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.

Canvas Analytics

Virtual Only

The power to know which students are struggling before they ask for help would be considered a superpower to most instructors, but this new tool allows you to do just that! Canvas Analytics is already available in the settings of your course and can provide you with the information you really want to know when…

Free

Canvas Analytics

Virtual Only

The power to know which students are struggling before they ask for help would be considered a superpower to most instructors, but this new tool allows you to do just that! Canvas Analytics is already available in the settings of your course and can provide you with the information you really want to know when…

Free

Hyflex & Hybrid Student Engagement

Virtual Only

As OTC offers more sections in a hyflex hybrid model, and with many students opting for this new delivery option, faculty find themselves learning how to balance engaging students both in-person and virtually. Join instructors Tara Lacio and Trish White for a virtual conversation as they share lessons they’ve learned and their best tips and…

Free

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

Virtual Only

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…