On-Demand Professional Learning Resources

Academic Impressions offers professional and leadership development for faculty, staff, and administrators in Higher Education. Create a free account using your NAU email address.

The Chronicle offers insight into critical issues and the actionable analysis you may want to read about. Set up your free NAU account using your NAU email address.

The Educause mission is to advance the strategic use of technology and data to further the promise of higher education. Sign up for your free NAU membership to access the tools and resources.

Faculty Focus and the Teaching Professor Blog provide brief articles on teaching topics written by faculty from across the country. This is a free subscription.

The K Patricia Cross Academy provides free teaching techniques for higher education focused on helping your students learn and retain new knowledge and skills.  

The TLC sends a weekly Monday email to all faculty that provides access to the Magna 20-minute teaching and learning webinar. Topics include classroom management, grading, and feedback, course design, student engagement, online course management, technology in online courses, and many other topics.

Set up your NCFDD membership. The NCFDD is a nationally known, independent faculty development center dedicated to boosting the productivity of academics, supporting successful career transitions, and improving job satisfaction and well-being. Activating your NCFDD account is an easy, straightforward process. Simply click on the “Activate My Membership” button, enter your institutional email, and follow the instructions.

OneHE offers both free and fee-based courses to assist educators in developing their teaching practice by providing practical and engaging microlearning on effective teaching.

The Teaching Professor provides ideas, insights, and best pedagogical practices to educators who are passionate about teaching. Published 10 times per year. Log in via your NAU IP address, you may need to be on the vpn.

Top Hat offers free live and pre-recorded webinars to empower educators to deliver inclusive, engaging, and meaningful learning in every course. These webinars are presented by acclaimed educators, authors, and faculty.

All Faculty, Staff, and Students have free access to a vast on-demand learning library through our partners at Udemy.  Thousands of classes for both professional and personal development.  Easy access, anytime that works in your schedule!  Create your account using your NAU email address at Udemy.

Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education, free resources and webinars provided by CAST.ORG. 

Teaching in Higher Ed with Bonnie Stachowiak produces a weekly podcast, blog posts and recommendations to help you be more effective at facilitating learning. 

The Tea for Teaching podcast is a series of informal discussions of innovative and effective practices in teaching and learning. This podcast series is hosted by John Kane (an economist) and Rebecca Mushtare (a graphic designer). John and Rebecca run the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the State University of New York at Oswego. 

College Teaching provides an interdisciplinary academic forum on issues in teaching and learning at the undergraduate or graduate level.

The Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education (JETHE) is an open access electronic peer-reviewed journal that advances the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) focused on institutions of higher education. Theoretical explorations, evidence-based studies, and praxis submissions are welcome.

The Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice (JUTLP) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing papers that add significantly to the body of knowledge describing effective and innovative teaching and learning practice in the higher education environment. The Journal aims to provide a forum for educational practitioners in a wide range of disciplines to communicate their teaching and learning outcomes in a scholarly way. Its purpose is to bridge the gap between journals covering purely academic research and more pragmatic articles and opinions published elsewhere.

The International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education provides a forum for higher education faculty, staff, administrators, researchers, and students who are interested in improving post-secondary instruction. The journal covers higher education pedagogy and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) across diverse content areas, institutions, and levels of experience.

The Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) is a forum for the dissemination of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in higher education for the community of teacher-scholars.

The International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning is an open, double-blind peer reviewed electronic journal published in May and November each year by the Faculty Center at Georgia Southern University. The journal is an international forum for research and information about the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and its applications in higher/tertiary education.

The Student Success Journal focuses on enhancing the experience of commencing students. Academic and professional staff involved in first-year programs, as well as senior managers with responsibility for first-year strategies, may find it useful.