Cultivating and Measuring
Innovative Learning Outcomes
Organizers
Nancy Budwig, Clark University
Donna Heiland, Emerson College
Participants
Terrel Rhodes, AAC&U
Keith Sawyer, U. of North Carolina
Victor A. Benassi, UNH
Bruce Mallory, UNH
Two Part Session
• PART I:
Cultivating and Measuring Innovative
Learning Outcomes
• PART II: Workshop: How to Build a Culture for
Cultivating and Assessing Innovative
Learning Outcomes
• Both sessions will draw heavily on work
stemming from the developmental and learning
sciences.
Cultivating and Measuring Innovative Learning Outcomes
Framing the Session
Nancy Budwig, Associate Provost and Dean of Research,
Clark University, Worcester, MA
Three guiding questions:
1. Where do innovative learning
outcomes live?
2. How does this impact decisions
about measuring them?
3. How does learning science theory and research provide insight
into the cultivation and assessment of innovative learning
outcomes?
Cultivating and Measuring Innovative Learning Outcomes
Outline of Session
Nancy Budwig: Framing the Session
Terry Rhodes: The AAC&U VALUE Project
Keith Sawyer: Creativity, Group Genius, and the Cultivation
of Innovative Learning Outcomes Across the Curriculum:
Reflections from the Learning Sciences
Victor A. Benassi: Implementing and Measuring Learning
Outcomes Across the Curriculum: Reflections from the
Science of Learning
Donna Heiland: Lead-in to breakout session
Bruce L. Mallory: Session Facilitator
THE INSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE
Donna Heiland, Vice President & Special Assistant to the
President, Emerson College, Boston, MA
• Factors to consider in cultivating specific student
learning outcomes:
• The curriculum: where do we do this work?
• Pedagogy: how do we do this work?
• Institutional culture: what is the role of different
constituencies within the institution?
• Breakouts: strategies for institutional change
PART II: How to Build A Culture for Cultivating
and Assessing Innovative Learning Outcomes
Organizers
Nancy Budwig, Clark University
Donna Heiland, Emerson College
Framing the Breakout Session
Nancy Budwig, Associate Provost and Dean of Research,
Clark University, Worcester, MA
• Goals
• Why breakout format?
• Structure of the session
I.
II.
III.
IV.
Group Work
Gathering and Reporting
Panel Takeaways
Closing Remarks
Breakout Group Organization and Questions
Three groups, each focused on one of the following:
• Faculty
• Student life and co-curricular staff
• Administrators
Questions
• What forms of professional development are needed for a
campus to nurture and assess the development of innovative
learning outcomes such as creativity in students?
• What changes in structures might be needed? What
administrative support? Financial support? Other?
Gathering and Reporting Out
• Each table identifies one challenge and one solution.
What we heard …
• Keith Sawyer, Terry Rhodes, and Victor Benassi offer
short takeaways from the session based on what
they have heard
What happens next?
Donna Heiland, Vice President & Special Assistant
to the President, Emerson College, Boston, MA