This interactive, collaborative workshop will introduce the Tuning process to participants. Working in small groups, participants will collectively define an “intractable curricular problem” at an institution. Such problems might include curricular bloat, general education revision, program reorganization, and retention and graduation issues (including improving assignments). Participants will then use the Tuning process to develop solutions to these problems. The workshop will provide participants with knowledge of the elements of the process, its disciplinary and regional adherents in American higher education (including the state of Utah), and how to introduce Tuning on their own campuses. Because Tuning has been endorsed by disciplinary organizations, it is an ideal process for promoting faculty discussion of and participation in assessment and initiatives to improve student learning. This workshop utilizes some of the insights from design thinking methods to facilitate resolutions to difficult problems where faculty input and engagement is necessary to bring about meaningful institutional changes. Tuning also promotes the idea that assessment is a dynamic, relational practice leading to enhanced educational opportunities for students, not only the practice of documenting student learning.
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Russell Michalak
Gianina Baker
Jay-Marie Bravent
Jamie Wigand
Bruce Richards
Carolyn Comiskey
Tara Rose
