Bring Your Own Device to explore inventive models of faculty support while gaining practical strategies for implementing BYOD learning activities in the classroom.
A major barrier to faculty innovation is inadequate development in and support of trying anything new in their teaching and learning approaches. This fact is widely acknowledged in the scholarly and contemporary literature, yet very little is being done about it. Short of significant restructuring and reprioritizing at the highest levels of administration, what can we do at the grassroots level to address this challenge? Join us as we simultaneously examine a new model for faculty development while also acquiring hands-on practice and strategies to implement Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) tasks in the classroom. We'll share our experience in creating a tri-modal faculty development workshop series on innovative pedagogical approaches that are supported by intentionally selected technological tools. Then you'll participate in one segment of one workshop, namely, how to design effective Bring Your Own Device learning activities in your own classroom. In this way you'll learn about a novel approach to developing and supporting faculty, thereby removing a significant barrier to innovation. You'll also interact in small groups, on your own devices, in order to gather skills and strategies on a current hot topic, how to do BYOD in your classroom: what to avoid, what not to do, and what is proven to work. At the end of the session we'll ask for your findings and ideas in order to elicit and benefit from the expertise each attendee brings. You'll receive presentation slides and additional online handouts and resources. Walk away with a faculty development program that can be replicated on your campus and an example learning activity to try next week.