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
ECFS
SCD
UDLEX
Accessible Teaching Essentials (ATE)
Accessible Teaching Essentials (ATE) is a three-week, online workshop designed to
fit easily into a hectic teaching schedule—in fact, you’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.
🕑 Session Duration: 3 weeks.
🏆 Digital Credential: Badges ✅
Register for ATE course
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.
🕑 Session Duration: 3 weeks.
🏆 Digital Credential: Badges ✅
Register for ECFS course
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 “sustainable” 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.
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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 – 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.
🕑 Session Duration: 3 weeks.
🏆 Digital Credential: Badges ✅
Register for SCD course
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.
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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 learner’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!
Level I Micro-Credential
Multiple Means of Engagement
Level II Micro-Credential
Multiple Means of Engagement
Level I Micro-Credential
Multiple Means of Representation
Level II Micro-Credential
Multiple Means of Representation
Level I Micro-Credential
Multiple Means of Action and Expression
Level II Micro-Credential
Multiple Means of Action and Expression
🕑 Session Duration: 3 weeks.
🏆 Digital Credential: Badges ✅
Register for UDLEX course
