Teaching Insights & Innovation
Teaching continues to evolve as new research, technologies, and student needs reshape higher education. Teaching Insights & Innovation highlights practical ideas, emerging practices, and faculty experiences that can support meaningful improvements in teaching and learning.
This page is designed for faculty who want to explore new approaches, reflect on their teaching, and learn from the experiences of colleagues across California Lutheran University.
Teaching Insights
Explore practical strategies and innovative approaches related to:
- Student engagement
- Active learning
- Assessment and feedback
- Online and hybrid teaching
- Artificial intelligence in education
- Educational technology
- Accessibility and inclusive teaching
These insights are intended to inspire new ideas that can be adapted to your own teaching context.
Workshops and Conversations
Teaching innovation is strengthened through collaboration. Digital Learning may offer:
- Faculty workshops
- Teaching demonstrations
- Informal discussion sessions
- Faculty learning communities
- Course-design consultations
- Technology explorations
- Presentations from faculty colleagues
- Pilot opportunities for emerging tools
Faculty Voices
Faculty experience is an important source of teaching knowledge. This section highlights instructors who are experimenting with new approaches, responding to student needs, or improving established practices.
Faculty stories may include:
- A teaching strategy that improved student participation
- Lessons learned from redesigning an assignment
- Effective uses of Canvas or educational technology
- Experiences integrating AI into a course
- Approaches to building community online
- Strategies for improving accessibility
- Reflections on what worked — and what did not
Faculty members are invited to share teaching practices, course innovations, and lessons learned. Digital Learning can help develop a short article, interview, case study, or video feature based on your experience.
Work With Digital Learning
Digital Learning can support faculty who want to:
- Explore a new teaching approach
- Redesign an activity or assessment
- Pilot an educational technology
- Integrate AI into a course
- Develop instructional multimedia
- Evaluate the effectiveness of an innovation
- Share a teaching practice with the university community
For assistance, please submit a ticket through the CLU Help Desk at helpdesk@callutheran.edu. or Contact us directly at digitallearning@callutheran.edu