Faculty Professional Development
Faculty professional development is ongoing training and education for instructors to enhance their knowledge, skills, and practices, ultimately leading to improved teaching effectiveness and student success. It involves activities like attending workshops or conferences, courses, or engaging in mentorship and collaboration to stay current with new technologies, teaching methods, and research within their academic disciplines.
Paid Opportunities
Foundations of Course Design: A course covering current research and best practices around teaching and course development using OSCQR (Open Suny Course Quality Review Rubric) as our guide. Facilitated by an instructional designer, it is paid at 10 hrs at CD rate. Any faculty member teaching this year is eligible to participate. You do not need to have already been assigned a course for a future term to enroll in FCD. This course replaces Course Design Introduction (CDI).
Course Refresh (Revise an Existing Course): The course refresh process guides faculty through revising and updating existing distance modality courses. Using the OSCQR Rubric as a reference, faculty work one-on-one with an instructional designer to review and enhance their course. This is a paid opportunity, offering up to 40 hours at the Course Development (CD) rate.
Course Development - New Course or Delivery Format: The course development process supports faculty in designing new courses or transferring existing ones into new delivery formats. Faculty develop courses in collaboration with instructional designers and ATC staff, guided by the OSCQR Rubric. This is a paid opportunity, offering up to 70 hours at the Course Development (CD) rate.
Teaching Pairs: Improving Your Distance Education Course
Team up with colleagues to improve your distance education course through a structured, evaluative process of course review and reflection. We will set up a framework for peer review of our distance education courses using OSCQR standards and the Teaching Pairs model. There are three required Zoom meetings and online time spent reviewing one another's courses. The project time commitment is approximately 10-12 hours in total. A $400.00 stipend is awarded at the completion of the project. This project is a joint effort between Academic Technology, Faculty Professional Development, and LCC faculty. Registration is required. Limited to 16 participants.
Next sessions:
Fall: No session offered
Winter (RSI Focus)
This term's workshop will emphasize regular and substantive interaction (RSI) as a key component of effective online teaching, focusing on how to foster meaningful engagement with students in the distance learning environment.
- When: Feb 2nd - 27th, 2026 (Wk 5-8)
- Modality: Online w/Zoom
- Project Facilitator: Kevin Steeves
Spring
- When: April 27th - May 22rd, 2026 (Wk 5-8)
- Modality: Online w/Zoom
- Project Facilitator: Mel Stark
(Check with ID Services for other course development opportunities.)
Unpaid Trainings and Opportunities
Self-enrolled Asynchronous Micro-Courses: Professional development micro-courses that faculty and staff can self-enroll into, are monitored by the ATC’s instructional designers, and upon satisfactory completion, will be awarded a completion badge good for three years.
- Accessibility: Basics for Course Content (Available Now)
- Accessibility: PDFs
- Accessibility: Resource Training
- Accessibility: LMS Course Design
- Accessibility: Getting your Media ready for your Course
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