Center for Teaching and Learning
About the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)
The CTL serves as the central delivery and communication point for all faculty (full time and part time) seeking opportunities to complete professional development (PD) training or participate in grant writing, publishing or presenting opportunities.
Various modalities of PD are offered including: synchronous, asynchronous, online and f2f, as well as a range of topics. These include teaching pedagogies:
Training on teaching tools is also provided. These include Learning Management System (LMS) tools:
Intelligent Agents (D2L functionality for automatic notifications)
Teaching tools outside the LMS for synchronous web conferencing:
Trainings located in D2L (asynchronous, in-depth learning environments):
CTL1050: Open Educational Resources (OER) Pedagogy - Level 1
CTL1051: Open Educational Resources (OER) Pedagogy - Level 2
CTL1060: Higher Ed and AI (under final review)
CTL2020: Course Development training (administrative and instructional design processes covered)
CTL5010: Introduction to Grants (under final review)
(Note: To enroll, just click the "Discover" button on the top navigation bar of the Online Campus homepage. You will be able to self-enroll).
Other teaching, advising, administrative, student support, and business tools:
As well as areas or events of interest, both on and off campus:
History Department Lecture Series (coming soon!)
Finally, the Center for Teaching and Learning houses our weekly Monday Minute newsletter which summarizes items of interest to faculty, staff and administration. See the current Monday Minute edition by clicking the top nav of any CTL page or visit the Monday Minute archives.
Our Center for Teaching and Learning was created as a result of the work of the Gateway Course Team's work 2020-2021.
Columbia State’s Gateway Course Academy Team consists of faculty from all three division, Humanities and Social Sciences, Health Sciences, and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), and administrative staff with direct roles ensuring student success at our college. This team offers broad depth of institutional knowledge and understandings of intricacies applied classroom practice and the histories of statewide and institutional initiatives meant enhance Columbia States mission “to nurture success and positively change lives through teaching, learning, and service.”
Gateway Team:
Shane Hall, Assistant Professor of English – Team Lead
Mandy Carter-Lowe, Associate Professor of Biology
Marla Cartwright, Director Academic Engagement and Innovation
Dr. Victoria Gay, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences
Clifford Gordon, Assistant Professor of Art
Richard Hardison, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Dale Hobbs, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Alissa Long, Instructor of Nursing
Christina Loucks, Instructor of English
Colleen McCready, Instructor of English
Judy Westley, Associate Professor of English
Gateway Objective:
Columbia State’s ATD Gateway Academy Team will design and launch a new Center for Teaching and Learning which offers full-time and part-time faculty training in pedagogical models and practices and fosters cross-departmental alignment with Advising and Student Services to support Columbia State’s Strategic Plan.
CTL Advisory Committee (2022-2024):
The Center for Teaching and Learning Advisory Committee (CTLAC) is charged with supporting the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) through the following actions: making recommendations for new training topics and other offerings; providing feedback on current training topics and other offerings; and promoting the CTL as a destination for faculty training and access to the data and outcomes related to evidenced based pedagogical practices.
The CTLAC will serve a crucial role in the CTL Faculty Fellows Program which provides faculty with the opportunity to explore technological, andragogical, and other teaching-based practices that positively impact student attainment of outcomes (i.e. persistence, transfer, graduation, etc.). Examples of CTL Faculty Fellows activities may include, but are not limited to, the following: launching a CoSCC scholarship of teaching and learning conference; creation of a CoSCC scholarship of teaching and learning online journal; leading synchronous faculty development training, roundtables and other synchronous discussions; leading asynchronous faculty development training.
The CTL Faculty Fellows may apply for stipends (as available) and will be recognized both formally and informally for their contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learning at Columbia State Community College.
In addition, two faculty serving on the CTL Advisory Committee will be responsible for facilitating CTL 1025: TILT – Transparent Teaching in an Equitable Classroom, which is available to all faculty as an asynchronous training course via D2L. Facilitating this course encompasses providing learners with feedback and interaction necessitated by the course design.
During the 2022 Academic year, the Center for Teaching and Learning will focus on the following:
1. Continued weekly update and distribution of the Monday Minute newsletter
2. Consideration of re-introducing the monthly professional development calendar
3. Review of CTL1010: Level 1 Online Campus Training culminating in a consolidated recommendation for revision document
4. Creation of the CTL Faculty Fellows program outline
CTL Advisory Committee Members (2022-2024):
