Dee Fink & Associates is a consulting group of 3 individuals who offer workshops on Integrated Course Design. They have all been selected because of their prior experience in offering campus workshops and have undergone training in how to this workshop on course design.
Some information about what this group can do is provided here. For further information, check our website: www.deefinkandassociates.com
Campus Workshops
General Workshop on “Integrated Course Design”: These individuals frequently offer workshops on college or university campuses. These range in length from ½ day, 1 day, to 2 days long. The longer the workshop, the more workshop participants can get into actually make design decisions for their own courses.
These workshops are the most cost effective because the cost is amortized among many people from that campus.
Workshop Specifically on “Designing Online and Hybrid Courses”: Two of the Associates have put together a workshop on this topic. It can be done as a 1-day or 2-day workshop.
The first half is about the basic principles of Integrated Course Design; the second half is about the additional issues and tools that are needed for courses that will operate completely or partially in an online environment.
Annual National Workshop
We conduct a national workshop each year in late May, on “Designing Your Courses for Greater Student Engagement and Better Student Learning.” This is the most powerful workshop we do, for two reasons: We have more time (2 ½ days) and we provide individualized feedback on the work of each participant.
By the end of the workshop, each participant will have two major “take away’s”:
- They will have learned the full set of procedures for designing any course.
- They will have completed each step of the design process for one course of their own choosing.
The next national workshop will be on May 20-23, 2011 in Minneapolis, MN. For more information on this workshop, go to this webpage: http://www.deefinkandassociates.com/index.php/workshops/minneapolis-workshop-2011/
International Workshops
From time to time, Dee Fink or one of the Associates offers workshops in countries outside North America. In the past few years, one or another of us have offered workshops in: Peru, New Zealand, China, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Kuwait, Lebanon, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Germany.
One Associate (Lynn Sorenson) has done and can do the workshop in Spanish. Another person who is about to become an Associate (Michael Ghoulam, from Lebanon) can do the workshop in Arabic.
Recently, we did international workshops and/or presentations in:
Netherlands:
- Tilburg University in Ticer, Netherlands is offering a course for librarians on “Digital Libraries à la Carte”. Stewart Ross, a member of Dee Fink & Associates, will be teaching a module on how libraries can work with faculty members as “Partners in Teaching and Learning”. Contact person: Jola Prinsen. Email: jola.prinsen@uvt.nl
Germany
- This coming October, Dee Fink will be leading staff workshops at two universities.
- Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld, October 7-8, 2010. Contact person: Stefanie Haacke, email: stefanie.haack@uni-bielefeld.de
- Karlsruhe: Universität Karlsruhe (TH), October 21-22, 2010. Contact person: Marianne Aders, email: Marianne.Aders@zvw.uni-karlsruhe.de