Faculty Initiatives
Listening Sessions
We are seeking faculty input on their professional development needs. Consider joining a listening session in Spring 2025 via Zoom. Faculty Affairs wants to learn more about what supports faculty need and want to support their work at MSU. To guide this process, we are connecting with faculty at various stages of their career. We are hoping you will consider sharing your thoughts to the following questions during a 30–45-minute listening session:
- Describe the professional development you have engaged in, are currently engaged in, or are interested in to improve your role as a faculty member.
- Where do you find these professional development opportunities?
- What motivates you to engage in professional development?
- How about professional development related to teaching?
- What resources or supports do you need to support your work in all 5 criteria of article 22?
The listening sessions are being coordinated by CETL. Contact CETL at cetl@mnsu.edu to register for a session.
Online Quality Initiative
We invite you to complete the Online Quality Initiative Training. This professional development opportunity was developed as part of the larger Quality Online Initiative to enhance student learning in online space and comply with federal mandates on instructional practices.
The goal of this Academic Affairs initiative is to improve online teaching effectiveness, close equity gaps, and increase student success and belonging in online courses offered at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
To create robust training, the following considerations were made:
- Choose evidence-based standards, tools, and strategies while adapting to local context (integrate use of local language and initiatives)
- Be clear about criteria and ensure understanding among involved groups; Online Course Quality Standards work together as the foundation of new course design and development
- Build in support and a culture of continuous improvement; show strategies, examples, etc.
- Provide opportunities for progression
- Integrate quality standards and rubrics into professional development
- Realize the standards and tools will change with time; don’t treat as one and done but as ongoing
- Recognize these quality standards have application beyond online courses
The training will be available beginning January 2025 and will feature two one-hour synchronous sessions that comprise module one. This will be followed by 5 asynchronous modules available on demand via D2L. Upon completion of the programming, faculty will be given a badge indicating they have successfully completed the training needed to teach online courses at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
You can register here.
