Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Faculty Learning Certificates
Collaborative Learning Strategies
Learn to engage students in groups to solve problems, develop an understanding of concepts, or create products. Participants in this group will learn about a variety of collaborative learning strategies and technologies that can support instruction in these activities and then implement one or more of the strategies into their own courses.
Assessments of Student Learning Certificate
Target audience: Faculty and anyone interested in developing their skills in assessing course-level learning.
This certificate program assists faculty members in better assessing course-level student learning, using data for ongoing improvement, and thinking strategically at a “systems” level. Topics to be addressed include: 1) Backward Design and Learner Outcomes, 2) Foundational knowledge of assessment, 3) Formative assessment, 4) Alternative Summative Assessment, and 5) Large-Group/Team Assessment. Examples will be provided specific to your disciplines.
Training Delivery Method: Self-Paced Asynchronous Online
Program-Level Assessment Certificate
Target audience: Faculties, heads, chairs, directors, and assessment coordinators in curricular, co-curricular, and service programs.
This certificate program focuses on identifying key elements associated with assessing student learning at the program level. Participants will learn how to plan, guide, develop, and integrate student-learning outcomes across the curriculum addressing the program mission, vision and goals by closing the data gap, and apply findings that enhance student learning. This training will make the assessment process efficient and effective by saving a lot of time while providing the best-quality assessment for external and internal accreditation purposes. Examples will be provided specific to your disciplines, including the externally accredited programs.
Training Delivery Method: Self-Paced Asynchronous Online
Online Lecture and MediaSpace Certificate
Are you looking to incorporate video lectures into your online course? Michael Manderfeld will lead a certificate that will focus on making videos and different strategies for using them in your online courses.
Differentiating 400/500 Level Courses
If you teach a 400/500 course, you must clearly differentiate the two sections with separate learning outcomes, assignments, grading criteria, and even separate syllabi. CETL has a short asynchronous online course to help you learn how to make these distinctions easily. The course consists of three modules and takes 30-45 minutes to complete.
Teams Certificate
Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, meetings, files, and apps together in a single experience in Office 365 Education. More and more instructors are looking for collaborative tools that provide simplicity and flexibility and Microsoft Teams is one tool that can do both. In this 3-session certificate, we will provide you with an overview of Microsoft Teams for teaching and learning. We will explore ways to use Microsoft Teams to enhance collaboration in your classrooms and perhaps your departments. We will also include guided practice on setting up and organizing a Microsoft Teams environment.
Trauma-Informed Certificate
Many of our students have experienced trauma in their lives, and current events are likely exacerbating that. Dr. Lindsay Murn has compiled a list of resources that can help you learn more about student trauma and ways to help students. We are developing a 4-part certificate program to learn more about implementing trauma-informed pedagogy in your courses.
Faculty Learning Communities
First-Year Cohort
Support for new fixed term and probationary faculty during their first year at the university. The group will meet monthly to discuss the transition to the institution and the University community.
Second Year Cohort
Support for fixed term and probationary faculty in their second year at the university. The group will meet monthly to discuss the increasing responsibilities of academic advising, scholarship, and research and reflect upon challenges and lessons learned during their first year at the University.
Women in Higher Education
An informal gathering of women who work in higher education. Topics will vary based on current events and participant interest.
First-Year Experience Faculty Cohort
This cohort provides resources and support for instructors who are currently teaching First-Year Experience courses.
Book Discussion Groups
CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHING AND THE BRAIN
Book discussion facilitated by Dr. Elizabeth Harsma. CETL will provide books to registered participants.
Scholars At Work Conference
The Scholars At Work Conference allows faculty to share their passions, research, and innovations with peers and colleagues from around our institution.
Faculty Fellows Program
The Socially Just Classroom: Teaching for Equity 2030
By grappling with our own biases and biases inherent in our academic content and context, we will gain insight into ways our practices help or hinder the learning in our classrooms, particularly for marginalized students. We will use this insight to develop classroom practices that create more equitable, socially just learning spaces. Through observation, peer-teaching, co-teaching, and reflection, we will work together to gain confidence using these practices and build them into our courses.
Quality Improvement in Online Teaching and Learning
Create strategies to improve engagement among instructors and students in an online setting, including the development of learning activities, course materials, and assessment of teaching and learning.
Decreasing Opportunity Gaps in Gateway Courses
Recognizing that opportunities gaps exist on our campus in Gateway Courses, instructors will work in this cohort to learn and employ strategies to address this gap. Participants will also develop resources aimed at reducing the opportunity gap and increasing successful completion.
