Explore the future of teaching & learning.
Come innovate with us.
Fostering a Community of Innovation
Bringing together faculty who have a shared interest in instruction and innovation
Explore New Learning Spaces
The new Experimental Classroom is a flexible learning space ideal for team learning initiatives.
Mobile Devices in the Classroom
A common device can provide opportunities for creative, hands-on learning.
Meet the Innovation Fellows
Instructional Innovation Spotlight
Web Domains on UMass Create
UMass Create is a pilot service that allows members of the UMass Amherst community to manage a hosted web space and install powerful, commonly-used web applications including WordPress, MediaWiki, Omeka and Drupal.
The goal of this “sandbox” space is to encourage students to take control of their digital identities. Instructional Innovation staff have a limited number of seats to manage. We are especially interested in reserving seats for instructors who want to assign web-building activities as part of coursework.
Innovate@ Symposia
Become an Innovation Fellow!
Innovate@ Symposia are held annually as a collaboration between CTL, the UMass Libraries, and IT. Symposia focus on the faculty experience and include previous UMass Faculty Innovation Fellows as presenters.
Participating faculty become part of the Innovation Fellow think tank and are the front line for discussing new instructional innovations and for creating a roadmap for sustainable innovations at UMass Amherst. Participation in the Symposium is supported by a $500 stipend.
Is Your Course Accessible?
There’s a lot you can do to make your course materials, websites, and media more accessible to people with different abilities, including vision, hearing, learning abilities, cognitive needs, mobility, speech, and combinations of these.
Instructional Innovation regularly offers workshops on a variety of accessibility topics. Join us to find out how screen reading software works and who it benefits, learn how to add audio descriptions and closed captioning to media, get tips on making your websites and course materials accessible, and more.
Recent Trends and Research
Come visit the INNOVATE@ TEAM
7th floor, W.E.B. Du Bois Library