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.
Online Teaching Support
View our support pages with guides and resources for Teaching Online, technology basics that will help you Keep Teaching, and considerations and resources for Inclusive Online Teaching. CAE is also offering a series of online workshops to help you get started.
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.
Latest News
Dr. Susan Colby named an ACE Fellow for the 2020–21 academic year!
May 19, 2020
Appalachian State University’s Dr.
CAE Perserveres During COVID-19 with Support from Our Faculty Champions
Apr 20, 2020
The CAE provides support for faculty, instructors, and administrators who teach online or who are looking to develop an online course throughout...
Online Teaching
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
Upcoming Events
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