Teaching Excellence and Professional Development

Created by Concordia University’s Centre for Teaching and Learning and eConcordia, our website is dedicated to promoting teaching excellence and continuous professional development for faculty in higher education.

Tailored learning experience

The content is designed to offer you many choices to tailor your professional learning to your needs. Topics are divided into modules and further segmented into micro-modules (more discrete information chunks).

Flexible curriculum

Designed for convenience – you can progress through an entire module or opt to focus your attention on specific aspects of a topic by selecting individual micro-modules.

Community of Inquiry

The Teaching Academy also aims to build a community of inquiry for faculty who wish to deepen their pedagogical knowledge and share in their professional experiences.

Flexible curriculum

You can approach our content from three different perspectives:

Course Path

Learning curriculum that integrates modules with tasks to support self-assessment, adaptation, reflection, and build a community of inquiry.

Modules

Teaching topics designed to enhance teaching excellence.

Micro-Modules

Discrete aspects of a teaching topic for quick review/express learning.

Teaching Excellence Credential

Some course paths offer a Teaching Excellence Credential (TEC) upon successful completion:

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Credential Courses

As an enhanced feature, the CTL has created Teaching Excellence Credentials that can be earned for specific Course Paths. Instructors may choose to include their Teaching Excellence Credentials in their teaching dossier to demonstrate their engagement and investment in teaching excellence.

Get a Teaching Excellence Credential

To track your progression and obtain a Certificate of Completion, this process requires you to create an account, by clicking the MY ACCOUNT/REGISTER on the top right-hand side of our website.

A 4-step process to a Teaching Excellence Credential (TEC):

Step 01 - Choose Course Path

Strengthen your Knowledge Base. Choose a path to acquire knowledge and build on your conceptual understanding of a pedagogical topic.

Step 02 - Complete Path Modules

Work through the Path Modules to build or deepen conceptual understanding of a pedagogical topic. A Proof of Completion of the Modules will be available for download, in your account, once all course path elements have been completed.

Step 03 - Do Your Self-assessment

Complete a self-assessment task, reflect on your practice and make adaptations to enhance teaching excellence.

Step 04 - Participate in Community of Inquiry

Share any aspect of your learning path (successes and/or challenges) with colleagues at a CTL event (contribute a blog post, lead a workshop, join a panel discussion, etc.) to contribute to Concordia’s teaching and learning.

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