With Network affiliation, everyone at your institution can benefit from:

• Two days of consulting/training from TLT Group staff and Senior Associates; get more days at substantial discounts from regular rates. (Institutions have used as many as 150 consulting days a year; this 8-minute narrated slideshow mentions just a few ways in which past subscribers have used our consulting and suggests ways to pay for a subscription.)  Training/consulting is usually delivered through a mix of on-site visits and online interaction.  Naming just a few possibilities -- we can:

  • deliver a keynote for your faculty institute;

  • plan the external evaluation, faculty training or national outreach for your next grant proposal involving educational uses of technology;

  • offer train-the-trainer workshops to help faculty learn to use student evidence to improve teaching

  • help you evaluate your current institutional strategies and resources for improving teaching and learning and develop new strategies that reach and engage more faculty;

  • reduce conflict and overlap by helping you organize a TLT Roundtable and a virtual teaching, learning and technology center;

  • help you evaluate current learning spaces and facilities (classrooms, course management systems) and plan for the future;

  • provide support for your general education reform by helping them learn about how technology is figuring in evolving goals and strategies at other institutions; 

  • help your faculty evaluate and improve their hybrid courses, blended courses, online courses...

• For a more complete list of possibilities, click here.   Click here for ideas about agendas for a site visit by your consultant. If you'd like to include 5, 50 or more days in your subscription, contact us (info @ tltgroup.org) about prices.  Option: If your institution finds it doesn't need some of those consulting hours, it can carry the over for one more year or exchange them for free registrations for the Online Institute workshops of your choice.

• Flashlight Online (free accounts and unlimited surveys for everyone at your institution):  Don't start your surveys and online forms from a blank page! Using this unique web-based survey system, you can adapt surveys created by colleagues (including authors at other Flashlight Online institutions). Flashlight Online also comes with dozens of model surveys, templates, and an item bank with almost 500 validated questions for evaluating academic programs -- great for teaching improvement and self-studies. Flashlight Online can be used for teaching improvement, course evaluation, accreditation self-studies, and as a general purpose survey system.  To see the surveys, item banks and other tools that Flashlight Online 1.0 offers, click here to request a free, temporary account. 
  
  Flashlight Online 2.0 can also be used for large-scale student course evaluation, including creation of thousands of different student response forms uniquely tailored for the characteristics of each course), for creating rubrics, and for exciting new approaches to social and educational research.  This powerful new online system is now in beta test at a dozen Network member institutions.  When it's released, your institution can use both 1.0 and 2.0 at no extra charge.

• Site licenses for subscriber materials on our web site such as

  • Resources for program evaluation, assessment, accreditation, and the scholarship of teaching and learning, including the Flashlight Evaluation Handbook, model surveys, item banks, and Asking the Right Questions" (ARQ) materials for faculty workshops,

  • "Seven Principles" Collection of ideas for teaching and learning with technology,

  • Resources to help you consider possibilities created by technology as you do curricular planning, especially general education reform

  • Learning spaces: use these materials to help you evaluate classrooms and other formal and informal learning spaces and then use the insights to plan renovations and new spaces -- physical and online.

  • Workbooks to help you improve and extend faculty support and development, including for example, a workbook on brief hybrid workshops (forthcoming) and a workbook on upgrading your student technology assistant program,

  • a workbook for your Teaching Learning and Technology Roundtable.

• Early announcements of FridayLive!  Free interactive webcast from the TLT Group. Steve Gilbert moderates one-hour online discussions at 2:00pm Eastern on Friday afternoons. 

• Free individual memberships in The TLT Group for all interested faculty, staff and students.

• Free admission to many Online Institute (OLI) events and, for events with fees for subscribers, five free session seats (a savings of up to $150) and sharp discounts for additional seats.  For example, you can register a team of faculty and librarians for a series of workshops on information literacy. All OLI events stress discussion and offer options for learning-by-doing.  Many OLI events help faculty development/support staff develop their skills.

• Spreading the word: We have materials to help you spread the word to your colleagues about the subscription's benefits.

• Topical mailings describing resources available to everyone at your institution.  These updates are suitable for distribution to other people on your campus. (We’ll send updates directly to the primary liaison and to anyone else at your institution who wants to be added to this service.)

• Discounts on all TLT Group services, publications and events as well as on memberships in selected other organizations such as MERLOT, EASI, and the HBCU Faculty Development Network.

• Invitations to TLT Group subscriber gatherings at a variety of national conferences.

• Most importantly, access to a unique perspective on improving teaching and learning with technology and making the best of too many options and too much information; we provide a view of what’s really possible and desirable underneath the usual hype.