Our services range from individualized support to seminars and workshops, all of which can help improve your teaching effectiveness.

Main Services

• Faculty consultations including one-on-one, private and confidential sessions
• Mentoring program for junior faculty
• Workshops on how to improve teaching skills and learning outcomes
• Training programs on innovation, experimentation and use of technology to enhance teaching
• Classroom visits and peer evaluation of faculty teaching.
• Personalized assistance to the faculty for skill and goals development.
• Blackboard instructional strategy including assessment of students

Examples of our services include the following:

Individual Consultations: We are happy to meet with faculty on an individual basis. Some of the areas we can help with are:

• syllabus construction and review
• course planning and design
• gathering feedback from students
• student assessment
• migrating onsite classes to hybrid or online learning

Classroom Observations and Videotaping: Another way the FDC supports faculty who are working on improving the classroom experiences for their students is by scheduling classroom observations or videotaping of classes.

Instructional Technology Support: We hold a number of iLearn workshops as well as other seminars focusing on technology use in the classroom every semester. We are also here to help any faculty member who is interested in using instructional technology in their classrooms and would like some personal assistance with this.

For more information, please email fdc@aus.edu for an appointment.