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Faculty Development & Instructional Support
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Faculty Development and Instructional Support
AI&e, CAFE, and CCEL support faculty and provide professional development opportunities. Learn about effective teaching strategies, course design, community discussions, faculty best practices, learning communities, and more. We help faculty cultivate student learning across UAA!
Evolve your pedagogy. Teach with technology. Invest in your community.
Faculty Mini Grant Opportunity:
Health Misinformation Education
Deadline to submit proposals: October 9th at midnight
As part of efforts to create a healthier information environment in Alaska, the Alaska Health Misinformation Response Project Team seeks UAA and branch campus faculty for a mini-grant opportunity to raise awareness about the threat of health misinformation, particularly as it relates to confidence in vaccination.
The mini-grants allow an opportunity for local community dialogue and engagement with
faculty, staff, students, and the public on how to identify and manage this emerging
threat. Interested applicants are encouraged to apply for a maximum of $2,500. Smaller
budgets are also welcome. We strongly encourage applicants to collaborate with a local
community agency to amplify engaged learning.
Deadline to submit proposals: October 9 at midnight. See the Faculty CCEL Mini-grant Opportunity
Health Misinformation Education Google document for additional information and submission instructions.
Upcoming Opportunities
Looking Ahead
Excellence in Teaching & Learning
Assessment best practices and instructor testing support
Learn to use Blackboard, UAA’s learning management system
Make your course fully accessible to students
Embracing UAA's Role as a Community Partner
Since 2006, UAA has been recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a “Community Engaged Institution.”
UAA uses the Carnegie Foundation's definition of community engagement for our work with communities: "Community Engagement describes the collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity."
The Center for Community Engagement and Learning serves as a central locus for the intersection of student learning, faculty research, and community engagement.
Help Resources
For assistance preparing your courses for the new semester, check out the guidance under Teaching Resources and Learning Technologies. If these don’t answer your questions, please contact us! Due to a transitional reduction in capacity, AI&e instructional support will give priority to new instructors, meeting accessibility requirements, selecting appropriate tools/activities to meet course goals, ePortfolio, and remote test proctoring (RPNow).
If you need further assistance with Blackboard functions (including course copies, developmental shells, editing and publishing courses, and troubleshooting) or other UAA core tools, please contact IT Services. Kenai Peninsula College instructors should start with the KPC Educational Technology Team.
Visit our Help page to sign up for a course design or RPNow testing consultation.
Faculty Development & Instructional Support
Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence, Academic Innovations & eLearning, and Center
for Community Engagement and Learning
Library 213 • (907) 786-4496 • uaa_ai@alaska.edu • Mon – Fri, 8a – 5p