Sync-Up - Teach-Up - Texas Teach-Up on Demand

Educators need increased opportunities to participate in Texas Teach-Up in order to benefit from modeling teaching at UT Austin. This project will explore two specific elements of this problem. Currently you can only participate during officially scheduled time/dates, you cannot participate on-demand. This limits access to only those who can make it, or are a part of the university, during the on-schedule times and dates. Additionally, as an on-schedule event, seats have closing limits. Some people who want to participate may not be able to do so because the session is full. In this project I will be: developing a logic model for Texas Teach-Up on Demand; Conducting design research activities to empathize and understand the problem from former Texas Teach-Up faculty and participants, and those who have never participated, to help understand user needs; Interviewing "experts" of Texas Teach-Up leadership to define the key requirements from the synchronous version of Texas-Teach Up that MUST be maintained to ensure brand integrity; Developing and deploying a prototype (pilot) for Spring 2022; Developing a generalizable, evidence-based understanding of how asynchronous model teaching experiences influence higher education faculty.