The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) is excited to provide a variety of professional development opportunities for you! Whether you’re interested in workshops, programs, conferences, or even self-guided courses, we’ve got something for everyone. Enhance your teaching skills, explore new research methodologies, and expand your network through our searchable table of opportunities. Discover hands-on workshops and immersive programs designed to propel your career forward. Start your journey towards professional excellence today.

NameDescriptionRecording Available?Certificate or Badge?

Accessibility Training

Accessibility Training is a Canvas course that provides instructors with information about universal design, alongside strategies to support students and make courses accessible.

Modality: Virtual
Frequency: Self-paced
N/ACertificate

Active Learning: Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle

[Description to come soon]

Modality: Virtual
Frequency: Self-paced
YesCertificate

Active Teaching Lab

Active Teaching Lab is a workshop series where educators share teaching strategies and examples to spark conversation and generate new ideas for student learning.

Modality: Hybrid (in-person and virtual)
Frequency: Monthly 1-hr session
YesN/A

Canvas Quick Start Guide

CETL Quick Start Guide features tutorials and videos to help you get started with Canvas.N/AN/A

Canvas Workshop Series

The Canvas Workshop Series is a sequence of nine workshops that provide practical pedagogical recommendations and technical training for using Canvas.

Modality: Virtual
Frequency: Self-paced
YesN/A

Course Design Workshops (Asynchronous)

[Description to come soon]

Modality: Virtual
Frequency: Self-paced

Course Design Workshops (Synchronous)

[Description to come soon]

Modality: Virtual
Frequency: Self-paced

Digital Accessibility Workshop

The Digital Accessibility series prepares for the April 2026 accessibility deadline to ensure all your Canvas courses, videos, files, and digital teaching materials meet accessibility standards. This hands-on workshop will equip you with practical strategies to create accessible videos, Canvas pages, Word documents, and more, while deepening your understanding of key accessibility concepts and standards.

Modality: Virtual
Frequency: Monthly 30-min session
YesN/A

High Impact Practices (HIPs): Embedding Key Elements in Your Course

The High Impact Practices (HIPs): Embedding Key Elements in Your Course workshop series is an instructional development series that focuses on embedding the Eight Key Elements that leverage high impact in the classroom, aiming to enhance student engagement and outcomes, including learning, retention, and graduation rates.

Modality: In-person
Frequency: Monthly 1.5-hr session
NoN/A

Inclusive Teaching Toward Justice (ITTJ)

Inclusive Teaching Toward Justice (ITTJ) is a series which equips instructors to better educate UWM’s diverse student body. Participants learn how to incorporate inclusive teaching into course planning, classroom facilitation, and student assessment.

Modality: In-person or virtual
Frequency: Three 2-hr sessions
Badge

Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC)

The Learning Technology Development Council (LTDC) is a Universities of Wisconsin committee which includes learning technologists, instructional designers, and faculty technology support professionals across universities. The LTDC supports educators and students in integrating teaching and learning technology to improve student learning outcomes.

Modality: Virtual
Frequency: Monthly meeting
YesN/A

Online Program Council

The Online Program Council (OPC) is a network of UWM faculty, staff, and administrators engaged in the planning, implementation, and delivery of online degrees or certificates. This group includes representatives from every online program, alongside faculty and staff with an interest in online education; all are welcome to join.

Modality: Virtual
Frequency: Monthly meeting
YesN/A

Online & Blended Teaching Program (OBTP)

The Online & Blended Teaching Program (OBTP) is an online training offering practical teaching strategies for asynchronous, synchronous, blended, and flipped teaching modalities. Instructors can earn a certificate by making course improvements, reflecting on their teaching, and receiving detailed evaluations of their online or blended courses.


Modality: Virtual
Frequency: Self-paced
NoBadge and Certificate

Open Textbooks & Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Textbooks & Open Educational Resources (OER) is a teaching and learning training that helps instructors identify and integrate affordable course materials, such as open textbooks and open-educational resources, into their classes.


Modality: Virtual
Frequency: Self-paced
N/AN/A

Orientation for Online Students

Orientation for Online Students is a student program that provides effective strategies and resources for being a successful online student. The orientation is geared toward any UWM student taking an online course.


Modality: Virtual
Frequency: Self-paced
N/ABadge

Ready, Set, TEACH!

Ready, Set, Teach is a both technical and pedagogical workshop series, to prepare educators and their Canvas course for the upcoming semester.

Modality: Virtual
Frequency: Held before the start of semesters
YesN/A

Teaching Assistant (TA) Orientation

The Teaching Assistant (TA) Orientation is held each fall for all new TAs. The orientation is designed to inform new TAs of their duties and responsibilities, provide instruction on teaching and learning tools (i.e., Canvas), and essential shared resources. Participation is mandatory for new teaching assistants to fulfill training requirements set by their respective academic units.

Modality: Virtual
Frequency: Annual day of 1-hr sessions
YesBadge

Teaching and Learning Symposium

The Teaching and Learning Symposium is a one-day virtual event held every January. The symposium includes a keynote and a series of presentations where the teaching and learning community shares best practices, and celebrates accomplishments.

Modality: Virtual
Frequency: Annual symposium featuring multiple sessions throughout the day
Yes, Keynote OnlyN/A

Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT)

Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) guides instructors in creating transparent assignments to enhance student success and engagement. This workshop shows educators how to build transparency into the learning process while giving students the tools to see how and what they are learning.

Modality: In-person or virtual
Frequency: 1-hr workshop held multiple times throughout the year
NoN/A

UWM Teaching Assistant Fellowship

Teaching Assistant (TA) Fellows are competitively selected in the spring semester to recognize outstanding success as students and teachers. Fellows engage in professional development to design a training session for incoming TAs in August. The stipend is supported by CETL and the Graduate School.

Modality: Virtual
Frequency: Annual
N/A

Contact UWM’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Engelmann Hall, Room B50
2033 E Hartford Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53211

Phone: 414-229-4319
Email: cetl@uwm.edu

Support Commons Hours:

Monday through Wednesday: 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Thursday: Appointment Only
Friday: Closed