Stephanie, could you expand on the Academic Relation's "New Faculty" orientation. What are some possible ways to connect SCoPE and the New Faculty Communities?
I imagine the new faculty community space to be fairly transient, although much of the content there is valuable for existing faculty as well. I see one obvious linkage -- that new faculty be informed about SCoPE as a way to find and share resources and engage in discussions related to teaching and learning research and practice.
This brings us back to that question again about how to provide an area in SCoPE that is relevant to SFU faculty only. For example, if we wanted to schedule a virtual tour for SFU faculty to orient them to the resources and services available at SFU (like the presentation you did that was so well received), would that be an activity appropriate for SCoPE? or a New Faculty Community?
Stephanie and Sylvia,
It's so wonderful to have this great forum!
Two areas that I'd like to see discussed are:
1. The processes that we use when we do instructional design.
2. Project managment tips and techniques that are specific to the learning and instructional design process.
Vivian
It's so wonderful to have this great forum!
Two areas that I'd like to see discussed are:
1. The processes that we use when we do instructional design.
2. Project managment tips and techniques that are specific to the learning and instructional design process.
Vivian
Great topics, Vivian! I think #1, "processes we use when we do instructional design" would be a good seminar to launch the community. It would also be a great online workshop. Is there a model that instructional designers in eLINC follow that could serve as a framework?
Sylvia,
We don't follow one model, but I would like to see that change. I'd like to hear about what models others at SFU use and drawing from the best parts of the these, develop a model for ourselves. Moreover, we have a wealth of expertise here and we are always happy to share it.
Note that the eLINC name recently changed to Educational Support and Innovation Unit, or ESI.
Vivian
We don't follow one model, but I would like to see that change. I'd like to hear about what models others at SFU use and drawing from the best parts of the these, develop a model for ourselves. Moreover, we have a wealth of expertise here and we are always happy to share it.
Note that the eLINC name recently changed to Educational Support and Innovation Unit, or ESI.
Vivian
Related to Stephanie's proposal on sharing resources, I'm hoping to set up a similar space for the new faculty members at Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS). FHS is a brand new Faculty at SFU. All the faculty members coming in this fall will be new. There are ten of them. In my conversation with their Associate Dean, Charmaine Dean, she expressed the importance of getting the new faculties to help each other through sharing ideas, tips, and resources since they have no old people to turn to within their Faculty. This trigered my idea of gathering them here. I'm thinking it'd be an ideal community place for them to share if we can get them started.
Stephanie and I are preparing a workshop on accessing teaching resources at SFU for these new faculty member on Sept 14. I'm hoping that we can introduce this place to them and get them started at the workshop.
How do you like the idea? What is the best way to get things prepared here before we give the workshop?
Stephanie and I are preparing a workshop on accessing teaching resources at SFU for these new faculty member on Sept 14. I'm hoping that we can introduce this place to them and get them started at the workshop.
How do you like the idea? What is the best way to get things prepared here before we give the workshop?
Cindy's proposal to set up a "space" for special interests is a concept we would like to promote in SCoPE. We'll need to work through some of the logistics of doing this. Some questions that come to mind are:
- What community tools would SIG moderators need access to. For example, would they need more a forum?
- Is there any reason you can think of to keep a SIG private? For example, we have a private SIG here (TeleSCoPE) for technical behind-the-scenes discussions where security info might be revealed. Other than obvious cases like, what is the value, and what are the disadvantages of private SIGS?