IU Indianapolis Digital Faculty Fellows
IU Indianapolis Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer Kathy Johnson invited interested IU Indianapolis faculty to apply to be part of the inaugural cohort of Digital Faculty Fellows. The Digital Fellows program is a one-year program that began in January 2019 and includes support from the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Office of Academic Affairs. Digital Fellows will form a community of practice, supported by the CTL, to investigate, evaluate, and implement digital courseware and/or adaptive learning tools appropriate for a gateway face-to-face undergraduate course. Digital courseware is instructional content that is designed to support delivery of face-to-face or online courses through software built specifically for educational purposes. It includes assessment that enables instruction or practice to be personalized for each learner and can be delivered through a single product or through the intentional integration of different products. (Source: Courseware in Context: http://coursewareincontext.org/defining-digital-courseware/). Such tools include McGraw-Hill Connect, Pearson MyLab and Mastering, and many others that are available through the IU eText program (see https://kb.iu.edu/d/bfbn for a list of these tools), as well as tools to support skills like coding or writing that may not be bundled with a particular text. Fellows are expected to work with a principal digital learning consultant from the Center for Teaching and Learning to redesign a course for the fall 2019 semester to include digital pedagogies. They are supported in assessing and evaluating the impact of the course redesign in order to help sustain and/or scale the redesigned course in subsequent semesters. The ultimate purpose of the course redesign is to improve undergraduate student engagement, instruction, academic performance, and retention.