Questions about teaching remotely?
Getting started
Please see our Keep Teaching page to get started.
The CAE is also offering a series of online workshops on teaching remotely (updated weekly).
Additional support
For additional support in transitioning your course, see:
- Moving Online Tips & Resources
- Assessing Student Learning Online
- Inclusive Online Teaching
- Faculty Champions
- Appalachian Technology Knowledge Base (documentation on AsULearn, Zoom, and other campus technologies)
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 2020 CAE Programming which 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
Project Voice Conference
Mar 16, 2020
We have a small working group in CAE focused on exploring voice and chatbot technology in teaching and learning, and we attended the...
Conferences, Learning Technologies
7 Best Practices for Necessitated Online Meetings
Mar 10, 2020
COVID-19 is causing many higher ed people who would typically meet face-to-face to now meet online.
Keep Teaching website created
Mar 6, 2020
A variety of circumstances might require you to temporarily take your class online with minimal notice: a campus closure, increased abse
Upcoming Events
Qualtrics Intro
Thursday, April 16, 2020 - 3:15pm
Rm 327 Belk Library and Info Commons
Learning Technologies, Learning Technologies: AsULearn Tools, Workshops
Inclusive Leadership Retreat
Friday, October 23, 2020 - 8:00am to Saturday, October 24, 2020 - 5:00pm
137 Grandfather Mountain Ballroom
Special Events, Inclusive Excellence, Inclusive Excellence: Campus Community