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 […]
This post concludes a 3-part series that drew teaching and learning insights from the Fall 2025 CSU Systemwide AI Survey led by SDSU. The first post reviewed selected responses from the student survey, and the second post reviewed selected responses from professional staff participants. Participation rates neared 50% for each of these groups, individually, and […]
In Fall semester 2025, CSU Channel Islands participated in a systemwide AI perception and usage survey designed by researchers at San Diego State University. Remarkably, over 2,000 CSUCI students responded to the survey (CSUCI had similarly strong participation rates among faculty and staff). The full AI Survey Dashboard, with results from all participating campuses, can […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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At CSU Channel Islands, we have long espoused servingness as an institutional value that extends beyond enrollment, demographics, labels, and statistics. It’s a celebration of our community, and as Gina Ann Garcia describes, intentional cultivation of institutional structures, practices, and outcomes that ensure Latine students (and, by extension, all students) thrive. In celebration of HSI […]
