CIELO: The Center for Innovative & Engaged Learning Opportunities

CIELO supports a wide variety of activities, including:

• sharing knowledge, skills and values through seminars, workshops, conversations and publications;
• engaging in and sharing original research on student learning;
• building faculty learning communities that are cohort based (e.g. new faculty, senior faculty for teaching excellence, faculty teaching first-time freshmen, part-time faculty and teaching assistants), course/discipline-based, and topic based (e.g. using technology to enhance learning, community service-learning, problem-based learning, linked courses).
• Encouraging students to become independent, self-reliant learners and responsible members of their communities;
• exploring alternate modes of learning (e.g. modules, self-paced learning, on-line instruction, limited seat time);
• involving students in conversations with faculty regarding teaching-learning issues; and
• investigating transition issues for new students to help them get the most from their college experience.