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Professional Development
​for Faculty

CTL professional workshops and courses assist faculty in developing their face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses, and provide specific skills needed in order to design, plan, and execute learning objects and learning strategies; learn theories behind course development and pedagogy; create and re-purpose course content in keeping with best practices and copyright law; accomplish the technical tasks of creating and using multimedia course content; use ready-made content from textbook publishers and other sources; and
create a community of practitioners and peer mentors among the participants.

Department Chairs!
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Contact the CTL at ctl@neiu.edu to request a special workshop tailored to your faculty.

Courses and Tutorials

Click on the tabs below to learn more about courses and resources offered by the CTL.
Online teaching
Summer 2020
Tuesday, May 19-Monday, June 22 OR
​Tuesday, July 7-Monday, August 10​


Online Teaching is a non-credit training course designed to provide faculty with the pedagogical grounding to conduct online courses. This course is open to any faculty member on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration announcements are sent to the university community via Targeted Announcement e-mails at the beginning of each semester and updated on the CTL website.

Prerequisite: none
Format: entirely online in D2L
Length: 5 weeks
Frequency: Fall, Spring, Summer semesters
REGISTER
hybrid teaching
Next offering TBA in Fall 2020

Hybrid Teaching is a non-credit training course designed to provide faculty with the basic tools, techniques, and theories needed to create and conduct hybrid, or blended-learning, courses. This course is open to any faculty member on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration announcements are sent to the university community via Targeted Announcement e-mails at the beginning of each semester and updated on the CTL website.

Prerequisite: none
Format: weekly face-to-face and online instruction
Length: 4 weeks
Frequency: Fall and Spring semesters
REGISTER
Online Design
Next offering TBA in Fall 2020
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This course is a 12-week, non-credit training course designed to support faculty in the development of an online course for NEIU. Upon completion of this course, faculty members will have a fully functioning online course ready to be offered. Faculty are eligible to participate following the successful completion of the prerequisite, nomination from department chair and dean, and acceptance by Academic Affairs.


​Deans are notified each fall and spring for the call for nominations for the next semester. Participation in this course includes compensation. 

Prerequisite: successful completion of Online Teaching
Format: face-to-face and online instruction
Timing: Fall and Spring semesters
Desire2learn (D2L) instruction
For self-paced, on-demand help using D2L, sign up for subscription training. In this exclusive online interface offered by D2L, faculty can complete lessons on the topics they want to learn about while receiving step-by-step instruction from their own computers. These recorded lessons uploading files, setting up assignments, creating quizzes, formatting your gradebook, and other key activities.
REGISTER

Workshops and User Groups

NEW: Remote Learning Brown Bags

The CTL is hosting brown bag sessions every Friday in May 2020.

​Join these informal conversations to share remote teaching successes and challenges with colleagues.

RSVP ENCOURAGED
Spring 2020 Workshops
Prioritizing Your Syllabus
Wednesday, April 22 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Link to join session

Quick Remote Teaching Tips
Friday, April 24 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
​Link to join session
RSVP ENCOURAGED
CTL Workshops are announced throughout the semester. Visit this site and watch for Targeted Announcements. Faculty or departments with requests for specific workshop offerings are invited to email us at ctl@neiu.edu.

Definitions

Approved by FCAA (November 21, 2013)

Online Courses are those courses in which all instruction is fully online. Students must be able to complete all requirements for an online course, including tests and course evaluations, without coming to an NEIU location.

Hybrid Courses (also called blended courses) combine face-to-face sessions and online instruction in a pre-announced, regular, repeating pattern. Hybrid courses replace various percentages of the face-to-face sessions with online instruction (a 50-50 split enhances scheduling and room-sharing options.) Face-to-face meeting times must be published in the course Notes section of the schedule. 
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Note: Face-to-face courses that provide supplemental online elements, but which do not replace course meetings with online instruction, are not hybrid courses.
​​Contact the CTL
Library 312
773-442-4467
ctl@neiu.edu