Professional Faculty Development Opportunities

• Generative AI:Myths vs Reality
• Building Community in the College Classroom
• Program Learning Outcomes:  Northwest Faculty PD 2025
• AI Writing & Human Review
• Innovation in Discussion Board Creation, Implementation and Evaluation
• AI as an ethical tool in the creation of teaching materials for university classes and for K-12 classrooms
• Leadership in AI: Empowering Educators for Organizational Innovation and Educational Excellence

• Active Learning Through Community Connections
• Artificial Intelligence in the Classrooms of Higher Education
• Beyond 'Sit and Get': Research-Based Engagement Structures for All Disciplines
•  CREATING INCLUSIVE CLASSROOMS THROUGH GRADING CONTRACTS AND UNGRADING
• Exploring Time, Play, & Cultural Diversity for Innovative Teaching Ideas
• Getting Out of Your Own Way: Being a Career Educator
• Inspired by Team Based Learning: Activities You Can Incorporate
• Lessons Learned from Interdisciplinary Teaching
• Leveraging Generative AI in Higher Education: The Faculty and Student Experience with AI Models
• Looking Back, Jumping Forward: Reflective Writing in Course Design
• Northwest Mental Health Playbook Overview
• From Boring to Brilliant: Techniques for Delivering Powerful and Impactful Presentations

• Setting Students Up For Success - Incorporating Library Resources into NWO
• Motivating Students to Learn: Integrating Apps and Intro to Padagogy Wheel
• How to Submit Proposals and How to CDR Guide
• How to Improve Your Classroom: PowerPoint Presentations
• Culturally Responsible Instruction
• Critical Thinking
• Assessing Your Course to Enhance Quality Improvement
• Amplifying Andragogy: Critical Thinking, Engagement, and Connection in the Higher Ed. Classroom - Part 1
• How Trauma-Informed Pedagogy Keeps Post-secondary Students In The Classroom

• Effective Strategies for Advising Transfer Students: Policies, Tips, and Key Information (October 2024)
• Using Canvas Quizzes to Provide Interactive Learning Adventure GUIDES (September 2024)
• Library Update: EBSCOhost (September 2024)
• From Proposed to Catalog: A Curriculum Management System Workshop (January 2024)
• MS Teams Collaboration Beyond the LMS (March 2023)
• Profession Based Learning Trips (March 2023) // Budget 
• Social Media and the Classroom (October 2022)
• A Sound Assignment: Podcasting Workshop (August 2022)
• Blended Learning Instruction (May 2022)
• Faculty Insights: Trauma & Violence Informed Teaching & Support for Students (March 2022)
• Faculty Insights: Simplifying Group Grading (January 2022)
• Accommodations Supporting Students (January 2022)
• Digital Collaborations (November 2021)
• Assessments Beyond Exams (October 2021)
• Facilitating Active Learning (September 2021)
• CITI Training for Researchers and Teachers (September 2021)
• Online Teaching Presence (August 2021)

Follow this link to free pedagogical workshops. Some are structured, and some are self-paced.

• 2016 USDLA IFWE - CITE LiteBoard Presentation
• ASU- What a True eTextbook Should Look Like (3.7 MB)
• 2010-Tools of the Trade: using Technology in Your Course
• 2010-Dealing with the Changing World of eTextbooks (3.2 MB)
• 2009-E-Books, E-Textbooks, and E-Readers (2.09 MB)
• 2009-Effectively Using SoftChalk to Deliver Today's Instructional Options in Online and Blended Courses (315 KB)
• 2009-Effective and Practical Uses of eTextbooks (6.68MB)
• 2009-eTextbooks: The Future of eLearning (3.72 MB)
• 2009-eBooks, eTextbooks and eReaders ACM SIGUCCS 2009
• 2009-A University eBook and eReader Pilot Study Helix 2009
• 2009-Effectively Using Today's Instructional Options in Online and Blended Courses Helix 2009
• 2008-Effectively Using Today's Instructional Options in Online and Blended Courses ALN Conference
• Guidelines for the Creation of Effective Podcast MoDLA Conference
• Dealing with Cheating and Plagiarism in Online Classes CiTE 2008 and Helix 2008
• Teaching the 21st Century Learner ALN Conference--Orlando
• Elluminate Feature CT Workshop
• Teaching with the Tablet PC CT Workshop
• New Learning Technologies CT Workshop
• Teaching the 21st Century Learner CT Workshop
• 2006-Teaching the 21st Century Learning Mid-South
• 2005-Teaching with the Tablet PC
• 2004-How to Redesign Without a Grant: Cost Effective Redesign of High Demand Courses
• 2004-Integrating Desktop Video Conferencing into Online and Web-Enhanced Courses ALN 2004
• 2004-Design and Developing Interactive Learning Objects
• 2003-The Learning Delivery System: New Twist for Design, Development and Delivery - Brick and Click Libraries Conference
• 2003-Developing a Cooperative Online Degree Program--The Practical Mechanics
• 2003-Effective Assessment in Online Courses - Educause 2003, The Seventh Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning (ALN) and Computers on Campus National Conference and Mid South Conference
• 2001-Creating and integrating Effective Online Narrated Presentations - the Seventh Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning (ALN) and Computers on Campus National Conference
• Course Reviews
• The Marketing of an Online Degree Program - Main PowerPoint Slides only
• Connecting the Pieces Together