UD’s Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning (CTAL) is hosting a weeklong Open Teaching Days event from Monday, October 12 to Friday October 16. This fall, we aim to showcase various approaches to active learning and student engagement across the university. In a time when many instructors are seeing diminished student participation and motivation, we hope to broaden our collective perspective on what engaged learning can look like and how to accomplish it.

This is an open call for anyone who will teach a course in Fall 2026 (excluding graduate students) to open up their classroom to a handful of UD visitors including: faculty, staff, university leaders and members of the board of trustees to showcase your teaching. If you are interested in opening your classroom, please complete the interest form (linked below) by Monday, August 31, 2026. Attendee registration will open on September 21, 2026.

Interest form link: http://www.udel.edu/0014865

We hope you will join our sixth run of Open Teaching Days and help us create a schedule of courses that offers an excellent variety of teaching practices and academic disciplines for our attendees to experience. Learn more about this event and past Open Teaching Days at our website: https://ctal.udel.edu/programs/otd/ If you have any other questions about this program, please reach out via email to Stephen Hackler at shackler@udel.edu.

For further information, please visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOrzyeq3ZgPBgxsAF4jMliDz4V12ppS8yVBYLbc2I9_FtaFw/viewform?usp=dialog