Northwestern's Digital Learning page provides an excellent starting point for those interested in exploring teaching with technology.  It tells you more about how technology is being used at Northwestern, services available for help and to learn more, and brings together information about campus-wide teaching technology such as Canvas.

Visit the site here.

Northwestern IT Academic and Research Technologies (A&RT) offers a wide range of faculty support opportunities.  

• Partner on a project:  A&RT offers long term partnerships with faculty and a learning engineer to help you redesign your course or program, integrate more active learning or technology in your classroom, or other innovative changes.  Email them at canvas@northwestern.edu
• Consultation with an expert: Schedule a one-hour consultation when you're thinking of integrating a new technology or when you need help using Canvas.  bit.ly/nucanvas-consultation 

For inquiries ranging from fast Canvas help to information on how to redesign your entire course, your best starting point is to email the learning design experts at Northwestern at canvas@northwestern.edu.

Other help resources:

Canvas Help Hotline: 855-680-0126  (Fast help from a person)

Faculty assistants are trained in how to create and support Canvas courses.

There are a wide variety of learning communities, centers, and groups at Northwestern that you can join or just learn from.  Here are a few featured groups.  

• Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching: Provides a variety of opportunities for faculty to reflect critically on learning and teaching.  Offerings range from workshops to the Searle Fellows Program, a year-long program for early career faculty to deepen their thinking about learning and teaching
• Northwestern Learning Communities
  • Educational Technology Teaching Fellows (ETTF):  a group of instructors dedicated to exploring blended learning opportunities using Canvas.  Faculty from across campus meet quarterly to explore how new tools or approaches might help them enhance their teaching.
  • Experimental Teaching & Learning Analytics at Northwestern (ETLAN): A group of faculty, staff, and graduate students who share an interest in teaching and learning analytics. 
  • For more on Northwestern's learning communities, see this page: bit.ly/tx-communities 

TEACHx is Northwestern's annual one-day conference on innovation in teaching.  It brings together faculty and staff from across the university to showcase the instructors leading innovations in teaching and learning through technology.

For more information and other funding opportunities, see this page.  

If you're not sure who to ask or where to start, your library liaison is always a good person to start with.  Many of the librarians at the Pritzker Legal Research Center have extensive teaching experience and they all know a lot of information about who the different experts and resources are on campus.  

Not sure who your library liaison is?  Check the list.