The Center for Teaching and Learning supports faculty members in their work as teacher-scholars by cultivating reflective practice and promoting the scholarship of teaching and learning. We assist faculty members in providing our students with a career-oriented, forward-looking education that prepares them to succeed in a global economy and an increasingly technological world. As part of NYIT’s identity as a global institution, we pay particular attention to how social, linguistic, and cultural diversity both affects and enriches the student experience. As part of NYIT’s identity as a partially virtual institution, we serve as a resource for best practices in skillful, appropriate, and effective uses of technology in education.

We build partnerships across campus, recognizing that together we can achieve goals we cannot reach individually. We strive to build a fully-engaged community—a community of scholars, a community of learners, a community of professionals working together to give our students the best education possible. 

Our Goals

1. Provide leadership and assistance in articulating a vision of effective teaching at NYIT
2. Infuse best practices into curriculum development, delivery, and assessment
3. Increase the skillful and appropriate use of technology in teaching and learning
4. Foster faculty career success

About Us

Francine Glazer, assistant provost and director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, is a biologist by training and has been actively working with faculty members on teaching and learning since 1993. She is the editor of Blended Learning: Across the Disciplines, Across the Academy.  Her areas of interest include encouraging active learning, use of student teams in the classroom, faculty mentoring, and online and blended learning.

Olena Zhadko, instructional designer, is an educational teaching and learning technology specialist. Her areas of interest include new teaching strategies, course design and redesign, pedagogically appropriate uses of technology, and transformation of curricula into online and blended courses.

Jea Ahn, an instructional designer, has been working on individual online courses, online programs, and faculty development programs for online teaching and learning. His areas of interest are cognitive load theory, multimedia learning, intelligence theories, assistive technology, and online and blended teaching and learning.