Online Faculty Development
Our LEAD Series
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TEACH certification is awarded to those who successfully complete TE125 TEACH: Introduction to Online Pedagogy. This course is designed for faculty teaching from a predesigned course (what has previously been called a "course master"). Faculty or staff who successfully complete this course achieve BUILD certification Learn more.
BUILD-Level Certification
BUILD certification is awarded to those who successfully complete TE150 BUILD: Introduction to Instructional Design. This course is designed to help faculty learn how to build courses from scratch through D2L Brightspace. Faculty or staff who successfully complete this course achieve TEACH certification. Learn more
LEAD-Level Certification
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!
What is LEAD Certification?
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.
How to Achieve LEAD-Level Certification
What are the Benefits
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
LEAD Certification Sequence
TE150 BUILD Certification. (Prerequisite: TE125)
4 LEAD Offerings (Prerequisites: TE125 and/or TE150 are required for some LEAD Seminars). To receive LEAD certification, one of these four courses must be LEAD175. Each LEAD course includes a capstone project that supports faculty in online teaching and learning.
Register for Your Next LEAD Course Today
View current offerings and register today. Please note that not all LEAD courses are offered every semester.