Welcome to the Lucinda Taylor Lea LT&ITC!

Learning Teaching & Innovative Technologies Center

  • James E. Walker Library, Room 348
  • Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm
  • 615-494-7671 | ltanditc@mtsu.edu

LT&ITC Services and Programs

Workshops & Events

View Workshops Calendar

  • Follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date on planned workshops, special events, and faculty book groups as well as highlighted articles that may be of interest to you.
  • If you're unable to attend a scheduled workshop, we typically record them and make them available via our YouTube channel.
  • If you have an idea for a potential future workshop, please feel free so send your suggestions to Dr. Sheila Otto.

Private Consultations

Private, confidential consulting for faculty interested in working on a formal development plan for teaching, research, and service activities; also, consulting on how best to balance your teaching, research, and service activities.

Contact us to schedule a meeting.

Types of Consultations

Teaching Practices

We are available to meet with you to discuss ideas for updating your face-to-face, hybrid, or online courses. For example, we can provide information and resources related to sound pedagogical methods, hybrid and online interaction techniques and video/audio software tools to enhance your on-line or web-enhanced lectures.

Syllabus & Course Design

The LT&ITC staff are available to meet with faculty members to discuss syllabi and course design. Each consultation caters to your specific interest or concern. We can review a new course plan, discuss issues in a current course, or address any number of topics that span the stages of course development.

Topics commonly addressed in consultations include:

  • Learning goals for a course
  • Student engagement
  • Managing online discussions
  • Syllabi construction
  • Online course design issues

Technology Integration

We work with you to develop a plan for successful integration of technology into your teaching. The Center focuses specifically on technology within the larger context of effective teaching practices. Our services are intended to complement The Center for Technologies and Training (CTAT) who offer hardware and software support services.

Our Instructional Design Specialist works with instructors to explore potential technologies to support student learning.

We may assist you with:

  • Your course website
  • Electronic communication tools
  • Course presentation technologies
  • A range of other issues geared to the needs and expertise of the instructor

Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs)

A Faculty Learning Community (or FLC) is a group of interdisciplinary faculty who engage in an active, collaborative, year-long program. Each FLC focuses on researching and testing a scholarly and pedagogical topic that is important to the larger academic community.

The LT&ITC, with major support from the Office of the Provost, offers support for several Faculty Learning Communities each academic year. The program includes a curriculum about enhancing faculty development with regularly-scheduled meetings and activities that provide participants with opportunities pertaining to the FLC’s major focus. 

Learn more about FLCs at MTSU.

GTA Teaching Preparation Certificate Program

The GTA Teaching Preparation Certificate program is designed to provide Graduate Teaching Assistants with a structured experience that prepares them for classroom and laboratory teaching. The program allows you to develop and document your classroom teaching and teacher development activities and it provides you with several self-reflection and consultative feedback opportunities. It also provides several documents that can be included in your professional and teaching portfolio.

Learn more and apply for this ten-week program.

MTSU Internal Grants

The the Office of the University Provost provides a listing of internal and external faculty grants designed to promote faculty development.

See if there is a grant for you.

Online Faculty Development Program

The LT&ITC, together with the Center for Technologies and Training (CTAT), and our campus’s manager of Distance Education Faculty Services, provides faculty with guidance about the online course proposal process, the training requirements, the creation and delivery of an online course, and opportunities to conduct Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) projects.

Learn more.

Faculty Fellows Program

The Academy of Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow program is a teaching and professional development opportunity designed to work with your specific and unique needs. Although it is geared toward tenure-track faculty, the program is open to all faculty members regardless of rank or status.

Learn more about becoming a Faculty Fellow.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

The concept of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is variously defined as teaching as scholarly work, evidence-based methods to study effective teaching and student learning, and systematic research and dissemination about teaching and learning. View examples of SoTL publications by MTSU faculty members, including information about or links to the articles as well as contact information for the first (or MTSU) authors.