Instructional Development

Open Educational Resources (OER) SUCCESS Program

The online OER credentialing program consists of three badges: the OER Reuser, OER Remixer, and OER Redistributor. Badge earners demonstrate competency in locating and evaluating OER, using it effectively in a course; addressing gaps in OER content; revising existing and/or curating new OER content; and fully integrating customized OER, measuring its effectiveness on student success, and facilitating OER use by others.

Each OER adopter and creator is also asked to participate in a yearly panel discussion at either the UCCS Teaching and Learning Conference in January or in GIFT (Great Ideas for Teaching) Exchanges throughout the academic year to encourage others through their example.

OER SUCCESS at UCCS
Thursday, March 7, 11:00-11:45 am
Angie Dodson, Faculty Development Coordinator
Susan Vandagriff, Scholarly Communications Librarian & Assistant Professor

With a continued effort to make learning material inclusive and accessible for students, open educational resources (OER) play a key role. This hyflex session focuses on how OER SUCCESS at UCCS continues to be a priority in supporting faculty as they choose to retain or reuse existing resources or endeavor to revise, remix, or even create their own. Join us to map out your own OER SUCCESS journey.

Register to attend in person in Columbine 203 or online.

Put Your Professional Development Hours to Work For You!

The Teaching Enhancement Badge Program provides opportunities to research and apply innovative teaching strategies or practices to one's teaching. Badge earners will apply up to five teaching strategies or practices to a course objective, activity, or assessment, evaluate the success of the teaching practice in the course, and share experiences with colleagues. Annually, earners can create a Teaching Enhancement Plan that focuses on teaching goals and unique interest tracks toward completing a digital badge. Earners can expect to spend a total of 24-36 hours earning one badge.

Self-enroll in the program to begin completing your Teaching Enhancement Plan. Questions can be directed to frc@uccs.edu.

Teaching Online Program

The Teaching Online Program (TOP) is a series of four online courses where participants earn digital badges focused on specific online teaching outcomes. The program introduces instructional design and course alignment processes, emphasizes accessible course design and building practices, explores online course facilitation and management strategies, and promotes quality assurance standards for online teaching. Paired with an Instructional Designer, participants can expect to spend 24-36 hours to complete each badge. Faculty may choose to participate in only one or up to all four levels. Only one badge may be pursued at a time.

This spring the Faculty Resource Center is offering an in-person workshop series option for the TOP in addition to the asynchronous, online courses. In-person sessions are scheduled for Fridays as follows:

Online Course Design

• Spring 2024 online, asynchronous option: January 2 – February 9
• Spring 2024 in-person workshop series option: Fridays, *2:00-4:00 pm, January 5 – February 9, Columbine 203
  *In-person sessions on January 26 and February 9 will begin at 2:30 pm

Design with Accessibility in Mind Workshop Series

• Spring 2024 online, asynchronous option: February 12 – March 22
• Spring 2024 in-person workshop series option: Fridays: *2:00-4:00 pm: February 16 – March 22, Columbine 203
  *The March 1 in-person session will begin at 2:30 pm

Online Facilitation Workshop Series

• Spring 2024 online, asynchronous option: April 1 – May 3
• Spring 2024 in-person workshop series option: Fridays, April 5 and 12, Columbine 203

Design for Quality Assurance

• Enrollment is based on course readiness, evaluated by an FRC Instructional Designer

Register for the in-person workshops or asynchronous online courses by emailing frc@uccs.edu with your participation preference.

Universal Design for Inclusive Teaching (UDIT)

The Universal Design for Inclusive Teaching Program is an online, digital credentialing series intended for participants to proactively design and implement inclusive teaching strategies. The program is composed of three phases with five different track options that may be completed throughout multiple program enrollments.

The UDIT Student Success Strategies track is being offered as a series this spring beginning with a UCCS Teaching and Learning Conference session on January 9 and continuing with workshop sessions facilitated by Ann N. Amicucci, PhD, Associate Professor of English; Jenny E Dorrington, PhD, Director, Excel Mathematics Center; and Sean Dean, PhD, Leadership, Research, & Foundations Department as follows:

• Part 1 - Friday, January 26, 12:00-2:00 pm - Register
• Part 2 - Friday, February 9, 12:00-2:00 pm - Register
• Part 3 - Friday, March 1, 12:00-2:00 pm - Register

This workshop series provides deeper dives into strategies initially explored at the TLC workshop: Student Success Strategies: Supporting Student Belonging and Retention. The focus of each session is to closely examine and then workshop implementation of these strategies. Please note that attendance at the TLC session or any other sessions is not a pre-requisite. Participate in person in Columbine 203 or online. Lunch is provided for in-person attendance.