A professional learning program aimed at helping faculty understand UD, its systems, and key resources in and around the Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center used to drive student success.

The E-Learning Fellows program brings together a cohort of 12 faculty members through face-to-face and online meetings to learn how to create and deliver high-quality online courses. The program culminates with each participant developing a complete online or hybrid course that meets uniform, high-quality standards.

Leadership UD is a year-long program for nominated faculty and staff designed to cultivate leadership capabilities and a leadership mindset among high interest/high potential UD employees.

About the Program

Each year the University of Dayton provides a unique opportunity for faculty to interact and network across disciplines and schools, and to develop and adopt improved practices for learning and teaching. Offered by the Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center and supported by the Faculty Development Committee and the Office of the Provost, the program aims to provide professional development for faculty seeking ways to maximize learning (of both students and faculty) for academic excellence.  To date, over 300 faculty have participated in the Teaching Fellows Program.

Faculty join the program following recommendations made by department chairs.  It is incumbent on the department chair and faculty member to ensure they are able to attend both the fall and winter seminars.

Benefits

• Designation as a University Teaching Fellow
• Teaching consultation and other support services on a variety of teaching activities.
• An enjoyable collegial experience.

As a Catholic, Marianist institution dedicated to the development of the whole person, the Learning Teaching Forum looks at how different parts of the University collaborate, cross boundaries, and contribute to students' holistic success and development. The Forum is an opportunity for faculty and staff to investigate and dialogue about what it really means to educate the whole person, both inside and beyond the classroom.

The purpose of New Faculty Orientation Week is to help incoming faculty quickly get onboarded to the most necessary elements of UD’s community, systems, and support resources. It is also a time for new faculty to get to know one another and current staff and faculty who can help answer questions at any time as you begin and progress in your career at UD.

The LTC sponsors semester-long groups of faculty and staff who read current books about teaching and learning. Participants receive free copies of the books in exchange for attending designated sessions in the LTC where they share their insights on the texts with their group.

Books discussed at Past Reading Groups

Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning

Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation

Supersurvivors: The Link Between Suffering and Success

Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty

Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions

Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World

Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice

Diversity across the Curriculum: A Guide for Faculty in Higher Education

Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled-- and More Miserable Than Ever Before

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Teaching with Your Mouth Shut

The Unheard Voices:  Community Organizations and Service Learning

The Flipped Classroom

On Student Reading (or the Absence of Student Reading)

Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice, 2nd edition

Dynamic Lecturing: Research-based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness

Free webinars on multiple topics related to learning, teaching, and student success provided by Innovative Educators through UD's SOCHE membership.  

Writing with Friends is designed to provide large blocks of uninterrupted time for a small group of faculty to conduct research and write toward a wide range of projects, including journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, and grant proposals.  Writing with Friends recognizes that while research and writing are largely solitary, private activities, writers often find comfort and encouragement by working with and around other writers.  Writing with Friends is held in January and May each year.

This year, the LTC will also be offering mid-semester Writing with Friends workshops in response to faculty input that more of these sessions would be helpful to move forward with writing projects.