Faculty Development Resources

Overview

For face-to-face, hybrid or online instructor at Pima Community College, we offer a variety of training support and resources to help you build your online pedagogy skills using D2L Brightspace. This page overviews those faculty development and support resources.

Note: If you are seeking troubleshooting support, scroll down on your D2L Brightspace global home page (d2l.pima.edu) to the widget titled "D2L Brightspace Tech Support."

Upcoming Courses through PimaOnline

Request Custom Workshops

Self-Paced Training

Faculty Development Resources

PCC Tier-One Troubleshooting

Pima's Faculty Services & Resources Centers (FS&RC, formerly known as the campus-based "FRC" or CRC") provides faculty with basic D2L Brightspace assistance and other faculty support information, resources, and referral. Visit the website for complete information, complete a Faculty Services Help Ticket or contact Faculty Services at 520-206-6511 or faculty-services@pima.edu.

Pima Teaching & Learning Center

Please consider attending workshops and events hosted through our local TLC. These sessions are regularly facilitated by PimaOnline faculty, staff and department heads. View their event calendar and learn more.

Custom Faculty Development Workshops

To schedule a training for 5 or more people relating to D2L Brightspace or third-party tools, please complete and submit this brief request form.

"Getting Started" YouTube Playlist

Self-Paced "Subscription Training"

We strongly recommend all faculty utilize this free, self-paced training service through D2L Brightspace.

PimaOnline Faculty Development Course Series

PimaOnline offers a range of courses for faculty and staff across the college:

Introductory Online Teaching & Design through "TEACH" and "BUILD"

TE125 TEACH: Intro to Online Pedagogy course is designed for faculty teaching from a predesigned course (what has previously been called a "course master").
TE150 BUILD: Intro to Instructional Design is designed to help faculty learn how to build courses from scratch through D2L Brightspace. Learn more

LEAD Intermediate Courses & LEAD Certification

Throughout the year, PimaOnline offers a broad variety of intermediate and advanced faculty development courses to support your continued professional growth. LEAD courses provide a variety of intermediate level guidance around online pedagogy, instructional design, HTML and Educational Technologies. All LEAD faculty development course offerings are 15-hour, 4-week courses unless otherwise noted. Some faculty also pursue LEAD Certification through these courses. To learn more, visit our Courses for Faculty page.

Conference Opportunities for Faculty

Attend our annual, award-winning PimaOnline Educators' Conference
Learn about other online pedagogy conferences and offerings hosted nationally and globally.
Keep an eye out for workshop announcements emailed through our Teaching & Learning Center. Many of these workshops also address online or web-enhanced teaching and may be offered by PimaOnline faculty and department heads.

Further Questions about Online Pedagogy, Instructional Design & EdTech

If you have any further questions about ongoing and upcoming faculty development opportunities for PIma faculty and staff across all modalities, please email Reed Dickson.

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