Course Design Academy 23/24

The Center for Teaching and Learning's (CTL) goal is to support high-quality online/blended instruction that improves students’ experiences, academic success, and timely progress to graduation through a broad organizational approach that embeds quality assurance (QA) into our campus culture. The CTL has helped guide this work to better integrate faculty development, pedagogy, technology, and context in alignment with QA efforts, GI2025, CSU Priority 5, and Humboldt’s strategic plan. Associated programming guides the design of course structures, artifacts, technology, and pedagogy informed by the Quality Learning and Teaching (QLT) instrument.

Academy Goal:  

To provide a four-week online, asynchronous experience that creates a comprehensive journey for educators as they experience an online course as a 'student' while discovering/re-discovering and applying backward design principles to their course(s), combine theoretical and research-based understandings with practical application and engage in feedback from peers and facilitators 

Academy Outcomes:

1. Apply backward design to your course planning
2. Design/redesign activities/assessments to support transformative learning 
3. Integrate instructional strategies/practices to foster an inclusive learning environment
4. Engage in at least one non-evaluative teaching/design feedback method
5. Foster relationships among colleagues within and across disciplines
6. Provide a public showcase that includes a reflective summary of your design/redesign journey
7. Share your course/teaching design/redesign at the Spring 2024 Teaching Excellence Symposium

Exploring backward design, alignment of learning outcomes and assessments, effective course design, facilitation/teaching, and ongoing critical reflection 

Course Design Academy with a focus on Backward Design, Transformative Learning, Inclusive Learning, Engagement in Feedback, Fostering Relationships, Public Showcase, Sharing Course

 

 

Course Design Academy Showcase 23/24

Highlighting Educator Journeys

Backward Design Showcase
Click Showcase here to view educator projects

 

 

 

Center for Teaching & Learning 5th Annual Teaching Excellence SymposiumMap with a compass

Charting the Future of Teaching & Learning: Defining Excellence, Embracing Change

Sixteen educators across ten departments completed in the Course Design Academy.  Their culminating experience was to join other campus educators in presenting highlights of their work at the Center for Teaching & Learning 5th Annual Teaching Excellence Symposium. See the CTL Teaching Excellence Symposium Digital Showcase for a look at their projects.

Educators sharing design projects at the 2024 Teaching Excellence Symposium

Educators discussing Ungrading at the 2024 Teaching Excellence Symposium

Educators discussing course design and pedagogies at the 2024 Teaching Excellence Symposium

Quality Assurance Team

• Enoch Hale, Director, Center for Teaching & Learning
• Kimberly Vincent-Layton, QA Co-facilitator, QA Campus Coordinator
• Amy Rock, QA Faculty,

Campus Partners

• Center for Teaching & Learning Team
• College educators
• Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• College Deans, Associate Deans
• Department Chairs
• Academic Technology Advisory Council

Campus Commitment Toward Sustainability of QA Efforts

• Dedicated matching funds to augment QA programming

• Creating a QLT culture through highly integrated CTL programming, QA reviews, consultations, and resources

• Creating policy and processes to further efforts through the successful adoption of a revised elearning policy

• Participation in the CSU Quality Assurance Professional Learning Community
  
  
  

Summary of Previous QA Accomplishments

• QLT Self-Reviews and Peer Reviews
• Creation of a public Pivot to Online Teaching Showcase of educator practices, resources, assessments
• Creation of a public Course Transformation Institute Showcase of disciplinary team projects
• Trained 18 faculty QLT Peer Reviewers and launched a QLT Peer Review Campus Team
• Revised eLearning policy
• Keep Teaching and Keep Learning web resources during pandemic/remote teaching
• Launched a Professional Development Hub (Canvas space) to support live workshops and 24/7 self-paced, anytime/anywhere learning modules for faculty to engage in various technologies, pedagogies, feedback mechanisms, and more

Dissemination of QA Efforts

• CTL 5th Annual Teaching Excellence Symposium Digital Showcase

• CTL Web and Canvas course to facilitate QA reviews

• CTL Instructional Hub that houses the QA Review Process

• Humanizing Online Learning and Teaching resources (campus and beyond)

Center for Teaching & Learning Instructional Hub

 

Professional Development Completions

1. Course Design Academy - 16 faculty completions across 10 academic departments (Fall and Spring)
2. QLT Peer Review Team - 5 faculty reviews across disciplines, CTL and QA team

Development of QA Campus Resources

• Teaching Development Plan updates

• Adoption of the new QLT version to inform programming and practices

• Adding further self-paced learning modules in the CTL Instructional Hub to include technologies that support interaction and social presence

• Integrate Cidilabs Design Tools and related institutional templates to support educators in creating accessible, mobile-responsive content/design
  
  

Humboldt has a deep commitment to meeting the needs of all our students. Through broad programming and intentional integration efforts, the CTL has made inclusive design a cornerstone of our work.

• Creating a series of "Teaching Feedback Methods" for faculty to engage in non-evaluative, confidential feedback on their teaching

• Integrating humanizing online elements across programming

• Ally in all Courses

• Applying Universal/Inclusive Design Through CTL Programming and Consultations

• CTL Faculty Learning Communities

• Adoption of Humanizing Online STEM Academy

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