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The National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) is an "incubated entity" or initiative of , 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.

The stated mission of NITLE is "to catalyze innovative teaching to enrich and advance liberal education in the digital age." The organization 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; Georgetown, Texas; and Middlebury, Vermont. The organization provides programs and services related to teaching, curriculum development and instructional technology for faculty, librarians, instructional technologists, and administrators from liberal arts institutions.

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 , , and . The reorganization shifted NITLE and the three regional technology centers into a unified, national model 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.

Core program areas

  • research, specifically regarding the pedagogical potential of emerging digital technologies
  • inter-institutional collaboration around technology-enhanced teaching and curricular development
  • professional development for faculty, librarians, and instructional technologists

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