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Facilitation and Engagement for Professional Engineers

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This series is designed for Program Directors, Instructors, and Staff.

Meaningful engagement is fundamental to learner success. This workshop series showcases excellent facilitation and engagement practices that are rooted in evidenced-based frameworks and leverage innovative learning technologies.

Welcome & Overview

Resources

Sessions

Learning Objectives

  • Identify 10+ Facilitation Strategies to implement in your course – whether online, HyFlex, or in-person.
  • Explain how Facilitation Strategies foster an inclusive and welcoming learning environment and engage learners.
  • Identify 1-2 facilitation strategies to implement in your next course.

Agenda

  • Welcome and Overview
  • Facilitating adult learning
  • Facilitation skill benefits
  • Questioning skills
  • Facilitation Dos and Don’ts
  • Reflection and Q&A

1. Facilitation Strategies

Featuring: Jon Wellik + Susan Ottmann

Event Details

  • Date: July 17, 2024
  • Time: 11am-12pm CT
  • Location: Pyle Center, Room 235 + Zoom (HyFlex)

Summary

This workshop is an interactive session aimed at equipping participants with effective strategies and techniques for leading engaging and productive discussions, and facilitating effective question and answer sessions.

Feedback Survey & Resources

2. Check on Learning

Featuring: Chris Dakes + Kevin Rogers

Event Details

  • Date: August 8, 2024
  • Time: 3-4pm CT
  • Location: Zoom

Summary

This interactive session will explain the importance of formative assessment in teaching and showcase check-on-learning techniques used in online, HyFlex, and in-person courses.

Feedback Survey & Resources

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the importance of formative assessment in teaching professional engineers
  • Identify various check-on-learning techniques to be used as formative assessment, designed for learner-content engagement
  • Design and implement check-on-learning strategies in your teaching practice
  • Use the check-on-learning results as feedback to inform your teaching practice

Agenda

  • Welcome and Overview
  • Check on learning examples and considerations
  • Breakout room discussions
  • Reflection and Q&A

Learning Objectives

  • Identify various digital annotation tools and their functionalities
  • Select the most appropriate tool for your teaching context.
  • Use the tools to facilitate annotated presentations and student collaboration

Agenda

  • Welcome and Overview
  • Annotation tools, techniques, and selection
  • Practice using tools
  • Reflection and Q&A

3. Digital Annotation Tools

Featuring: Steve Fredette + John Ross

Event Details

  • Date: September 20, 2024
  • Time: 9-10am CT
  • Location: Pyle Center + Zoom (HyFlex)

Summary

This session introduces participants to annotation tools and selection criteria and provides hands-on practice annotating course presentations.

Feedback Survey & Resources

4. Peer-to-Peer Learning

Featuring: Trevor Manning + Patrick Flannery

Event Details

  • Date: January 9, 2025
  • Time: 4-5pm CT
  • Location: Zoom

Summary

This session showcases active learning strategies and methods for promoting a safe space for peer collaboration.

Feedback Survey & Resources

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the importance of peer learning.
  • List formative assessment and active learning strategies that promote peer learning and collaboration.
  • Select the most appropriate peer learning strategy for your teaching context.
  • Implement effective facilitation techniques that promote peer-to-peer interaction, fostering a collaborative learning environment.

Agenda

  • Welcome and Overview
  • Peer learning strategies showcase and examples
  • Topic Summary & Reflection

Learning Objectives

  • Identify peer review and feedback strategies.
  • Define effective feedback, set clear expectations, and learner roles.
  • Facilitate peer review and feedback in your course, leveraging educational technology.
  • Cultivate a culture of peer feedback as an opportunity for collaborative learning and growth.

Agenda

  • Welcome and Overview
  • Peer review strategies presentation
  • Peer review learning tools
  • Q&A

5. Peer Review & Feedback

Featuring: Bart Skarzynski

Event Details

  • Date: February 14, 2025
  • Time: 11am-12pm CT
  • Location: Zoom

Summary

In this session, explore strategies and educational technology used to facilitate effective peer review and feedback.

Feedback Survey & Resources

6. Project & Teams

Featuring: Raj Kamal

Event Details

  • Date: March 14, 2025
  • Time: 11am-12pm CT
  • Location: Zoom

Summary

This session shares strategies for designing and facilitating effective teamwork: from group formation, to assessment, to conflict resolution, this workshop will equip you with tools to facilitate successful student collaboration.

Feedback Survey & Resources

Learning Objectives

Learn best practices for developing and facilitating team-based projects, to include:

  • Facilitate group work
  • Assign groups
  • Establish roles, rubrics, and expectations for the project and the group, and communication channels
  • Design assessments and accountability, individual vs. group assessment
  • Support effective team dynamics

Agenda

  • Welcome and Overview
  • Guest presentations
  • Reflection and Q&A

Summary & Reflection

Resources