We are very excited to invite you to the Summer Institute for Distance Learning and Instructional Technology (SIDLIT “Side Light”) 2024 Annual Conference, which will be held on July 29-31, 2024 in Kansas City, Kansas. This year marks the 25th anniversary of SIDLIT, and we have prepared a special program to celebrate this milestone. For the first time ever, our physical location this year is: The University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC), 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS, 66160 – or join us virtually!
The theme of SIDLIT 2024 is “Lensing the Past, Zooming In on the Present, Developing Future Passions for Learning.” We will explore together how we can use the lessons learned from the past, the challenges, opportunities, and innovations of the present, and the emerging trends of the future to enhance our online learning and instructional design practices. We will also collaborate on how we can foster and activate a passion for lifelong learning among ourselves and our students.
Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility
C2C aims to host SIDLIT 2024—in-person and virtually—in a mutually respectful environment. SIDLIT 2024 is inclusive of people from all backgrounds: ethnicities, races, countries of origin, ages, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions, body sizes, economic backgrounds, educational backgrounds, professional backgrounds, employment statuses, abilities, and other dimensions. We are getting together, staying together, and building the future together, with all of our strengths together.
Host Institution
KU Med Center - 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS 66160
This session is an interactive discussion and presentation that focuses on these questions, which allow us to learn from the past and create a more resilient future:
• What are the prevailing myths about resilience? • Why is it important to consider different kinds of resilience? • How can classroom technology make our courses more resilient? • How can we teach college students a bit of resilience through a college course?
Popular culture leads us to believe that people who are stoic and unflustered by change and disaster must be born with resilience of character, and falling apart after a traumatic experience is somehow a sign of weakness. Our classroom technology can also fail in multiple ways, from losing wifi to losing students’ attention. As instructors, we need to be aware that resilience is not an innate trait or an absolute dichotomy. We can help create more resilience in our students and in our course design by thinking through how resilience works, based on recent research and resilient pedagogy. As a result, we can plan for multiple modes of coping and help students plan for disasters. Students with little to no safety nets in their lives need help creating paths of resilience.
I will present recent research findings about resilience and the best advice from experienced instructors. The audience will share their own stories and create together a matrix of types of resilience from adapting, transforming, absorbing, pivoting, withstanding, flexing, rebuilding, and bouncing back. Specific assignments, back-up technology platforms, and alternative methods will be offered and discussed. The audiences’ experiences with adapting to change will be elicited for discussion, and they will be encouraged to write an action plan for one or two small changes that can make their courses more resilient in the future.
Tuesday July 30, 2024 9:00am - 9:45am CDT
HEB 2112
