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Services:
Our services are driven by a collective curiosity to uncover the best ideas for engaged learning

Teaching and Learning with Technology offers a wide range of services that meet faculty where they are, offer approachable solutions to real classroom challenges and that make teaching enjoyable for everyone, especially the learners, our students. Grounded in pedagogical principles, our team is here to help.

Learning Design Team

Our team of instructional designers offers programs and consultative services to support the analysis of learning needs and fulfillment of teaching goals.

Meet the Team

Course + Classroom Resources

Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources

Affordable and open materials make education more accessible to students. The community of practice around OER offers a starting point for bringing down the cost of your courses.

Teaching with Technology Series

Teaching with Technology (TwT)

TLT offers the Teaching with Technology (TWT) series of virtual workshops to faculty each semester that focuses on innovative uses of University-approved instructional technologies.

Active Learning activity with students creating materials with textiles and the heat press

Active Learning

A student-centered classroom approach that engages learners by having them do things and by thinking about what they are doing. Active Learning resources get instructors up to speed expediently.

Specialized Assignment Support

Media Commons space with student shooting video using an iPad Pro

Media Commons

This initiative enriches the teaching and learning experience through multimedia technology, including video, audio, web, print and more and operates at all of Penn State’s locations.

Student cutting paper graphics in Maker Commons

Maker Commons

Another university-wide initiative that builds off the Media Commons model but focuses on 3D printing and rapid prototyping through robotics, paper craft, textiles, and more.

Student views a 3D scan they created using a VR headset at IMEX Lab

IMEX Lab

The Immersive Experiences (IMEX) Lab is designed specifically for 360° video, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augumented Reality (AR) viewing, experimentation and creation.

Teaching and Learning Research

Discovering how technology enhances pedagogy is a driving force behind our efforts here at TLT, and a great deal of what we learn comes from our collaborations with others across the University. Through our research projects, an understanding is developed with regards to how technology supports teaching and learning in a wide range of contexts.

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