Online Faculty Development
Certifications

LEAD offerings are intermediate-level courses for Pima faculty and staff that are part of our faculty development course series. 

• Scope: a15-hour time commitment (learning labor) for a 3-4 week course. 

• Mentored Cohort: all of our courses provide a mentored cohort experience.

• Prerequisite Offerings. Most courses require successful completion of TE125 TEACH: Intro to Online Pedagogy and/or TE150 BUILD INTRO TO INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN. 

• Prerequisite-Free Offerings. Some courses are prerequisite-free including LEAD179, LEAD180, LEAD183, and LEAD185.

• Guided Cohort. These are not self-paced courses. Instead, all participants learn collaboratively, developing, sharing and collaboratively reflecting on teaching and learning resources, activities, and other artifacts (often through an open pedagogy model). 

• Offerings. Each course is offered based on demand, enrollment, completion rates and recency of course creation or renewal.  Some courses are offered annually; others every semester.  If there's a course you'd like to see offered, email Reed Dickson!   

• Drop-Caps: registered participants can drop or withdraw from any course offering and are able to re-enroll in subsequent offerings up to one (1) time. This limits repeat drop/enroll practices.

• Who Teaches Our Courses?  As noted at our Courses for Faculty page, all online faculty development courses are taught or co-taught by faculty development educators (FDE). These faculty and staff are experts in teaching and learning and are certified to teach in their disciplines at Pima (with the exception of LEAD 181-183). FDEs include faculty development staff, department heads, adjunct and full-time faculty, as well as exempt professional staff (i.e. Pima's instructional designers, web designers, and videographers). If you are interested in being considered to teach any faculty development course, contact Reed!

PimaOnline promotes sustained faculty development opportunities for all faculty (full-time or part-time) through providing a variety of basic, intermediate and advanced courses to Pima faculty.   In addition, faculty can become "LEAD" certified by completing our LEAD requirements listed below.  Faculty who become LEAD certified receive a $500 honorarium in recognition of their continued faculty development. 

• Faculty may use LEAD Seminars as a way to pursue and fulfill professional development goals in the evaluation cycle while building their resume

• Faculty with LEAD Certification may be asked to teach TEACH and BUILD courses

• Faculty who achieve LEAD Certification will receive a $500 honorarium for their efforts

• View current offerings and register today. Please note that not all LEAD courses are offered every semester.