Future of Learning Symposium
View the recordings:
- Session 1 (March 23, 2022)
- Session 2 (March 30, 2022)
- Session 3 (April 6, 2022)
- Session 4 (April 13, 2022)
As part of Purdue’s Classroom Mastering Planning process, which itself stems from the Transformative Education 2.0 Purdue Move, Innovation Hub was pleased to organize a four-part virtual symposium series on the future of learning. We convened national thought leaders, Purdue local experts, and the Purdue community at large in a series of conversations about the future of learning and its likely impacts on the physical and virtual learning spaces associated with Purdue’s residential learning programs.
The goal of the symposium series was to engage the Purdue community in critical discussions about the future of teaching and learning and the central role that instructional spaces will play.
Each session will be moderated by Dr. Jenna Rickus, Purdue’s Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning. Dr. Rickus introduced panelists, framed the session, invited questions from participants, and moderated the discussion to be aspirational, thought-provoking, and positive.
The four sessions were:
Panel 1: Trends and Disruptors that Shape Instructional Space (March 23, 2022)
Panelists:
- Dr. Terri Givens, Professor of Political Science at McGill University, author of Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridge Racial Divides
- Dr. David Staley, Professor of History at Ohio State University, author of Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education
- Dr. Edward Berger, Professor of Engineering Education and Mechanical Engineering, and Inaugural Associate Vice Provost for Learning Innovation, Director of the Innovation Hub at Purdue University
Panel 2: Learning at Scale — Innovations in Instructional Delivery (March 30, 2022)
Panelists:
- Dr. John Dorbolo, Philosophy Professor at Oregon State University, Principal Investigator on the Geometry of Learning Project
- Julie Johnston, Director of Learning Spaces at Indiana Bloomington, key partner on IU’s Mosaic Project
- Dr. Chantal Levesque-Bristol, Professor of Educational Studies and Executive Director of the Center for Instructional Excellence at Purdue University
Panel 3: Pollinating Open Space — Libraries, Innovation Centers, and Other Spaces for Cross-Disciplinary Discovery (April 6, 2022)
Panelists:
- Cheryl Kiser, Executive Director, Institute for Social Innovation at Babson College
- Dr. Emily Sherwood, Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Rochester
- Dr. Beth McNeil, Dean and Professor, Libraries and School of Information Studies at Purdue University
Panel 4: Innovative Residential Learning — When Living and Learning Merge (April 13, 2022)
Panelists:
- Dr. Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas, Professor of Education at University of Virginia, author of Living-Learning Communities That Work: A Research-Based Model for Design, Delivery and Assessment
- Dr. Jillian Kinzie, Associate Director, Center for Postsecondary Research and the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Institute at Indiana University, author of One Size Does Not Fit All: Traditional and Innovative Models of Student Affairs Practice
- Dr. Emily Allen, Professor of English and Founding Director of the Blue Sky Teaching and Learning Laboratory (Honors College) at Purdue University