The Master Educator Certificate offered through NKU’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Innovation (CETI) is a structured professional development pathway designed to empower faculty in enhancing their teaching effectiveness and course design expertise. This certification supports both new and experienced educators with a comprehensive blend of core pedagogical strategies and electives.
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.
Enroll if you plan on doing a full course development and review. The institute has a suggested schedule for 4 weeks, but you can complete it at your own pace.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of Canvas, and some experience in redeveloping or customizing a course for teaching.
The purpose of ACDI 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!
Register here for the next session of the Advanced Course Design Institute (ACDI). This course is offered in a hybrid format in which there are 3 synchronous online sessions accompanied by self-paced work over six weeks. Fall session will begin in October 2025.
Prerequisites: Completed the Transformative Education Institute or attended at least one NES. Participated in the Course Design Institute.
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 this self-paced institute to explore new possibilities in education with AI.
In this 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? What are the roles we play in creating a positive student learning environment? How can we 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.
