The Innovations in Curriculum Design and Delivery (ICDD) Workgroup is entering its fourth year, and we’re reaching out to encourage your participation this year.
ICDD is composed of a broad range of faculty, staff, and students from all sites to promote the delivery of an inclusive curriculum that enhances learning, innovation, and student and faculty engagement through best educational practices.
In its first year (2022-23), the group developed a set of 12 recommendations (see attached) based on review of the literature and extensive feedback from our community. In 2023-24, we focused on creating implementation plans for the recommendations. Then last year, we advised and assisted the units involved in activating each recommendation’s implementation plan.
This year, we’ll continue to play that ongoing advising role for the implementation plans, but we also have two new activities in alternating months of the year:
- Innovation Incubator (September, November, January, March, May). Any faculty/staff/student who wants to propose an innovation in the Foundations Phase can come to the Innovation Incubator to get consulting about how to improve their idea. ICDD members will serve as the core Innovation Consultants in the incubator, and additional ad hoc Innovation Consultants will be invited for topics related to their expertise. The Innovation Incubator does not have the ability to approve or reject innovation ideas; instead, its role is to help improve innovations so they can be maximally successful if implemented.
- Guest Presentations (October, December, February, April). We’ll select topics relevant to Foundations Phase curriculum design and delivery and invite external speakers to present virtually on their work in those areas. The format will be a 60-minute presentation/discussion with the speaker, followed immediately by a 30-minute UWSOM debrief to discuss the implications for our curriculum. All Foundations faculty and staff will be invited to these sessions, but joining as an ICDD member will ensure that they get on your calendar.
You can choose to join the Innovation Incubator (either as a regularly attending ICDD member/Innovation Consultant or as an ad hoc Innovation Consultant), as an attendee to the Guest Presentations, or both. We don’t anticipate a significant time commitment between meetings.
If you would like to participate in ICDD 2025-26, please reach out to your foundation site dean (Dr. Taylor, Dr. Clauser, Dr. Guth, Dr. Phelps, Dr. Schumaker, or Dr. Geidl) to let them know your interest by Friday, September 12. If you have questions, connecting with your foundation site dean over the next week (potentially during your upcoming resource fairs if timing is correct) is recommended. Ideally, we would love to have one M1 student from each of our foundation sites join the work group as many of our ICDD student members are now M2s, M3s, and M4s, along with some who have graduated.
Contacts:
John Willford (willford@uwyo.edu)
I&I Co-director / Wyoming Asst. Director
Co-Chair, Innovations in Curriculum Design & Delivery Work Group
Michael Campion (campion@uw.edu)
Director of Academic & Learning Technologies
Co-Chair, Innovations in Curriculum Design & Delivery Work Group
Ellen Stone (efpstone@uw.edu)
Operations Manager, Academic & Learning Technologies
Administrative Manager, Innovations in Curriculum Design & Delivery Work Group