1. A Curriculum Redesign Conundrum: Facilitating Faculty Professional Development and Engagement Around Instructional Methods and New Educational Technologies

2. Contact Information Amanda Albright Instructional Technology Support Specialist Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth amanda.l.albright@dartmouth.edu Brian Reid Associate Director of Computing Curriculum Applications Specialist Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth brian.p.reid@dartmouth.edu Virginia Lyons Associate Professor of Anatomy Assistant Dean of Year 1 Curriculum Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth virginia.t.lyons@dartmouth.edu Alison Ricker Program Administrator Office of Medical Education Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth alison.d.ricker@dartmouth.edu

3. Session Goals  Discuss the challenges around engaging basic science and clinical faculty in professional development opportunities around improving fluency with educational technology.  Identify marketing and communication methods to announce availability of professional development opportunities and support basic science and clinical faculty.  Identify methods for delivering professional development opportunities and instructional resources to faculty learners with different preferences and needs.  Develop a list of best practices for facilitating faculty discussions around instructional methods and educational technologies being integrated into the new curriculum.

4. Session Overview  Introduction and Goals (5 min)  Group Discussion: Shared Challenges (10 min)  Breakout Groups: Essential Questions (55 min)  Summary/Report Findings (10 min)  Closing Thoughts/Next Steps (10 min)

5. Shared Challenges  What challenges have you experienced during the curriculum reform process and/or the implementation of new pedagogies and technologies for instruction?  What are the sources of resistance?  How do these challenges translate to issues for engaging faculty in discussions around the new curriculum, instructional methods, and professional development?

6. Essential Questions Marketing and Communications  What challenges have you encountered with marketing and communicating the availability of professional development opportunities and instructional support?  What methods for marketing and communication have you found successful? What was not as successful?  What new or different ideas have you heard about but have not yet tried?  Who provides professional development opportunities around teaching and learning at your institutions?

7. Essential Questions Methods for Engaging Faculty  What challenges have you encountered engaging faculty in professional development?  What methods have you used for engaging basic science and clinical faculty in professional development opportunities around instructional methods and improving fluency with educational technology?  How were these methods determined - needs analysis, survey, trial and error, or other methods?  Which methods are most widely used?

8. Essential Questions Facilitating Faculty Discussion  What are some of the practices you have found most useful for facilitating faculty discussions/sharing of best practices around instructional methods?  Do the same practices apply to discussions about integrating new educational technologies?