October 6, 2020 sseipp

Professional Development Opportunities

Campus Compact “Fusion Course: Enhancing Online Education through Community-Based Learning”

Presented by Campus Compact, Boston, MA
  • July 13-24
  • July 28-31 (accelerated one-week session)
  • August 3-14
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many institutions had to rapidly shift from in-person to online learning. The Fusion Course aims to provide critical training and support for faculty as they adapt to online teaching and offers instruction for how to integrate community engagement methodologies into existing curricula to improve the quality of course delivery and foster student engagement.
Through this faculty development course, learn how to infuse community-based learning into online courses to give students hands-on, real-world experience that will strengthen learning, create connections to the larger community, and improve student retention rates.

Hear From Faculty:

It was incredibly powerful. It helped me see how I could support OCEL intern students this semester and moving forward. I also learned ways to continue the experiential learning part of my courses even while mostly teaching online. Finally, it introduced me to new pedagogical techniques and tools to use while online teaching.

-Taneisha Means, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science on the Class of 1951 Chair, Vassar College

I came away from the Fusion Course much more prepared for this semester than had I not taken it. The Fusion Course provided a common vocabulary, key questions to ask and keep in mind during any semester for any course, and the necessary tools for me to plan a course blueprint that had structure but was also flexible. The daily and weekly assignments provided a structure to think certain issues related to community-engaged learning that I plan on continuing going forward and will implement in a future community-engaged learning course.

-Osman Nemli, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Vassar College

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