Asynchronous Courses
The CFC offers multiple professional development courses on a rotating basis.
Fall 2026 Offerings:
- October: Inclusive Course Design: Implementing the UDL Guidelines
- November: Teaching & Learning with AI
Course Descriptions
Excellence in Online Teaching (EOT)
A self-paced, competency-based course for all online instructors.
The EOT is a 4-week, asynchronous course that is hosted on Canvas, featuring 5 self-paced modules:
- Foundations of Online Learning
- Introduction to Teaching Online
- Best Practices in Course Design for Online Learning
- Facilitating Effective and Engaged Online Teaching
- Synthesis of Teaching Online
Each module requires 1-2 hours to complete, allowing you to progress at your own pace. The course includes 4 assignments and 4 facilitated discussions to enhance your learning experience.
Inclusive Course Design: Implementing the UDL Guidelines
Quality course design is instrumental in supporting student success. When a learning environment is well designed, students achieve more, learn more, and are more equitably represented. Many instructors know that accessibility is important, but do not necessarily know how to carry out accessible and inclusive design. This course provides conceptual and theoretical frameworks and robust, practical strategies to guide instructors in applying Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to course design. Inclusive design increases access, reduces barriers, and improves the learning experience for all students. In this course, participants will enrich their appreciation of concepts related to accessibility and universal design. Participants will strengthen their professional skills in course design to improve the quality of student learning, and take steps toward mastery of Canvas tools and features.
Teaching & Learning with AI
The goal of this course is to support instructors in navigating the AI landscape in higher education. By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Explore resources related to AI in higher ed
- Discuss how AI impacts your teaching with colleagues
- Reflect on how you want to navigate AI in your own courses
- Devise a plan on how to approach AI in your own courses