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Practical skills.
Useful take-aways.
And fun!
Featured Faculty Workshops
Active Learning for Online Courses
Faculty identify a real engagement problem and redesign one course moment using active learning, structured interaction, feedback, and a visible next step for students. Leave with: an active online learning design process and a next-week-ready activity or assignment change. Best for: faculty development days, adjunct onboarding, professional learning and in-service, teaching and learning centers, online and hybrid faculty, and departments addressing participation or connection.
Course Design for Student Success
Embed study skills and information literacy directly into the courses faculty already teach. Faculty locate one point where students encounter friction and build a practical course-level response. Participants leave with: a reusable design planner and one implementation plan for an early-course routine or assignment sequence. Best for: retention and student success initiatives, gateway courses, first-year experience, online course quality, and faculty ownership of student success.
Cultivate Lifelong Learning Skills
Growth mindset, productive struggle, and lifelong-learning habits in the college course. Faculty move beyond motivational slogans and design a course routine that helps students respond to challenge, use feedback, and apply learning in other contexts. Leave with a productive challenge design tool and a feedback-to-revision or reflection-to-transfer sequence. Best for: faculty retreats, STEM and technical programs, gateway courses, professional programs, and curriculum renewal.
Do these questions sound familiar?
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What can instructors do in class to develop resilience and support student retention?
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How do we move students from clicking through content to doing meaningful learning?
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Where do students lose momentum and what can course design do about it?
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How can we help online learners feel like part of the campus community?
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How can we use generative AI in education without giving up critical thinking?
My workshops turn those questions into usable course practices: clearer learning tasks, purposeful interaction, feedback students can act on, and structures that make student thinking visible.
What a workshop feels like:
The vibe is energetic and positive!
These are not lecture-only sessions or "death by PowerPoint" presentations. I draw from the latest research to create activities that show faculty how to turn theory into practice. Participants experience a model activity, identify the design elements that made it work, adapt the pattern to their discipline and teaching mode, and build a version for their own course.
A typical session includes:
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A concrete teaching challenge rather than a broad abstract topic.
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An inviting, active experience faculty can debrief and adapt.
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A design lab using a real activity, assignment, module, or problem.
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Peer exchange that surfaces ideas and options across disciplines.
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A meaningful implementation commitment and a success signal to monitor.
Planning a faculty development event? Let's talk!
Bring a real course-design problem, an audience, and a date range. In a 20-minute conversation, we can decide whether one of these workshops fits, or whether something different would serve your faculty better.
Name | Price (USD) | Description |
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Conference breakout (45–60 min) | 750 | A focused, high-value introduction for a qualified faculty audience |
Virtual keynote (60 min) | 950 | An energizing shared framework with practical examples |
Interactive workshop (90 min) | 1450 | A design sprint with course application and peer feedback |
Extended virtual studio (2.5–3 hr) | 2500 | Faculty-development days, institutes, or deeper applied work |
Recent teaching development workshops:
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Faculty and adjunct in-service sessions at a community college (active online learning and online engagement workshops)
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Five-workshop summer Zoom series on teaching for student success and retention at a four-year university
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New faculty two-hour "crash course" training session on course design basics
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Introduction to teaching with the institution's learning management system (Canvas) for new graduate assistants and adjunct instructors