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University of Michigan School of Education website
December 2022
Welcome to the December 2022 newsletter of the UM School of Education’s EdHub for Community and Professional Learning, the School of Education’s center of online learning for families, community advocates, educational professionals, and policy makers. The mission of the EdHub is to catalyze a global community committed to ensuring that all students experience the joy, power, and love of learning.

LOOKING BACK

EdHub Launch

In September of 2022, we launched the EdHub Design Lab to the SOE community and hosted a series of open houses. It was a welcome opportunity to connect with our community members and hear directly from them how they envisioned online and community learning at the School of Education. Here are a series of images from the events.

LXD MOOC Series

Work is really ramping up for the Learning Experience Design (LXD) MOOC series. We are assembling a diverse group of learning professionals who will share their experiences and perspectives throughout these courses. We are also developing immersive learning experiences to replicate a signature pedagogy of learning experience design, where learners engage virtually in apprenticeship and experiential activities, observing and working alongside professionals in the field. Stay tuned for a potential “crossover collaboration” between the Transforming Ed series and the LXD series!

Transforming Education in an Interconnected World MOOC Series

This fall, we assembled a cross-institutional team to collaborate in designing and developing two of the core courses: Practicing Collaborative, Continuous Improvement and Leading Collaborative Continuous Improvement. The team includes members from 19 institutions in the US, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, all of whom collaborate in our partner organizations: the Improvement Scholars Network and the Global Systems Improvement Initiative. We also workshopped this series design with a terrific team of international MA students at the School of Ed. We will begin video production in January, in anticipation of launching in September. Stay tuned!

LOOKING FORWARD

Share your perspectives by completing our Parent Interest Survey immediately below. The EdHub is interested in learning from parents and caregivers about the types of supports and learning opportunities that you need to support your children's educational success from preschool into college. Click the button below to share your perspectives.
Parent Interest Survey
The EdHub offers audio recording and video editing equipment for current SOE faculty, staff, and graduate students to take out on loan. Learn more about the available items via mySOE.
EdHub faculty member Liz Kolb is working with School of Information faculty member Kristin Fontichiaro to offer a second iteration of the UM Digital Wellness Youth and Parent Symposium on January 21, 2023. This symposium explores appropriate technology use for 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Register here.
UX@UM, a conference focused on connecting academia with industry, is accepting applications for their 2023 conference.

COMING EVENTS

A central goal of the EdHub is to connect our community to exciting events, activities, and opportunities in and beyond the University of Michigan. We encourage you learn more about the work of amazing colleagues who are also supporting community and professional learning:

Center for Research, Learning, and Teaching 

Center for Academic Innovation

The Henry Ford’s InHub

Ginsberg Center

Center for Educational Outreach

Learning Health System Collaboratory

CREATE Center
 


Please send us your coming events so that we can feature them in our next newsletter!

GETTING INVOLVED

Thanks to all those who responded to our last email. We are continuously inspired by the creative ideas put forth by our community.

The EdHub is an incubator for faculty-initiated and student-initiated community and professional learning opportunities, with a specific focus on leveraging innovative technologies and approaches to reach educational professionals, parents and families, community members, and policy makers throughout Michigan, across the U.S., and around the world. 

Please complete this form to initiate a conversation with the EdHub about your ideas.

Click Here to Join Us!

CELEBRATING SUCCESS

A tradition in the EdHub is to celebrate the success of our community members as they strive to advance educational access, quality, and equity in their local contexts. Read on to learn about the LXD Interns 1st semester!
 



The fourth cohort of the Learning Experience Design Certificate program is nearing the completion of its first semester. The certificate program, offered through the School of Education and supported by the Rackham Graduate School and the Center for Academic Innovation (CAI), engages students in classroom instruction around the theoretical foundations of learning experience design that support an internship experience at CAI. 
 

During this first semester, students completed an onboarding training and began shadowing ongoing online learning design projects alongside the Learning Experience Design team. Since then, students have contributed to the creation of learner personas, the crafting of learning objectives, the drafting of assessment questions, and even the development of immersive, extended reality learning experiences developed using 360-degree video software. In addition to project work, students have also engaged in weekly research conversations, developed accessible slide handouts for learners, and offered feedback as part of beta testing for completed course projects. 
 

As the semester concludes, the program students are wrapping up work on their own immersive learning experiences using 360-degree video. Their ambitious projects range from virtual tours around campus and the School of Education to how-to guides on how to make use of The Ride transit system to a space exploration of the solar system! These projects are just a small part of a larger ongoing effort by students to demonstrate the core competencies of the learning experience design program. The students have done an outstanding job thus far and we look forward to seeing how their work progresses in the winter semester!
LXD Residents Jennifer Zheng (M.Ed, second to the left) and Christine Cabrera (M.SI, second to the right) pictured standing and smiling in front of a bus with Dorothy Gacioch (left), Keith Lockhart (middle), and Lilliane Webb (right) of Ann Arbor Transit Authority's "TheRide" after completing filming for a 360-degree immersive video experience to teach how to ride the bus.

Please email edhubinfo@umich.edu to share your successes with us so that we can share them with the EdHub community!
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