Welcome to the OTC Employee Development calendar where current employees can browse and register for available training opportunities. Events are added throughout the semester so please check back often.

Small Teaching Online: A Conversation with the Author – Flower Darby

Virtual Only

Whether you’re new or experienced faculty you can make small but impactful adjustments that significantly boost student engagement and learning. In this talk, we’ll discuss brief learning activities, minor course design modifications, and simple changes to your interactions with students online based on the approach outlined in Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online…

Free

REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit

Join thousands of faculty, administrators, thought and practice leaders across global universities and colleges on June 9-10, 2021 to discover immediate ways to improve online and blended class delivery for higher education. REMOTE provides a forum to identify and promote the best possible pedagogy, techniques and tools for online and blended learning and helps educators…

NISOD Webinar: What Everyone Needs to Know About Professor Flexibility, Philosophy, and Student Completion

This NISOD webinar provides an overview of a two-year project to determine if changes in teaching style and course materials increased overall student completion rates, as well as completion rates specifically for historically underrepresented groups. Course completion rates were collected for introductory and 200-level courses in psychology and sociology. Data were dis-aggregated by age, sex,…

Inclusive Teaching for Equitable Learning

Virtual Only

Click here to watch the recording Inclusive, equitable, effective instruction is essential to delivering higher education's goal of ensuring every student has the opportunity to succeed. Join the discussion with the American Council on Education (ACE) and the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) at this complimentary webinar on our collective responsibility to create…

10wk Free Course: Leaders of Learning

Virtual Only

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership. Gain the tools to imagine and build the future of learning. About this course All of us carry explicit or implicit theories of learning. They manifest themselves in the ways we learn, the ways we teach, and the ways we think about leadership and learning.…

Scaling and Institutionalizing Work Readiness in Higher Education

Virtual Only

Research on effectiveness in higher education convincingly points to a handful of high-impact practices while the mission and purpose of higher education continues to aim at preparing engaged citizens who are able to thrive in a culturally, racially, and socio-economically diverse world. In what ways are these high impact practices and values of engaged citizenry…

Improving Curriculum to Facilitate Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion

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Click here to access Recording (make sure you have created an institutional account) This webinar shares research on curriculum equality. The facilitator provides examples of how equity can be facilitated in the classroom by allowing students to choose their own research topics, studying black authors and businesspeople, and by studying international authors and businesspeople based…

The New Normal: HyFlex Models for Student Engagement

Virtual Only

The pandemic has accelerated the virtual education revolution by a decade, causing institutions and faculty to adapt their programs and pedagogy to better engage students. This fall, almost half of college students are anticipated to enroll in at least one online course, but according to a study by The Economist, 70 percent of faculty are…

Faculty First Fridays 9/3/21

Virtual Only

Grab your lunch (or favorite beverage) and connect with your peers in an informal space to share how your semester is going, tales from the classroom, and all things teaching and learning. Join us via Zoom.

8wk Free Course: Instructional Design and Technology: Learning Theories

Virtual Only

Explore emerging learning theories and interactive technologies to create engaging experiences for today’s connected students. About this course Technology, digital media and mobile access have changed how people learn. Today’s students want to be engaged and self-directed with digital content, available anytime, anywhere. This is a challenge for instructional designers as they create online learning…