My colleagues in the VCU Center for Teaching Excellence spent an hour this morning debriefing our experience at the first OpenVA Conference held October 14-15 at University of Mary Washington‘s Stafford Campus. Our Jeff Nugent was on the organizing committee for this conference, with strong input from our colleagues at UMW like Jim Groom and Martha Burtis, as well as cool outside speakers like Alan “CogDog” Levine and Audrey Watters. It was a homecoming in some regards for our new Vice Provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success, Gardner Campbell, who spoke at several sessions.
In our podcast, Yin Wah Kreher suggested that we use the 4 C’s thinking routine as a guide for today’s discussion.
- Connections: How does it connect to what we already know?
- Challenges: What do we find challenging?
- Concepts: What are the big ideas?
- Changes: How have our actions and attitudes changed as a result?
All in all, a great learning experience…it will be fun to think about how “open” continues to impact education in Virginia and globally!
