TEaching
Investing in yourself as an educator is the best way to ensure both professional growth for yourself and academic growth for your students. The demands of teaching are constantly evolving—and it’s up to you to keep up with the latest developments in the teaching field. Taking part in professional development can help you stay on top of teaching and instruction trends, expand your skill set, and create a curriculum that sets your students up for success.
So, what does professional development in education look like? Most people hear the term and think of traditional settings like seminars, college courses, or conferences. However, professional development can happen informally through individual research and reading, classroom observation, or peer discussions. To put it simply, if it’s helping you stay informed, educated, and up to date in your profession, you can file it under professional development.
Western Governors University. “What is professional development in education?” Western Governors University, February 26, 2021, https://www.wgu.edu/blog/professional-development-education2102.html#close.
Quality by Design
Platform: SUNY Center for Professional Development
Time: Various
Location
Quality by Design (QbD) is a four-week online course that provides a unique opportunity for faculty and staff to improve courses through a framework for evaluating the effectiveness of seated, online or hybrid courses. QbD focuses on four major topics that are a key component of any quality designed course, including:
- Learner Support
- Content Presentation & Accessibility
- Interaction & Collaboration
- Evaluation & Assessment
This course is intended for all faculty and instructional support staff at all levels of experience with an interest in effective teaching and quality course design strategies. Participants will have multiple opportunities to reflect upon how they would integrate these ideas into all courses no matter the modality while engaging in discussions with experts and peers. Optional discussions and activities have been designed to help learners apply newly acquired knowledge into their own course design efforts. Participants will have the opportunity to earn badges issued through Credly. The time-commitment for QbD varies by individual; averaging 2 to 4 hours per week.
Cost:
- Free for all SUNY campuses
- $25 for Non-SUNY campuses
Instructional Design Foundations and Applications
Platform: Coursera
Skill Level: Beginner
Location
When clicking on Enroll at the bottom of the pop-up, click Audit This Course to access the free version.
This course, Instructional Design Foundations, is an introductory course as part of Instructional Design MasterTrack Certificate. This particular course will introduce learners to the conceptual and theoretical foundations of instructional design as well as the analysis aspect of instructional systems design in order to create an innovative instructional solution to performance problems in organizations.
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Advanced
Time: 2 hours 3 minutes
Location
Gamification allows you to present educational content to learners in a way that's engaging, visually compelling, and personalized. In this course, Karl Kapp explores the various types of gamification, and shows how to use gamification and interactive learning to develop effective learning experiences. He explains how to add game elements to instructional design and use reward systems for learner engagement. He also reviews the different types of structural gamification, including competition-based and badge-based. To wrap up, he dives into content gamification, explaining how to leverage characters for learning, create challenges, and provide juicy feedback.
Contact Us
The SUNY CPD is a collaborative central resource for the SUNY community providing access to high quality professional development opportunities focused on the latest trends and established best practices in higher education to enhance the capability of SUNY faculty and staff and increase SUNY's competitive advantage.
SUNY Center for Professional Development
6333 State Route 298
East Syracuse, 13057
P: (315) 214 2440
https://cpd.suny.edu/