Welcome to the Center for Teaching and Learning Design

Engineering Innovative, High-Quality Learning
Advance Your Instruction With

Full-Service Teaching & Learning Support

Quality engineering instruction creates quality engineers. Whether you’re delivering lectures on a JHU campus or facilitating asynchronous online courses, our team is committed to your success in the classroom. The CTLD team consults on evidence-based learning design principles, constructs innovative and accessible learning environments, and hosts faculty development sessions

Vision

To transform the future of education to advance a vibrant community of exceptional educators and learners.

Mission

At CTLD, we transform teaching & learning design through inclusive, research-based, and innovative educational practices by empowering engineering faculty and students to confidently change the world.

JHU WSE Faculty and CTLD staff at a table taking notes

Learning Design

Our team of learning design experts partners with WSE faculty to implement the latest research-backed practices in online, face-to-face, or blended classrooms. Whether you are looking to design a new course, redesign an existing course, or fine-tune specific instructional components, we are available to help.   

Quality Assurance

We subscribe to Quality Matters™ (QM), a nationally recognized, non-profit, research-backed, quality assurance organization that helps us design high-quality online courses. The QM higher education service provides a set of specific review standards that fall within eight general areas of course design. We use these standards in our design and quality review processes.

Person accessing the QualityMatters website on a laptop.
Faculty Forward Academy with facilitator Olysha Magruder

Faculty Development

Our Faculty Forward Academy aims to cultivate a culture of curiosity, exploration, and innovation in teaching and learning and to create a rich and vibrant learning community of engineering faculty in order to best support students at the Whiting School of Engineering. We offer practical, hands-on faculty development sessions, individual consultations, and a wealth of resources to help your teaching evolve alongside pedagogical best practices.

CTLD on myWSE Resource Hub

JHU staff, faculty, and students can access CTLD materials, templates, and resources on the CTLD myWSE resource hub page.

Recent News

Apply to the 2025 Faculty Forward Fellowship!

Join the seventh annual Faculty Forward Fellowship program, running June 1–July 27, 2025! This hybrid program equips faculty with cutting-edge teaching strategies through interactive online modules, synchronous live sessions (online…


Faculty Forward Magazine - Spring 2025

The latest issue of the Faculty Forward Magazine is available on the Faculty Forward Academy website. We publish two issues of the Magazine each year (Spring and Fall) and, in…


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