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Easing Course Prep with TLi’s Updated Course Starter Kit

Easing Course Prep with TLi’s Updated Course Starter Kit

Meet TLi’s Updated Course Starter Kit Building a course from scratch takes time that could be spent on what matters most: your content and your students. Teaching and Learning Innovations’ Course Starter Kit 3.0 is a Canvas template designed to give faculty a strong, accessible course foundation— one that already reflects best practices in inclusive […]

Introducing (or Re-Introducing!) OneHE 

Introducing (or Re-Introducing!) OneHE 

You’re invited to join OneHE! In the 2025-2026 academic year, the CSU has partner provided each campus with a limited number of licenses to access the resources at OneHE, a pedagogy-focused professional development platform for higher education faculty. The platform works with faculty experts to provide resources on practical, engaging teaching practices that are easy […]

2025 TLi Top 10 List

2025 TLi Top 10 List

Although the academic year is only halfway through, the Teaching and Learning Innovations team spent some time reflecting on things we are proud of in 2025! Together with campus and community partners, we accomplished a lot behind the scenes and in the digital spaces at CSU Channel Islands, so it was challenging to narrow them […]

Easing Spring Course Prep with TLi’s Course Starter Kit

Easing Spring Course Prep with TLi’s Course Starter Kit

Are you preparing to build classes in Canvas for Spring semester?  Teaching and Learning Innovations has a Course Starter Kit available that can help lighten your course-building workload. The Starter Kit is an accessible template that you can copy into your courses and populate with your own instructional content. The kit has been updated to […]

Introducing CI’s 2025-2026 Digital Learning Mentors

Introducing CI’s 2025-2026 Digital Learning Mentors

TLi is excited to introduce our 2025-2026 Digital Learning Mentors! The Digital Learning Mentor (DLM) program is back this year to provide individualized peer support for faculty. Whether you’re teaching in person, online, or in a blended format, DLMs are available to support you in developing high quality, innovative digital teaching and learning practices.  What […]

Introducing our 2024-2025 Digital Learning Mentors

Introducing our 2024-2025 Digital Learning Mentors

TLi is excited to introduce our 2024-2025 AI-Focused Digital Learning Mentors! The Digital Learning Mentor (DLM) program is back after a three-year hiatus to provide individualized peer support for faculty navigating the rapidly changing landscape of AI in higher education. What are Digital Learning Mentors?  Digital Learning Mentors are faculty members with training, interest, and […]

Introducing TLi’s Faculty Learning Design Coordinator, Stacey Beauregard!

Introducing TLi’s Faculty Learning Design Coordinator, Stacey Beauregard!

Teaching and Learning Innovations is thrilled to welcome Stacey Beauregard to our team! In 2024-2025, Stacey is joining us in the role of Faculty Learning Design Coordinator, a new position that will lead core learning design initiatives for CSU Channel Islands. Stacey Beauregard has been a Lecturer in English at CSUCI for more than ten […]

Flexible Assessment for Deeper Thinking and Active Learning

Flexible Assessment for Deeper Thinking and Active Learning

In his OneHe course Working with Flexible Assessment, Dr. Sam Elkington makes a simple but important distinction: “In flexible assessment,” he says, “assessment for learning rather than assessment of learning is placed at the center of the curriculum and learning design.”  The distinction may be a familiar one — it is, in essence, the difference […]

Assessment, Alignment and Feedback Spotlight #1

Assessment, Alignment and Feedback Spotlight #1

Faculty Info Name: Stacey BeauregardAcademic Program: EnglishAverage Number of students per section: 20Featured Courses: English 102: Strategies of Successful College Writers (four sections) English 330: Interdisciplinary Writing Had you taught online prior to the rapid shift to virtual instruction in response to COVID-19?  Yes, for two years prior. What practice or technique have you implemented […]

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