Student-Centered Online Teaching & Learning Pedagogies that Promote Exceptional Instructional Effectiveness

In this Fall 2025 learning experience, faculty participants will discover research-based best practices in student-centered online teaching and learning pedagogies that promote Instructional Effectiveness. The content can be tailored and applied to various delivery modalities (i.e., web-assisted, hybrid, entirely online, asynchronous, synchronous) and applies to all disciplines across Eastern Michigan University.

Participants will explore aspects of effective online course development and design, organization, and specific strategies that promote a community of learners, student engagement, and productivity. Participants will brainstorm and explore research-based dimensions and attributes of online teaching and learning pedagogies that are intentionally designed to elevate student satisfaction in online learning. Participants will use this information and a planning worksheet template to align these dimensions and attributes to their respective DED document and EMU Online Student Evaluation criteria. Next, participants will gather and use their online course evaluation data to identify and integrate specific, and measurable, student-centered improvements to an online course(s) to intentionally support their instructional effectiveness. Lastly, they will create a plan to meaningfully communicate their improvements to stakeholders (i.e., students in the course, colleagues in their program area/department, and evaluation narratives for promotion).

Participants who participate in all four sessions and submit an action plan will receive a $300 honoraria. 

The content in this Learning Community will cover dimensions and attributes of student-centered practices that faculty can explore and infuse into their online teaching and learning pedagogies. These practices intentionally support high-quality online learning experiences and Instructional Effectiveness. This learning community will be facilitated by Christina Mirtes, Professor & ECE Graduate Program Coordinator (a fully online program and ECE 2+2 fully online program developer) in the Teacher Education Department.

This learning community is open to Faculty & Lecturers.

Meeting Information

Meetings for this learning community will occur:

• Wednesday, September 17 @ 12 - 1:30 PM (in person at 109B Halle)
• Wednesday, October 8 @ 12 - 1:30 PM (online synchronous via Zoom)
• Wednesday, November 12 @ 12 - 1:30 PM (online synchronous via Zoom)
• Wednesday, December 10  @ 12 - 1:30 PM (online synchronous via Zoom)
  

If you have any questions, please contact Christina Mirtes ([email protected]) or the FDC ([email protected]).