Welcome Community Members

The Community Learning and Innovation Initiative(CLII), previously called the Faculty Innovations Profile Project, was formed through the merging of communities of practice with origins coming from the Faculty Innovations Profile Project and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (previously known as the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative). CLII supports communities of practice to facilitate innovations and enhanced collaborative efforts among educational researchers and practitioners, whether they are a faculty member, education technologist, or learning designer. CLII explores and communicates how shared pathways of collaboration, process and methodologies can help bridge academic technology and learning theory to innovatively design and deliver improved capabilities and services in higher education.

The 'Gateway' serves as the point-of-entry to the CLII portal. The community of practice concept emphasizes a 'living' environment and is a visual reminder of the natural connections between colleagues that will sustain growth and development. CLII Community members work together in their "neighborhoods" and "towns" with a shared spirit towards enhancement of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education.