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AI Essentials for Faculty ()

Transform Teaching in the Age of AI

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COURSE CREDIT: Developed by Dr. Jess Kahlow. With appreciation to Dr. Kahlow for creating this timely faculty learning resource.

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Artificial intelligence is reshaping teaching, learning, assessment, and the future of work. This practical course helps instructors navigate generative AI with greater confidence while keeping meaningful student learning at the center. Participants explore responsible AI use, course expectations, prompting, assignment design, academic integrity, and approaches that prepare students for an AI-enabled world.

Benefits

• Build confidence using generative AI in teaching and learning.
• Create clearer expectations for appropriate student AI use.
• Strengthen assignments by emphasizing authentic thinking, application, reflection, and disciplinary practice.
• Consider ethical, accessible, privacy-conscious, and responsible uses of AI.
• Support students in developing AI literacy for academic, professional, and civic contexts.

By Completing This Course, You Will Be Able To:

• Explain foundational generative AI concepts and their relevance to higher education.
• Develop course-specific AI guidance and syllabus language.
• Use prompting strategies to support teaching, planning, and learning activities.
• Evaluate opportunities, limitations, and risks associated with AI tools.
• Revise a learning activity or assessment to promote meaningful evidence of student learning.

Certificate: A certificate is awarded upon successful completion of the course requirements.

 

Accessibility Bootcamp Roadmap-CDE ()

Build More Inclusive and Accessible Learning Experiences

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COURSE CREDIT: Developed by the Center for Distance Education (CDE). With appreciation to the CDE team for providing faculty with a structured accessibility learning pathway.

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Accessibility is both a shared responsibility and an essential teaching practice that benefits all learners. This guided roadmap introduces foundational accessibility principles, tools, and practices for digital learning environments. Participants examine common barriers and learn practical ways to improve documents, media, course materials, and Canvas content.

Benefits

• Reduce barriers that can interfere with student access and participation.
• Improve the usability and clarity of course materials for a wide range of learners.
• Develop accessibility habits that can be applied across teaching modalities.
• Strengthen course quality while supporting institutional accessibility responsibilities.

By Completing This Course, You Will Be Able To:

• Identify common accessibility barriers in digital course materials.
• Apply accessibility practices to documents, presentations, media, and Canvas content.
• Use available accessibility tools and resources to review course materials.
• Prioritize accessibility improvements based on learner needs and course visibility.
• Create a more inclusive digital learning experience for students.

Certificate: A certificate is awarded upon successful completion of the course requirements.

 

Focus on Planning: Accessibility-CDE ()

Design Accessibility Into Your Course From the Start

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COURSE CREDIT: Developed by the Center for Distance Education (CDE). With appreciation to the CDE team for emphasizing proactive, accessible course planning.

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The most effective accessibility work begins during course planning, not after a course has already been built. This course helps instructors integrate accessibility into course organization, materials, learning activities, assignments, and assessments from the beginning. A proactive approach can reduce later revision work while creating clearer and more flexible learning paths.

Benefits

• Save time by considering accessibility during planning and development.
• Make assignments, assessments, and learning materials more usable from the outset.
• Support inclusive course design rather than relying only on individual retrofits.
• Build accessibility into everyday teaching decisions and workflows.

By Completing This Course, You Will Be Able To:

• Incorporate accessibility considerations into course planning decisions.
• Evaluate planned content and activities for potential learner barriers.
• Design more accessible assignments and assessments.
• Apply inclusive-design and Universal Design for Learning considerations.
• Develop a practical accessibility action plan for a course.

Certificate: A certificate is awarded upon successful completion of the course requirements.

 

Student Learning Outcomes ()

Create Meaningful, Measurable Learning

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COURSE CREDIT: Developed by Dr. Beth Fleener and CRTLE with support from the Center for Distance Education for the revisions and updates for version 2.0. With appreciation to Dr. Fleener and CRTLE contributors for creating a practical foundation for aligned course design.

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Clear student learning outcomes provide a foundation for effective teaching, meaningful assessment, and transparent communication with students. This course helps instructors write outcomes that are relevant, specific, and measurable, and then connect those outcomes to learning activities and assessments. It also supports syllabus quality, curriculum alignment, and accreditation-related expectations.

Benefits

• Clarify what students should know or be able to do by the end of a course.
• Create stronger alignment among outcomes, instruction, activities, and assessment.
• Communicate expectations more clearly to students.
• Support intentional course planning and evidence of student learning.

By Completing This Course, You Will Be Able To:

• Distinguish measurable outcomes from broad goals or topics.
• Select observable action verbs appropriate to the intended level of learning.
• Apply the Audience, Behavior, Condition, and Degree framework when useful.
• Write relevant, specific, and measurable student learning outcomes.
• Review and revise existing outcomes for clarity, rigor, and alignment.

Certificate: A certificate is awarded upon successful completion of the course requirements.

Canvas Training for Faculty course: ()

Build an Organized, Engaging, and Student-Centered Canvas Course

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COURSE CREDIT: Developed by the Center for Distance Education (CDE). With appreciation to CDE for supporting effective online and technology-enhanced teaching.

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Whether you are new to Canvas or want to refine an existing course, this training provides practical guidance for creating a more organized and student-centered learning environment. Participants explore core Canvas functions and course-design practices that support navigation, communication, assessment, feedback, and student engagement across face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses.

Benefits

• Make course expectations, materials, and weekly pathways easier for students to locate.
• Use Canvas more efficiently for communication, learning activities, assessment, and feedback.
• Reduce confusion through consistent organization and navigation.
• Support a stronger student experience across course modalities.

By Completing This Course, You Will Be Able To:

• Organize course content into clear modules or learning pathways.
• Create and manage assignments, discussions, quizzes, and gradebook elements.
• Use Canvas communication and feedback features purposefully.
• Apply course-design practices that improve navigation and consistency.
• Build a Canvas environment that supports engagement and student success.

Certificate: A certificate is awarded upon successful completion of the course requirements.

 

Career Competency Mapping (

Help 糖心Vlog视频 Connect Coursework to Career Success

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COURSE CREDIT: Developed by Dr. Bonnie Boardman. With appreciation to Dr. Boardman and support from the 糖心Vlog视频 Provost’s Office and fellowship support for creating this practical course-to-career resource.

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糖心Vlog视频 often develop valuable workforce competencies in their courses without recognizing or articulating them. This course helps instructors identify the career-ready skills already embedded in learning outcomes, activities, and assessments. Participants learn how to make those connections more visible to students and help them translate academic experiences into language they can use with employers and graduate programs.

Benefits

• Increase the career relevance and visibility of existing coursework.
• Help students recognize the transferable value of disciplinary learning.
• Connect learning outcomes and assignments to career-readiness competencies.
• Support student reflection, confidence, and career articulation without requiring a full course redesign.

By Completing This Course, You Will Be Able To:

• Explain why workforce competencies matter to students and to 糖心Vlog视频.
• Identify workforce competencies already present in a course.
• Map competencies to learning outcomes, content, activities, and assessments.
• Revise course or assignment language to make competencies explicit.
• Help students communicate evidence of their competencies to employer and professional audiences.

Certificate: A certificate is awarded upon successful completion of the course requirements.

Student Experience Project (SEP) ()

Small Teaching Changes. Meaningful Student Impact.

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COURSE CREDIT: Developed by the 糖心Vlog视频 Student Experience Project leadership team and designed by Dr. Christy Spivey and Dr. Lori Ramirez, with leadership support from Dr. Heather Arterburn. With appreciation to the SEP team and Drs. Spivey and Ramirez for translating research into practical faculty strategies.

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The Student Experience Project course introduces evidence-based teaching practices that strengthen belonging, engagement, academic confidence, persistence, and student success. Participants explore the SEP pillars of Growth Mindset, Wise Feedback, and Welcoming Environment, then consider practical changes they can apply in their own teaching. The course emphasizes that meaningful improvement can begin with small, intentional actions rather than a complete course redesign.

Benefits

• Learn research-informed strategies that can be applied immediately.
• Create learning environments where students feel welcomed, supported, and capable of succeeding.
• Strengthen feedback, communication, and course climate.
• Use reflection and student-experience evidence to guide teaching improvement.

By Completing This Course, You Will Be Able To:

• Explain how belonging, growth mindset, feedback, and learning environments influence student experience.
• Apply growth-mindset and wise-feedback strategies in course communication.
• Strengthen welcoming signals in a syllabus, Canvas course, or classroom practice.
• Identify one meaningful SEP strategy to implement in a course.
• Reflect on how teaching choices can support student engagement, persistence, and success.

Certificate: A certificate is awarded upon successful completion of the course requirements.

 

 

Peer Observation of Teaching Course - Coming November 2026!

Develop the Skills to Observe, Reflect, and Provide Constructive Feedback

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COURSE CREDIT: Led and developed by Dr. Peggy Semingson and Dr. Beth Fleener, with extensive Canvas course development support and course creation from Dr. Heather Philip (Fall 2026 Faculty Fellow of Innovation) and contributions from CRTLE colleagues. Thank you to the full team for transforming the live training into an on-demand learning experience.

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COMING SOON: Self-paced Canvas course under development.

This forthcoming self-paced Canvas course will prepare participants to approach peer observation as a collegial, formative, evidence-based process that supports reflective practice and teaching excellence. The course will address the foundations of peer observation, preparation and pre-observation consultation, data-focused observation across face-to-face and online modalities, post-observation reflection and feedback, documentation, and certification guidance. Planned interactive scenarios will allow learners to practice responding to realistic questions and cases, while optional role-play activities will support rehearsal of constructive feedback conversations.

Benefits

• Understand peer observation as a supportive process for reflection and continuous teaching improvement.
• Prepare for each stage of the peer-observation cycle using established resources, forms, and expectations.
• Practice gathering descriptive evidence rather than relying on general impressions or judgment.
• Develop confidence giving respectful, specific, and actionable feedback.
• Explore considerations for face-to-face, hybrid, synchronous online, and asynchronous teaching.

By Completing This Course, You Will Be Able To:

• Explain the purpose and stages of the peer-observation process.
• Prepare for and conduct a focused pre-observation consultation.
• Document observable teaching and student-engagement patterns using notes, forms, and diagrams.
• Facilitate a reflective post-observation conversation grounded in evidence.
• Use supportive language to identify strengths and manageable opportunities for growth.
• Recognize the documentation and reflection associated with formal peer observation at 糖心Vlog视频.

Certificate: A certificate is awarded upon successful completion of the course requirements.

Important Note: Graduate students and GTAs are encouraged to participate for future-faculty development and may document participation on a CV or professional portfolio. Formal 糖心Vlog视频 peer-observer certification and website listing are limited to eligible 糖心Vlog视频 faculty under current guidance.