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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the benefits of participating in IMPACT for faculty?

  • Time and opportunity to carefully consider the delivery and content of their course, learn about new teaching pedagogies that encourage active learning, and reflect upon the structure of their course.
  • Priority access to Purdue's innovative spaces for course delivery.
  • Participation in a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) as an IMPACT Faculty Fellow, providing and receiving support from the other cohort Faculty Fellows during the design, development, and delivery of the redesigned course.
  • Individual consultation and development resources from the Center of Instructional Excellence (CIE), Informational Technology at Purdue (ITaP), Discovery Learning Resource Center (DLRC), and Purdue University Libraries.
  • The potential for research and publication in their discipline area or as contributions to the scholarship of teaching and learning.
  • Potential for enrichment of faculty dossiers with pedagogical innovations.
  • See also, Value to Purdue Community.

What courses are eligible?

While all undergraduate classes are open to the program, priority will be given to courses that are: foundational (freshman/sophomore level), have large enrollments, and are currently experiencing low Confidence and Competency Rate. Examples of course redesigns that may be proposed in the IMPACT program include:

  1. Traditional/Face-to-Face Enhanced: a traditional face-to-face course, enhanced with both innovative pedagogy and/or use of several instructional technology solutions.
  2. Blended or Hybrid: instruction is conducted partly online and partly face-to-face, with a key distinguishing factor of using the reduced seat time to emphasize active learning.
  3. Online: offered totally online and primarily asynchronous.

What are the expectations of faculty members selected to participate in IMPACT?

  1. Develop and follow a course redesign plan and assessment strategy in consultation with IMPACT staff.
  2. Meet regularly with assigned IMPACT staff to work through your course redesign plan and develop content for your course redesign.
  3. Beginning January 2012 through the summer of 2012, participate in regular meetings, training and workshops of the Faculty Learning Community (FLC) cohort, facilitated by other faculty and IMPACT staff, as well as attend other IMPACT events such as presentations from invited speakers.
  4. Participate in IMPACT program assessment activities, which will include surveys and/or interviews with you, and surveys and/or observations of your course and students.
  5. More broadly, become leaders of continued improvement with respect to teaching on the Purdue campus. This includes providing feedback to the IMPACT steering committee about your experience, serving as a mentor to future IMPACT Fellows, and sharing insights with colleagues.

How do I get support for course redesign?

Instructors in the IMPACT program work with teams of course and curriculum developers from the Center for Instructional Excellence, ITaP, Libraries, Extended Campus and the Discovery Learning Research Center to redesign their courses. The faculty cohort is also part of a faculty learning community. Delworth says the time spent working with faculty members from many disciplines has been rewarding.