Sign up for Spring 2025 Mini Workshops, Book Study, and Cohorts
Sponsored by CCA’s Teaching and Learning Transformation Hub, this comprehensive resource is designed to support our learning a community in developing effective, innovative, and inclusive teaching practices.
This digital hub offers a wealth of resources to aid in your ongoing professional development, including:
Sign up for Spring 2025 Mini Workshops, Book Study, and Cohorts: Sign up for the Hub's professional development activities. Please register by January 30.
Teaching & Learning Strategies: We've included information about High Impact Practices and other Teaching and Learning Strategies that are aligned with educational initiatives at CCA.
Resource Libraries: Explore our curated collections of articles, videos, tutorials, and other tools covering a wide range of topics relevant to academic professionals.
Event Calendar: Stay up-to-date with upcoming academic professional development opportunities, including workshops, seminars, and institutes.
We are committed to fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth at CCA. Whether you're looking to enhance your teaching skills, explore new pedagogical approaches, or stay current with the latest in your field, the Academic Professional Development Hub is here to support you on your journey.
We welcome your feedback and suggestions as we continue to develop and improve this resource. For questions or comments, please contact TheHub.CCA@ccaurora.edu.
Download the Spring Semester Academic Professional Development Calendar
Register for Teaching and Tacos
We're excited to kick off the spring semester with our Teaching & Tacos Professional Development Days, offering flexible attendance options and valuable learning opportunities from January 14-16. This year’s format is a little different: We're offering the same valuable content on Tuesday and Wednesday so you can choose the format that works best for you. Thursday's hybrid format allows you to mix and match in-person and virtual sessions throughout the day. Regardless of how you participate, you’re invited to join us for an in-person, catered lunch at noon Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
10:00 AM: Grading Strategies Workshop, led by Tanya Cook, Hub Scholar
11:00 AM: Project-Based Learning Session
12:00 PM: Lunch: Join us for tacos and an overview of the services provided in the hub.
1:00 PM: Virtual Cohort Meetings
All events in the CentreTech Hub | Classroom Building 107
10:00 AM: Grading Strategies Workshop, led by Tanya Cook, Hub Scholar
11:00 AM: Project-Based Learning Session
12:00 PM: Lunch: Join us for tacos and a discussion of using AI in your classroom and administrative work.
1:00 PM: Cohort Meetings
All in-person events at the CentreTech Hub
10:00 AM: Navigate Overview & Educational Technology Sessions (in-person)
Tech Tools (virtual)
11:00 AM: Tech Tools (in-person)
Navigate Overview (virtual)
12:00 PM: Lunch: Join us for tacos and an overview of classroom technology!
1:00 PM: Let’s work together! Join us for Individual coaching, consultation, and collaborative course shell development
Whether you join us virtually or in person, you'll gain practical strategies to enhance your teaching while connecting with colleagues. Don't miss this opportunity to start your semester strong (and enjoy some tacos with us)!
Questions? Contact Heather Lang, Director of Academic Professional Development (heather.lang@ccaurora.edu)
Workshops are completely online and take about 5-8 hours to complete. You can work on them at your own pace over the course of a month. The Spring 2025 Workshops are:
CCohorts are special learning and working groups that focus on special topics related to trends in higher education, directions in CCA's strategic plan, and the needs of our teaching and learning community. Cohorts meet once a month and may required up 2-3 hours of work outside of the cohort meeting. The Spring 2025 semester will feature 3 cohorts:
Join us for an engaging book study group focused on James Lang's influential work Small Teaching led by Hub Scholar Art Vaughn. The book study group will explore Lang's practical strategies for implementing small but powerful changes in teaching methods. The book study club will meet monthly February - April to unpack Lang's evidence-based approaches, share experiences, and develop actionable plans for incorporating these techniques into their own classrooms.
OER (Open Educational Resources) are teaching and learning materials (such as textbooks, slideshow presentations, readings, videos, etc.) available for educators and students to use and reuse for free. This is possible because OER have open licenses, which specifically state how the material may be used, adapted, and shared. More information about OER.
Open Pedagogy is a strategy to empower students in creating open-access textbooks, contributing to public research projects, or designing resources like lesson plans that future students can use and refine. This is a new branch of Open Education work that is showing great promise for student success. More information about Open Education and Open Pedagogy.
The CCA Library is offering OER mini-grant awards from Spring 2025 – Summer 2026 to support faculty and instructors in adopting, adapting, and creating OER materials. We're also here to support you in developing Open Pedagogy approaches to your course.
This level focuses on the adoption and integration of OER into courses. Participants will locate an OER to use in their course and redesign their courses to fully implement the OER.
This level focuses on the adaptation and integration of OER into courses, with an emphasis on redesigning courses with the resources. Participants will locate OER materials and edit or curate them as needed to fit their course(s).
This level focuses on the creation of an OER and restructuring of related courses using backward design methods.
All OER mini-grant participants will be enrolled in the D2L module “Open Education Workshop” to receive training on OER, open pedagogy, open licenses, the levels of OER work, and accessibility. The Open Education Workshop prepares faculty and instructors to adopt, adapt, or create Open Education Resources (OER) with culturally responsive, open pedagogy learning activities. Participants will create and share a plan for adopting, adapting, or creating OER that is culturally responsive and includes students in the process.
Sign up with proposal by January 25: Pitch your project level and idea!
The Hub's Open Education Projects Team invites you to participate in an exciting initiative that will help shape the future of learning materials at CCA. Through our Title V grant-funded program, we're launching a comprehensive review process to ensure our Open Educational Resources (OER) truly reflect and serve our diverse student community.
This innovative process brings together faculty teams to evaluate and enhance the open textbooks and resources currently used in their departments. Working alongside our expert editor and OER support team, you'll help ensure our educational materials incorporate evidence-based practices and reflect the diverse perspectives of our student population.
We've designed a straightforward, supported process to make your participation both meaningful and manageable:
This initiative is supported by a Title V grant as part of CCA's broader commitment to accessible and inclusive education. Stipends associated with this program are funded by the Title V grant.
Academic professional development workshops are typically not compensated with a stipend. For instructors, participation in academic professional development workshops may count toward instructor pay advancement. For faculty members, participation may count toward institutional service. We encourage you to chat with your department chair to explore how these benefits apply to you. We can't wait to see you there and grow together!
In rare cases, a stipend may be available for mandatory training and workshops or for grant-supported professional development. If a stipend is available, we'll provide an explicit statement indicating the amount of the stipend and what you'll need to do to receive it. The Hub's PD calendar flags professional development opportunities that are compensated with a green dollar sign.
If you have any questions about our professional development opportunities or this compensation policy, please don't hesitate to reach out to The Hub at TheHub.CCA@ccaurora.edu. We're always happy to help you navigate your professional development journey at CCA.
If you made it to the bottom of this page, please contact Heather Lang (heather.lang@ccaurora.edu) and let her know. Your tenacity has earned you a free prize!