Center for Teaching & Learning

Announcement    Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Please join us in congratulating instructors who recently completed the Designing Your Online Course workshop through Quality Matters! These instructors now have tools to build high-quality, learner-centered online courses that enhance engagement and support student success. These instructors have demonstrated a clear commitment to reflective practice.  Participants exit the workshop with a course development plan to develop their own online course.  We celebrate their commitment to...
Announcement    Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Brightspace Essentials Training Course for Instructors is a three-hour certificated course designed to equip Georgia College & State University instructors with the essential skills to navigate and utilize our learning management system, GeorgiaVIEW/D2L. Participants learn how to customize their course homepage, create engaging content modules, manage announcements and streamline communication with students. Additionally, participants gain practical experience setting up assignments,...
Announcement    Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Brightspace Advanced Training Course for Instructors is a three-hour certificated course series designed to elevate teaching proficiency and enhance digital course delivery for Georgia College & State University instructors. Tailored for those who have mastered the basics, this advanced course explores in-depth features of our learning management system, GeorgiaVIEW/D2L. Participants learned to create and manage student groups, set special access parameters and use intelligent agents...
Announcement    Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Digital Bootcamp is a 10-hour certificated course series designed to provide a framework of resources and support to facilitate online teaching at Georgia College & State University. The learning framework presented is based on Quality Matters principles, allowing learners to apply the concepts to an actual course using our learning management system, GeorgiaVIEW/D2L. This all-inclusive course also includes our Brightspace Essentials or Advanced Training Course for Instructions and...
Announcement    Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Active Learning 101 is a three-hour certificated course designed to equip Georgia College & State University instructors with the principles, instructional materials, technology and learning spaces needed to effectively implement active learning strategies. Through hands-on, modeled experiences, participants engage in interactive learning and gain access to valuable resources to support the integration of active learning into their courses. During the sessions, participants will explore...
Announcement    Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Active Learning 102 is a stipend-certificated course designed to deepen Georgia College & State University instructors' understanding and application of active learning strategies tailored to their specific content area. This course empowers participants to locate and evaluate content-relevant information, applies research-based active learning methods and analyzes instructional improvements.Through research, practical application and evaluation of methodologies, participants enhance...
Announcement    Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Active Learning 103, a stipend-certificated course, is the final and most advanced course in the Active Learning series. This course provides a space for participants to collect and showcase their artifacts, demonstrating their contributions to active learning - whether through a submitted publication or a conference proposal acceptance. Since submissions can take various forms, we encourage participants to share the most compelling example of their completed process.Please help us...
Announcement    Tuesday, January 20, 2026
We are thrilled to announce that student acknowledgements for Thank-a-Teacher @ Georgia College & State University for the fall 2025 semester are now available on our website.View the complete list of recipients at https://www.gcsu.edu/ctl/thank-a-teacher.Join us in congratulating our dedicated instructors, who have made a significant impact on our students this last semester!
Announcement    Monday, March 2, 2026
Now is a great time to consider ways to build on your strengths as an instructor! The goal of Peer Feedback on Teaching is to provide support to help you improve the quality of learning in your classroom. Deliberate, continuous improvement of one's teaching is one of the great joys of being a professor. Our trained observers enjoy working with you as you develop and continuously improve your teaching skills. This process takes a cross-disciplinary approach, pairing you with one (1)...
Announcement    Thursday, January 15, 2026
Now is a great time to consider ways to build on your strengths as an instructor! The goal of Peer Feedback on Teaching is to provide support to help you improve the quality of learning in your classroom. Deliberate, continuous improvement of one's teaching is one of the great joys of being a professor. Our trained observers enjoy working with you as you develop and continuously improve your teaching skills. This process takes a cross-disciplinary approach, pairing you with one (1)...