The Innovative Instruction project is an example of a faculty professional development course designed to introduce the learning sciences to instructors. It is an overall strategy to support instructional innovation among university faculty. The approach centers on establishing a community of practice (CoP) and implementing Quality Matters (QM) best practices as the standard of course development. The Capstone of the Workshop guides the cohort through the process of designing an interdisciplinary project lab where they organize group projects composed of students from each of their classes to collaborate with students with a distinct skillset from their studies that can complement the work of the others in a way students from the same programs have many of the same skills as one another.

Click on the buttons below to view different project artifacts for this project. The artifacts include a Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) Slide Presentation, a VILT Facilitator's Guide, a Digital Whiteboard Template for a Breakout Group activity, and a form used to generate a customized LLM prompt for researching different instructional strategies and their associated theories based on the instructor's subject matter and other information provided through the prompt generator.