ACUE Overview
Earn Microcredentials or a Certificate with ACUE!
The Association of College and JAV名女优馆 Educators (ACUE) delivers the highest-quality courses, pathways, and certifications with quick-to-implement practices that make a huge impact on student success. ACUE was created to meet one goal: help students succeed by improving teaching. Working collaboratively with scholars in teaching and learning, ACUE developed the to meet that goal.
Through this framework, ACUE offers courses that provide either a full certification (for the entire Effective Teaching Practices program) or micro-credentials to help you improve your teaching practices.
UTEP offers 3 ACUE courses:
- Effective Teaching Practices (28-week full certification)
- Inspiring Inquiry and Preparing Lifelong Learners (8-week micro-credential - counts toward certification)
- Designing Learner-Centered Courses - Spring 2027 (8-week micro-credential - counts toward certification)
Full Course Format: These are self-paced*, online modules. Participants are selected as a cohort and participate in virtual group discussions. Each module requires a total of approximately 2 hours per week to complete.
*The work is completed self-paced, but must be completed within the 8-week or 28-week time-frame.
Faculty and staff who take these courses experience an asynchronous learning design that aligns with the best practices in effective instruction and is compelling to both new and seasoned instructors and a wide array of staff roles. With support from a skilled facilitator, course-takers will:
Learn more about these programs and their schedules below:
ACUE Courses
Effective Teaching Practices (28-wk Certification)
This is a comprehensive program organized around 4 micro-credentials:
This course runs October 12, 2026 to June 13, 2027
Inspiring Inquiry and Preparing Lifelong Learners (8-wk Microcredential)
Transform your teaching practice with strategies that inspire deeper learning, increase transparency, and empower students to take ownership of their learning.
What’s Included:
- Motivating Your Students
- Support student success by inspiring appreciation for the discipline, goal setting, incentivizing assignment completion, and offering choice.
- Providing Clear Directions and Explanations
- Provide effective assignment directions and explanations of challenging content.
- Using Concept Maps and Other Visualization Tools
- Help students grasp complex interrelationships with concept maps and flowcharts.
- Using Student Achievement and Feedback to Improve Your Teaching
- Use student achievement patterns, midsemester evaluations, colleague observations, and faculty specialists to inform and adjust instruction.
- Using Advanced Questioning Techniques
- Apply questioning strategies that prompt critical thinking and help students develop their questioning skills.
- Developing Self-Directed Learners
- Deepen students’ ownership of their learning through self-assessment and by building an awareness of their strengths and preferences.
This course runs October 5, 2026 - Nov 22, 2026
Designing Learner-Centered Courses
Design cohesive, student-centered courses where learning outcomes, assessments, and activities align seamlessly and your syllabus and grading policies empower students to achieve success.
What’s Included
- Ensuring Learner-Centered Course Outcomes
- Write student-centered learning outcomes that accurately describe the knowledge and skills students need to be successful in your course.
- Designing Aligned Assessments and Assignments
- Design assessments that allow students to demonstrate proficiency and support students in meeting expectations.
- Aligning Learning Experiences With Course Outcomes
- Design transparent assignments and learning activities that prepare students to meet course outcomes.
- Developing and Using Rubrics and Checklists
- Develop grading tools that clarify requirements, support learning, and provide you with data to inform your instruction.
- Developing Fair, Consistent, and Transparent Grading Practices
- Explore research-based grading systems and clearly communicate your grading policies.
- Preparing an Effective Syllabus
- Design a syllabus that communicates essential information and sets students up for success.
This course runs Feb 26, 2027 - Apr 18, 2027
