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 (CTL) 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, regular Tech Talks, interactive teaching practice workshops, and instructional resources, like our asynchronous online course design course, instructional guides, and Blackboard Ultra course template 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 by providing vision and instructional leadership to advance 21st century teaching and learning;
Connect by bringing together instructors from different disciplines and experience levels to learn from and with one another;
Collaborate by uniting educational leaders from across the university and external partners to design, develop, and deliver exceptional learning; and
Inspire by sparking 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 at ctl@hpu.edu.
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, regular Micro Tech Talks, annual New Faculty Orientation, and regularly scheduled Workshops.
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 HPU 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.