All workshops are one hour long unless otherwise noted. These will be recorded and will be posted in our professional development shell.
For the full list of offerings from CETI, download our Spring 2025 Brochure!
Why SPSS? (1 of 3) with Steve Poulin
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 12:00 pm
This workshop describes the SPSS program and how it differs from other statistical software programs. It will enable you to either create an SPSS dataset or import data from Excel or in a text format. It will also demonstrate the SPSS programming “under the hood”, known as syntax, and show the advantages of using of syntax.
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Data Manipulation in SPSS (2 of 3) with Steve Poulin
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 12:00 pm
This workshop will introduce you to some of the most commonly used tools for manipulating data with SPSS, which is an essential prerequisite to data analysis. It will also introduce the concept of a “data pass” for making data changes.
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Running Commonly Used Statistical Procedures in SPSS (3 of 3) with Steve Poulin
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 12:00 pm
This workshop will introduce you to running some of the most commonly used statistical techniques, and demonstrate how to export results into Word and Excel. Note: this workshop will not describe the statistical techniques themselves in detail.
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Learner Personas with Chip Heath
Tuesday, February 18, 2025 12:00 pm
Who are these people attending my class? Building student personas are a powerful way to understand your classroom and personalize your materials to better engage your students. A student persona is a generalized description of the types of students who take your class. They can be built by using the data available to us from general population statistics, MyNKU, student surveys, and more. Join us for this workshop that will walk through the persona building process.
Learner Analytics with Tommy Fix
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 12:00 pm
What can the tools you use tell you about your students and your course? Join us to see what analytics tools you can use today and get ideas for how you can be responsive to your student’s needs.
Creating Community in Online Courses with Vanessa Steele
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 12:00 pm
Explore the importance of fostering a sense of community in your digital learning spaces and learn practical strategies to create a welcoming virtual space in Canvas. This workshop will equip you with the tools to enhance student engagement and build a supportive online learning environment.
From Information Overload to Research Insight: the Power of NotebookLM with Shannon Eastep
Monday, April 7, 2025 1:00 pm
Struggling to make sense of complex information or looking to sort through multiple resources of content? Google’s NotebookLM acts as your AI research assistant, extracting key takeaways, answering questions, and accelerating understanding of your content. Join the session to learn more!
Maximizing Student Engagement Online with Kayla Weiglein
Tuesday, April 8th 12:00 pm
Tired of seeing disengaged students in your online discussions? Join this workshop where we’ll explore innovative strategies to reignite student participation and tackle discussion board fatigue head-on. Learn how to create dynamic, engaging activities that keep your students motivated and excited to contribute!
(Re) Energizing In-Class Student Engagement with Kayla Weiglein
Tuesday, April 15th 12:00 pm
Revitalize your in-person classroom with strategies that captivate and motivate students from beginning to end. In this workshop, you’ll discover interactive techniques that foster collaboration, spark curiosity, and boost participation. Transform your classroom into a dynamic, engaging environment where students are excited to learn and contribute!
Professional development Institutes provide our faculty with the opportunities to develop and hone their teaching, pedagogy, and course development skills. Our vision is that we will engage faculty through a process of development that spans aspects of teaching in-person, hybrid and online. Our institutes will all have limited seating and may be asynchronous, synchronous, or hybrid.
Some of the institutes will be prerequisites for others. For each institute completed, educators may be eligible for up to a $500 stipend. Faculty members that have completed the 3 core requirements and 2 electives will be eligible for the Master Educator Certification.
Are you interested in enhancing your teaching with the latest advancements in artificial intelligence? The AI Institute is designed to equip you with practical tools and knowledge to integrate AI into your classroom. This asynchronous hands-on program will help you reframe your teaching, engage students actively, use AI tools effectively, and create AI-driven assignments. You’ll practice using AI to complete exercises related to each learning objective, ensuring you gain practical experience. Join us to explore new possibilities in education with AI.
Note: This institute will count as an elective toward the Master Educator Certificate.
Self-enroll in the AI Institute here.
Dates: January 27, 2025 – February 21, 2025
The purpose of this institute is to help you begin the process of designing student-friendly, technology-enhanced courses. We will start with backward design and course mapping, then cover creating an effective syllabus, developing effective assessments, designing an equitable and accessible course, creating student-friendly lessons and materials, building instructor presence, incorporating peer learning, and increasing your long-term impact on student success. This institute will require approximately 4-5 hours per week, including individual work, deliverables and readings over a 4-week period.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of Canvas, and some experience in redeveloping or customizing a course for teaching.
Note: This is a core requirement for the Master Educator Certificate.
Register for the Course Design Institute here.
Dates: February 10, 2025 – March 9, 2025
In this new institute, we are going to explore the methods, strategies, and mindsets that we will need to create a student-centered learning environment in our classrooms and at our university as a whole. Questions we will try to answer will include things like, "What does it mean to be student-centered? How can we build belonging and a sense of safety in our courses for all of our students, regardless of modality? What are the roles we play in creating a positive student learning environment and what does centering the student mean for us as faculty? How can we design more flexibility into our courses, and empower students to take responsibility for their own learning and success? This will be an asynchronous, online institute, so while you will be responsible for engaging in the work with your peers, you will do so on your own schedule. You will have opportunities to interact with your peers through a series of readings that we will annotate together, as well as some group and individual activities.
Note: This institute will count as an elective toward the Master Educator Certificate.
Register for the Student-Centered Teaching Institute here.
Dates: March 17,2025– April 27, 2025
The purpose of this institute is to build upon the work you've started with the Course Design Institute. Over the course of 6 weeks, you will work both individually and as a group to develop your courses based on your course maps and the materials you've already developed to ensure your course is ready for review - and even more importantly, ready for students! This comprehensive 6-week hybrid institute is designed to equip faculty with the skills and knowledge necessary to create engaging, transparent, and integrity-focused courses. The program combines collaborative group sessions with individual work and one-on-one meetings with instructional designers, ensuring that each participant can effectively integrate the institute's teachings into their unique course plans.
Prerequisites: Completed the Transformative Education Institute or attended at least one NES Participated in the Course Design Institute
AND: Have a course development that will be taught sometime this Fall, Spring, or Summer
Note: This is a core requirement for the Master Educator Certificate.
Register for the Advanced Course Design Institute here.
Dates: March 17, 2025 – April 27, 2025
The Advanced AI Institute offers a transformative training experience aimed at enhancing your course design and teaching methodologies. Participants will engage in a series of interactive sessions that explore principles of engaging course design, active learning techniques, and project-based learning to foster collaboration and critical thinking. The program emphasizes strategies to minimize academic dishonesty while responsibly incorporating AI as a powerful educational tool. Additionally, attendees will learn to create supportive learning environments that promote integrity and student engagement. This institute is particularly suited for those who have completed the AI Institute or are already comfortable using AI in their teaching practices, making it an ideal opportunity for educators looking to innovate and elevate their instructional approaches.
Note: This institute will count as an elective toward the Master Educator Certificate.
Looking for additional opportunities for professional development? Go2Knowledge is part of the Greater Cincinnati Collegiate Connection and offers live and on-demand webinars on a wide variety of subjects.You can sign up for or log-in using your NKU email and password of your choosing to register for any of the upcoming live events below or catch up with recordings of past webinars.
CETI has utilized the Go2Knowledge on-demand to develop a
series of mini-institutes that can be accessed on your schedule through our Canvas
page. Each group of trainings covers topics around a central theme, and should take 5 h ours or less to complete. Currently, the topics include:
These trainings will be available starting January 13th. As you finish each group of trainings, you will receive a badge indicating completion.
CETI has also built some self-driven trainings for TalentED that you can access anytime! If you need an introduction (or refresher) on using Canvas to help deliver your course content, or you want to learn how to use Kaltura, we have you covered! Learn how to navigate Canvas, set up your assignments, quizzes, and discussion boards, and create and edit videos with Kaltura, all at your own pace.
Canvas invites educators and administrators to their free monthly webinar series. Check out their list of sessions and registration information to sign up!
Respondus (Lockdown Browser, StudyMate, and more) hosts webinars about their products monthly. You can find information and registration links at their website.
Turnitin hosts webinars for all users in multiple languages, and their list of offerings can be found here.
