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We are excited to welcome you to the 2017 Teaching, Learning & Innovation Summer Institute (TLISI) at Georgetown University, May 22-25 in the Healey Family Student Center. We have an exciting programming schedule to offer you that includes innovative sessions, workshops, keynote speakers, social hours and more! Please use this tool, SCHED, to select the individual sessions you would like to attend throughout the week of TLISI. Please note—we recommend you select your sessions as soon as possible, as some sessions are capped at specific capacities! If you have any questions, please email tlisi@georgetown.edu. Thank you and we’ll see you in May!
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James Olsen

Georgetown University
Asst Director CNDLS & Adjunct
Experience, Reflection, and Action Online: Using Ignatian Pedagogy as a Social Justice Framework for Designing Online and Hybrid Courses

Kim Huisman Lubreski, Assistant Director of Learning Design (Georgetown University)
Mindy McWilliams, Senior Associate Director for Assessment and Programs (Georgetown University)
James Olsen, Assistant Director, Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship, Adjunct Professor (Georgetown University)

Ignatian Pedagogy is a social justice-oriented approach to education that is grounded in local context, community, and relationships. In part because of this orientation and grounding, there exists a persistent skepticism concerning its applicability as a design tool for online courses—which are often asynchronous and where students are remotely located. Far from being a mismatch, we claim that Ignatian Pedagogy is ideal for helping educators to mitigate the challenges of atomization and alienation common to online courses. Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS)—which is involved with much of the university’s online development—has intentionally leveraged Ignatian Pedagogy as a paradigm for online and hybrid course design. We share how this has been done, utilizing specific, social justice-oriented courses in ethics and sociology as access points. The former course began in a traditional setting before being redesigned into a fully online course that focuses simultaneously on the disparate locations of its students as well as the shared context of the university’s campus and local issues of justice that are currently of broad concern. The latter course underwent numerous iterations before most recently being taught as a hybrid course in order to better help students move into and reciprocally engage with the greater urban community of which Georgetown is a part. Thoughtful and intentional use of Ignatian Pedagogy as a design tool can make online and hybrid courses into a powerful transformative space for both individual students and larger communities.
Monday, May 22
 

9:30am EDT

11:30am EDT

12:00pm EDT

1:50pm EDT

 
Tuesday, May 23
 

9:00am EDT

9:50am EDT

11:00am EDT

12:10pm EDT

1:50pm EDT

4:00pm EDT

4:30pm EDT

 
Wednesday, May 24
 

9:00am EDT

9:50am EDT

12:10pm EDT

1:50pm EDT

3:00pm EDT

 
Thursday, May 25
 

9:00am EDT