With SAIL, Northeastern is taking significant steps towards becoming a global, networked university system. SAIL’s vision of being a truly integrated learning ecosystem where everyone is a learner and everyone is an educator is challenging the university to think differently about acquiring and sharing knowledge. The question, of course, is “how?” – how do we embed the concept of SAIL in our day-to-day lives? How does SAIL inform how we work, how we learn, how we interact? How do we measure success? During this session, we will partner together to design different models that might provide ways to create a SAIL-informed environment in which everyone is a lifelong learner and educator.

1. SAIL at Work: Creating a SAIL-Informed Environment
At Northeastern
Jane Moyer
Vice President
Human Resources
Cigdem Talgar
Associate Vice Provost
Teaching and Learning

2. Overview
Vision for SAIL
Building the ecosystem
Brainstorming organization-wide integration and barriers
Example: HR approach to SAIL integration
Brainstorming individual approaches to integration

3. Integrated learning ecosystem: Why?
Critical learning in higher education occurs both inside and outside of
the classroom
Learners are unable to articulate their learning and don’t understand
the integrated nature of learning
Employers report a gap in skills for graduates
National conversation aimed at capturing, recording & credentialing
curricular as well as co-curricular activities

4. EXPERIENTIAL
“Intellectual” “Social-Emotional”LEARNER EXPERIENCE
Programs, experiences, & points of contact to facilitate
learning & growth
CO-CURRICULUMCURRICULUM
NUpath
Major
Requirements
“Professional”

5. Offers the next generation of experiential learning at Northeastern where
students are prepared to be agile in the changing world: learning happens
everywhere
Helps learners connect all experiences to a framework for life-long learning so
they can understand the integrated nature of the experiences
Creates a culture of seamless learning
Helps learners realize the learning potential of networks
Integrated learning ecosystem: What?

6. Shared language
Seamless environment
Explicit learning
Integrated learning ecosystem: How?

7. Integrated learning ecosystem: How?
Shared language
Seamless environment
Explicit learning

8. SAIL Framework: A Holistic Approach to Individual Growth
SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS &
COMMITMENT
Students develop the confidence, skills and
values to effectively recognize the needs of
individuals, communities, and societies and make
a commitment to constructively engage in social
action.
GLOBAL MINDSET
Students develop knowledge, skills and behaviors to
live, work and communicate with people whose
background, experience and perspectives are different
from their own as well as to consider the global impact
of their decisions.
PROFESSIONAL & PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Students develop the confidence, skills, behaviors and values to
effectively discern life goals, form relationships and shape their
personal and professional identities to achieve fulfillment.
INTELLECTUAL AGILITY
Learners develop the ability to use knowledge,
behaviors, skills, and experiences flexibly in
new and unique situations to innovatively
contribute to their field.
WELL-BEING
Students develop knowledge, skills and
behaviors necessary to live balanced and
fulfilling lives.

9. Integrated learning ecosystem: How?
Shared language
Seamless environment
Explicit learning

10. Help learners adopt the understanding that learning happens
everywhere by mapping every experience to the shared framework
SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
& COMMITMENT
Advocacy
Time Management
PROFESSIONAL &
PERSONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Financial Literacy
INTELLECTUAL AGILITY
Systems Thinking
WELL-BEING
Time Management
GLOBAL MINDSET
Cultural Agility
BEYOND BORDERS:
Building Cultural
Agility through
Meaningful
Partnerships

11. Integrated learning ecosystem: How?
Shared language
Seamless environment
Explicit learning

12. Everybody is an educator
Everybody is a learner

13. ADVISING
COURSEWORK
ATHLETICS
RESEARCH
CLUBS
ORGANIZATIONS
RESIDENCE LIFE
CO-OP
RECREATION
SERVICE
LIBRARY
Integrating Opportunities

14. Integrated learning ecosystem
Opportunity Creation

15. COURSE:
Vision &
Perception
LIBRARY:
Research
Methods
PROGRAM
Is Beyonce a
Feminist?
RESEARCH
Percep of Diff.
Faces CO-OP:
Roxbury
Community
Assoc
ATHLETICS:
Rowing Comm.
Outreach
COURSE:
CO-OP
Preparatory
Course
ADVISING:
Appointment
Co-op
Faculty
Athletic
Coach
Research
Lab
Director
Residence
Assistant
Advisor
Social
Justice
Resource
Center
Pop-Up:
Facilitating
Social Action
Student as
Educator
Co-op
Employer
COS
Faculty
Librarian
COURSE
Photography &
Social Action
CAMD
Faculty

16. Integrated learning ecosystem
Cross-Group Collaboration

17. COS
Faculty
Librarian
CAMD
Faculty
Research
Lab
Director
Residence
Assistant
Advisor
Social
Justice
Resource
Center
Co-op
Employer
Athletic
Coach
Integrated learning ecosystem
Cross-Group Collaboration
LLN
XN
Projects

18. Law
School
Faculty
OGC CCIS
Research
Lab
Director
Residence
Assistant
HRM
Campus
Safety
ITSFinance
Integrated learning ecosystem
Cross-Group Collaboration
SAIL
Team

19. NORTHEASTERN SAIL
SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY:
WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF AN
ORGANIZATION THAT SUPPORTS AN INTEGRATED
LEARNING ECOSYSTEM?
TAKE 5 MINUTES FOR A GROUP DISCUSSION
*PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL BE ASKING YOU TO SHARE OUT TO THE LARGER GROUP

20. Great…but…how?
How can this work with our organizational structure?

21. NORTHEASTERN SAIL
PERSONAL REFLECTION
WHAT WOULD AN INTEGRATED LEARNING ECOSYSTEM
LOOK LIKE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION?
When will you know it is a integrated ecosystem?
WHAT ARE THE BARRIERS THAT WILL GET IN THE WAY OF
BUILDING AN INTEGRATED LEARNING ECOSYSTEM AT
NORTHEASTERN?
TAKE 5 MINUTES FREE WRITE
TAKE 5 MINUTES FOR A GROUP DISCUSSION AND FIND THEMES THAT YOU CAN SHARE OUT
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22. How HR is Preparing for an Integrated Learning
Ecosystem

23. Recruit and build cross-disciplinary talent
around competencies and careers
Not jobs

24. Generous with time
Perpetually curious, never ending pursuit of knowledge
Ability to integrate complex concepts into new things
Excited about sharing what they know
Vulnerable about what they don’t know
Global thinker
Belief in end-to-end thinking (understanding what you know is part of something bigger)
Valuing diversity
Integrated learning ecosystem
Attributes of members of the Ecosystem

25. NORTHEASTERN SAIL
GROUP ACTIVITY:
WHAT ARE SOME KEY STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO
PREPARE YOUR ENVIRONMENT FOR AN INTEGRATED
LEARNING ECOSYSTEM?
TAKE 5 MINUTES FREE WRITE
TAKE 5 MINUTES FOR A SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION AND FIND THEMES THAT YOU CAN SHARE OUT
WE WILL TAKE 10 MINUTES FOR A LARGE GROUP DISCUSSION