Upon successful completion, participants should be able to:
The AI Academy Certificate offers a blended learning experience comprising 50% online, self-paced, asynchronous study through Canvas and 50% synchronous, in-person sessions that are on a set schedule. Each face-to-face workshop has a duration of two hours.
The material used in this workshop is based on readings and some is curated from various sources that will be cited appropriately.
This series is designed for educators wanting to engage in professional development in Artificial Intelligence. Participants are expected to have some knowledge of AI but are not experts in the field.
UVU faculty and staff who currently teach. Must be a UVU employee.
Fall Session
Spring Session
If you are interested in joining or have questions, contact [email protected].
We have currently closed the application for AI Academy.
The Online Teaching Academy (OTA) Certification is the official preparation program
for instructors wishing to teach online courses at UVU. UVU Faculty Senate has mandated
that all online faculty (both full-time and adjunct) earn certification by Fall 2021. This program is designed to give educators an opportunity to develop skills, reflect
on past practice, and meaningfully plan for future practice. This path is designed
to advance online and hybrid pedagogy including ways to develop instructor presence,
peer-to-peer interaction, and meaningful and secure online assessments.Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
This course consists of six different workshops (modules). OTA consists of the following modules:
Each workshop will take about 2-3 hours to complete, so expect to spend about 12-20 hours total to complete all 6 workshops.
There is also a culminating assignment that should take you 2-5 hours. You should be able to complete the course in 20 to 25 hours.
OTA is an online self-paced, asynchronous Canvas course. Each semester, OTA participants are assigned to a cohort that is facilitated by a faculty member with experience in online teaching.
Who can participate: UVU faculty and staff who teach. Must be UVU employee.
The OTA (six week) sessions have three start dates:
Spring Session
Summer Session
Fall Session
If you are interested in joining or have questions, contact [email protected].
The Livestream Teaching Academy (LTA) Certification is the official preparation program
for instructors wishing to teach livestream courses at UVU. This program is designed
to give educators an opportunity to develop skills, reflect on past practice, and
meaningfully plan for future practice. This path is designed to advance the newer
livestream pedagogy including ways to develop instructor presence, peer-to-peer interaction,
and meaningful and valuable livestream sessions.
Most faculty have not experienced being a livestream student, so it’s valuable to assume the role of a student in navigating, scheduling, and successfully participating in livestream sessions with professional facilitators. Your LTA course facilitator is an experienced peer who will model how a livestream instructor can generate rapport with individual students, create a sense of learning community, and pace the class. The content of the course has been thoughtfully selected to focus on the essence of great livestream teaching. How does the geographically distant professor not seem distant to students in a synchronous meeting? How can synchronous delivery of virtual content effectively occur?
At the completion of this certification course, you will receive a certificate and recognition on the OTL Teaching Certifications dashboard. All LTA graduates enter into the Livestream Teaching Learning Community in MS Teams. Within this virtual collaboration space, we will continue to share ideas about online teaching to collectively advance online student success at UVU.
Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:
This course consists of six different activities (modules). LTA consists of the following modules:
Each workshop will take about 1-2 hours to complete, so expect to spend about 10-12 hours total to complete all 6 workshops.
LTA is a hybrid of 50% online self-paced, asynchronous Canvas course with 50% flexible synchronous livestream scheduled sessions and 1:1 meetings with a peer facilitator. Each semester, LTA participants are assigned to a cohort that is facilitated by a faculty member with experience in livestream teaching. Cohorts are limited in space, typically capped at 30 per cohort.
Who can participate: UVU faculty and staff who currently teach or who are hired and scheduled to teach. Must be UVU employee.
The LTA (six week) sessions have three start dates:
Spring Session
Summer Session
Fall Session
If you are interested in joining or have questions, contact [email protected].
