Online Instructional Skills Workshop

[Cynthia Korpan]

Dear Colleagues,

Please share this opportunity with instructors and graduate students at your institution. 

Over four days, through an experiential learning-centered instructional program, you will engage with asynchronous lessons then come together synchronously on Zoom to teach a 10-minute mini-lesson to peer colleagues. The program will enhance your F2F and online teaching.

The program is designed to expand your reflective practice, enhance your teaching, and develop your feedback skills. The underlying principles of the workshop are participatory learning, diversity of learning, adult learning, and the building of learning communities in classrooms. A handbook of resources is provided to augment the workshop. Upon completion, you receive a certificate that is recognized internationally at prestigious institutions and organizations.

You can be at any stage in your career to benefit from this program. Admittance into the program will be on a first come basis. If you register and the program is full, you will be notified you are on a waitlist. 

The ISW takes place over four days once per month. The next offering is from September 29-October 2, 2025 online on Zoom.

The cost is $650.00 CAD/$475.00 USD

Please go here to find out more and to register. This is an excellent program that is highly impactful.

Please don't hesitate to forward this email to colleagues at your institution so that they can take advantage of this great program. 

Regards,

Cynthia

Cynthia Korpan, PhD (she/her)

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies, UVic

Former Director of Teaching Excellence, UVic

Award-winning Educational Developer 2017 (EDC) 

Director, ITeach: Certification in Higher Ed Inc. iteachhe.com 

Secretary and Board Director, Society of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE)

Academics Without Borders Volunteer

Associate Editor, Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CJSoTL)

Committee Member, Graduate Student, Professional Student, and Postdoctoral Scholar Development Special Interest Group (GPPD SIG) (POD)

Latest publications:

Expanding peer observation of teaching and learning through cross-institutional collaboration

Me-search research: The use of a self-study methodological approach to teaching documentation

I acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.