Fostering Holistic Learning Environments
Course Description
The Innovation Academy offers faculty an opportunity to enhance their teaching skills, promote open educational resources, and create innovative learning environments.
This program encourages educators to reflect on their teaching methods and collaborate with peers to discover new ways to engage and empower students.
Join the Innovation Academy and discover the interconnected relationships between effectively utilizing technology, implementing open educational resources, and creating student-centered classrooms.
Course Information
- No prerequisites
- Course Modality: 4 Live interactive sessions and self-paced asynchronous learning activities.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, faculty will be able to:
- Recognize the relationship between utilizing technology, implementing open education resources, and creating student-centered classrooms.
- Apply universal teaching practices and design for learning that leverage technology to enhance student engagement.
- Incorporate open education resources to build connections between the classroom and careers.
- Develop a sustainable teaching approach to create an enriched educational experience for students.
Learning Activities
Let's GROW together. This course follows a framework using the acronym GROW:
Goals | We will share the course and module objectives. And how they connect with the module activities and major projects.
Resources | We will share evidence-based practices supporting the module goals.
Opportunities for connections | We will provide you opportunities to discuss with your peers to build connections.
Wrap up | We will provide a moment for reflection to identify teaching practices to implement in your courses.
Learning Modules
- Module 1: Creating a welcoming learning community.
- Module 2: Teaching with Technology
- Module 3: Experiential Learning and Building Classroom to Career Opportunities
- Module 4: Student-Centered Design
Certificate of Completion and Incentive
For each cohort, there are 50 seats available. Participants are eligible to receive a Certificate of Completion and a one-time incentive of $500 upon successful completion of the following requirements:
- Complete the 4 self-paced modules in Canvas.
- Submit Innovation Project.
Teaching and Learning Consultants are available to support your learning journey.
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