Workshops

OFD workshops are developed and led by UMassD faculty for UMassD faculty. Workshops are interactive and collaborative: participants can share their experiences, pose questions, and hear from colleagues. A variety of workshop-based resources, including short video tutorials and helpful bibliographies, are housed in the Resources for Scholarship and Professional Activity and Resources for Teaching and Learning areas of our website.

In addition to the OFD’s regular offerings, faculty may also be interested in the workshops offered through CITS Instructional Development on a range of topics dedicated to online teaching and instructional technology.

All workshops are conducted in person in the Office of Faculty Development (Library 213). We will continue to offer hybrid modality for Spring 2025, though we encourage you to attend in person if you are on campus and able to do so.

Please register for workshops by emailing Ellen Mandly at emandly@umassd.edu.

Spring 2025 offerings

Work Smarter, Not Harder: Documenting Lesson Plans Semester to Semester (Jackie O’Dell) 
Wednesday, Feb. 12: 12:00-1:00, FiT

FAR as Reflective Teaching Practice (Alexis Teagarden) 
Wednesday, Feb 26: 12:00-1:00, CDA

Rubrics: Assessing What We Assess By (Crystal Lubinsky)
Monday, Feb. 24 12:00-1:00 PM, FiT

Open Access Publishing (Emma Wood, Sara Pike)
Thursday, Mar 6: 12-1pm, SSD 

Generative AI in the Classroom (Lourdes Aleman MIT, John Buck)
Wednesday, Apr 9: noon-2pm, AiT 

Work Smarter, Not Harder: Documenting Lesson Plans Semester to Semester (Jackie O’Dell)  
Wednesday Apr. 16: 12:00-1:00, FiT