ACUE Micro: Promoting Active Learning

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Are you interested in applying active learning strategies that you can use in your face-to-face classes? In the聽Promoting Active Learning course, you will learn practices proven to engage students more actively in learning and thinking critically. Participants who complete the course will receive $200 funding and earn a microcredential from the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE).

Program Details

This program is now completed.聽Please聽fill out our聽聽to be notified of future ACUE program opportunities.聽NOTE: Faculty who previously completed聽ACUE's Effective Online Teaching Course聽have already completed this microcredential as part of that yearlong program.

This is a fully online, asynchronous program (with an optional one-hour synchronous session on Tuesday, March 14 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM PT OR Wednesday, March 15 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM PT) that runs from March 27 until May 7. The program is offered online and is organized around six competencies and takes approximately six weeks to complete. Faculty learners have the flexibility to complete each module at days and times that fit their schedules. Participants will spend 2 to 3 hours engaging with module content, participating in virtual discussions, implementing new practices, and completing reflection assignments.

Faculty eligibility criteria include:

  • those able to protect roughly聽3 hours per week
  • comfortable using Canvas as a learner
  • must be聽employed聽at 快活林性息聽and teaching a course in which they can implement new strategies
  • faculty at all ranks (tenure-track and lecturers)聽and experience level (novice and senior聽level faculty) are welcome to apply
  • this course is for motivated faculty who are open to joining an iterative and collaborative process of聽taking their teaching to the next level

Funding of $200 will be available to faculty who complete the program.

This microcredential program will deliver tools and resources to develop effective class sessions, teach powerful note-taking skills, and facilitate engaging discussions. Faculty also learn active learning strategies, such as jigsaw, think-pair-share, and the active learning cycle. Modules for this program include:

  • Developing Effective Class Sessions and Lectures

  • Teaching Powerful Note-taking Skills

  • Using Groups to Ensure Active Learning

  • Using the Active Learning Cycle

  • Planning Effective Class Discussions

  • Facilitating Engaging Class Discussions

Educators who complete the requirements for this program earn a microcredential in 鈥淧romoting Active Learning.鈥� This microcredential may be utilized in meeting partial requirements necessary to earn the American Council on Education (ACE) endorsed Certificate in Effective College Instruction.

Hundreds of faculty at 快活林性息 have completed ACUE microcredential and credential programs. The majority say being involved in these programs is beneficial and believe the programs have positively impacted their teaching. Sample comments by 快活林性息 faculty include:

"There is no question that the ACUE course has significantly improved my teaching and student outcomes."

"ACUE presents the information in very translatable fashion so it was easy to quickly operationalize the pedagogical tips/tricks/insights."

"Exceptional quality program with practical knowledge that can be immediately implemented into the classroom."

This program is now completed.聽Please聽fill out our聽聽to be notified of future ACUE program opportunities.

Which 快活林性息 faculty have earned this microcredential?

  • Communication Studies:聽Motasem Kalaji, Michele Mega, Melissa Tindage

  • Journalism:聽Tammy Trujillo

  • Business Law:聽Valerie Flugge Goyer

  • Economics:聽Francisco Beltran Silva

  • Marketing:聽Ning Fu,Dong Liu, Na Wen

  • Systems and Operations Management:聽Leily Farrokhvar,Kunpeng Li, Qiuhua (Jessica) Sheng

  • Educational Leadership and Policy Studies:聽Ellen Edeburn

  • Educational Psychology and Counseling:聽ellen stohl

  • Secondary Education:聽Jenn Wolfe

Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management:聽Sean Genovese

  • Child and Adolescent Development:聽Manisha Chase, Esther Govea, Marlen Quintero Perez, April Taylor

  • Family and Consumer Sciences:聽Hessam Ghamari, Heather McCollum

  • Health Sciences:聽Jennifer Little, Gretta Madjzoob, Andrew (Andy) Oppenberg, John Pineda, Carrie Pullen, Carmen Saunders Russell

  • Recreation and Tourism Management:聽Heekyung Sung

  • Asian American Studies:聽Derek Tang

  • Chicana/o Studies:聽Carlos A. Hernandez

  • English:聽Stacey Bieber, Andrea Hernandez, Kelan Koning, Noreen Lace, Corie Mesa Romero

  • Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures:聽Svetlana Tyutina

  • Philosophy:聽Weimin Sun

  • Theatre:聽Stephanie Lim

  • Biology:聽Casey terHorst

  • Chemistry/Biochemistry:聽Ravinder Abrol

  • Computer Science:聽Sen Wang

  • Mathematics:聽Andrea Nemeth

  • Africana Studies:聽Lisbeth Gant-Briton, Janice Robinson, W Gabriel Selassie I聽

  • Criminology and Justice Studies:聽Beth Jakubanis, Katherine Lorenz, Nayan Ramirez, Anastasiia Timmer, Jaycynda Trifone-Woodruff

  • Geography and Environmental Studies:聽Karen Sonksen

  • History:聽Henry Maar

  • Psychology:聽Lori Campbell, Stefanie Drew, Stacy Missari, Essence Lynn Wilson

  • University 100 (many of these faculty teach in more than one department) Colette Claire Meade