Our team has grown and evolved significantly in the thirty-two years we’ve been supporting innovative teaching and learning at Dartmouth. Here are some of the highlights:
1991
Malcolm Brown becomes Director of Academic Computing
He went on to join EDUCAUSE in 2009. Read more about his work as Director of Learning Initiatives there.
2004
The Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) is created as a faculty resource.
Academic Computing is its closest collaborator since its inception, and plays a vital role in standing up its faculty programming. Read more about the history of DCAL here.
2004
Blackboard introduced as a College-wide Learning Management System
2010
Masters of Healthcare Delivery Science becomes Dartmouth’s first blended degree program.
2012
The Learning Technologist role is reimagined as a new Instructional Designer role
in order to better incorporate faculty development, educational technology, and learner experience design into the work of the team.
2013
Gateway Course Redesign Initiative
The Gateway Course Redesign Initiative offers entry-level courses the opportunity to incorporate active learning strategies. Learn more about the Gateway Initiative here.
2013
Dartmouth hosts Canvas Roundtables
as a way to learn and benefit from the experience of peer institutions as part of the switch to the Canvas LMS (Learning Management System).
2014
Dartmouth Partners With edX to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Dartmouth’s first open online courses are built and offered.
2014
Dartmouth courses begin using Canvas as a College-wide Learning Management System
2015
Learning Fellows program launches at Dartmouth with Biology 13
This work built off earlier course development via the Gateway Course Redesign Initiative.
2015
Carson 61 becomes the first active learning classroom at Dartmouth
It incorporates moveable furniture, student presentation stations, and 360 degree whiteboards.
2015
Dartmouth’s Course Photo Roster goes live in Canvas
2016
The Experiential Learning Initiative launches
It offers faculty and non-faculty educators at Dartmouth the chance to enhance student learning through new experiences. Read more about the Experiential Learning Initiative here.
2017
Dartmouth adopts WordPress to offer students and faculty a tool for designing portfolios of all types
Interested in using WordPress in a course? Explore our teaching & learning instance, hosted via Journeys.
2018
Active Learning Institute becomes Course Design Institute
2019
Dartmouth adopts Hypothesis to allow students to share annotations on documents and websites
2019
The Canvy Awards
The Learning Design and Technology team created the “Canvy” awards as a way to recognize faculty for their efforts in creating great sites for their students.
2019
Team Formation Tool
The Team Formation Tool, a Canvas app developed at Dartmouth, is a survey-based tool for the creation of optimized student groups. Learn more about it––including how to use it in your course––here.
2020
The pivot to remote learning brings new tools and teaching techniques to Dartmouth
2020
Panopto replaces a number of media storage and streaming options and incorporates Zoom recordings for remote courses.
2021
MHCDS curriculum support team, Learning and Technology Team, and ITC EdTech Team merge to become Learning Design and Innovation
2022
Dartmouth launches its first online open enrollment certificate in Digital Transformation on the Coursera platform
2021-2022
The Accessible Dartmouth Initiative launches
The Accessible Dartmouth Initiative, a collaboration between The Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, Student Accessibility Services, and Learning Design and Innovation (ITC) is a three-year pilot program designed to strengthen Dartmouth’s educational model to better meet the needs of neurodiverse learners and help all students succeed in the classroom. Learn more here.
2023
AV Lab
The AV Lab, a collaboration between LDI and Jones Media Center, opened in 2023 under the guidance of LDI team-member Oleg Timoshenko. Learn more about the AV Lab here.
2024