The Center for Academic Excellence is the university's lead teaching and learning resource for faculty, staff, and students. It was formed by combining the staff and resources from Learning Technology Services and Faculty and Academic Development into a single, comprehensive center dedicated to growing excellence in teaching and learning and supporting faculty and student success.
Here is a list of all of our Spring 2019 CAE Programming, this includes events, workshops and other professional development opportunities.
Teaching, Learning, & Student Success
Learn more about how we support excellence in teaching and learning through course redesign, instructional design, learning communities, and learning technologies.
Learning Technologies
Discover how we lead the campus in providing professional development for faculty and staff to increase the integration of learning technologies for teaching, like AsULearn, video conferencing, and web conferencing, as well as online course development.
Inclusive Excellence
Find out more about our professional development that cultivates equity, inclusion, and diversity in the classroom and campus community, including best practices, sample syllabi statements and events that support inclusive practices.
Career Support
Explore our programming and support for new faculty, non-tenure track faculty, mid-career faculty, and senior faculty. We support scholarship and research through a wide array professional development workshops and events.
Leadership Development
See how we facilitate the planning of professional development that strengthens academic leadership across campus, aids in identifying and developing emerging leaders, and promotes leadership succession planning.
Appalachian Initiatives
Find out more about how we support programs, departments, colleges and units across campus that assists the campus community in achieving its goals.
Latest News
Professional Development opportunities for online teaching
Jan 8, 2019
The Center for Academic Excellence is pleased to offer the following professional development opportunities for our Appalachian faculty.
Learning from mistakes
Oct 29, 2018
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. - Scottish author Samuel Smiles
Learning Technologies
Five Technology Tools To Consider Using in Your Course This Spring
Oct 24, 2018
Typically I avoid focusing on learning technology tools.
Upcoming Events
Jan 7
Teaching with Moodle MOOC (Self-Paced)
Monday, January 7, 2019 - 1:30pm to Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 2:30pm
TBA
Learning Technologies, Learning Technologies: AsULearn Tools, Workshops
Jan 18
Introduction to Zoom Web Conferencing
Friday, January 18, 2019 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Online in Zoom
Learning Technologies, Learning Technologies: AsULearn Tools, Workshops
Jan 22
Google Lunch & Learn for Admin Professionals (Tuesday Session)
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
218 Anne Belk Hall, CAE Classroom 222
Learning Technologies, Learning Technologies: Google, Adobe, & Microsoft Tools, Workshops