June 2026 Newsletter

Missed June’s Faculty Center newsletter? We’ve got you covered. View the highlights, key updates, resources, and opportunities you may have missed below.

Our newsletter is designed to support your teaching and keep you connected to what’s happening across our community. If you’d like to stay in the loop moving forward, you can subscribe anytime on the homepage of the Faculty Center’s News page.

Risepoint Academic Services recently reimagined Faculty eCommons as the Faculty Center: a clearer, easier-to-navigate hub designed to connect you with practical resources and support for teaching in online environments. As you spend time with the updated site, we’d value your perspective. Please take a few minutes to complete our brief survey and share your feedback. Your input will help us continue improving the Faculty Center so it better reflects how you work, what you need, and how you prefer to find support. Engage with Us in Upcoming Webinars   Running a Primary Course   June 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM ET   Teaching a primary course designed by another faculty member effectively requires balancing instructional autonomy with course integrity. Our June webinar, “Running a Primary Course” provides practical strategies for making a course designed by one of your fellow faculty members feel uniquely yours while preserving alignment with approved outcomes, assessments, and structural requirements. Intended for a range of faculty audiences, this session offers guidance that can be adapted across teaching contexts. We will examine boundaries for modification, strategies for adding instructor presence, methods for contextualizing content, and approaches for personalizing assessment methods. Join us June 16 at 12:00 PM ET!   Designing for Demand: Online Students Want Flexibility and AI Guidance   June 11, 2026 at 2:00 PM ET   Presented in partnership with WCET, gain insights from the 2026 Voice of the Online Learner research to help you align your online strategy with what adult learners truly value, including their expectations surrounding AI in higher ed and the workforce. Presenters: Dr. Marybeth Mitcham, Director, Online MPH Program | George Mason University Dr. Tekoya Boykins, Director, Academic Program Strategy | Risepoint   Want webinars that align with your schedule? Check out other upcoming webinars or review past recorded sessions on the Webinars page of the Faculty Center. Online courses often rely on clear, self-contained modules, but that same structure can unintentionally encourage students to treat learning as disposable: complete the work, move on, and gradually lose access to earlier concepts. In our Designing Modules for Knowledge Retention article, we explore how faculty can counter “module amnesia” by designing for durable learning through spiral curriculum practices, anchor concepts, retrieval checks, cumulative assessment, interleaving, and brief opportunities for recall, elaboration, and reflection. With intentional module design, prior learning remains active across the course, helping students build knowledge they can retrieve, connect, and apply well beyond the module in which it was introduced.   Want More? Visit the News section of the Faculty Center to stay up to date on the latest in online teaching and learning, as well as updates from the Academic Services team. You can also explore the Resources section for tools and support or view our flexible online Courses to enhance your course development and delivery practice. The information in this newsletter links to documents stored at faculty.risepoint.com.     Risepoint | 2803 Philadelphia Pike, Suite B PMB 7250 | Claymont, DE 19703 | Privacy Policy