Faculty Development & Support

We understand how important it is to stay up to date with evolving teaching and learning pedagogies and instructional technology. To support faculty in this work, we offer a variety of professional development opportunities designed to support faculty at different stages of their teaching practice.

CETL’s professional development opportunities include structured events, live workshops, self‑paced resources, one‑on‑one consultations, and other ongoing training opportunities that faculty can engage with as their schedules allow.

Professional Development Events

CETL offers a variety of professional development events throughout the year, including live in‑person and virtual sessions, major annual programs, and one‑off workshops and webinars. These events are designed to support innovative teaching practices and help answer questions about pedagogy and instructional technology. Many sessions are also recorded and made available for on‑demand viewing.

Major Annual Events

These include two major annual events, the Summer Institute and Learn@State.

Summer Institute

The Summer Institute sessions are designed to inspire faculty to engage today’s learners in a 21st-century mobile learning environment. CETL hosts sessions during the summer to provide faculty with opportunities to explore and cultivate innovative teaching practices. These summer sessions are the perfect time to update your knowledge of new techniques and technologies to improve your professional teaching method. Another benefit of participating in the summer institute is the opportunity to develop collaborative relationships with faculty from across campus. When faculty work together in a summer institute, they inspire each other by sharing ideas and encouraging feedback.

Learn@State

This campus-wide professional engagement event supports Arkansas State University's efforts to promote student success and institutional effectiveness. As a partner in the event, CETL encourages participation in Learn@State as part of its commitment to faculty development, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Learn@State provides opportunities to:

Collaborate with faculty, staff, and students across campus.
Develop ideas that support Arkansas State University's strategic priorities.
Engage in creative problem-solving.
Explore innovative approaches to institutional challenges and opportunities.
Share practices that strengthen teaching, learning, and student success.

Project formats, submission procedures, registration deadlines, and event details may vary from year to year. Faculty interested in participating should consult current Learn@State announcements for the latest information.

Workshops and Webinars

In addition to major annual events, CETL hosts a variety of one‑off workshops, webinars, and training sessions throughout the year. These sessions focus on instructional design, educational technology, student engagement, accessibility, and related teaching and learning topics.

Recordings

Many CETL workshops, webinars, and major events are recorded and published for on‑demand viewing. Recordings are a helpful resource for faculty who are unable to attend live sessions or who wish to revisit specific topics.

See the Session Highlights & Media for access to recordings of past CETL workshops, webinars, and events.

Stay Connected

If you are interested in seeing what opportunities we have available right now or would like to register for a current session, you can view upcoming events and register through the CETL event calendar, which is updated regularly with new professional development opportunities. Faculty can also follow CETL on Facebook for announcements, reminders, and highlights from recent events.

Facebook Page – Announcements & Updates

Follow our Facebook page for announcements about upcoming sessions, calls for proposals, and highlights from past events.

CETL Calendar – Registration & Scheduling

Check our event calendar to view upcoming sessions and register for events. The calendar is updated regularly with new opportunities for professional development.

Support Guides

We know that faculty have busy schedules and don't always have time to attend our scheduled sessions. To address the issue of faculty who want to improve their skills in their time, we have developed materials that faculty can review when it is most convenient for their schedules.

See these Knowledge Base books for more information on various services and tools. Under each, you will find a brief description of tools, services, or other information that will help you with the related topics. You will find PDFs, samples, and/or videos to assist you with the selected resource or a link to a more comprehensive book in the Knowledge Base dedicated to that specific tool or service.

As always, if you have any questions or need additional information, please let us know.

One-on-One Pedagogy Support

If you have a question about how to implement an assignment or something isn't working as you expected, you can either call, email, or drop by our office. One of our Faculty Support Specialists will then work with you to either resolve your issue or determine what the next steps should be to get your issue resolved.

Course Building

The goal of the Course Building Process is to build quality courses by using best practices through the methodology of the Course Development Life Cycle (CDLC). Best practices suggest that partnering the content expert with a course builder/designer allows the content expert to focus on developing quality course content, instead of focusing their time on the arrangement of materials, course layout, and design within the learning management system.

Our Faculty Support Specialist can help:

Develop program-level templates
Redesign courses or learning modules
Work one-on-one with faculty to plan new or updated courses
Plan Organizations for program-level information
Evaluate courses using our Quality Course Review Rubric