Faculty Professional Development Hub

ASB certificate program

Our Certificate is a micro credential designed to increase awareness and understanding of the importance of cultivating a welcoming environment for all of the AU community. It is offered in partnership with Wellstar MCG Health and other campus leaders. This certificate reflects the university's commitment to cultivating a welcoming educational environment that prepares our students to thrive in our global society as well as effectively recruit and retain our faculty and staff.

Institutional Access, Success, & Belonging

AU Course Shell

The AU Course Shell is a course structure that can help you develop your course faster in D2L Brightspace, our learning management system (LMS). Designed by the Center for Instructional Innovation, the shell comes with pre-built pages that you can modify according to your needs.

Center for Instructional Innovation

AU Teaching Commons

The AU Teaching Commons is an open access, peer-reviewed digital repository that provides faculty with a space to share and discover original resources and modified resources for their teaching activities. Faculty can submit original resources and modified resources from online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses.

Center for Instructional Innovation

Campus Compact

Campus Compact is an organization that provides support and resources to institutions to grow their capacity for community and civic engagement. Augusta University is a member institution, and our faculty and staff have access to their resources.

Volunteer Services & Community Engagement

Certificate in Instructional Technology Essentials

Intended for both new and current instructors utilizing AU’s instructional technology platforms, and in particular the D2L Brightspace Learning Management System (LMS), the Instructional Technology Essentials certification program will provide a variety of workshops focused on effective use of the core components of the LMS platform including creating engaging content, utilizing assessments, quizzes and surveys, discussions and rubrics, assignments and rubrics, and utilizing the LMS gradebook. Faculty members who attend four workshops will be able to earn a Certificate in Instructional Technology Essentials.

Center for Instructional Innovation

Certificate in Teaching Excellence for Student Succes

The Certificate of Teaching Excellence for Student Success will include workshops on a range of topics, including critical thinking, active lecturing, teaching with AI, effective use of visuals, motivating students, and gamification of learning. These topics were chosen based on faculty members’ responses to the needs assessment that CII conducted between November and March of the 2023-24 academic year. Faculty members will be able to earn a Certificate in Teaching Excellence for Student Success once they have attended six workshops.

Center for Instructional Innovation

Coaching: What is it and what's in it for me

A webinar for faculty presented by Dr. Lisa Leggio on what coaching is, how it's different from other forms of guidance (e.g., mentoring), areas of concern where coaching may be appropriate, and how coaching can be beneficial.

Medical College of Georgia

Community Engagement workshops

Percipio Community Engagement page where faculty can access recordings of our 2024 Academic Community Engagement (ACE) Workshop Series.

Volunteer Services & Community Engagement

D2L Brightspace Training Resources and Tutorials

D2L Instructor Video and Document Training Resources/Tutorials

Center for Instructional Innovation

Handouts/Tutorials

Digital handouts and tutorials

Center for Writing Excellence

JagPulse Community Engagement Toolkit for Faculty

Includes several resources for faculty who want to use JagPulse, AU’s online community engagement platform, to support their service-learning courses

Volunteer Services & Community Engagement

Mentoring Minute Compendium

The Mentoring Minute Compendium is a 20-issue series created for faculty that covers five broad domains: guidance for mentees (e.g. creating a mentoring network), guidance for mentors (e.g. supporting mentee well-being), mentoring for specific populations (e.g. mid-career mentoring), special types of mentoring (e.g. peer-mentoring), and developing mentoring programs (e.g. creating a mentoring culture). Each issue contains information on topics within these five domains and accompanying self-reflection materials for mentors, mentees, and mentoring programs.

Medical College of Georgia

NACE Faculty Guide to Ethical and Legal Student Hiring Processes

A Faculty Guide to Ethical and Legal Standards in Student Employment

Career Services

NACE Job Outlook for the Class of 2024

Job Outlook for Students – Class of 2024

Career Services

NACE Prescreening Candidates for an Employer

Can a Career Center Pre-screen candidates for an Employer?

Career Services

NACE Sample Faculty Reference Letter

Sample Reference Letter for a Student (employment)

Career Services

Negotiating for Career Success

A webinar for faculty presented by Dr. Lara Stepleman on what's negotiable in your career, barriers to engaging in negotiation, and steps to successful strategic negotiation.

Medical College of Georgia

Open Education Resources

Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge.

Center for Instructional Innovation

Prioritizing and Organizing for Success

A webinar for faculty presented by Dr. Lara Stepleman on developing skills related to prioritizing, delegating, and organizing in order to effectively execute your work role and career vision.

Medical College of Georgia

Professional Development

PD workshops and webinars

Center for Writing Excellence

Provost Learning Scholars and Community Groups

The Office of the Provost invites AU faculty to participate in the newly established Provost Learning Communities — a peer-based professional development program for faculty who want to cultivate both teaching innovations and connections with colleagues.

Center for Instructional Innovation

Quality Matters Online Course Training and Guidance

Quality Matters is the global organization leading quality assurance in online and innovative digital teaching and learning environments. Promote and improve the quality of online education and student learning through.

Center for Instructional Innovation

Retreats

Writing/speaking groups and retreats

Center for Writing Excellence

Self Promotion and Self-Advocacy

A webinar for faculty offered at the 2023 Women's Career Development Symposium and presented by Dr. Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber on promoting your accomplishments and identifying best practices to advocate for your advancement and development.

Medical College of Georgia

Speaking of Higher Ed Podcast

Speaking of Higher Ed exists to create a resource that will inspire and assist faculty in creating engaging and meaningful learning experiences. We hope to provide higher ed faculty with a platform for sharing research related to the scholarship of teaching and learning, spark new instructional ideas, and promote interdisciplinary instructional methods.

Center for Instructional Innovation

Syllabus Template

This Syllabus Template promotes best practices in syllabus design by sharing why your course matters, how it is relevant to students, and how they can be successful in it. Branded with AU colors, it includes all the standard fare such as course name and description, but also suggests communications for online and hybrid courses, sample syllabus language that can be modified to match your style, specific wording to convey crucial course and policy information, plus a handy link and QR code to a variety of Student Resources.

Center for Instructional Innovation

Teaching in Medical Education Simulation (TiMES)

The TiMES course is deigned to help health professions faculty understand the pedagogy of clinical simulation. The five modules will prepare educators with the skills they need to develop, run, debrief, and assess a clinical simulation case.

Medical College of Georgia

Teaching Support

Support for teaching, including in-class workshops and information visits

Center for Writing Excellence

Teaching with Educational Technology Series

CII offers a rolling series of live, online workshops monthly throughout the year. These workshops provide pedagogically sound tips and strategies for teaching with technology to support faculty actively working to grow their skills in teaching with technology.

Center for Instructional Innovation

USG Momentum U

MomentumU@USG is a virtual professional development space for USG faculty and staff supporting the Momentum Approach to student success. Resources are added each semester in partnership with USG faculty, institutional centers for teaching excellence, and other academic partners across the system.

Center for Instructional Innovation

Writing Consultations

One-to-one consultations for writing and communication, in person and online

Center for Writing Excellence

Writing in the Curriculum

Support for integrating writing into the curriculum (WAC=Writing Across the Curriculum and WID=Writing in the Disciplines)

Center for Writing Excellence