Faculty Development

Welcome to Faculty Development website. On these pages, you will find an instructional community that exemplifies, values and supports teaching excellence and engaged student learning. Here you will find links to:

• Teaching and learning resources
• Faculty Development programs and services
• Employee Development Online Calendar
• Workshops and special events.

Faculty Development Coordinators collaborate with faculty, a College-wide advisory committee, College administrators and external PD bodies who work together to provide you with relevant, practical information from across the teaching and learning spectrum.

Faculty Development Food for Thought

Watch this space for a list of articles recently posted on the "Current Article" page.

• Ten Best Practices for Teaching Online
• Regional Public Universities - Where the Action Is
• Role of Presence in the Online Environment
• Generations and Educational Change by Norm Friesen
• What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains 
• Seven Tips for Improving Instructional Skills
• What is Learning?
• Global Education and Liberal Education
• Preparing Professors to Teach
• Teaching the Millenial Generation


• Will face-to-face learning be replaced with e-learning?  Read about a hybrid program that, instead of replacing professors with online programs, uses both more effectively.
• Read Mary Dean Sorcinelli's article Ten Things New Faculty Would Like to Hear from Colleagues —  appropriate for both recent hires and long time College instructors. 
• Read this recent Inside Higher Education article titled "Learning to Teach Tech Savvy Students.
• Is Google Making Us Stupid?:  What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.  Nicholas Carr’s recently-published Atlantic Magazine article has drawn a huge amount of controversy.  Read Carr’s work at  The atlantic.com.
• Read The College Fear Factor, Rebecca Cox's intriguing study of the clash in expectations between first-generation college students and their professors regarding classroom practice.

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