by Heather Keith
This session will explore the usefulness of an innovation checklist in course design, aimed at creating courses that are engaging, motivating, community-building, exciting, useful, creative, and offer what Dewey called “an experience.” The checklist includes active, experiential, sustainable, and service-based learning, and investigates design experiments such as pop-up courses that flip our understanding of traditional pedagogical structures and create greater opportunities for student success and their ability to contribute to solutions to the problems of our time. Examples from recently offered courses will be presented, and participants will workshop their courses via the checklist.
Heather Keith is Executive Director of Faculty Development and Professor of Philosophy at Radford University. Her teaching and research interests include ethics, wicked problems, American philosophy, and holistic faculty and student success.