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Apply for the 2025 Summer Session Online Teaching Academy

Summer Session Online Teaching Academy Application Now Live

Applications are now being accepted for the 2025 Summer Session Online Teaching Academy.

The Online Teaching Academy focuses on increasing the skills and knowledge of faculty and instructors wanting to teach online and hybrid remote/online during the 2025 Summer Session. Participants chosen for the Academy's Summer 2025 program will work in cohort groups led by an online instructional designer. Upon completion of the program, participants will receive a one-time $1,500 payment.

The training program will be held during February 2025 and will consist of weekly remote meetings over a four week period. The curriculum will be based on national standards for online teaching found in the Quality Matters Rubric— and will cover topics regarding online teaching (asynchronous) as well as remote/online hybrid teaching (synchronous and asynchronous).

Faculty, instructors, lecturers and graduate students eligible and expecting to teach in the upcoming Summer Session are eligible.

To apply for the Academy, complete the online application.  After submitting the online application, ask your department chair to send an email verifying your Summer 2025 teaching status to Armando Parés at armando.pares@colorado.edu.

The deadline for applications is December 2, 2024.

Training Program Details

  • Monday, February 3 – Sunday, March 2
  • Time commitment expectations: Three to five hours/week
  • Synchronous Zoom Meeting Times (One hour long, attend only one session per week, choose whichever time is more convenient)
    • Wednesdays at 11:15 a.m.
    • Thursdays at 2 p.m.