CIC was awarded a grant from Strada Education Network to form a consortium of member institutions that will strive to improve student learning, degree completion, and career placement through a renewed focus on instructional excellence and career guidance. Specifically, each institution that is accepted into the Consortium will have the opportunity to include faculty members in a special program developed by the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE), an online course in “Effective Teaching Practices” that leads to a certificate in effective instruction.
CIC selected ACUE as its partner because ACUE’s program is high quality, and ACUE has a strong record of building on existing campus initiatives. ACUE’s course prepares faculty members to implement evidence-based teaching approaches in five areas of practice:
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Designing an Effective Course and Class;
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Establishing a Productive Learning Environment;
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Using Active Learning Techniques;
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Promoting Higher Order Thinking; and
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Assessing to Inform Instruction and Promote Learning.
These areas of practice are organized into 25 learning modules with recommended teaching practices that are useful in both face-to-face and online instruction. In addition, at CIC’s request, ACUE’s program will include two additional learning modules:
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Embedding Career Guidance, in which faculty members will learn how to provide frequent, course-embedded information about the specific careers for which the discipline prepares students; and
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Preparing Students with 21st-Century Career-Ready Skills, in which faculty members will be aided in the design of course content and assignments to ensure that students develop—and are assessed on their development of—“career-ready” skills.
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