Sonoma State offers a number of different resources to help faculty improve and enhance their teaching.
Center for Teaching and Educational Technology (CTET)
The Center for Teaching & Educational Technology supports faculty in their professional development as teachers, scholars of education, and innovators in practice. The Center for Teaching & Educational Technology promotes an inclusive campus-wide community and a culture committed to excellence in teaching and learning. The CTET supports faculty in a number of ways, including by
- Helping faculty navigate teaching through disruptions
- Providing teaching and learning consultation and technical services, such as instructional design consultation, assessment of teaching and learning, and educational technology (e.g., Zoom, Canvas) support
- Helping faculty reduce the cost of course materials through Affordable Learning @ SSU
- Providing academic technology products and services to help faculty with flipped classroom design, online/blended instruction, video, classroom management, assessment, and more
- Offering workshops on a variety of teaching and learning topics, such as accessibility, Canvas course design, and Zoom
Center for Community Engagement (CCE)
The Center for Community Engagement is where faculty, staff, and students who want to serve and learn in the community can connect with community partners. The CCE supports a variety of community-based learning projects, including service-learning classes, internships and volunteerism, community-based participatory research, action research, and creative activity for the common good. The CCE Faculty page provides detailed information on
- service-learning
- community engagement and community-engaged scholarship
- faculty community service
- tips for developing community partnerships
Center for Environmental Inquiry (CEI)
The Center for Environmental Inquiry is available to help instructors from all discipline develop:
- Outdoor Learning - first-hand experiences of our connections to the environment at 4200-acres of SSU preserve lands,
- Real-World Projects - skill-building experiences resulting in environmental solutions, and
- Partnerships - long-term multi-organizational collaborations that help agencies and organizations move towards sustainable and resilient approaches
CEI also hosts classes, trainings, workshops & field trips, elementary school programs, and internships for SSU students and archives and shares data relevant to the SSU preserves and campus, including data on plants & animals, land management, and weather.