Our hybrid work plan is evolving. What does it mean for you?
To help launch our Hybrid Work Pilot last July, the implementation team of employees from across the division examined best practices and made recommendations for how a hybrid schedule could succeed best at DDL. Their recommendations became the foundation for our experiment — an iterative process during which we’d learn a lot and make adjustments along the way. Nearly a year later, we’ve taken your input on what worked and what can be improved. And here’s how we will evolve. Phase 3 Goals: - Be intentional about our face-to-face modality
- Strengthen collaboration that leads to innovation
- Reinvigorate new employee onboarding
- Protect and nurture our culture
Starting July 1: ● We will continue to work remotely up to 3 days per week
● Team leads will work on site more than remotely
● Everyone will work remotely on the same day each week (most likely on Fridays)
● Everyone will work on site on the same day each week (most likely on Wednesdays)
● Everyone will work on site the first day of each new semester
Special events and other circumstances will require flexibility for some teams to work on site as needed. And just like during the first two phases, your feedback is highly encouraged and will be incorporated throughout Phase 3 as we continue to build the kind of workplace where we all thrive. |
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Hybrid Work Reading List
The shift to hybrid work is happening across the globe and there are academic researchers in various disciplines who have great advice for maximizing the potential it offers all of us. Here are a few recent articles to explore the subject.
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Hating Hybrid Work? Here's How to Make it Less Painful.
Experts share five ways to ease the stress of the transition.
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3 Ways to Get Hybrid Work Right
Learn actionable tips for bridging the office and home.
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The Four Essential Dynamics of Hybrid Work
In February, Gallup surveyed 12,000+ U.S. hybrid workers. Here's what they discovered.
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Recognizing Our 2022 DDL Awards
Winners
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Service Awards
● Charlise Winn
● Jessy Ntabo
Outstanding Collaboration Award
● FDET Team: Kathleen Bastedo, Sue Bauer, Tina Calandrino, Jackie Compton, Charlotte Jones-Roberts, Joseph Lloyd, Anchalee Ngampornchai, Elisabeth Sutliff, Trudy Trail-Constant, Florence Williams
UP Times (Unprecedented Times) Awards
● LS&T: Jacob Bates, Matt Emond, Jawahar Madineni, Corey Peterson, Shea Silverman, Brandon Stull
● Engageli/Class Pilot Tiger Team: Sue Bauer, Wendy Howard, Beth Nettles, Amy Sugar, Florence Williams
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iLab's Digital Learning Course Redesign Initiative Earns Big Results
Since January 2018, the Pegasus Innovation Lab has teamed with UCF instructional design and teaching faculty members to help improve online courses by leveraging the latest technological and pedagogical tools with the goal of increased student success and persistence. The success of the program has led to an extension, with 23 teams of more than 70 faculty members working on a total of 23 team redesign projects.
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Focus on Quality Impact
Shelly Wyatt is the winner of the Pegasus Innovation Lab's
2022 Quality Impact Award, given annually to recognize an instructional designer for their efforts and impact on UCF faculty, students, and the Quality Initiative.
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Janette Rivera is our February LinkedIn Learning Challenge Champ
The LinkedIn Learning Challenge for May is "Cultivate Resilience," offering short video content to help you overcome challenges to reach peak performance and enhanced satisfaction — at work and in your personal life. The challenge, which takes 5 minutes or less to complete each day, begins May 10. And two randomly-selected employees who complete the challenge will win prizes.
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DDL Teammates Making an Impact
● Chris Rose presented Creating Access to Education: How UCF’s ChargeUP! Program is Bringing In-Demand Skills to Displaced Workers at the 2022 UPCEA Annual Conference, April 6.
● Rocco Fazzalari joined the Pegasus Innovation Lab as Project Assistant.
● Joshue Oberes joined the iDev team as Program Assistant, Accessibility Support.
● Tom Cavanagh presented UCF Rising in the Rankings: U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs to the Florida Board of Governors Innovation and Online Committee on March 29. You can watch the session (Tom starts at 3:01:42), which also features a presentation by University of Florida Online leader Evie Cummings, and download his presentation from the Board of Governors archive.
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WE ARE AN ENGINE FOR INNOVATION
By leveraging game-changing educational technology, we pioneer new ways to fuel student access, enrollment and success, with an emphasis on decreasing time to graduation, reducing the cost of higher education, and improving the quality of learning — at UCF and beyond. Let's change the future, together. |
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