Enhance your teaching practice with proven strategies
Professional Development Courses for Higher Education Faculty
We provide higher education faculty with professional development courses that enhance teaching practices. Our 3-week online courses are designed, authored and facilitated by leading scholars in the field. Faculty participants receive personalized feedback, discuss and share ideas with like-minded colleagues, and leave each course with tangible products they can implement in their teaching practice immediately.
Do you want to see more significant learning from your students?
“I’m constantly begging for more time to get things done. However, as I progressed through these activities, I realized that working on a big dream was making me more productive…I instantly had ideas to add to my lesson plans and began to look forward to teaching the course again so that I could make my first day even more impactful.”
– Molly Collins, English Instructor, Tri-County Technical College
Facilitated 3-Week Online Courses
Designed by Best-Selling Authors
We are the only authorized provider for online courses developed by these leading authors based on their best-selling books.
Significant Learning by Design
Do you want courses that result in significant, engaged, and lasting student learning? Learn how to use the Taxonomy of Significant Learning and Integrated Course Design model developed by Dr. L. Dee Fink, shown to lead to greater student engagement and improved student learning. In this course, articulate your vision for significant learning and develop a course plan to achieve these goals.
Teach Students How to Learn
Are you frustrated and discouraged by students in your courses who seem unmotivated, disengaged and unprepared to learn in your course and in college? Learn how to change the paradigm and help students not only survive in your course and college, but thrive! In this course, you will learn proven methods developed by Dr. Saundra McGuire, and develop, practice and receive feedback on strategies that you can use immediately.
Designing a Motivational Syllabus
Are you using the syllabus as a motivational tool? Explore current research about effective syllabi and how tone, visual tools, and length can motivate and engage students. Join us as we discover how simple but powerful changes can make a world of difference and set your students up for success. Authored by Christine Harrington and Melissa Thomas.
Advancing Equity-Based Online Teaching
Do you strive to create online learning environments that are equitable and engaging for all students? Develop methods and strategies for creating engaging and inclusive online learning experiences through the use of the Design for Learning Equity Framework, Universal Design for Learning principles, and a focus on human connectedness. Authored by Kevin Kelly and Todd Zakrajsek.
“I love to see examples and apply them. I have most enjoyed working on my own syllabus and have been doing it bit by bit as I go through the course. I enjoyed this course a lot!”
– Emma Dosmar, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Are you ready to design solid teaching plans based on proven approaches to increase learning for all students?
Our courses help educators develop intentional teaching plans and equity-minded teaching practices that provide a strong sense of purpose, clarity, and confidence in teaching.
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Our courses provide:
Proven approaches for course design and student learning – Based on the expertise of best-selling authors in the field, you will learn their proven strategies first hand.
Tangible outcomes – Our courses go beyond just learning about ideas and concepts to actually walking you through the design and implementation of evidence-based teaching approaches.
Immediate application – Through structured steps and activities, you leave each course with practical plans, lessons, and approaches ready to use with your students in your courses.
Equity-minded focus – All of our courses aim to position teaching practices through a diversity and inclusion lens, striving for equitable learning outcomes.
Personalized feedback – All participants receive individual feedback every step of the way from expert facilitators as well as fellow college educators.
“I really appreciated the opportunity to take this course and I came away feeling empowered to incorporate the lessons and strategies we worked on into my own courses. I’ll be looking to take more courses in the future, as well . . . again, many thanks!”
– Frances Zauhar, Associate Professor of English, Marywood University
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Do you want more peace of mind in your teaching?
Give yourself the gift of clarity, purpose and confidence in your teaching practice.
Our online courses are designed to fit your needs. In just a few weeks, you develop intentional strategies, customized for your courses and your students, and ready for immediate implementation.