Greetings, Speakers!

I hope you are all excited as I am for our upcoming Course Redesign Workshop- just a few, short days away! By now you should have received your hotel confirmation from Joanne Foster; if you have not received this, please advise and we can re-send!

Our festivities will kick-off at 6:30 PM on Thursday, September 24^th with our Speaker Dinner at Scarpetta (the Italian restaurant located in the hotel). The reservation has been made under the name “Pearson”. If you are arriving on a later flight, please feel free to stop by after checking into your room at the hotel!  The dinner will serve as an opportunity for all of the speakers to meet each other, go over in detail, the agenda (attached), and ask/answer any questions you may have about the workshop.

Please note that if you have made any adjustments to your power point presentations (since sending to myself & Karen), please bring a copy of these, whether on your laptop or a jump drive with you. We will pre-load all of your presentations onto the computers in your designated speaking room and we want to make sure we have the most up-to-date version for you.

Following the conference, I will be sending a follow up e-mail that will outline the reimbursement process for your incidentals while traveling with us. So please be sure to hang on to all of your receipts for parking, transportation, etc.!

In the mean time, should you have any additional questions leading up to the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact any of us.

Thanks & looking forward to meeting all of you soon!

Best,
Katie

Katie Moran

Marketing Assistant

Pearson Education

75 Arlington Street, Suite 300

Boston, MA 02116

617.848.6053

From: Mullane, Karen
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 12:43 PM
To: 'Phoebe B Rouse'; 'john.squires@chattanoogastate.edu'; 'Foley, Jeanne'; 'Amberlee Bosse'; 'HALEY,SUSAN'; 'Valerie Frerichs'; 'Eileen Gregory'; 'Brooke Hughes'; 'Randi Brummett'; 'Patricia Baldwin (pbaldwin@email.pittcc.edu)'; 'kbritt@usouthal.edu'; 'jfetters@purdue.edu'; 'Waybright, Jeffrey'; 'bschmidt@aug.edu'
Cc: 'cjarmon@thencat.org'; Moran, Katie; Foster, Joanne
Subject: RE: MORE GOOD NEWS: Miami Course Redesign Speaker UPDATES and DEADLINE

Greetings, friends,

We’re only 15 days away from flying into sunny Miami!  Joanne will email everyone their hotel confirmation numbers and taxi information from the Miami airport to the Fontainebleau Hotel next week.

THANK YOU for your final PPT slides and bio information. We went to press this morning!  J

Quick REGISTRATION UPDATE: we are now at 166 registrations…wild!  See attached.

High-level break-out of registrations by discipline:

·         17 Accounting/Econ (7 Accounting, 10 Econ)

·         25 Science (17 Biology, 8 Chemistry)

·         27 English

·         68 Math

·         20 Spanish

·         9 ‘other’ and high level administrators

Also, for your reference, see AGENDA attached with room locations for each session.  The only TBD is the second Math Room on Fri (3:15-4:45) for Jeanne and Amberlee.  That’s coming in the final agenda.

And last, Katie is arranging for each of you to be recorded (audio only) during your Friday presentations.  After the workshop we will post your PPTs with audio here: http://www.pearsonhighered.com/courseredesign/pastevents.html  

Hosting a Course Redesign workshop has never been more exciting – and YOU make it so!

Cheers,

Karen

Karen Mullane | VP, Director Marketing | Technology Solutions Pearson | 617 848 7420 | FAX: 617 848 7471

From: Mullane, Karen
Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 10:58 AM
To: 'Phoebe B Rouse'; 'john.squires@chattanoogastate.edu'; 'Foley, Jeanne'; 'Amberlee Bosse'; 'HALEY,SUSAN'; 'Valerie Frerichs'; 'Eileen Gregory'; 'Brooke Hughes'; 'Randi Brummett'; 'Patricia Baldwin (pbaldwin@email.pittcc.edu)'; 'kbritt@usouthal.edu'; 'jfetters@purdue.edu'; 'Waybright, Jeffrey'; 'bschmidt@aug.edu'
Cc: 'cjarmon@thencat.org'; Moran, Katie; Foster, Joanne
Subject: RE: GOOD NEWS: Miami Course Redesign Speaker UPDATES and DEADLINE

Greetings CR speakers and friends,

Well, the unbelievable has happened: we not only reached our goal of ~75 faculty registrations, we more than DOUBLED that expectation!!  See attached list.  

GENTLE REMINDER: Your final slides are due by email to KATIE MORAN (cc’ed here) by end of day this Friday Sept 4^th. J  If you have two versions, a short one to speak from and a longer one that we’ll print in the binders and that you could use for your Q&A, that’s wonderful.  If not, that’s wonderful too.

Here’s the high-level break-out of registrations by discipline:

·         15 Econ/Accounting (1 Accounting prof not showing yet on attached list, but he just registered J)

·         17 Science (12 Biology and 4 Chemistry and 1 Physics)

·         21 English

·         59 Math

·         18 Spanish

·         25 ‘other’ and high level administrators

And here (again) are the small group assignments.  You will simply be prepared with 2-3 questions or comments related to your small session topic below to get the discussion going.

Katie is sending you an update of completed pre-workshop questionnaire responses later today.  Stay tuned!

Cheers for now,

Karen

Karen Mullane | VP, Director Marketing | Technology Solutions Pearson | 617 848 7420 | FAX: 617 848 7471

From: Mullane, Karen
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:57 PM
To: 'Phoebe B Rouse'; 'Squires,John'; 'Foley, Jeanne'; 'Amberlee Bosse'; 'HALEY,SUSAN'; 'Valerie Frerichs'; 'Eileen Gregory'; 'Brooke Hughes'; 'Randi Brummett'; 'Patricia Baldwin (pbaldwin@email.pittcc.edu)'; 'kbritt@usouthal.edu'; 'jfetters@purdue.edu'; 'Waybright, Jeffrey'; 'bschmidt@aug.edu'
Cc: 'cjarmon@thencat.org'; Moran, Katie; Foster, Joanne
Subject: RE: Miami Course Redesign Speaker UPDATES and DEADLINE

Greetings Course Redesign Speakers,

I hope your summer has been a relaxing one….and less rainy than here in Boston!  Thanks to everyone for all the work on the slides and bios this summer. 

GREAT NEWS!!  To date, we’ve registered an unexpected record high of 112 faculty:

·         43 in Math

·         21 in English

·         13 in World Languages

·         13 in Science

·         11 in Econ/Accounting

·         11 in other (deans, heads of Developmental, Title III coordinators….)

The demand has been so high that we’re extending the registration period and re-contracted with the Fontainebleau Hotel for more rooms!

Here’s what’s next:

·         BIOS – see attached.  I believe we’re missing Valerie, Eileen, Kristy and Buffie.  Am I right??

·         PPTs – I believe I haven’t seen Susan, Eileen, Pat and Buffie.  Is that correct?

·         Small Group assignments – see attached SPEAKERS excel file (second tab) for assignments.  As co-facilitators of a group, you will be expected to lead a discussion on that particular topic, ie, ask questions of the audience to get things going, bring your experience to bear on the topic, and enable lots of peer-to-peer sharing in the group.

·         Updated attendee list and questionnaires from ~30 attendees – with more on their way….

DEADLINE for submitting FINAL BIOS, PPTs and (optional) handouts to KATIE MORAN by email: Friday Sept 4^th.

Please email or call me immediately if there are any questions or comments – Katie, Carolyn, Joanne and I are here to help!  Get ready for the best yet Course Redesign Workshop we’ve ever had the honor to conduct – you are a huge part of this!

Cheers for now,

Karen

Karen Mullane | VP, Director Marketing | Technology Solutions Pearson | 617 848 7420 | FAX: 617 848 7471

From: Mullane, Karen
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 6:41 PM
To: 'Phoebe B Rouse'; 'Squires,John'; 'Foley, Jeanne'; 'Amberlee Bosse'; 'HALEY,SUSAN'; 'Valerie Frerichs'; 'Eileen Gregory'; 'Brooke Hughes'; 'Randi Brummett'; Patricia Baldwin (pbaldwin@email.pittcc.edu); 'kbritt@usouthal.edu'; 'jfetters@purdue.edu'; 'Waybright, Jeffrey'; 'bschmidt@aug.edu'
Cc: 'cjarmon@thencat.org'; Moran, Katie; Foster, Joanne
Subject: RE: Miami Course Redesign Speaker Call follow-up and DEADLINES

Thanks to all of you for attending one of the June phone conference calls – they were quite productive!  Thanks also to those who emailed us their bios, draft PPT slides and Sat small group preferences. J

REMINDER: please see below for deadlines and more helpful information re your presentations and your travel.  I’m really looking forward to putting faces on your names….and to seeing some old friends again.

Happy happy restful Fourth and thank you for all you do!

Cheers,

Karen

Karen Mullane | VP, Director Marketing | Technology Solutions Pearson | 617 848 7420 | FAX: 617 848 7471

From: Mullane, Karen
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 5:15 PM
To: Phoebe B Rouse; Squires,John; Foley, Jeanne; Amberlee Bosse; 'HALEY,SUSAN'; 'Valerie Frerichs'; 'Eileen Gregory'; Brooke Hughes; Randi Brummett; Patricia Baldwin (pbaldwin@email.pittcc.edu); 'kbritt@usouthal.edu'; 'jfetters@purdue.edu'; 'Waybright, Jeffrey'; bschmidt@aug.edu
Cc: cjarmon@thencat.org; Moran, Katie; Foster, Joanne
Subject: Miami Course Redesign Speaker Call follow-up and DEADLINES

Esteemed Course Redesign speakers,

It was wonderful speaking with many of you over the past couple of weeks – thank you so much for your time.  For those of you who haven’t yet been able to join, I look forward to the final scheduled conference call on June 30^th at 4:00pm Eastern.

In the meantime, I apologize for all the attachments, but hope they’re helpful:

       PDF of flyer promoting the event – see attached

       First Draft of your PPT slides – Due to Karen and Carolyn by Mon July 6^th.  Thanks to those who have already sent us their drafts!

       Final PPT slides and any handouts – Due to Karen and Katie by Fri Sept 4^th.

       Attendees and their pre-workshop questionnaires – see attached Summary of Questionnaires (only 10 completed so far). 

BREAKDOWN of ATTENDEES (28 so far out of expected 90):

• Math – 15
• English – 9
• Science – 7 (3 Bio, 1 Chem, 1 Physics)
• Other – 6 (higher level admins / dir distance learning)
• Business – 3 (both Econ, 0 Accounting)
• World Languages – 0    

       Small Groups Session on Sat Sept 26 – Please start thinking of which ones you would like to help co-facilitate: 

·         Overcoming Barriers to Entry: Changing the Culture for Faculty

Discussion of ways to help faculty implement a successful course redesign on your campus with confidence, effectiveness and support at every stage

·        Overcoming Barriers to Entry: Changing the Culture for Students

Discussion of ways to help students have a positive redesign experience, despite the sometimes frustrating start-up’s

·         Scaling and Sustaining your Course Redesign

Discussion moderated by those who have successfully scaled course redesigns and overcome obstacles while enjoying student gains and cost savings

·         Meeting the Needs of Developmental Students

Discussion of challenges and solutions geared specifically for faculty involved in the redesign of Developmental Math/Reading/Writing programs

·         Key Administrative Roles in Launching a successful Course Redesign

Q&A for college administrators on your role in the course redesign process, implementation, funding and support

·         Tackling College Readiness (models to date have been in math only) – Phoebe Rouse

Discussion of one successful College Readiness model that better prepared students for their college redesigned math courses

·         Working with Pearson as a Supporting Partner

Discussion of customer expectations and Pearson resources and how these two can combine for a successful redesign

       Roster of speakers – see attached

       Sample Bio – please complete yours, using the sample below, and email it to Katie and me by July 15^th:

David Dearden

Brigham Young University

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Professor of Chemistry

David Dearden joined the faculty at Brigham Young University in January 1994 after 3 years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas, Arlington.  David is an "at the front lines, in the trenches" instructor, with experience teaching general physical science, general chemistry, and technical writing, as well as more specialized, more advanced courses in analytical chemistry and mass spectrometry.  

He has long enjoyed experimenting with the use of technology to aid in teaching chemistry, starting about 15 years ago using overhead projection plates to display spreadsheets to his classes and continuing to try new things through the present.  David is the recipient of a university-wide BYU Alcuin Fellowship in recognition of excellence in undergraduate general education.  He is also an active researcher in the fields of mass spectrometry and supramolecular chemistry, with about 50 research publications to date.

TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS:

To book your flight to Miami at no cost to you, please call Carlson Wagonlit Travel toll free at 877-650-6995 using this code: HE-MIA-07-2009 at your earliest convenience. Their hours of operation are 7:30am - 5:00pm CST, Monday through Friday.  You should plan on arriving in time for dinner on Thursday evening Sept 24 and departing EITHER on a flight no earlier than 6:00pm on Saturday Sept 26 OR on Sunday Sept 27 anytime. 

WORKSHOP INFO:

***General Info about the workshop: http://www.pearsoncourseredesign.com/events.html   

***The AGENDA: http://www.pearsoncourseredesign.com/agenda.html   We still have to update the Sat SMALL GROUPS….

***PPT presentations from past workshops: http://www.pearsoncourseredesign.com/pastevents.html

Speaker guidelines for your 45-minute presentation on Fri Sept 25:

·         Spend 30 minutes presenting + 15 minutes for Q&A = 45 minutes total for each speaker

·         Use 6 - 10 slides max

·         Describe your institution (enrollment, location, etc) in one or two sentence – don’t do a slide describing this

·         A slide or two on the problem you were trying to solve

·         A slide on the structure of your course – traditional and redesigned (with model)

·         A slide on the plan for redesign – what did you do?

·         A slide on the use of quizzing – for example, 2 per week with automated grading and the possibility of taking the quiz 4 times

·         A slide, for example, on the use of streaming video for online lectures from software with in class problem solving groups with student

·         1-2 slides on your learning outcomes:

n       How did you measure it?

n       What did you learn?

n       If possible, what kinds of cost reductions were possible?

n       Other measures of success?

n       What, if anything, you plan to do next?

·         Greater refinements

·         Enlarging enrollment in the course – the software handles much of the grading so that faculty member can handle more students…

·         Don’t hide the issues that happened…talk about the problems, talk about how resolved this…

·         Focus on the software…Tell what you used – but don’t show the software

·         Tell how you use it

·         Tell how it changed the way students learn the topic

·         Tell how it contributed to solving the academic or resource problem you had identified

·         If there are questions about the software such as how to establish quizzes, say that there will be software demos later this morning and in the afternoon

·         Don’t get into solving their particular problem

·         Say that Pearson tech people are here and they can be the most helpful on that issue

·         Be sure to leave time for questions and discussion

·         If you don’t know the answer to a question, refer to a tech person or to Karen or Carolyn

Karen Mullane | VP, Director Marketing | Technology Solutions Pearson | 617 848 7420 | FAX: 617 848 7471