This project ensures courses created by faculty are educationally sound, impactful and innovative in learning activities, content and design. Through this project, the Center for Research on Teaching and Learning Excellence (CRTLE) team designed and implemented a faculty professional development curriculum, interactively presenting teaching and learning methods and strategies to faculty course developers within programs and colleges across campus. The project involved weekly, hour-long meetings with faculty, instructional designers and administrators. These individuals interactively presented high-demand curricular teaching topics each week, including the psychology of student learning, writing student learning outcomes, module design and alignment, questioning and feedback, teamwork, high impact practices, humanizing instruction, accessibility and inclusive teaching, class management and effective interactions, and assessment strategies.

The project also resulted in the creation of a CRTLE rubric to be used in collaboration with the Center for Distance Education’s online course design rubric. The CRTLE rubric reflects the faculty professional development curriculum created through eLearning and assesses quality, innovation, and pedagogical/adult learning expectations for online courses. The CRTLE rubric is used as a guide during course development and as a framework to assess online course design. The CRTLE rubric extends quality expectations beyond the benchmark provided by the QM rubric to encourage the development of unique and transformational online courses.

For more information on the services offered by CRTLE, visit their website. If faculty or administrators would like more information regarding online course review or assessment using the CRTLE rubric, contact Ann Cavallo (cavallo@uta.edu) or Andrew Clark (amclark@uta.edu).

Ann Cavallo* – Assistant Vice Provost, Director of CRTLE
Andrew Clark*– Associate Director of CRTLE
Bethany Dies – Instructional Designer
Diann Maurer – Instructional Designer
Sarah Sarraj – Manager, Global Education Outreach
Brittany L. Usman – Instructional Designer

FACULTY

Myrtle Bell – College of Business
Casey Brown – College of Education
Ukesh Chawal – College of Engineering
Shawn Christensen – College of Science
Clay Clark – College of Science
Faye Cocchiara – College of Business
Paul Componation – College of Engineering
Kathryn Daniel – College of Nursing and Health Innovation
Kenyatta Dawson – College of Business
Jeffrey Demuth – College of Science
Maysaa Hamdan – College of Engineering
Kiva Harper – School of Social Work
Matthew Fujita – College of Science
J. Fernando Jaramillo – College of Business
Hugh Kellam – College of Education
Taylor Kessner – College of Education
Diane Mitschke – School of Social Work
Tracy Orwig - School of Social Work
David Quigley – College of Business
Abdul Rasheed – College of Business
Jamie Rogers – College of Engineering
Jay Rosenberger – College of Engineering
Jennifer Roye – College of Nursing and Health Innovation
Donald Schuman – School of Social Work
Donna Schuman – School of Social Work
Christy Spivey – College of Business
Philisa Stanford – College of Business
Melissa Walsh – College of Science
Gabriela Whitener – College of Nursing and Health Innovation
Gabriela Wilson – College of Nursing and Health Innovation

PROGRAM RESOURCES

Candice E. Beckman – Senior Business Process Consultant
Victoria Burnett – Senior Communications Specialist
Stacey Fraser – Project and Demand Planning Manager
Arthur Go – Director of Academic Resource Planning
Amber M. K. Smallwood – Assistant Vice Provost

*Project Lead