Thursday, April 19th and Friday, April 20th, the Instructional Systems & Learning Technologies (ISLT) program at Florida State University (FSU) hosted the 2018 Alumni-Student Knowledge exchange (ASKe).
This is the event of the year that faculty, staff, students, and alumni all look forward to each year. It allows both Master's and Doctoral students to connect with alumni and learn from one another. This is one of the many features that makes the ISLT program so unique.
Thursday evening, students, alumni, and faculty met at the FSU Alumni Center for some hors d'oeuvres, drinks, socializing, and an awards ceremony.
Friday, a series of events were hosted.
Check-in, Continental Breakfast
Attendees checked-in and continental breakfast was available while attendees networked with each other.
Knowledge Exchange
A "speed dating" style workshop that paired students and alumni for a direct networking experience. Prompts were provided to each participant to start the conversation if needed, and participants were rotated every few minutes as directed allowing each participant to network with five other attendees.
Design Challenge
Students were presented with five different human performance improvement needs to select from which were provided by alumni. Students met with the alumni who presented the problem they selected and worked with the other students in the group to come up with a solution for their "client" to solve their "human performance need." Groups of students then presented their solutions. An expert panel of "judges" then provided feedback based on the solutions and observations presented by each group.
Lunch & Learn @ Coffee Cafe
Alumni, students, and faculty presented five minute overviews of effective organizational, performance support, communication, and authoring tools.
Panel Discussion: Project Management
A panel of experts with over 100 years of experience combined told stories and answered questions about what it is like to manage instructional design projects.
Wrap-Up Session
Dr. Klein and doctoral student Demetrius give closing remarks, provide program updates, discuss the post-conference survey, and encourage a group picture before heading to a local restaurant to close out the event for those who are able to attend.
