Apply What You're Learning
Explore these resources, then bring the skills back to elevate your work.
Faculty and Academic Staff Learning Journey
Enrich your teaching and research, and build a meaningful, sustainable academic career.
UCalgary Continuous Learning Model
Advance Academic Practice. Learn Across Your Academic Work.
The best faculty leaders are lifelong learners. Learning may happen through structured professional development, but just as often it emerges from reflective teaching, peer dialogue, collaborative research, or resources that continue to inform our practice over time.
The UCalgary Learning Model organizes development across four areas — Work, People, Formal, and Support — with Personal Reflection & Application at the center. Use this framework to build a well-rounded development plan that fits your role, your goals, and the way you learn best.
Explore the resources below and consider how each area can strengthen your practice.
Work | Learn on the Job
Develop your academic and professional practice through the work you do every day. Growth happens through teaching and curriculum design, research and scholarship, service work, and ongoing engagement with students and colleagues. Learning is embedded in real academic challenges and disciplinary practice. Use these resources to deepen your knowledge, refine your skills, and support your work across teaching, research, and service.
Libraries and Cultural Resources' Services
Access a variety of digital and physical library services, including workshops, teaching and research support, and specialized resources to enhance learning and discovery.
Teaching Support
Teaching support provided by librarians, curators, and archivists are a critical point of contact between Libraries and Cultural Resources and your department or faculty. They can work with you to bring customized, discipline-specific learning experiences to your students.
How to Manage a Lab and Staff
Develop an understanding of the challenges and growth opportunities that await you as you lead a team in the lab.
People | Through Others
Learn and grow through connections with colleagues, mentors, and academic communities. Academic practice is shaped through collaboration, dialogue, and shared inquiry. Engaging with others supports reflective practice, strengthens teaching and research, and helps build a sense of academic belonging. These opportunities foster peer learning, knowledge exchange, and constructive feedback that support your work across teaching, research, and service.
Learn Together, Grow Together
Learning experiences designed to build your skills through connection and shared experience.
Academic Leadership Academy
The Academic Leadership Development Program is for academic leaders looking to build core skills and perspectives needed for effective academic leadership through collaborative learning and guidance from experienced UCalgary leaders.
One-on-One Support
Book a consultation for support from a teaching and learning consultant from the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning.
The Mentorship Guide for Teaching and Learning
Learn how to build and sustain successful mentoring relationships with your colleagues in higher education.
Formal | Learning Experiences
Build your knowledge and skills through courses, workshops, and certificates. Formal learning provides a strong foundation for academic and professional practice. Whether you are building core capabilities or deepening your expertise, these structured learning opportunities support ongoing development in teaching, research, and academic work.
Learning Opportunities
Discover learning opportunities that meet you where you are, from foundational learning to advanced development.
Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning Upcoming Courses, Workshops & Events
The Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning is dedicated to better understanding and improving student learning. Both a building and a community, we bring undergraduate inquiry, teaching and learning development, and research under one roof.
Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, Learning Modules
These online learning modules are free, self-directed, flexible learning opportunities. Each module includes open-access lessons that vary in the time commitment for the learner.
The Outreach: Career Development Library
Offered by Science Careers is a collection of free resources that are used in their career development workshops.
LinkedIn Learning for Faculty and Academic Staff
Access on‑demand courses that help you strengthen your scholarly, teaching, and research practice. Explore skills that support every part of academic life—from communicating your research and managing complex projects to improving your teaching, mentoring, and collaboration. Learn at your own pace with short, practical courses designed to enhance your effectiveness in the classroom, lab, and broader academic community.
Certificates & Programs
Academic Staff Certificate in University Teaching and Learning
The Academic Staff Certificate in University Teaching and Learning helps instructors develop research-informed and scholarly teaching skills, reflect on their practice, and build their teaching dossier. Drawing on Kenny et al.’s (2017) Teaching Expertise Framework, the certificate emphasizes that university teaching is complex and evolves through continuous learning over time (Hendry and Dean, 2002; Kreber, 2002).
Employee Tuition Support
This benefit program provides development opportunities through the tuition support plan. This program is available to eligible UCalgary employees and their eligible dependents, allowing them to participate in academic courses at the University of Calgary at a reduced cost.
Support | Resources and Tools
Strengthen your academic practice with on‑demand resources, libraries, and tools. Available anytime, these supports help you explore topics, find timely guidance, and build knowledge at your own pace. They can be used independently or alongside formal learning to support teaching, research, and academic work.
Resources at Your Fingertips
Explore on-demand libraries and tools to deepen your knowledge and reinforce your practice — at any stage of your career journey.
Research Services
Research Services works with the University of Calgary’s research community to advance the research enterprise.
How to Prepare for an Interview
This series of articles offers advice on how to prepare for academic and industry interviews.
How to Write a Winning Résumé
This series of articles offers advice on how to write and design your resume or CV for a variety of careers and job markets.
Faculty/Unit Specific Resources
Cumming School of Medicine
The Office of Faculty Development is your go-to resource for growth, support, and connection at the Cumming School of Medicine.
Faculty of Social Work
Professional development opportunities offered by the Faculty of Social Work to enhance practice in mental health and human services.
Upcoming Learning Opportunities
View upcoming courses, workshops, lectures to help strengthen your teams, enhance your professional skills, and connect with colleagues across campus.
What You Can Explore Next
Explore additional resources that help you strengthen your leadership approach, support your team, and navigate UCalgary’s academic and operational environment with confidence.
Contact & Support
Our programs are managed by a range of faculties, departments, and external partners, each with their own dedicated team. Connecting directly with the right contact is the quickest way to get the help you need. For more specific support, see the resources below.