DDGC 2023 Conference Program
Luminaries. Keynotes. Plenaries. Panels.
Collectivity!
Participants
Abdulaziz Abdullah Alenezi, Adrienne Merritt, Alessia Valfredini, Alexis B. Smith, Amanda Sheffer, Andrea Bryant, Andrea Schmidt, Angelica Fenner, Anke Finger, Anna Hunt, Anna Piotti, Annika Orich, Arina Rotaru, Barbara Schmenk, Bartell Berg, Beate Brunow, Berit Jany, Beverly Weber, Bisola Ajibade, Braden Russell, Britta Kallin, Brandy E. Wilcox, Brett Sterling, Brigetta (Britt) Abel, Claire Ross, Claudia Lynn, Chantelle Warner, Christine Rinne, Christoph Schmitz, Claire Scott, Cynthia D. Porter, David Gramling, Elisa Riga, Ervin Malakaj, Evan Torner, Florian Carl, Gizem Arslan, Graham von Carlowitz, Hannah Eldridge, Helga Thorson, Jamele Watkins, Janice McGregor, Janine Wulz, Jason Groves, Jeannette Oholi, Joela Jacobs, John Noyes, Judith Benz, Julia Gutterman, Julia Ruck, Juliane Schicker, Juliane Wuensch, Kaleigh Bangor, Karin Baumgartner, Katherine Kerschen, Kathryn Sederberg, Katrin Bahr, Kiley Kost, Kye Terrasi, Kyle Frackman, Lauren Brooks, Lizzie Stewart, Lucian Rothe, Lydia Manatou, Magdalena Tarnawska Senel, Maggie Rosenau, Maria Grewe, Matt Harring, Michael Powers, Mona Eikel-Pohen, Nadia Schuman, Natascha Khakpour, Necia Chronister, Nichole Neuman, Nicole Coleman, Niko Tracksdorf, Nina Morais, Nina Simon, Olena Morozova, Olivia Albiero, Patrick Ploschnitzki, Peju Alfred, Petra Watzke, Priscilla Layne, Rebekah Slodounik, Richmond Embeywa, Robert Blankenship, Robin Ellis, Sara Marsh, Sarah Eldridge, Saskia Hintz, Seth Peabody, Shahad Abdulaziz, Sibel Sayili-Hurley, Stefana Gargova, Veta Chitnev.
Day 1: Friday March 31, 2023
Group 1: Damages
Mod.: Beate Brunow, Jamele Watkins
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): What are the damages that “outcomes” and “assessments have done to students and communities in the past?
Follow-up question (next 20 minutes): To what extent can these concepts be used in the future? If so, to what end, for whose benefit, and for what purpose?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
Group 2: Hotcomes
Mod.: Braden Russell, Kiley Kost
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): What is the role of queer / trans* / radical desire and enchantment in language outcomes and assessments?
Follow-up question (next 20 minutes): What are potential instances of queer / trans / Indigenous / Black learning outcomes / dimensions of outcomes in our curricula?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
Group 3: Dangers
Mod.: Jason Groves, Kye Terrasi
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): What are the relations between outcome / assessment -design and existential threats: white supremacy, climate emergency, Indigenous erasure, the crisis ordinary, fascism, and neo-colonialism?
Follow-up question (next 20 minutes): Must outcomes / assessments be gatekeeping mechanisms or can they be something else?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
9:00 Welcome, Territorial Acknowledgement (David Gramling) & Recap of format and process (Ervin Malakaj)
9:10–9:30 Warm-Up: Reviewing our Definitions of Outcomes and Assessments (Kiley Kost & Ervin Malakaj)
Axiom: In 2023, our learning outcomes and assessments should not be able to be adequately produced by requesting them through ChatGPT. Let’s raise the bar & move the show.
9:30–10:30 Breakout discussion #1 (Opt-in by topic)
Main room momma: Ervin
All times in Pacific Zone!
11:00–12:00 Breakout composition session #2 (opt-in by topic)
Main room momma: Ervin
Group 1: Program Outcomes
Mod.: Amanda Sheffer, Evan Torner
Opening Work (first 20 Minutes): Draft a program outcome, drawing on the DDGC Guiding Principles.
Follow-up prompt (next 20 minutes): Read and discuss Group 3’s composition.
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
Group 2: Formative Assessments
Mod.: Arina Rotaru, Juliane Schicker
Opening Work (first 20 Minutes): Draft a formative assessment, drawing on the DDGC Guiding Principles.
Follow-up prompt (next 20 minutes): Read and discuss Group 1’s composition.
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
Group 3: Learning Outcomes
Mod.: Janine Wulz
Opening Work (first 20 Minutes): Draft a learning outcome for a course, drawing on the DDGC Guiding Principles.
Follow-up prompt (next 20 minutes): Read and discuss Group 2’s composition.
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
1:00–2:00 Breakout editing session #3 (opt-in by topic)
Main room momma: Ervin
Group 1: Institutional Discourses
Mod.: Mona Eikel-Pohen, Janice McGregor
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): How can we best use CEFR, ACTFL, and other tools, if at all?
Follow-up Question (next 20 minutes): What is your favorite ever program outcome anywhere?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
Group 2: Institutional Constraints
Mod.: Bartell Berg, David Gramling
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): What role do our institutions’ “language requirements” play?
Follow-up Question (next 20 minutes): What is your least favorite program outcome anywhere?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
Group 3: Counter-Discourses
Mod.: Robin Ellis, Magdalena Tarnawska Senel
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): How does ungrading / grading fit into the picture?
Follow-up Question (next 20 minutes): What is your favorite assessment rubric ever?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
2:30-3:00 Cool-down, hopes for tomorrow
Day 2: Saturday April 1, 2023
9:00–9:30 Gathering and Morning Report
9:30–10:30 Breakout discussion #1 (opt-in by topic)
Main room momma: Kiley
Group 1: Constituencies
Mod.: John Noyes, Anna Piotti
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): What kind of outcomes do our graduate programs need?
Follow-up Question (next 20 minutes): Our multi-section courses? Our large-enrolment courses?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
Group 2: Language Differences
Mod.: Abdulaziz Abdullah, Olena Morozova
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): When must outcomes / assessments differ from language to language, from place to place, from institution to institution?
Follow-up Question (next 20 minutes): With what conception of language and language variation are we operating?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
Group 3: More Constituencies
Mod.: Sarah Eldridge, Chantelle Warner
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): What are outcomes for instructors—radical ones, redressive ones, nourishing ones?
Follow-up Question (next 20 minutes): Must we deal with bean-counters at our various institutions, and how? What data and evidence do we intend to provide them, and why?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
11:00–12:00 Breakout composition session #2 (opt-in by topic)
Main room momma: Kiley
Group 1: Beginning
Mod.: Seth Peabody, Michael Powers
Opening Prompt (first 20 Minutes): Draft beginning outcomes or assessments (individual).
Follow-up Prompt (next 20 minutes): Discuss and comment all together; choose favorite 3 to pursue.
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
Group 2: Intermediate
Mod.: Annika Orich, Brett Sterling
Opening Prompt (first 20 Minutes): Draft intermediate outcomes or assessments (individual).
Follow-up Prompt (next 20 minutes): Discuss and comment all together; choose favorite 3 to pursue.
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
Group 3: Advanced/ Graduate
Mod.: Joela Jacobs, Ervin Malakaj
Opening Prompt (first 20 Minutes): Draft advanced / graduate program outcomes or assessments (individual).
Follow-up Prompt (next 20 minutes): Discuss and comment all together; choose favorite 3 to pursue.
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
1:00–2:00 Breakout discussion session #3 (opt-in by topic)
Main room momma: Kiley
Group 1
Mod.: Necia Chronister, Katherine Kerschen
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): How can outcomes make room for honesty about unwellness, limitations, and struggle?
Follow-up Question (next 20 minutes): What role should mutual aid and DIY community leadership play in these outcomes?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
Group 2
Mod.: Hannah Eldridge, Nichole Neuman
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): How do Chat GPT, and AI more generally, impact this work in practice and spirit?
Follow-up Question (next 20 minutes): The elephant in the room: enrolment needs and growing majors / minors—what about that?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
Group 3
Mod.: Beate Brunow, Christine Rinne
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): How well do outcomes and assessments assess the whole embodied person and their sense of belonging?
Follow-up Question (next 20 minutes): What makes an outcome or assessment transformative? What is our theory of change?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
2:30-3:00 Cool-down, hopes for tomorrow (Christine Rinne, Andrea Bryant)
Day 3: Sunday April 2, 2023
9:00–10:00 Gathering and Morning Report (David Gramling)
11:00–12:00 Breakout composition session #2 (opt-in by topic)
Main room momma: Ervin
Group 1: Dissemination
Mod.: Alexis B. Smith, Alessia Valfredini
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): How will we disseminate the results of this work?
Follow-up Question (next 20 minutes): Are the register and language of our outcomes / assessments suitable, and why?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
Group 2: Agency
Mod.: Britt Abel, Kathryn Sedeberg
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): What does agency look like in student work around outcomes / assessment?
Follow-up Question (next 20 minutes): Who owns and determines the resulting products of assessments: portfolios, zines, creative work, new language, etc.?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
Group 3: Incommensurabilities
Mod.: Julia Ruck, Juliane Wuensch
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): What outcomes and assessments cannot do, and what unassessable learning experiences might be?
Follow-up Question (next 20 minutes): What is the discrepancy between what instructors think outcomes should be and what they actually are for students, and why does this matter?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
1:00–2:15 Final editing session #3 (opt-in by topic)
Main room momma: Kiley
Group 1
Mod.: Joela Jacobs, Claire Scott
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): Do these outcomes / assessments express DDGC guiding principles?
Follow-up Question (next 20 minutes): How can we ensure that outcomes serve students primarily, and institutions only secondarily?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
Group 2
Mod.: Andrea Bryant
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): Are these outcomes / assessments anti-colonial, decolonial, radical, critical—or otherwise?
Follow-up Question (next 20 minutes): Are these outcomes / assessments liberatory and useful to various student constituencies and communities?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
Group 3
Mod.: Helga Thorson, Andrea Schmidt
Opening Question (first 20 Minutes): What are DDGC-inspired study abroad outcomes / assessments—long- and short-term?
Follow-up Question (next 20 minutes): What are DDGC-inspired outcomes and assessments for people who “stay put” and do not have an active plan to leave home anytime soon?
Three highlights reported back from each group to large group (last 20 minutes).
2:30-3:30 Cool-down, next steps, thanks (large group)