Facilitating & Fostering Passion and Inventiveness: Embodied Experiences From a University Unit Start Up
Concurrent Session 9
Brief Abstract
Come for embodied experiences in design thinking and insight into how these techniques are being used to start a new unit at Michigan State University.
Extended Abstract
Michigan State University has started a new campus initiative: The Hub for Innovation in Teaching & Learning ("The Hub"). The Hub's mission is to "facilitate the passion and inventiveness of students, faculty, staff, and stakeholders both inside and outside of MSU to create, identify, and accelerate new ways to collaborate, learn, research, and deliver instruction." While the core staff of The Hub is quite small, many on campus will be working with and through the Hub, a new mode of work in a large land grant institution. To facilitate this change, the Hub leadership team has anchored much of its "getting started" work and processes to design thinking.
In this session you will experience some of the design challenges used with the MSU Hub team and learn about our work and progress so far. Participants will also be asked to share their experiences with design thinking. Expect to walk away from the session with tangible resources to further your own design thinking work in teams or in the classroom.