Reinert Center Events
Distance Learning Workshop Series: Technology for Teaching
Multiple dates, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Zoom
The Reinert Center’s Distance Learning Workshop Series is dedicated to exploring innovative, research-based strategies for distance learning. Each semester, the workshop series explores a theme related to distance learning, with guest speakers addressing a topic and participants having space to reflect on a pedagogical strategy, approach, or technique in their distance teaching context.
Our Spring 2025 theme, Technology for Teaching, focuses on four University-supported instructional tools. Each 60-minute virtual (via Zoom) workshop is dedicated to one teaching tool focusing on how it can be harnessed intentionally to enhance student learning. Sessions include an overview of the tool, discussions on its pedagogical uses, and opportunities for participants to explore how it can fit into their own distance teaching practices.
- April 25: Ally
This workshop explores Ally as an instructional tool to make course learning materials more accessible. Participants will have space to (re)consider how Ally might be incorporated into the design of a distance course.
Course Design Institute
June 2 - 5, 9:00 a.m - 4:00 p.m., Des Peres 213
The Course Design Institute (CDI) is an intensive, one week, hands-on workshop that provides instructors the opportunity to experience the iterative, dynamic, and scholarly process of learning-focused course design.
The Course Design Institute will take place in-person in Des Peres 213. All sessions will take place from 9:00 AM - 4:00PM Monday - Thursday.
Participants must commit to attending all sessions during the CDI, and to completing "homework" each evening. Space is limited;
Deadline for submissions is May 12
Additional details and FAQs
Registration is required
Online Courses: Summer 2025
The Reinert Center supports instructors for the full continuum of teaching online
including: preparing to teach online for the first time, online course design, assessment
of online courses, as well as strategies and techniques for effective online teaching.
Below is our current list of full, online course offerings. These courses can be used
for credit in our Online University Teaching Skills Certificate or they may be taken
by individuals not enrolled in the certificate. To see additional descriptions and
details for all our online courses, please visit our Online Courses page.
Registration is Required
The Introduction to Online Teaching is a fully-online asynchronous course that provides a pedagogical foundation for Saint Louis University faculty who are new to the online teaching environment. The course provides faculty an opportunity to gain the experience of an online “student” and to experience a fully-online course that has been designed to align with the University’s Online Course Design Rubric while developing a plan for an online course.
The Introduction to Online Teaching is a fully-online asynchronous course that provides a pedagogical foundation for Saint Louis University faculty who are new to the online teaching environment. The course provides faculty an opportunity to gain the experience of an online “student” and to experience a fully-online course that has been designed to align with the University’s Online Course Design Rubric while developing a plan for an online course.
How can you build inclusive learning environments in asynchronous courses when students and instructors are separated by distance and learning occurs at a self-paced speed? In this one-week course, participants will consider course design strategies and teaching practices that create and facilitate inclusive online learning environments. Through module activities, participants will engage in discussions and draft course planners to better center, situate, and express inclusive pedagogy as a means of promoting student belonging in an online course of their choosing.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Distance Teaching
Online Courses: Fall 2025
The Reinert Center supports instructors for the full continuum of teaching online
including: preparing to teach online for the first time, online course design, assessment
of online courses, as well as strategies and techniques for effective online teaching.
Below is our current list of full, online course offerings. These courses can be used
for credit in our Online University Teaching Skills Certificate or they may be taken
by individuals not enrolled in the certificate. To see additional descriptions and
details for all our online courses, please visit our Online Courses page.
Registration is Required
This one-week, asynchronous course considers the role the instructor’s presence plays for learners in distance courses. Participants will identify types of instructor presence (teaching, social, and cognitive), consider the connections between presence and student persistence, and develop strategies for intentionally building their presence into the online learning community of their courses.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Distance Teaching
This one-week, asynchronous course focuses on generative AI in distance learning environments. Participants will interrogate design constraints/opportunities associated with generative AI in online course design, and articulate generative AI use guidelines for assignments and other online coursework. Course activities will serve as a means of enabling participants to think intentionally about the use of generative AI to augment teaching and provide meaningful student learning opportunities from a distance.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Distance Teaching
This one-week, fully-online asynchronous course surveys accessibility in online teaching formats. The course provides instructors an opportunity to understand key accessibility requirements that are aligned with Standard 8 in the University’s Online Course Design Rubric. Instructors will work on an online course of their choosing and are expected to spend 2-4 hours completing course content, activities, and discussions.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Distance Teaching
The Introduction to Online Teaching is a fully-online asynchronous course that provides a pedagogical foundation for Saint Louis University faculty who are new to the online teaching environment. The course provides faculty an opportunity to gain the experience of an online “student” and to experience a fully-online course that has been designed to align with the University’s Online Course Design Rubric while developing a plan for an online course.