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Name: Dr. Dan Sandweiss
Title: Libra Professor of Anthropology and Climate Studies, Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Professor in the Anthropology Department and the Climate Change Institute, Cooperating Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences and Global Policy
How long have you been at UMaine? Since 1993
Advice you’d give a new instructor at UMaine? Teach online as well as live, you reach more students and you can help students who have to miss the live class to keep up and not lose out on missed classes.
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instructional design
Instructional design is a creative process that uses contemporary research in teaching and learning to guide the development of course content that provides relevant and meaningful educational experiences for today’s students. Instructional design at CITL uses a project-based approach. Our instructional designers are agile and adaptable, and we all have expertise in teaching and learning, and we know how to create the most accessible and inclusive courses possible.
Professional development
Explore our Communities of Practice (CoPs), Intensives, Departmental Workshops, Graduate Student Programs and Fellowships!
Video & Animation opportunities
CITL Instructional Designers will work with faculty to plan and create a wide range of videos! Learn more.
Our professional instructional designers are here to bring your vision to life, blending your content area expertise with the latest in technology and innovative instructional tools, creating a rich educational experience that meets the needs of today’s students.
Here are a few samples of the types of videos that have been created by our instructional design team:
CITL by the numbers
As of January 2026, CITL has 10 full time staff members.
Prior to UMaine, we have attended or worked at 27 colleges and universities.
We have worked in higher education for a total of 139 years, 100 of which have been at UMaine.
Collectively, we have 2 PhDs, 3 MFAs and 2 MEd. We earned 7 degrees at UMaine.
Our degrees and college teaching span 26 disciplines or combinations of disciplines.
Current CITL staff have taught 122 UMaine class sections. We have taken 264.
7 of us have lived or studied in a country other than the U.S.
5 of our spouses are or have been affiliated with UMaine.
Fun Facts!
One of us can play twelve musical instruments well enough to teach middle-school students to play.
One of us marched in a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade as a penguin.
One of us was on a bike polo team.
One of us lived and worked in Antarctica.
One of us has a side hustle as a dance instructor.
One of us is a third-generation UMaine alum.
Learn more about us in the Who We Are section.
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