LITRE Goals

LITRE's ultimate purpose is to improve student learning. LITRE's primary strategy is to establish an ongoing, systematic investigation into the effectiveness of technology-based innovations to improve learning. We will use the results of these investigations to build on our successes, shape future investigations, and inform campus decision-making. LITRE goals are:

• To improve student learning across the University through the use of technology. We will monitor the impact of those innovations on students' abilities in four dimensions:
  - problem solving,
  - empirical inquiry,
  - research from sources, and
  - performance in the discipline.
  

• To investigate systematically the effectiveness of technology-based innovations in learning and teaching. We will establish an ongoing mechanism to stimulate and study innovations.
  

• To use the results of these investigations to scale successes, shape future investigations, and inform campus decision making. More specifically, we want to:
  - increase student and faculty engagement with technology when shown to be effective in improving learning and teaching.
  - develop appropriate, learning technology-friendly policies.
  - improve the physical learning environment.

A fuller statement of LITRE’s overarching goals (pdf format), with measurement strategies, is avaialble.