Welcome to the Unizin Teaching & Learning Advisory Group
You will need to join the Teaching & Learning Advisory Group (T&L) to access community pages beyond this welcome page. See the FAQs below for information about the group.
On the member homepage you will find resources, meeting notes, and details regarding the T&L Group's projects and activities. Visit the Subcommittee Pages for details about each group.
If you haven't previously accessed the T&L Advisory Group member homepage, click the "Join the Teaching & Learning Advisory Group" button to access and fill out the membership request form.
Please allow 1-2 business days for submissions to the Membership Request Form to be processed.
What is the Teaching & Learning (T&L) Advisory Group?
The Teaching & Learning Advisory Group is the “boots on the ground” component of the Unizin Consortium. We share our perspectives to inform Unizin projects.
The full group (or as many as can attend) meets twice yearly, either in-person or virtually.
The T&L Advisory Group is made up of sub-committees (see next section), which explore specific topics.
Connection and collaboration are the core of the T&L Advisory Group. Very much like a community of practice: we share best practices, lessons learned, frameworks, and foundation work that supports Unizin’s services and projects.
All are welcome and encouraged to join this group in order to receive information and announcements about Unizin activities.
T&L Advisory Group Charge (Version 2.0, 2019)
In order to enhance the development of teaching and learning tools and services in Unizin, the Unizin Teaching and Learning (T&L) Advisory Group is charged to:
Provide recommendations to the Unizin Board for strategic priorities around teaching and learning.
Respond to Unizin Board requests.
Advise the Unizin CEO, and CTO, or other Unizin staff as appropriate about priorities and innovations to support teaching and learning across member institutions.
Collaborate across institutions to share resources and best practices that support teaching and learning.
Recommend improvements in services that may be suggested from the advisory group’s review of feedback from faculty, students, and staff.
Provide regular updates to the Unizin Board on the activities of the advisory group.
What are the T&L Subcommittees?
The best way to participate in the T&L group is to join one of the topic-based subcommittees. Meetings are typically held monthly and are led by chairs or co-chairs. T&L subcommittee members are welcome to attend the meetings of any subcommittee. To join a subcommittee, click the Join the Teaching & Learning Advisory Group button on this page and select the subcommittee(s) you would like to join from the list on the form. Once your submission has been processed you will be added to the mailing list and calendar invites for the subcommittees you selected.
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Join the T&L Advisory Group
To join the T&L Advisory Group, click the Join the Teaching & Learning Advisory Group button toward the top of the page to access the membership request form.
Membership in the T&L Advisory Group is an easy way to learn about Unizin projects and initiatives that may be of interest to you. Benefits include:
Access to the subcommittee pages where you can learn about projects and activities which may be of interest to you or your institution.
Access to subcommittee calendars, agendas, and files.
Access to information about previous T&L events.
The ability to receive announcements for Unizin and T&L Advisory group events, such as those detailed below.
What are upcoming Unizin Events?
Details for the following events will be sent to the Teaching & Learning Advisory Group mailing list.
Teaching & Learning Subcommittee Speed Dating
The T&L Subcommittees hold a "speed dating" event periodically to help new members identify a group or groups they might like to join. This event is an opportunity to ask questions about upcoming projects and activities.
Teaching & Learning Advisory Group Meetings
The full T&L Advisory Group (or as many as can attend) meets twice yearly. This meeting is an opportunity to hear what institutions are doing. The T&L Subcommittees generally use some of this time to discuss their future direction and plan activities and projects. This is a good opportunity to share project status and request feedback from the other groups. Whether the meeting is face-to-face or virtual, there is an opportunity to connect with people across the consortium socially.
What is Unizin?
Unizin is a consortium of Higher Education Institutions that works together to realize a shared vision for quality learning environments, support for faculty, staff, and students, and affordable access.
The power of Unizin lies in collaboration across the community. View the Unizin relationships diagram.
Unizin Leadership and Staff are passionate about the mission of the consortium. These individuals use their wealth of experience to develop and facilitate consortial goals. Meet the Unizin Leadership team and staff.
What is the Unizin Board?
The Board is composed of executives from IT, Academic Technology, Centers of Teaching and Learning, Provost’s offices, and Libraries representing each of Unizin’s member institutions.
The Board meets a minimum of twice annually via Zoom.
CEO provides a Unizin Report via email to all the Unizin sub-committee chairs and they distribute it to their Unizin community members. View Unizin Board Reports.
These reports are meant to be shared across the member schools and are specifically designed for a variety of audiences (I.e. Instructors and Faculty, Institutional Research, Instructional Technologists, Provosts, Deans, Researchers, etc.)