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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
With the start of the Fall 2021 semester came the return of people being back on campus. This meant students, instructors, and staff were once again breathing life into the buildings on campus. And with everyone coming back to campus, that meant everyone coming back to our office for support with their teaching, instructional design, […]
This is part 3 in a series of blog posts to highlight the work of our Teaching & Learning Innovations team. Each team member was asked to write a post about the work of one of their colleagues. Kristi O’Neil-Gonzalez, our self-described “quirky” Instructional Technologist and Accessibility Lead for the Teaching and Learning Innovations (TLI) […]
This is part 2 in a series of blog posts to highlight the work of our Teaching & Learning Innovations team. Each team member was asked to write a post about the work of one of their colleagues. Michael McGarry describes his journey to becoming the Instructional Technology Lead at CSU Channel Islands as “weird” […]
