NITLE
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The National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) has the stated mission of "catalyzing innovative teaching in order to enrich and advance liberal education in the digital age." The initiative provides programs and services that promote inter-institutional collaboration and innovative uses of technology at small, undergraduate-centered, residential colleges and universities.
NITLE is an "incubated entity" or initiative of Ithaka Harbors, Inc., a non-profit organization based in New York City and Princeton, New Jersey. As an incubated entity of Ithaka, NITLE receives support from its parent organization in the areas of finance, human resource management, information technology, software development, research, and strategic guidance.
NITLE maintains distinct operations from its parent (Ithaka), delivering its programs and services to participating institutions from a distributed base. NITLE offices are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Georgetown, Texas. The organization provides programs and services related to teaching, curriculum development, instructional technology, learning management systems, digital repositories, and communication/collaboration technologies.
[edit] History
NITLE was established in September, 2001, through a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original charge of this grant-funded initiative was to stimulate collaboration between selected liberal arts colleges and to act as a catalyst for the effective integration of emerging and newer digital technologies into teaching, learning, scholarship, and information management at those colleges.
In January, 2006, NITLE reorganized under Ithaka, bringing together and merging with three other Mellon-funded instructional technology initiatives: the Center for Educational Technology at Middlebury College, the Associated Colleges of the South Technology Center, and the Midwest Instructional Technology Center (associated with the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Associated Colleges of the Midwest). The reorganization merged NITLE and the three regional technology centers into a unified, national initiative for providing instructional technology programs for providers of liberal education in the United States. The reformed organization continues to receive grant support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
[edit] Core program areas
- provision of tools and other resources that enable inter-institutional collaboration and exchange
- professional development programs for faculty, librarians, and instructional technologists
- managed information services
- research, specifically regarding the pedagogical potential of emerging digital technologies
