From Survive to T.H.R.I.V.E. Summer 2020

Thrive Digital Badge

COVID-19 altered our focus for 2020/2021.  We reinvisioned faculty development to support a fully virtual Fall. June 15th we embarked on a 10-week journey, facilitating virtual teaching preparation for 250 faculty participating in a variety of asynchronous, synchronous, self-paced and community engagement options. T.H.R.I.V.E. stands for the tenants we believe necessary to keep faculty and students teaching and learning in a dispersed online community: T (Teaching & Technology), H (High-Touch & Human Centered), R(Revise & Reenergize), I (Interaction & Impact), V (Variability & Vulnerability), E (Equity, Empathy & Engagement).   

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All T.H.R.I.V.E participants earned a stipend and digital badge by completing the following:

  1. Completion of T.H.R.I.V.E. Orientation: From Survive to T.H.R.I.V.E. (3 Modules)
  2. Submission of a Personal Learning Plan or Group Charter and Group Learning Plan
  3. 15-20 hours engagement in Professional Learning (Foundations Labs/MicroCourses)
  4. Submission of a Capstone Project

225 Faculty earned their T.H.R.I.V.E. Completion Badge.

QLT Foundations Course

Our QA Faculty Lead and a Learning Design Special Consultant to support our Learning Designer in developing and are facilitating the T.H.R.I.V.E. Orientation Course and a Foundations Course with five modules called labs. Foundations was meant to support faculty new to online course design and facilitation  Each Lab aligned to five  instructional characteristics identified as influential in student academic success, especially for minoritized students (Joosten and Cusatis, 2019). These five instructional characteristics also align with specific sections from QLT:

  1. Lab 1: Design and Organization (QLT 1) – 167 Completers
  2. Lab 2: Learner Support (QLT 1&7) – 169 Completers
  3. Lab 3: Student Interaction with the Instructor (QLT 4&5)- 168 Completers
  4. Lab 4: Content Design and Delivery (QLT 3&8) – 154 Completers
  5. Lab 5: Assessment (QLT 2) – 152 Completers

139 Participants completed all five labs, earning the Foundations for Online Teaching & Learning Badge

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Funds from CSUCI Leadership allowed us to partner with expert faculty and staff to design and facilitate Enrichment MicroCourses. Each MicroCourse includes a variety of modules on subtopics.  Participants had to option to complete some or all of the modules in the MicroCourse. Those completing at least one module in a microcourse earned a digital badge. Below are links to each badge and the total number of completers.

  1. Assessment and Feedback – 43 Completerss
  2. Asynchronous Engagement  – 67 Completers
  3. Synchronous Engagement  – 66 Completers
  4. Equity In Action – 53 Completers
  5. OpenCI 3.0 (AL$)  – 21 Completers

Outcomes

225 faculty completed with 95% rating the overall experience as Good and Excellent. Completers included 97 tenure track,128 lecturers, and two staff participants. As such 52% of Fall courses were taught by faculty completers meaning 91% of students had at least one course taught by a prepared faculty member. 

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