
The office's aim is to help instructors at all levels (board appointed faculty, adjunct and part-time faculty, and graduate student instructors) develop the skills necessary to implement powerful pedagogies in their teaching. Regardless of whether courses are face-to-face or online, large or small, powerful pedagogies emphasize strong instructional design that maximizes student engagement. Such teaching plays a critical role in the WMU commitment to increasing student success.
We offer a variety of services to individual instructors as well as to groups. These include:
On-campus programs
See the schedule for details about short workshops, book discussions, and longer development opportunities.
Specialized programming for department and faculty groups
If your department or a group of faculty wishes to explore a particular teaching approach, want training in specific areas, or is interested in a tailored faculty development experience, please contact us to discuss how we can work with you.
Individual teaching consultations
We can work with instructors one-on-one through discussion of course design, syllabus construction, and teaching approaches; classroom observation and feedback; and interpretation of end-of-course student evaluations.
The links on the left will take you to services the office offers, programs planned for 2011-2012, and an ever-growing set of "vetted" and annotated links to resources for teaching and learning. Read more about our efforts in our Strategic Plan.
Apply now for the Faculty Instructional Development Grants Program
Learn more about our new Faculty Peer Teaching Observation Program
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Our office is located in Room 2029 in the University Computing Center.
The OFD is just down the hall from the eastern entrance.