aimed at the student experience
Offer workshops that model student-centred practice experientially
Offer Course (Re)design Intensives and workshops focused on learning outcomes and assessment
Offer workshops and consultations emphasizing what educational technology tools can do
Work with faculty in Indigenous Learning Circles, and in consultation around creating classroom community
Ensure that all of our communications are supportive, and encourage faculty to reflect on how changes in their practice affect them and their students
Learning experiences can become more student- centered and engaging
Assessment and evaluation can become more in-line with learning outcomes
Educational technologies can be leveraged for greater accessibility in learning
Classrooms can become more inclusive and safer
Faculty can become more confident and find more joy in teaching

12. Creating Buy-in Back “at Home”
Schedule a meeting to go through the same process we just did OR
Send colleagues a description of this meeting’s activities, and a draft of your answers…ask for feedback
Ensure there is reciprocal communication: Integrate feedback, and send them a new version for more feedback before ‘finalizing’ (by March 21)
Stress the value-added to your unit from this exercise:
Communally agreed upon goals
Clear expectations for implementation and outcomes of activities
Greater clarity in talking with others about your contributions to VIU
Other?