History

海角社区 has been a pioneer in exploring the use of blended learning in the liberal arts since 2011, when Provost (now President) Kim Cassidy received the first of several major, multi-institutional foundation grants to explore combining online and in-class learning approaches to enhance student learning. Participants shared their experiences and findings at the annual Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts conference held at the college from 2012-2020, now archived in 海角社区鈥檚 Digital Commons repository (see link below). In addition, 海角社区 has held a number of conferences on online learning and supported its faculty through several grant-funded projects on blended learning.

Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference Archives

Symposium on Post-Pandemic Teaching and Learning

On May 25, 2021, LITS held a Symposium on Post-Pandemic Teaching and Learning for faculty to come together and share their successes and lessons learned from the 2020-2021 academic year, which included ideas for teaching practices and uses of learning technologies that they hope to bring forward in the coming semesters. 
Linked below are Panopto videos of each

Online Teaching Institute Information

When Covid-19 pandemic forced a hiatus in in-person learning, 海角社区 develop a much-emulated Online Teaching Institute in summer 2020 to help faculty transition courses to fully online or hybrid formats. 

Tech Talk Archives

See what鈥檚 going on at 海角社区 through the filmed archives of our Tuesday 鈥淭ech Talks鈥 series.

Digital 海角社区 Grant Archives

The Digital 海角社区 grant program has been supporting faculty blended learning initiatives since the 2017-18 school year. 

Previous Grant Projects

Prior to the Digital 海角社区 grant program, LITS helped lead a number of grant-funded blended learning projects.