Center for Instructional Advancement and Technology (CIAT)
Instructional Support
Confidential instructional design and teaching consultations are available to all faculty members teaching face-to-face, web-supported, hybrid or online classes. The process involves guiding faculty in the application of proven learning practices and theories that match instructional goals and learning outcomes, development or identification of course content, implementation of instructional strategies, and effective integration of technology into their courses.
CIAT instructional design staff are also available to consult with academic program chairs and directors on the development, evaluation and maintenance of online courses and programs.
CIAT offers and coordinates professional development opportunities via face-to-face and online workshops for all faculty throughout the academic year. The topics covered range from emerging technologies to instructional design and teaching topics.
CIAT hosts and facilitates teaching circles and learning communities to support faculty as they progress through the different stages of adopting instructional technologies and implementing instructional methodologies or practices.
Faculty interested in starting a teaching circle or who would like to join the current teaching circles should contact La Tonya Dyer or Audrey Cutler (Blackboard Teaching Circle).
Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) Online Workshops
The Sloan Consortium offers a great selection of teaching with technology workshop topics including social media, mobile and online learning.
Each year a limited number of Towson faculty members can attend two or more workshops offered by Sloan-C for FREE. Normally, these workshops cost $350 - $500 each. All courses are offered in a fully online format and they require a time commitment over a half-day or one week. Learn more about upcoming Sloan-C online workshops.
To register for these workshops, contact Audrey Cutler at 410-704-5082 or acutler@towson.edu.
Access Sloan-C Workshops, Publications for Free
OTS sponsors Towson’s College Pass membership to Sloan-C. With this membership, Towson instructors can use discussion forums and access free articles, publications and resources from the Sloan-C site. To connect to these resources, create a Sloan-C guest account and then update your profile to show your institutional affiliation with Towson or contact Audrey Cutler at 410-704-5082, acutler@towson.edu.
Center for Instructional Advancement and Technology
Office of Academic Innovation
Cook Library 405
Summer Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00am - 4:00pm
8000 York Road | Towson, MD 21252 | 410-704-2000
