In collaboration with our institutional partners, ACUE offers shorter, microcredential options in effective teaching practices and effective online teaching practices.
New for 2023: Fostering a Culture of Belonging
A truly inclusive and equitable campus environment is possible when everyone on campus is working together, with a common language, to mitigate the impact of implicit bias, microaggressions, imposter phenomenon, and stereotype threat. ACUE’s newly updated microcredential, titled Fostering a Culture of Belonging, ensures that all course-takers learn about and implement practices for prioritizing equity and inclusion in their work with both students and their colleagues. In addition to highlighting practices, sharing expert views, and promoting quality discussions for instructional staff designed to help foster a strong sense of belonging in college classrooms and online courses,
Microcredential Course Options
The ACUE seven microcredential courses shown below may stack to lead to the full ACUE Certificate in evidence-based Effective College Instruction, endorsed by the American Council on Education (ACE). ACUE-credentialed faculty can return to complete microcredentials to earn an Advanced Certificate in Effective College Instruction. Each of the microcredential courses is available in Effective Teaching Practices and Effective Online Teaching Practices.
Creating an Inclusive and Supportive Learning Environment
Learn how to close college and university equity gaps and ensure equitable access to learning, embrace diversity in your classroom, provide useful feedback and more. This course is foundational in teaching you inclusive equitable teaching practices that enable you to create an optimal environment to support learning—including how to increase student engagement, reduce dfw rates, embrace diversity and help improve college and university student outcomes.
Effective Teaching Practices
- Leading the First Day of Class
- Promoting a Civil Learning Environment
- Ensuring Equitable Access to Learning
- Helping Students Persist in Their Studies
- Embracing Diversity in Your Classroom
- Checking for Student Understanding
- Providing Useful Feedback
Effective Online Teaching Practices
- Welcoming Students to Online Learning
- Promoting Civil Online Learning Environments
- Ensuring Equitable Access to Online Learning
- Helping Students Persist in Online Learning
- Embracing Diversity Online Learning
- Checking for Student Understanding in Online Learning
- Providing Useful Feedback for Online Learning
Promoting Active Learning
Gain proven practices in using active learning, planning and facilitating discussions, and more. This course will provide you with practices proven to more actively engage your students in learning and thinking critically.
Effective Teaching Practices
- Developing Effective Class Sessions and Lectures
- Teaching Powerful Note-Taking Skills
- Using Groups to Ensure Active Learning
- Using the Active Learning Cycle
- Planning Effective Class Discussions
- Facilitating Engaging Class Discussions
Effective Online Teaching Practices
- Developing Effective Modules and Microlectures
- Teaching Powerful Note-Taking Online
- Using Groups to Ensure Active Online Learning
- Using the Active Learning Cycle in Online Courses
- Planning Effective Online Discussions
- Facilitating Engaging Online Discussions
Inspiring Inquiry and Preparing Lifelong Learners
Hone your ability to motivate your students, provide clarity of expectations, develop self-directed learners, and improve higher education student outcomes. This course addresses practices from motivating students to using visualization tools that deepen learning and help students take greater ownership for their own learning.
Effective Teaching Practices
- Motivating Your Students
- Providing Clear Directions and Explanations
- Using Concept Maps and Other Visualization Tools
- Using Student Achievement and Feedback to Improve Your Teaching
- Using Advanced Questioning Techniques
- Developing Self-Directed Learners
Effective Online Teaching Practices
- Motivating Students Online
- Providing Clear Directions and Explanations in Online Courses
- Integrating Visualization Tools in Online Courses
- Using Data and Feedback to Improve Online Teaching
- Using Advanced Questioning in Online Courses
- Developing Self-Directed Online Learners
Designing Learner-Centered and Equitable Courses for professors, instructors, adjuncts, and all faculty
Learn evidence-based practices for designing more equitable and learner-centered course outcomes with aligned assessments, assignments, and learning experiences that prepare students for success. In addition, you’ll learn to use grading practices and syllabi design in support of equity. This course fully supports both instructors who are building a course from the ground up as well as those teaching a predesigned course.
Effective Teaching Practices and Effective Online Teaching Practices
- Ensuring Learner-Centered Course Outcomes
- Designing Aligned Assessments and Assignments
- Aligning Learning Experiences with Course Outcomes
- Creating Equity with Checklists and Rubrics
- Developing Equitable Grading Practices
- Preparing an Inclusive Syllabus
