Plan It, But Will They Come? Attracting Faculty to a Campus Technology Conference Kim Round, Ph.D. Director of Instructional Technology Saint Anselm College March 25, 2014 Copyright Kim Round 2014. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.

How many of you are involved with planning a faculty development conference? (1/3 of the audience was currently involved in faculty development)

What are the biggest challenges? Audience responses: Finances Scheduling when faculty are available Mustering resources Gaining faculty interest

At Saint Anselm College, the challenges around our week-long Summer Faculty Institute looked like this: Limited to 7 participants Interest had waned Engage more faculty No General Sessions Many of the same faculty were participating

Who is our learner? How do we engage him? BYOD - We don’t know what is in his physical backpack BYOApp – We don’t know what is in his digital backpack

Turning to Educause

Dr Michael Wesch “A View of Students Today”

Attracting Collaborators CTE IT&D Library Center for Teaching Excellence Credibility Consulting Peer contributions Instructional Technology and Design $7K Budget Leadership Technology and ID knowledge SFI ‘13 Geisel Library Consulting Information Resource knowledge

Program Development Scaffolding Educause On-Campus Tool Kit Vision of Students Today Engaging Students at Saint Anselm College General Track: Knowledgeable to Knowledge-Able Cohort Track: Flipped Classroom lesson planning.

But, would they come? Six Weeks Before Finalizing program with CTE and Library IT&D sends “Save the Date” and Cohort Call for Proposals emails Four Weeks Before One Cohort proposal trickles in IT&D continues efforts to promote the redesigned SFI ‘13 with faculty Three Weeks Before We reach out to our Library and CTE collaborators for help Three-prong marketing effort begins, as CTE and Library promote SFI ’13

They’re coming!! Two Weeks Before One Week Before Five Days Before RSVP’s are rolling in Order food! One Week Before 40 General Track Attendees 15 Cohort Attendee Proposals Dean approves requests for additional stipends How to restructure the Cohort to work with additional people? Five Days Before Order more food! Inform Library of need to restructure the Cohort program Float possible options for Cohort restructuring Repair relationship with the Library

Outcomes What worked well Not so much… One third of the faculty attended SFI ’13 overall Fifteen faculty members spend the week with us Compressed IT&D strategic planning session Roughly 50% of cohort gave their flipped lessons in the Fall. Increased collaboration this year with faculty – not just about “tools” Attendance was used for IT&D and Dean’s Office performance metrics Increased CTE and Library interest in SFI ‘14 collaboration We turned one of our largest detractors into an evangelist Not so much… Vendor participation Roughly 50% of cohort gave their flipped lessons in the Fall. IT&D needed to do more follow up to help people stay on track.

Ongoing SFI Experience via EC

What about SFI ‘14! Same Formula Plus General track Cohort track Lots of food Plus Media Monday Cohort peer mentors from SFI ’13 Increased IT&D follow up after Institute

Thank you for your interest!

Acknowledgements Adam Albina, CIO, Saint Anselm College Dr. Jaime Orrego, Saint Anselm College Dr. Michael Wesch, Kansas State University Educause Saint Anselm Instructional Technology Team Saint Anselm Geisel Library Team Saint Anselm Center for Teaching Excellence