The ADC provides Mount Royal faculty members with a variety of professional learning and development opportunities ranging from:

• stand-alone workshops
• workshop series which run over multiple sessions
• semester-long faculty study groups
• year-long Faculty Learning Communities (FLC).

These PD opportunities are facilitated by ADC faculty development consultants and professional staff, and address broad topic areas related to pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, teaching effectiveness, scholarship, and technology integration, in the university context.

To see current offerings,visit ADC Workshops.

Do you have questions, challenges, or concerns about any of the following?:

• Classroom management
• Pedagogical strategies
• Course and class development
• Student feedback
• Assessment

We offer confidential, non-evaluative consultation and provide:

• Feedback and suggestions
• Brainstorming
• Trouble-shooting
• Advice and support
• Classroom observations for feedback purposes

CIHS is available to all MRU faculty.

You may be interested in redesigning your course(s), developing a new course, or your department may be revising your program. Our faculty development consultants can assist you in your course and curriculum projects by providing consultation in the following areas:

• Learning activities
• Specific assessments
• Learning outcomes
• Program evaluation and revision

MRU faculty can access this service anytime throughout the academic year as the need arises. Providing adequate lead time will assist us in helping you to reach your timelines and objectives.

ADC faculty development consultants and professional staff are available to support you in a Course Redesign process, which seeks to help improve student learning and academic success. Priority will generally be given to high-enrolled, multi-section courses.

Sample Course Redesign activities that we can support include the following:

• Exploration of current and future aspects of the course (needs assessment)
• Review of course learning outcomes and alignment with program outcomes, where appropriate
• Review of course learning activities and approaches to assessment of learning
• Review of in class and outside of class learning activities
• Development of online resources designed to support teaching/learning
• Exploration of existing technology-enabled applications/software, as appropriate

A call for expressions of interest is distributed in the early winter. Successful applicants are then invited to meet with members of the ADC course redesign team in late-May or early-June to begin the project design. The timelines and types of support required for each project will, to some extent, be determined by the nature of individual projects.

The ADC has launched an active learning initiative designed to support instructors who wish to enhance student engagement through active learning pedagogies.

Visit the Active Learning Initiative website to learn more.

Visit the Teaching Strides website

The ADC maintains a small professional library with a variety of resources focused on teaching and learning; curriculum and assessment; eLearning and technology integration. The ADC invites you to view our collection for sign out in room EL2172.