Community Learning and Innovation Initiative (CLII)
CLII Mission: Promote the scholarship of innovative teaching, and learning and discovery; by creating awareness and promoting understanding about the teaching design, student outcomes, and lessons learned from these intentional innovations.
CLII Program Initiatives: CLII liaisons work with members from collaborating institutions to facilitate the program initiatives. CLII members from across the institutions, who have chosen to take leadership roles, are collaboratively facilitating our 'community of practice' group efforts.
* CLII was formerly known as FIPP, Faculty Innovation Profile Project
Community of Practice and Portal
Community of Practice. Facilitating the shaping of a community of practice to directly engage those in higher education instruction to be productive in sustaining a culture of innovation in teaching and learning for enhancing student outcomes. This is facilitated by engaging instructional professionals, faculty, and graduate student in opportunities of professional development in a collaborative network.
Workspace, Tools, Resources. The Innovation by Design portal (www.clii.org) is the touchstone of the CLII program initiatives for sharing innovative practices in teaching, learning, and discovery that support the scientific understanding of how people learn and knowing what student know.
Trans-Institutional Dissemination Connections
Establish Connections to support colleagial dissemination and collaboration opportunities at conferences and national associations. For more information collaborative presentations, please see Nuggets highlighting events and outcomes.
CLII Governing Council. Forming and providing foundational structure for facilitation of community of practice events and activities to encourage member participation across institutions. Such efforts may include:
promoting new insights and partnerships in course design (redesign) efforts;
discovery research revolving around innovations in teaching and learning supported or enabled by technology;
proposal development or grant opportunities to solicit funding to support colleagial innovation courseware design efforts;
awarenes of innovative teaching and learning practices and methodologies.
Design Studio Event
Studio Event. Workshop is designed as an intense 1 to 2 day participatory session to promote breakthrough thinking with accompanied action plans to address meaningful connections between learning and pedigogial research enabled by technology mediation. Interdiscplanary inter-change occurs during the events, in mixing and remixing participants to foster multiple perspectives on teaching and learning innovative practices, pedigogical practices, and action oriented opportunities for engagement in further collaboration beyond workshop.
Student Engagement, Activities, and Events (professional develop opportunities)
Graduate Fellows. Connecting doctoral graduate fellows into transformative learning, teaching and discovery initiatives (sponsored at Institutional level).
Learning Environment Design Seminar Course. The course introduces key ideas and practices behind the scholarship of teaching and learning via innovative uses of technology; the course helps to bring together students and faculty via a graduate-level seminar to promote scholastic views of innovation in teaching and learning and encourage collaborative efforts among faculty and graduate student in course redesgin efforts. Guest speakers (staff, practictioners, and faculty) are invited to provide multiples perspectives in areas of learning science, learning technologies, and assessment and evaluation practices.
Undergraduate Student Leaders IT Conference. The undergraduate student led conference, organized by student leaders across the country, serves to engage and report on views held by student leaders regarding issues surrounding the scholastic use of technology and how it is helping reshape higher education.
Innovation & Assessment Laboratory (iaLab)
IaLab is an interdisciplanary information commons for those emersed in teaching and learning to share, experiment, and engage in research discovery. Through events supported by the iaLab, community members may interact with other colleagues to identify, explore, implement and evaluate innovative learning technologies, emerging teaching and learning models, and collaborative computing environments for potential scaling for broader use by others.
Online Access to Knowledge (OAK) Stewardship
The online Access to Knowledge (OAK) stawardship role enables meaningful connections and engagement with those involved in teaching and learning in the board use of course management systems, learning technologies, and other related information technologies supporting teaching and learning.
Under the OAK activities, teaching and learning innovations are documented and shared. OAK staff members host faculty workshops in collaboration with others involved in consulting with faculty engaged in teaching and learning practices.
Provost Innovation Award in Teaching and Learning with Technology
The award program recognize excellence and engages faculty in experimental prototyping for enhancing student learning via innovative uses of technology.
