Jason Zahrndt
Program Manager
Digital Media Suite
Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning
jhzahr01@louisville.edu
Michelle Rodems
Director, Graduate Student Professional Development, Retention, & Success
University of Louisville Graduate School
mrrode01@louisville.edu
Eligibility: The Digital Media Academy Faculty Learning Community is open to all faculty and graduate students. The selected cohort is open to all academic disciplines and will be highly interdisciplinary in nature. Experience with media production is not required.
Applicants not selected to participate will be offered the opportunity to attend Adobe special faculty events during the fall, spring or summer semester.
Meetings:
There will be six 2-hour meetings during the Spring 2023 semester.
Mondays, 1 - 3 p.m. on the following dates:
The Digital Media Academy is a collaborative program among the Graduate School, the Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning, and University of Louisville faculty and staff experts. In the Digital Media Academy, graduate students and faculty will learn key principles and frameworks for utilizing digital media to facilitate student learning, communicate research, demonstrate professional growth and development, and network with the university community and beyond.
Each meeting will be composed of technology demonstrations, interactive workshops, professional applications of media creation tools, and/or discussions of theory and application of media for teaching and learning. During the final session, all participants will present a completed media project building on the knowledge and skills gained through the Academy. Each meeting will be held face-to-face in the Digital Media Suite, Ekstrom 114.
Participants will:
Questions? Contact Jason Zahrndt.
A faculty learning community (FLC) is a cross-disciplinary cohort of 8-12 faculty who engage in a collaborative program to ask questions about teaching and learning, explore teaching innovations, assess the impact on student learning, and present and publish scholarship about their work.
Most FLCs meet monthly during the academic year for 2-3 hours per session, but session length and frequency vary by topic. Typically, each participant selects a project related to the topic to explore with the goal of disseminating learning at the conclusion of the FLC. Between sessions, participants read selected resources independently and share information related to the topic with the group.
Most FLC participants report that the experience of collaborating with other faculty, across disciplinary boundaries, on topics of shared interest is stimulating and refreshing. Many develop new projects and research collaborations as a result. Others report gaining greater confidence and experiencing greater enjoyment as teachers.
This program will support participants in the Passport to Teaching Effectiveness in completing the following artifacts: