Robot looking sideways Welcome to the Center for Digital Learning & Innovation's (CDLI’s) Course Design Program! This is an individual version of our program, which brings faculty together in a community of practice. Since you will be working individually with one of CDLI's instructional designers, you can proceed at a pace that you both establish from the outset.

At this initial meeting we will talk about the context of the work we will be doing together as well as what you can expect during the process of developing an online course. One goal of this program is to confront perceptions of what, exactly, online education looks like. A common belief among faculty who have not taught online before is that an online course is inferior to an in-person course. Our hope is to inspire you to see the online environment not in terms of constraints, but in terms of possibilities. We strongly believe that the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm is the perfect approach to creating meaningful online learning.

What to Bring

You curiosity, ideas, and questions.

What We'll Do

Introduce ourselves and find out about the course you plan to teach.
Give you some background about about CDLI.
Talk about the context of CDLI's work and its foundations in the Community of Inquiry model as well as the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP).
Discuss how the Jesuit approach to education currently shows up in your courses and unpack some of the fears and excitement that people typically have about moving into a fully online format.
Go over how this course will work, expectations, etc.
And, most importantly, establish when we will meet.

What to Do Before We Meet Again

Start thinking about what you want your Homepage to communicate about your course as outlined on the Homework page.

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Ignatian Pedagogy

A key principle of Ignatian pedagogy and spirituality is that the person is not simply a rational cognate but a creature full of desires and creativity. The human person is a volitional creature with many layers of affect and intellect. This depth of the human person is what Ignatian education seeks to inform and enliven and it is for this reason that Jesuit education has for centuries sought to utilize all the senses, all the sciences, all the arts to invest students with a depth of intellectual insight and creative imagination.

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Instructor Notes
Brendan Busse S.J.