Workshops, Classes, & Webinars | Office of Instruction & Assessment

As part of OIA’s mission to build capacity for excellent teaching on our campus, we offer a wide variety of workshops, webinars and facilitated online mini-courses to individuals who teach for the UA.

All of our professional development offerings incorporate Universal Design principles. Registration for these offerings includes space for participants to request any disability-related accommodations that will facilitate their full participation, such as ASL interpreting, captioned videos, Braille or electronic text. Please use the Contact Us link to ask any other questions about the accessibility of our offerings.

Credentials for Completion of Professional-Development Offerings

New Offering: MOOC-Based FLC on Inclusive Teaching

This FLC guides a local cohort through participating in Cornell University’s new massive open online course (MOOC), “Teaching & Learning in the Diverse Classroom,” one of the first online courses to guide instructors in exploring frameworks and strategies for building and sustaining inclusive learning environments.

The FLC will be facilitated by Mascha Gemein, adapting Cornell’s facilitator’s guide to offer a MOOC experience grounded in the context of the UA campus community. Participants will be supported in personalized learning and application of their learning to their individual teaching contexts.

Workshops & Webinars

Connecting Reading & Writing Workshop Series

January 27 and February 3, 2020; 12:00-1:30 pm, ILC 103A

Preparing for Faculty Job Applications Workshop Series

January - March 2020

Applying the Quality Matters Rubric

February 4-18, 2020; asynchronous workshop

Mini-Courses

You can expect to spend about an hour a day on the content for these online mini-courses. Where indicated below, some include synchronous meetings, but most of the work for these will be at your own pace.

2020 Mini-Courses

Dates	Mini-Courses
February 10-14, 2020	Building Communities in Online Courses Register Participants in this fully online five-day mini-course will conceptualize community in online environments while exploring tools, techniques, and activities that support student-to-student and student-to-instructor connectedness.
February 24-28, 2020	Facilitating Collaborative Learning (Online with synchronous meetings Feb. 25 & 27) Participants in this 5-day mini-course will explore the implementation of evidence-based collaborative learning, observe examples of effective use of collaborative learning in actual college courses, create a plan for facilitating collaborative learning in a course of their choice, and give and receive feedback to and from colleagues.
March 2-13, 2020	Introduction to Teaching Online In this 14-day online mini-course, participants will experience taking an online course while learning about methods, tools, and best practices for teaching hybrid and fully online courses.
April 19-25, 2020	Reimagining Slides This five day online mini-course will invite participants to dust off those text heavy, bullet point laden lecture slides and reimagine the power and purpose of what is projected on a screen.
May 14-22, 2020	Introduction to Teaching Online In this 14-day online mini-course, participants will experience taking an online course while learning about methods, tools, and best practices for teaching hybrid and fully online courses.
June 29-July 10, 2020	Collaborative Learning (Online with synchronous meetings June 30, July 2, 7, & 9) In this two-week, hybrid mini-course, participants will learn about, plan, and practice using evidence-based, active and collaborative learning strategies for teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses.
July 13-24, 2020	Building Intentional Learning Relationships This 2 week, fully online mini-course will help you address the intersections between cognitive and affective learning to promote academic achievement for your students. Drawing from the research on culturally responsive teaching, you will practice strategies and techniques for building intentional learning relationships with students.
August 3-7, 2020	Fine-Tuning Your Course as a Road Map for Learning This 5-day, fully online mini-course allows instructors to refine an existing course plan and syllabus. Using the methodology of backward design and the principle of alignment, participants will revise and peer-review the learning outcomes, assessment plan, and other aspects of their courses to create an effective “road map” for learning via the course syllabus.
August 10-14, 2020	Reimagining Slides This five day online mini-course will invite participants to dust off those text heavy, bullet point laden lecture slides and reimagine the power and purpose of what is projected on a screen.
August 17-21, 2020	Course-Level Assessment This five-day online mini-course introduces assessment strategies and techniques that can be implemented at the course level to measure student learning, course design, and teaching practices.
August 17-21, 2020	Effective Online Discussions This five-day mini-course introduces strategies for designing and facilitating effective online discussions that expand student exposure to curriculum, deepen learning, and increase student engagement.
August 17-21, 2020	Teaching a Large Online Course This five-day online mini-course introduces instructional strategies and techniques for teaching large fully online courses.
September 21-25, 2020	Building Communities in Online Courses Participants in this fully online five-day mini-course will conceptualize community in online environments while exploring tools, techniques, and activities that support student-to-student and student-to-instructor connectedness. This mini-course will be capped at 30 participants.
September 28-October 2, 2020	Collaborative Learning by Design (Online with synchronous meetings Sept. 29 & Oct. 1) Participants in this 5-day mini-course will explore the design of evidence-based collaborative learning activities, discuss examples of effective collaborative learning activities from actual college courses, plan or revise a collaborative learning activity for a course of their choice, and give and receive feedback to and from colleagues.
September 28-October 9, 2020	Building Intentional Learning Relationships This 5-day, fully online mini-course will help you address the intersections between cognitive and affective learning to promote academic achievement for your students. Drawing from the research on culturally responsive teaching, you will practice strategies and techniques for building intentional learning relationships with students.
October 5-16, 2020	Introduction to Teaching Online In this 14-day online mini-course, participants will experience taking an online course while learning about methods, tools, and best practices for teaching hybrid and fully online courses.
TBD	Reimagining Online Lectures This five day online mini-course will invite participants to reconsider the construct of “lecture” as it relates to online teaching and learning. Participants will explore ways that online content might be created and delivered.
TBD	Designing Effective Writing Assignments and Rubrics This mini-course includes a face-to-face session, TBD. Participants in this 5-day mini-course will learn strategies to design (or redesign) a writing assignment for maximizing student engagement and success. This mini-course is paired with a face-to-face workshop focusing on developing a fair, effective, and efficient rubric for your assignment.

2021 Mini-Courses

Dates	Mini-Courses
January 2021	Fine-Tuning Your Course as a Road Map for Learning This 5-day, fully online mini-course allows instructors to refine an existing course plan and syllabus. Using the methodology of backward design and the principle of alignment, participants will revise and peer-review the learning outcomes, assessment plan, and other aspects of their courses to create an effective “road map” for learning via the course syllabus.
January 2021	Course-Level Assessment This five-day online mini-course introduces assessment strategies and techniques that can be implemented at the course level to measure student learning, course design, and teaching practices.
January 2021	Effective Online Discussions This five-day online mini-course introduces strategies for designing and facilitating effective online discussions that expand student exposure to curriculum, deepen learning, and increase student engagement.

Self Paced Tutorials

The OIA offers several online, self paced tutorials that are available through D2L. A list of available tutorials and descriptions, along with enrollment instructions, are available at this Tutorials page.

Mini-Primers

The OIA has also created several mini-primers, which are short introductions to various teaching and learning topics, and include links to additional resources. A list of our mini-primers is available on this Mini-Primers page.