This academic year, the TLCo-op will be offering four workshops. Faculty whose applications are accepted and who complete the workshop requirements can earn a stipend for each workshop (see Eligibility) as well as a certificate of completion. Workshops are facilitated over several weeks and have assignments with due dates and expectations around regular interactions. See specific workshop requirements below.
- Instructional Design for Hybrid and Online Courses (5-weeks) – Winter ’24
- Open Educational Resources: Introduction (2-weeks) – Winter ’24
- Open Educational Resources: Tools and Development (4-weeks) – Winter ’24
- Project Development for Inclusive Courses (5-weeks) – Spring ’24
Application Open for Spring 2024: Project Development for Inclusive Courses
Eligibility and Selection Criteria
- Space is limited in these workshops.
- Applicants must be current WWU instructors.
- Faculty on leave or sabbatical are not eligible to participate in stipend-based workshops.
- Selection will be determined based on disciplinary distribution, applicant’s perceived need, and stated potential impact.
- See specific workshop requirements for pre-requisites and/or workshop repeatability.
Workshop Information
Project Development for Inclusive Courses
This workshop will be held online during Spring Quarter 2024. A call for applications will be available in early winter term.
Modality
Synchronous Online (via Zoom)
Description
This workshop is focused on supporting faculty who wish to create or revise a course element related to accessibility, diversity, equity, inclusion, and/or anti-racism (ADEI-AR) practices. Participants will learn about best practices for inclusive class dynamics in a collaborative, peer-learning environment with support from TLCo-op Faculty Mentors and workshop facilitators.
For this workshop, participants will need to select a small “project” to design, develop, improve, or enhance as the workshop deliverable. This project should be:
- a course component, activity, lesson, or other instructional element
- impactful for student learning
- related to ADEI-AR themes/practices
- narrow in focus and achievable within a 5-week timeframe while exploring themes of inclusive teaching and learning
Participants will be required to submit a project description with their workshop application.
Examples of projects might include: redesigning an assignment to incorporate ADEI-AR practices, developing a new course element that enhances your inclusive course design, creating an open educational resource (OER) chapter/remix to enable equitable access to course materials, or revising course materials, assessments, or other components to leverage Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
This workshop supports the development of materials for any delivery modality.
Time Commitment
~15 hours of participation over 5 weeks; 1.5 hours/week synchronous online, 1.5 hours/week min. homework
Details
- Dates: Wednesdays 12:00-1:30 pm (4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15) OR Thursdays 2:00-3:30 pm (4/18, 4/25, 5/2, 5/9, 5/16)
- Attendance and Participation Expectations: Attendance is required for all synchronous sessions.
- Stipend: $750
- Workshop Text: Promoting Inclusive Classroom Dynamics in Higher Education (provided to all participants)
- APPLICATION DUE DATE: Friday, February 16th at 11:59 PM
Past Workshops
Instructional Design for Hybrid and Online Courses
Modality
Online Asynchronous (not self-paced)
Description
This workshop provides participants with a unique opportunity to take part as a student in an online/hybrid course while contributing to a learning environment with fellow faculty colleagues. You will learn about evidence-based strategies in a highly engaged, humanized, and participatory experience. Participants will develop and align learning outcomes and assessments, and focus on student engagement. An emphasis on Access, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism are used as a lens for instructional design processes. Activities help you apply the basic principles of instructional design to your future online or hybrid course(s).
Note: This workshop is not Canvas training. It focuses on the design of instruction for online/hybrid courses. If you are looking for learning opportunities for tools like Canvas, Owl Meeting Camera, Zoom, Panopto, etc., these are offered via ATUS.
Time Commitment
15 hours of participation over 5 weeks; ~3 hours per week
Details
- Dates: January 19th through February 25th
- Participation Expectations:
- Engage with peers throughout the week.
- Participate in active learning opportunities.
- Plan on devoting some time M-F to engage as part of a learning community.
- Course textbook provided: Designing and Delivering Effective Online Instruction
- Stipend: $750
- Materials: Canvas course will be available beginning Friday, January 19th.
Eligibility
Participants may repeat this workshop every third year. Specifically, those who have taken the “Blended/Hybrid/Online Course Design and Development” or “Blended/Hybrid/Online Course Development Boot Camp” may re-apply every third year. For example, 2021 participants can re-apply in 2024).
Open Educational Resources: Introduction
Fulfills the prerequisite for the OER Tools & Development workshop; repeatable every 2 years
Modality
Online Asynchronous (with expectations to engage with peers during the week, M-F)
Description
In this asynchronous workshop, participants will explore the basics of and evaluate applications for Open Educational Resources (OER). Participants will tap into strategies for using free, accessible, and inclusive course materials, gain a better understanding of open licensing (including Creative Commons and public domain), discuss the advantages and disadvantages of open pedagogy, and use open educational resource repositories to find, curate, analyze, and review resources. Participants will be expected to submit homework as assigned. To wrap up the workshop, participants will be invited to meet with workshop leaders to consult about future uses of OER in their courses.
Time Commitment
6 hours of participation over two weeks; 2.5 hours per week asynchronous online + 1 hour synchronous consultation
Details
- Dates: January 22nd through February 2nd
- Synchronous Zoom Consultation: by appointment
- Participation Expectations: Complete assignments on time and comment, share, and communicate with peers and facilitators throughout the week.
- Stipend: $300
- Materials: All reading materials will be available in Canvas beginning Friday, January 19th.
Eligibility
Participants may repeat this workshop every two years. Those who took “Open Educational Resources for Teaching and Learning” in 2023 will be eligible in 2025.
Open Educational Resources: Tools & Development
Prerequisite: OER: Introduction workshop (above) or the 2023 OER for Teaching & Learning workshop
Modality
Online, Asynchronous (with expectations to engage with peers during the week, M-F)
Description
This workshop is designed to support faculty wishing to use or create open educational resources (OER) as free course materials and part of an equity-centered pedagogy for students. Participants will explore methods for sourcing and remixing existing content that is openly licensed or in the public domain, creating new content, and publishing a packaged ebook online. Facilitators will demonstrate WWU’s pilot of LibreTexts, a free OER publishing platform that can be used to create, edit, publish, and enhance online course materials. As a complete system, LibreTexts also provides ebook authors with the ability to incorporate dynamic media, interactive elements, and more. Activities in this workshop emphasize using available tools to provide all students with effective, inclusive, and accessible OER materials, tailored to participants’ teaching and learning goals. Participants will be expected to complete homework as assigned, all of which contributes to the creation of a draft OER (remix or original) in LibreTexts.
Time Commitment
12 hours of participation over four weeks; 1.5 hours/week synchronous online, 1.5 hours/week asynchronous work
Details
- Dates/Times: February 12th through March 8th, Wednesdays, 1:00-2:30 pm
- Synchronous Zoom Sessions: Feb. 14th, Feb. 21st, Feb. 28th, Mar. 6th
- Participation Expectations: Attendance is required for all synchronous sessions. Complete assignments on time and comment, share, and communicate with peers and facilitators throughout the week.
- Stipend: $600
- Materials: All reading materials will be available in Canvas beginning Friday, February 9.
Eligibility
To take this workshop, applicants must have taken the prerequisite, “OER: Introduction” workshop (above), or the 2023 “OER for Teaching & Learning” workshop. Participants may repeat this workshop every year with unique proposed work.