ACC Course Redesign Fellowships
Overview
TLED has created a comprehensive faculty fellowship program focused on course redesign. These fellowships are designed to support faculty in the redesign of courses employing high-impact and best practices in specific instructional methods and strategies that support equitable outcomes in student success and build on the scholarship of the teaching profession. Each fellowship has time constraints, requirements, and expectations.
Below is an overview of the fellowships with links to additional information on the specific fellowships available.
Fellowships are available for the following areas:
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- Adobe Creative Campus – Richard Palmer (rpalmer@austincc.edu)
- Artificial Intelligence for Teaching and Learning – Stephanie Bogdanich (sbogdani@austincc.edu)
- Competency-Based Education – Michelle Escudier (michelle.escudier@austincc.edu
- Great Questions – Ted Hadzi-Antich (thadzian@austincc.edu)
- Honors – Dr. Anne-Marie Thomas (athomas2@austincc.edu)
- HyFlex Teaching & Learning – Kathleen Serra (kathleen.serra@austincc.edu)
- Liberal Arts Gateway – Chris Berni (cberni@austincc.edu)
- Quality Matters – Katie McClendon (katie.mcclendon@austincc.edu)
Note: The Liberal Arts Gateway Fellowships follow a different schedule. If you’re interested in the Liberal Arts Gateway Fellowships, please visit the Liberal Arts Gateway website. For questions, please email Arun John: ajohn@austincc.edu.
Current Faculty Fellowship Opportunities
Adobe Creative Campus
The 2024 Adobe Creative Cloud Fellowship is a year-long opportunity for Austin Community College (ACC) faculty to learn about alternative teaching methods that increase student engagement and success through the use of Adobe Creative Cloud.
Artificial Intelligence for Teaching and Learning
The 2024 Artificial Intelligence for Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellowship is a year-long opportunity for ACC faculty to learn how to integrate Artificial Intelligence into their teaching to build engagement and foster 21st-century digital literacy skills.
Competency-Based Education
The Competency-Based Education Course Design Faculty Fellowships are designed to support faculty in the redesign of courses employing competency-based best practices and strategies that support equitable outcomes in student success. These fellowships move from training and professional development and progress towards a focus on research and disseminating outcomes and results.
Great Question
The Great Questions Faculty Fellowship offers ACC faculty the opportunity to join a small group workshop with Great Questions faculty members to redesign at least 40% of a course centered around the project and discussion-based study of core and transformative texts in the teaching discipline.
Honors
The Honors Fellowship is designed to support faculty in the redesign of courses to incorporate DEI initiatives into their curriculum. There are 4 options for the Honors Fellowship.
HyFlex Teaching and Learning
The HyFlex Teaching and Learning Fellowship is designed to support faculty in the redesign of courses employing high-impact and best practices in hyflex instructional methods and strategies that support equitable outcomes in student success.
Liberal Arts Gateway
Fellowships for faculty that are new to the Liberal Arts Gateway (LAG) course redesign process or LAG faculty who want to serve in the role of Community of Practice facilitators for cohorts of LAG faculty.
Note: The Gateway Fellowships follow a different schedule. If you’re interested in the Gateway Fellowships, please visit the Liberal Arts Gateway website. For questions, please email Arun John: ajohn@austincc.edu.
Quality Matters
Participants will focus on completing the basic training for Quality Matters (QM) – Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR). Then, participants will work on completing the design of one online, or one hyrbid, or one competency-based course with support from a Distance Education Instructional Designer. The completed course will also require successful completion of an internal Quality Matters (QM) review.
Contact
For any questions about Fellowships, please email tledcomms@austincc.edu. If you want to receive a reminder for faculty fellowships, please subscribe here.