Center for Teaching and Learning
The office of Online Programs and Academic Partnerships (OLAP) was established in 2021 to break through silos across online and hybrid programs, connect with and lead educators across the university to advance distance teaching excellence and create a hub where instructors could learn with and from one another through meaningful faculty development opportunities.
OLAP transformed into the Center for Teaching and Learning in 2025 to reflect the evolution of the department to include the entire community of in-person, online, and hybrid educators. We continue popular existing programming, including the New Faculty Orientation each August, the Faculty Summit each January, Tech Talks, interactive teaching practice workshops, and instructional resources, like our asynchronous course on Online Course Design, instructional guides, and Blackboard course templates in Original and Ultra that provide Quality Matters informed navigation features and content for all of our HPU students. We will also add programming and resources as we determine the continuing needs of HPU faculty.
The Center for Teaching and Learning leads and mobilizes the HPU instructional community.
We support instructors and spark collaboration at the intersection of teaching excellence and innovation.
In the spirit of Aloha, Pono, and Kuleana, we also strive to:
Lead: provide vision and instructional leadership to advance 21st century teaching and learning
Connect: bring together instructors from different disciplines and experience levels to learn from and with one another
Collaborate: unite educational leaders from across the university and external partners to design, develop, and deliver exceptional learning.
Inspire: spark innovation through faculty development opportunities such as online resources, webinars, online asynchronous facilitated courses, and faculty summits
Something for Everyone
Our services continue to grow and change to meet faculty teaching and student learning needs. We are creative and flexible, so if you have a great idea for programming that you do not see listed, please contact us.
Instructional guides, teaching templates, and how-to educational technology instructions for HPU enterprise software systems as well as guidance and resources for using generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) in teaching.
Professional Learning Opportunities
Synchronous online and in-person learning events, including the annual Faculty Summit, monthly Micro Tech Talks, New Faculty Orientation, and regularly scheduled Workshops like Blackboard 101.
Asynchronous online facilitated and self-paced learning opportunities, including the self-paced online Successful Online Course Design course in Blackboard and the Professional Learning Library of teaching and learning texts available free from the library.
Quality Matters membership perks for institutional members. Once instructors create an account affiliated with HPU, they will be notified of free quality webinars on timely teaching topics.
Consulting
Virtual and in-person consulting time to discuss, strategize, and assist faculty and program leadership in their planning, teaching, and learning, for example, teaching strategies, syllabus and course design, academic technology solutions, program and course curriculum mapping (learning outcomes aligned with activities and assessments), course data analysis and assessment, classroom management, etc.
HPU faculty may contact us at ctl@hpu.edu with consulting requests, including in-person classroom observations and online course reviews.