National Cohort Enrollment
Flexible enrollment options for individuals and small groups
Join a National Cohort of Educators
Learn alongside faculty from colleges and universities across the country, representing diverse disciplines, perspectives, and teaching contexts.
Individuals benefit from access to ACUE’s full course catalog and may begin with a single course or purchase a bundle which progresses toward Certification in Effective Teaching. National cohorts offer flexibility that aligns with participants’ schedules while advancing sustained, evidence-based professional learning.
Course Start Dates:
- October 26, 2026
- January 25, 2027
- March 29, 2027
- June 21, 2027
Choose Your Course
Enroll in a single course at a time and focus on a specific area of teaching practice.
Course Bundles
Bundle multiple courses to conveniently enroll in more than one at a time. All courses in a bundle must be completed by the same participant.
Small Groups
If you’d like to enroll a small group in a national cohort, we’d be happy to support you. ACUE offers small-group enrollment with scalable, tiered pricing and volume discounts.
Please reach out to courses@acue.org or select Learn More to submit an inquiry.
ACUE Commons
ACUE Commons is our vibrant community of practice that helps faculty continue growing through timely Quick Studies, practical resources, and ongoing collaboration focused on today’s higher education landscape.
Individual Enrollment FAQs
ACUE courses are relevant to educators across all disciplines teaching at all types of institutions.
All courses are subject to the ACUE Terms and Conditions. If you’re not sure these courses are for you, please email courses@acue.org to discuss your situation.
ACUE’s Certification courses are most impactful when actively teaching at least one college-level course, whether face-to-face, online, or hybrid.
ACUE’s Fostering a Culture of Belonging course does not require you to be actively teaching. It is designed for faculty, administrators, and higher education leaders.
You may apply for a cohort-based course with a future start date. Submit your application here. Payment of $679 per course must be received before confirming your enrollment in the course. The deadline for payment submission for your chosen start date is the Friday preceding the Monday course start date, pending course availability.
Interested in purchasing multiple courses at the same time? Submit your application here.
Institutions may register a group in ACUE’s cohort-based courses by contacting the program director at courses@acue.org. Depending on the group enrollment size, course-takers may be split between multiple cohorts of the same course.
Please note: Institutions that enroll course-takers in courses are subject to the cancellation, deferment, and forfeiture of fees listed on our enrollment policy page by product type.
Faculty groups should also consider ACUE’s Programs for Institutions. ACUE’s campus and system partnerships are formed through a collaborative process with a broad set of institutional stakeholders. ACUE’s Programs for Institutions include academic support, advanced reporting, impact research at both faculty and student levels, and campus culture and communications support.
The enrollment deadline for individual purchase of a cohort-based course is 3 days prior to the course start date. The enrollment deadline for institutional small groups is 10 business days prior to the course start date, subject to course availability.
Enrollments are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Early registration is recommended.
Please review our enrollment policy page for details on managing your enrollment.
There is no set order to take Certification courses. Each course description includes module titles and short descriptions that may help you determine which course is of most interest to you at this time. Learn more about each pathway: Effective Teaching Practices Courses | Effective Online Teaching Practices Courses
Creating a Productive (Online) Learning Environment, Promoting Active Learning (Online), and Inspiring Inquiry and Lifelong Learning (in Your Online Course) are structured such that you engage with the course content, identify a practice, implement this practice with your current students, and then reflect upon the student impact of the new or modified practice selected.
Designing Learner-Centered Courses is the exception. This course is focused on working with your course documents, applying the concepts learned in the modules to those documents, and reflecting on the process and the impact on student success in your course. You may find it beneficial to take this course after the others so that you can take the knowledge from the modules in the other courses and apply it as you work on developing outcomes and assessments.
Fostering a Culture of Belonging is a stand-alone course and does not apply toward earning the Certification in Effective Teaching.
To earn the Certification in Effective Teaching you must complete four courses: Creating a Productive Learning Environment, Promoting Active Learning, Inspiring Inquiry and Preparing Lifelong Learners, and Designing Learner-Centered Courses. You may take these courses in either the Effective Teaching Practices (ETP) Pathway, the Effective Online Teaching Practices (EOTP) Pathway, or a combination of both modalities.
To earn the Advanced Certification in Effective Teaching, you must complete Creating a Productive Learning Environment, Promoting Active Learning, Inspiring Inquiry, and Preparing Lifelong Learners in both ETP and EOTP.
Course-takers report it takes approximately 2–3 hours to successfully complete each Certification course module. This typical time commitment includes time to review module content, engage in online discussions with colleagues, plan and implement a practice, and complete a written reflection. Certification courses consist of six modules that collectively require 12–18 hours to complete over a 6-week period. You will be given 8 weeks to complete the course.
The Fostering a Culture of Belonging course contains four modules, and the estimated time to complete is 2–3 hours per week (4–6 hours per module) over an 8-week period. This course opens a new module every 2 weeks.
All of our National Cohort Certification courses include the pathway for Nursing Educators that includes discipline specific module introductions by nurse educators who share how they apply evidence-based practices. These introductions serve as a practical lens to help nursing faculty translate teaching strategies into real classroom impact.
Upon completing the 4 Certification courses with nursing specific content you will receive a letter from us stating that you participated in nursing continuing professional development approved by the Montana Nurses Association, an accredited approver with distinction by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This letter states you are awarded 48 contact hours for completing the Certification and can be provided to your state nursing board or specialty nursing association.
Each course is allocated an 8-week completion period. After this time, you will have an additional 30-days to review and download course materials. To access course resources after this time, consider a yearly membership to the ACUE Commons.
Please contact courses@acue.org with questions about courses.
