Professional Development Workshops
Active Learning • Proactive Teaching • Instructional Strategies • Pedagogical Innovation
Professional Development Workshops
Top Topics
Active Learning || Proactive Teaching
Fostering Deep and Flexible Learning
The Science of Teaching and Learning
Leveraging Research on the Science of Learning
Pedagogical Innovation
Innovation, Instruction, and Strategy Development
Creating Courses from the Ground Up
Learning, Memory, and the Design of Instruction
Course Embedded Assessment
Using Assessment to Foster Learning and Development
Working Memory and Integrated Learning
Leveraging Neuroscience for Learning and Performance
Teaching, Learning, and Technology
Leveraging Instructional Technologies to Increase Student Learning
Potential Topics
Foundations of Learning
  • Active Learning
  • Proactive Teaching
  • Instructional Science
  • Educational Psychology
  • Instructional Innovation
Designing Instruction
  • Instructional Science
  • Instructional Design
  • Instructional Development
  • Instructional Strategies
  • Instructional Assessment
Instructional Stategies
  • Flipping the Class
  • Lecturing
  • Small Group Work
  • Problem-based Learning
  • Instructional Assessment
Special Topics
  • Post-Truth & Misinformation
  • Mindfulness & Metacognition
  • Memory & Multitasking
  • Technology & AI
  • Motivation & Engagment
Personalized Topics
  • New Topics
  • Current Needs
  • Specialized Groups
  • Changing Curricula
  • Accreditation Alignment
Ideas Worth Forgeting
  • Learning Styles
  • Cognitive Training
  • Left Brain / Right Brain
  • Digital Natives
  • Cone of Learning
All workshops are available in multiple formats, typically 1 hour, 3 hours, and all-day formats.
Contact Information

Peter Doolittle
Blacksburg, VA 24061
pdoo@vt.edu