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Teaching & Learning
Excellence in Teaching
The Faculty Center provides ongoing support resources, events, and workshops focused on teaching. Our teaching programming promotes the values of reflective pedagogy and inclusive and engaged classroom practices.
Canvas - Learning Management System
Effective Fall 2022, CSUSM uses Canvas as the campus-wide learning management system.
Faculty can access the Canvas platform and find general information and support for
using Canvas from IITS.
The Faculty Center, in partnership with Academic Technology Services, offered training
Canvas training in Summer 2022 to support faculty’s transition to the new learning
management platform.
Pre-semester Checklist
Our checklist offers several helpful tips and resources that can help you prepare for and navigate through the semester. We regularly update this resource before the start of each semester.
Book Club
The Faculty Center invites you to join us for a reading group discussing Bryan Alexander's "Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education". We will discuss trends and challenges identified within the book and what it means for the future. The book provides a futures perspective on trends and scenarios that are already shaping Higher Education and what we can do to shape the colleges and universities of tomorrow.