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 […]
At the Spring 2026 Division of Academic Affairs Kick-off in January, it became clear that many people are still learning that an important deadline is approaching: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title II regulations become enforceable on April 24, 2026. Currently at CSUCI, Title II compliance does not reside in a particular office or unit—it […]
Disability does not always look the way people expect. Some people use mobility aids. Others don’t. Some disabilities are visible, and many are not. This simple truth sits at the heart of why inclusive design matters so deeply, especially in higher education. The image above reminds us of something easy to forget in busy classrooms, […]
Over Winter break, the TLi team has updated some features and tools within Canvas. Below, we’ll give some highlights and descriptors about what’s changed and what you need to know. New IgniteAI Features in Canvas (Opt-in) Canvas has introduced several new AI features that we’ve made available in our Canvas instance. These features are both […]
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 […]
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 […]
This semester, we had the privilege of watching our first cohort of MS Business Analytics students at CSU Channel Islands step into a learning experience unlike anything we have attempted before. What began as a partnership between the CSUCI new MSBA program, the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), and the Economic Development Collaborative (EDC) grew into […]
This week, one of my teammates shared the newest in a series of advances in AI capabilities. The reaction speaks to the moment: One person expressed excitement and an earnest desire to explore each and every new feature. Another expressed that they want to run away—that it’s all getting to be too much too fast. […]
Disclaimer: TLi does not currently offer official podcast services. Instead, we use a podcast-style recording format as a creative solution for academic media inquiries. How it all started At the beginning of 2025, I received an Academic Media Inquiry from Alison Perchuk, Director of the Center for Integrative Studies, requesting a recorded interview. Initially, the […]
In November 2025, the Martin V. Smith School of Business & Economics launched its first issue of Channeling AI: A Newsletter of AI and Business Analytics for the CI Community. To spotlight this achievement and provide some context, we had a Q&A with Minder Chen, Professor of Management Information Systems, and Nicholas Bridgman, Graduate Assistant […]
