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Professional Development Opportunities
The Learning and Applied Innovation Center (LAIC) provides a wide variety of opportunities to enhance your teaching practices, collaborate, and discover new teaching strategies and innovative methods to integrate technology into teaching and learning.
Overview
In addition to our "how to" on-demand trainings we also offer interactive workshops, seminars, book discussions and much more. Our workshops are designed to let you collaboratively explore and share practical, evidence-based best practices on pedagogical themes, and to gain new insight to try in your course.
Interested in an event not listed? The LAIC staff can work with you to provide customized teaching and learning workshop or course training and specific events for your department, organization, or work group.
Complete the request a workshop or training form for your group.
Professional Development Opportunities
Our professional development opportunities for instructors include workshops, webinars, panel and book club discussions, and faculty certificate courses. They are focused on evidence-based practices to improve student engagement and learning. Participation in these activities provides opportunities to learn and engage in lively discussions on effective pedagogy with colleagues from across the disciplines. Browse our Faculty Workshop Catalog to see what is currently being offered or contact us to discuss your training needs.Opportunities available:
- LAIC Book Discussion (new this year)
- Department-based open forums
- Faculty Certificate Courses and Exemplar Course Design Rubric
- LAIC On-Demand Resources (new this year)
- Various webinars on teaching strategies and technologies
- Workshops covering Universal Design for Learning, alternative assessments, effective discussions, and classroom engagement