About Us

CITL provides support for innovative and data-informed pedagogical efforts at the University of Maine.

Together with our partner centers and departments, we work to create and sustain a culture of innovation in teaching. To this end, we offer numerous learning communities, workshops, and host guest speakers.  In addition, we provide one-on-one consulting on a range of topics relating to:

  • curricular and instructional design;
  • diversity, equity, inclusion, and access;
  • instructional and information technologies; and
  • the role of generative AI in teaching and learning
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Since its launch in 2016-2017, CITL’s services have expanded to meet the ever-increasing needs of UM/UMM faculty.

CITL now provides support in five general areas:

  1. Faculty educational development programming
  2. Instructional design and development
  3. Faculty instructional technology support
  4. The Hackerspace (a digital makerspace for those beginning their campus journeys into 3D printing, microprocessors, and a range of embedded tech)
  5. Planning, deploying, and/or managing physical and virtual instructional environments

CITL has outfitted a recording studio for video and audio production and staffed them with instructional designers. We also have resources for field recording, developing animations, graphics, data visualization, digital mapping, and interactive websites to help faculty utilize a range of the most current information and instructional technologies.

In all areas, CITL supports instructors of every rank, including graduate students, part-time faculty, lecturers, pre-tenure, and tenured faculty. It also supports faculty teaching face-to-face, online, hybrid, synchronous, asynchronous, or any other modality and at any time of year.