Instructor-Led PD

Digital Learning Innovations, a division of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment, offers Instructor-led Professional Development (PD) courses to help educators stay at the forefront of their field. Our courses are designed and taught by experts in the education industry, providing participants with practical skills and knowledge that can be applied directly in the online, hybrid, or face-to-face classroom. Our online delivery format provides a collaborative learning environment that allows educators to engage with their peers and exchange ideas, while also benefiting from the guidance and feedback of experienced instructors. We offer a diverse range of courses that cover topics such as pedagogy, online facilitation, course design, and more. Our courses are designed to be flexible and accessible, allowing educators to fit their professional development into their busy schedules. 

We invite you to explore the courses we offer below.

ATE AWE ECFS MEW SCD UDLEX
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    Accessible Teaching Essentials (ATE)

    Accessible Teaching Essentials (ATE) is a three-week, online workshop designed to fit easily into a hectic teaching scheduleโ€”in fact, youโ€™ll only need 2-3 hours per week to complete it!   It is written for faculty who are new to the topic of accessibility, introducing them to the issues at stake, providing an approachable structure for making their course content accessible, showing them how to check course content for accessibility, and providing training and resources for creating accessible course content.


    ๐Ÿ•‘ Session Duration:  3 weeks.

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    • Session#
      Begins
      Last date for registration
      No# of Participant
    • Session 1
      February 12
      February 9
      30
    • Session 2
      March 25
      March 22
      30
    • Session 3
      June 3
      May 31
      30
    • Session 4
      October 7
      October 4
      30
    Register for ATE course
    • Accessible Web Essentials

      Accessible Web Essentials

      The Accessible Web Essentials workshop is a self-paced three-module workshop for public-facing web content creators. The workshop provides resources and experiences to demonstrate web accessibility, detailed instructions on how to make content accessible, and practice creating accessible documents and media. Participants earn digital credentials as they complete each unit culminating in a digital certificate. A simple refresher video and quiz are all that is required to renew the certificate yearly. 

      This workshop is open to join at any time, so there are no start dates.  Participants can move at their own pace, but it is recommended to try to complete one module per week.

      ๐Ÿ•‘ Session Duration:  Self-Paced Learning

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      • MEW

        DLI Media Essentials Workshop (MEW)

        The DLI Media Essentials Workshop is a three-week asynchronous workshop with synchronous one on one sessions available.  We focus on providing faculty and staff the resources and experiences needed to use MediaSpace in creating and sharing effective, engaging, and accessible instructional media.

        ๐Ÿ•‘ Session Duration:  3 weeks.

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        • Session#
          Begins
          Last date for registration
          No# of Participants
        • Class 1
          March 4
          March 1
          30
        • Class 2
          May 6
          May 3
          30
        • Class 3
          September 9
          September 6
          30
        • Class 4
          November 4
          November 1
          30
        Register for MEW workshop



        • ECFS

          Essential Course Facilitation Strategies (ECFS)

          Essential Course Facilitation Strategies (ECFS) is a three-week workshop designed to introduce faculty to course facilitation strategies needed to teach a course in any modality, such as hybrid, online synchronous, asynchronous, or face-to face.

          • By the end of this course participants will be able to:
            1. Select appropriate feedback and grading tools to provide constructive feedback to students
            2. Apply instructional strategies to facilitate a course
            3. Apply instructional design models to facilitate a course


          ๐Ÿ•‘ Session Duration:  3 weeks.

          ๐Ÿ† Digital Credential:  Badges โœ…

          • Session#
            Begins
            Last date for registration
            No# of Participants
          • Session 1
            April 15
            April 8
            25
          • Session 2
            June 10
            June 3
            25
          • Session 3
            September 16
            September 9
            25
          • Session 4
            October 28
            October 21
            25
          Register for ECFS course

           

           

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            Sustainable Course Design Workshop (SCD)

            The SCD workshop is a 3-week, online, asynchronous course designed to provide participants with technical and pedagogical skills for designing and developing a foundation course in D2L, using sustainable design components. This foundation or base course can then be used to teach in any modality, because it will incorporate โ€œsustainableโ€ features and resources that can be hidden or made visible depending on the modality you choose to teach in:  synchronous, hybrid or even Face to Face.  

            • The only criteria to attend the workshop is to have course that you can work on during the workshop. By the end of this workshop, participants will have a preliminary understanding of accessibility, learning analytics and various course modalities, and they will have begun working on an online asynchronous course with sustainable design components like a Start Module, a course alignment map, a communication and feedback plan, a Unit or Module of their choice which will have resources that can be used sustainably across modalities. It is recommended that participants who attend this workshop have a course in mind that they can work on during the workssuhop. 

              During the workshop, there will be 3 live sessions (2 โ€“ 4 PM on each Thursday) where workshop instructors/instructional designers will answer all workshop related questions and any other questions participants may have about instructional design and development. Successful completion of all assignments and learning activities in this workshop will earn participants 3 Badges which together will certify them to teach online courses at KSU. 

              The Sustainable Course Design Workshop is being offered in place of the Online Course Design (OCD) workshop and participants can take this course to be certified to teach online. The Online Course Design (OCD) workshop is not being offered anymore by DLI. 


            ๐Ÿ•‘ Session Duration:  3 weeks.

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            • Session#
              Begins
              Last date for registration
              No# of Participants
            • Session 1
              February 12
              February 5
              30
            • Session 2
              March 25
              March 18
              30
            • Session 3
              May 6
              April 29
              30
            Register for SCD course
            • UDLX

              The UDL Experience (UDLEX)

              The UDL Experience (UDLEX) is a three-week workshop designed to give Kennesaw State faculty an opportunity to collaborate on applying UDL principles to course lessons, content, activities, and assessments.  This workshop assumes that faculty who attend already have a basic working knowledge of Universal Design for Learning and want to learn more about how to use it in their own course.

              • Though we do have some optional introductory content, we've designed the broader workshop to function as a kind of "upper level" course on UDL.  Our primary goal is to provide a safe space and adequate time for faculty and DLI staff to collaborate together to find UDL solutions for our own courses.  

                Each module will provide some resources for understanding a specific UDL guideline, but will focus primarily on interactive discussion, with opportunities for asynchronous and synchronous interactions provided.  Each module will also ask you to turn in an assessment, lesson, resource, or activity that you have applied a UDL guideline to. Participants will be able to earn digital credentials along the way.

                After taking this workshop, faculty will be able to:

                Explain the principle of Universal Design
                Create or design a learning activity, assessment, or a piece of content according to UDL guidelines.
                Discuss applying UDL guidelines to real-world learning activities.
                Evaluate their course content, material, activities, or assessments according to UDL guidelines.
                Along the way participants have the opportunity to earn multiple digital micro-credentials: digital records of a learnerโ€™s professional skills.  These can be shared via social media or included as credentials on your curriculum vitae.  

                Two micro-credentials are offered in each unit.  A Level I credential is awarded to participants who participate in either the synchronous or asynchronous collaborative discussion in a unit.  A Level II is awarded to participants who complete the assignment for a unit.  This means participants who complete all aspects of the workshop will earn six micro-credentials!

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                  Level I Micro-Credential

                   

                  Multiple Means of Engagement

                  • A badge of UDL: Multiple Means of Engagement

                     

                    Level II Micro-Credential


                    Multiple Means of Engagement

                    • A ribbon of UDL: Multiple Means of Representation

                       

                      Level I Micro-Credential

                       

                      Multiple Means of Representation

                      • A badge of UDL: Multiple Means of Representation

                         

                        Level II Micro-Credential


                        Multiple Means of Representation

                        • A ribbon of UDL: Multiple Means of Action and Expression

                           

                          Level I Micro-Credential

                           

                          Multiple Means of Action and Expression

                          • A badge of UDL: Multiple Means of Action and Expression

                             

                            Level II Micro-Credential

                             

                            Multiple Means of Action and Expression


                          ๐Ÿ•‘ Session Duration:  
                          3 weeks.

                          ๐Ÿ† Digital Credential:  Badges โœ…

                          • Session
                            Begins
                            Last date for registration
                            No# of Participants
                          • Session 1
                            October 16
                            October 13
                            30
                          Register for UDLEX course
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