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Title: Institutional Change: Applying research on expertise development and considering the role of learning analytics

Description: While experimentation by individuals may be relatively common and often connected to a body of research, institutional-scale change towards effective, research-informed practices takes coordination and attention to the strategies used to drive that change. I will introduce one successful model that harnessed key results from research on the development of expertise to spread effective teaching practices across mathematics and science departments at our university and has since been adopted by other institutions in their teaching reform efforts. Along with making the connection of research on expertise to its application both in teaching undergraduate students and in the development of faculty and staff around teaching, I will share some recommendations for those interested in making change at any scale in their home institution. I will also discuss how learning analytics offers important contributions to these broader efforts, both by expanding the base of educational research in novel ways and in its potential to support evidence-based decisions in teaching at various levels.

Bio: Dr. Warren Code is the Associate Director of the Science Centre for Learning and Teaching (Skylight; skylight.science.ubc.ca) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where he leads, advises, and assists in: planning, research/evaluation, and management for a range of teaching and learning projects in science and mathematics. He spent several years as the Acting Director for the final phases of the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (cwsei.ubc.ca), a large initiative involving department-based fellows partnering with faculty to bring research-informed instruction to their undergraduate mathematics and science courses. With the initiative winding down, he has been investigating its overall impact in terms of teaching changes, student learning, and program success, as well as advising other institutions attempting similar kinds of initiatives with department-based fellows. He was previously one of those fellows in the UBC Mathematics Department, studying teaching methods and student success - this was also his first chance to get involved in learning analytics related to online homework and introductory scientific programming. In recent years, he has been working with other partners at UBC to grow plans and processes to support emerging work in learning analytics among the science and mathematics departments.