Certificates
Center for the Enhancement of learning and teaching
2025-2026 CELT Teaching Certificates
Our teaching certificates meet the following criteria:
- Endorsed by PFW Academic Officer’s Committee; comprised of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, the Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and PFW Deans as a component of long-term faculty development in teaching
- Align with the core values of the university’s strategic plan, with the university’s guiding principles of promotion and tenure, and with CELT’s mission to help faculty to demonstrate “...significant and ongoing commitment to advancing student learning and fostering student success.” (SD 14-35, p.2)
If you are interested in a CELT Teaching Certificate, log into Brightspace and fill out the CELT Certificate Brightspace Enrollment Survey, and follow the directions.
Current CELT Teaching Certificates
This self-paced, asynchronous certificate aims to help instructors navigate the opportunities and challenges associated with teaching in an AI-powered Age. Through engaging workshops, participants will identify the potential impacts of AI tools on student learning and assessment design, develop effective prompting strategies for different teaching and learning related tasks, enhance activity and course design to support student learning and assessment through AI tools, identify the potential benefits of AI for instructors’ efficiency, and develop AI usage policy by considering the legal and ethical dimensions of AI in education.
This self-paced, asynchronous certificate helps you build your Brightspace toolbox to support your teaching and learning needs in Brightspace, our campus Learning Management System. Working in an asynchronous Brightspace course, you can complete this certificate for broad insights into Brightspace and gain a strong utility of the most common Brightspace tools, solutions, and recommended practices. You will build and manage your courses in “better and brighter” ways.
If you are interested and would like to enroll in this CELT certificate, please email Tanya Soule, CELT Lead Instructional Designer of Educational Technologies, at [email protected].
DATE: August 1, 2025 - June 30, 2026
TIME: This workshop is ONLINE and self-paced (asynchronous)
Ready to take your Brightspace skills to the next level? This is a self-paced program that walks you through advanced features and how to implement them in your courses. Content will include Optimizing Quizzes, Intelligent Agents, Advanced Gradebook Solutions, Rubrics, Awards & Release Conditions, and Creator+.
If you are interested and would like to enroll in this CELT certificate, please email Tanya Soule, CELT Lead Instructional Designer of Educational Technologies, at [email protected].
DATE: August 1, 2025 - May 31, 2026
TIME: This workshop is ONLINE and self-paced (asynchronous)
Higher education thrives on relationships—between faculty, students, and peers. Join us in an engaging and reflective book group as we explore Peter Felten and Leo Lambert’s Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College. Through meaningful discussion, personal reflection, and shared experiences, we’ll uncover practical ways to foster a more connected, inclusive, and student-centered learning environment. Whether you're an instructor, advisor, or administrator, this group offers a space to build relationships while reimagining how we support our students and each other.
CELT’s Graduate Teaching: Pedagogy and Practice certificate is specifically designed to support and develop graduate students with an interest in developing teaching skills. Workshop topics focus on pedagogical development, rapport development, and graduate students' overall well-being. Workshops will blend instruction, self-assessment, and peer-to-peer sharing. Veteran faculty members will facilitate the workshops.
This certificate provides a series of workshops aimed at empowering educators with effective strategies to create an inclusive and engaging learning environment for PFW students. By completing this certificate, educators will acquire knowledge and skills and consider the impact of implementing student-centered approaches; promoting active engagement in the classroom.
WORKSHOPS
Rewiring Motivation: Teaching Gen Z in the Age of Disconnection
DATE: Wednesday, September 10, 2025
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
DATE: Thursday, January 29, 2026
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Engaging Silent Learners
DATE: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
DATE: Thursday, February 19, 2026
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Navigating Power Dynamics in a Student-Instructor Relationship
DATE: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
DATE: Thursday, March 19, 2026
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Balancing Academic Rigor with Appropriate Student Support
DATE: Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
DATE: Thursday, April 9, 2026
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Transforming Classroom Challenges
DATE: Wednesday, December 10, 2025
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
DATE: Thursday, April 30, 2026
TIME: 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Helpful Hint
How to Enroll in a CELT Teaching Certificate
If you are interested in a CELT Teaching Certificate and would like to enroll, please follow these instructions:
- Log into Brightspace
- Once you are logged in, CLICK THIS LINK. It will take you directly to the CELT Certificate Brightspace Enrollment Survey.
- Then follow the directions to enroll in a CELT certificate.
*PLEASE NOTE: You may have to wait up to 24 hours for Brightspace to update the system. That said, here is the link for the course: https://purdue.brightspace.com/d2l/home/1415089.
Instructions on how to access a specific certificate is on the homepage. Also, enrolling only grants access and in no way creates a requirement or expectation that you will finish.
If you would like to enroll in the Brightspace Essentials Asynchronous and/or Brightspace Advanced Asynchronous certificates, you will need to contact the instructional designer directly. Directions are below in the certificate description.
Contact Us
Have questions?
Contact us at [email protected] or 260-481-6354.
You can also find us on campus in Kettler Hall, Room 238.