The Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning provides highly collaborative support to faculty, offering programs and services designed to enhance teaching, foster innovation, and improve student learning outcomes. Explore our programs and initiatives and discover how we can help you create engaging, effective learning experiences for all students.
Explore the key initiatives advancing teaching and learning across the university. Discover how these efforts support innovation, collaboration, and student success.
Campus LX is Boston University’s university-wide initiative to strengthen the learning environment that supports teaching and learning across our campuses.
The Learning & Course Design Collaborative brings together faculty, academic leaders, and teaching and learning experts to support the ongoing renewal and redesign of courses and curricula at Boston University.
The Horizon Learning Lab is a new university-wide initiative led by the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning to explore how emerging technologies, tools, and new learning models can strengthen teaching and learning at Boston University.
The Large Course Initiative brings together faculty and the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning to introduce novel approaches to active learning, assessment, peer interaction, academic support, inclusive teaching, and technology through course redesign.
Teaching at a new institution is both exciting and challenging — new students, new systems, and a new campus culture to learn. The Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning exists to make that work easier and more effective. Whether you’re stepping into a classroom for the first time or bringing years of experience to a new setting, we’re here to partner with you to support your teaching at BU.
We work with campus partners and academic units to co-create, design, and implement high-impact education experiences. Our programs cover a range of topics including:
Examination of and support for educational tools and technologies students and faculty can leverage as well as learning design consulting, video and animation, University-wide initiative support, and the use of artificial intelligence to enrich our teaching and learning experiences.
Support for elevating the learning experience that provides faculty with models, techniques, and approaches to become more effective educators.
The Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning helps faculty create inclusive, engaging learning environments that foster belonging, wellbeing, academic challenge, and student success.
Resources for a variety of content areas that include equitable teamwork, curricular pathways, game-based learning, and other methods to support how learners approach the process of engagement and learning.
A focus on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to assess how new learning techniques and models are impacting students, and to determine where there are opportunities for broader scale and extension to similar classrooms and settings.
AI is transforming teaching and learning, and the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning helps faculty thoughtfully and responsibly adapt courses, pedagogy, and assessment to prepare students for an AI-enabled world.
Boston University has been recognized with Blackboard’s 2026 Catalyst Leading Change Award, an international honor recognizing institutions that demonstrate leadership in advancing teaching and learning through transformational change.
In this post in Arts & Sciences Magazine, Mike De Socio highlights a new undergraduate course in the College of Arts & Sciences' English department, “The Voice of Poetry," and highlights the collaboration with the Institute's David Charpentier, Senior Instructional Multimedia Producer, who helped bring student work to life on camera.
In this conversation with Higher Education Digest, Vice President and Associate Provost of the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning and BU Virtual Wendy Colby shares her perspectives on the evolving landscape of higher education and the leadership principles that drive her work.
The Daily Free Press reports on BU's transition from Blackboard Original to the latest platform, Blackboard Ultra, and how the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning is working to support faculty along the way.
The Daily Free Press explores BU’s new AI at BU certificate course, designed to help every student to feel confident and informed in using AI technology responsibly and effectively.
In this Inside Higher Ed article, Vice President and Associate Provost of the Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning and BU Virtual Wendy Colby discusses the role of academic innovation centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) within the university ecosystem.
