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Marvin
Van Kekerix
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Mary
Crave
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So What? Says Who? Building Capacity to Measure and
Communicate the Impact of Outreach Programs
Marvin
Van Kekerix, Provost and Vice Chancellor, University
of Wisconsin-Extension
Mary Crave, Program Impact Initiative Leader,
University of Wisconsin-Extension
Educators
engaged in outreach know what they do is important.
But can they justify it and describe the benefits to
community members, university administrators, fellow
faculty, and other stakeholders? This session will discuss
the University of Wisconsin-Extension's Program Impact
Initiative and the kinds of policies, resources, and
capacity needed to evaluate and communicate the human,
environmental, economic, or civic impact of outreach
programs. Initiative leaders will review the administrative,
training, technical, and collegial support needed for
such an initiative and how the results can be used with
legislators, local decision makers, and the people we
serve, as well as for program improvement.
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Lawrence
C. Ragan
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Melody
Thompson
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Outreach
Scholarship: Research Initiatives in Online Faculty
Engagement
Lawrence
C. Ragan, Director of Instructional Design and Development,
Penn State World Campus
Melody Thompson, Director of the American
Center for the Study of Distance Education, College
of Education, Penn State
Faculty
play a critical role in the successful design, development,
and delivery of online instruction. Transforming the
teaching and learning model from a face-to-face one
to teaching at a distance presents several challenges
to the faculty. Particularly challenging for online
faculty is offering students high levels of engagement
without being overwhelmed by the workload this can entail.
Outreach scholarship should be based in a combination
of research-to-practice and practice-to-research approaches
that can contribute valuable insights into this and
other online faculty challenges. This workshop will
present the results of several research projects sponsored
by Penn State World Campus and designed to study and
develop strategies for addressing the issue of faculty's
online workload. Using these research projects as examples,
we will also engage participants in a discussion of
the process of outreach scholarship and identification
of additional areas for research and other scholarly
activity.
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Lorilee
Sandmann
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Patricia
Book
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Creating
Systems to Support Outreach Scholarship
Lorilee
Sandmann, Co-director of the Clearinghouse and National
Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement, and
Associate Professor of Adult Education, The University
of Georgia
Patricia Book, Vice President for Regional Development,
Kent State University
Hiram E. Fitzgerald, Assistant Provost for University
Outreach and Engagement, Michigan State University
How
do institutions fully realize the potential of the scholarship
of engagement? How have colleges and universities created
systems to support the scholarship of engagement? What
processes or steps have institutions taken to create
institutional alignment? This workshop will provide
teams with an opportunity to gain lessons learned from
universities that have established shared definitions
of outreach scholarship, standards of quality outreach,
and criteria for evaluation. Institutions will share
how institutional alignment is being planned and achieved.
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