Farther In Fellowship Glenn Fajardo

Farther in Fellowship

by Glenn Fajardo

On April 15, I was already happy that Tax Day got pushed back. And then I got the call from Carissa: “Glenn… it’s time.” She asked what I thought about being a Teaching Fellow at the d.school this summer, given the relevant experience I could bring to today’s teaching challenges.

Farther in Fellowship

For 12 years, I’ve been a practitioner of distributed collaboration, working with people and organizations across the globe engaged in social impact work. I’ve taught many classes and workshops on how to be creative together when far apart, such as Design Across Borders at the d.school. Now was the time to bring that expertise farther in when everyone had to be farther out.

Iwas thrilled for the opportunity to push boundaries in community and joined the Teaching & Learning team for the summer. My fellowship focused on how we teach, learn, create, and relate in a distributed world.

Explore Distributed Learning

Within this, I explored five themes:

I integrated these themes into the inaugural d.school Course Development Summer Camp, where the Teaching & Learning team supported instructors in pushing the limits of what’s possible in distributed learning experiences. I’m also creating additional instructor resources around some of my exploration themes. Those resources will be part of our post-camp “Trails” that we’ll make available to the d.school community. I’d like to thank Carissa, Kelly, Megan, Milan, and Seamus for so warmly including me as part of the Teaching & Learning team this summer. I’d like to thank the entire d.school Home Team for having me around. I’m reminded in these times that the d.school truly is a community and a mindset. In a socially distant world, we can go farther together by finding new ways to unlock our collective creativity.