Advancing teaching excellence and innovation
at Notre Dame
Notre Dame Learning accompanies faculty and instructors to enhance learning for all students. We engage and promote evidence-based practices to advance teaching and learning at Notre Dame and beyond.
In doing so, we work across a number of areas, including the design of courses (both in-person and online), customized research, the creation of learning media, learning technology integration, and AI in teaching and learning. We also offer individual and academic unit teaching consultations, workshops, funding opportunities, and additional programs designed specifically for graduate students and postdocs.
Three Teams. One Mission.
By bringing together the teaching and learning expertise of three distinct yet highly collaborative units, Notre Dame Learning is able to partner with those who teach at the University—across all types of instructional modes and contexts—to deliver educational experiences that are distinctly Notre Dame.
Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence
The Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence partners with instructors and students to promote the adoption of high-impact practices in teaching and learning, offering confidential consultations, interactive workshops, intensive academies, and customized programming in support of transformative, student-centered learning.
Office of Digital Learning (ODL)
Comprising learning designers, creative and media professionals, and program managers, the Office of Digital Learning combines pedagogical best practices with world-class media production to serve as Notre Dame’s core provider of custom-made digital learning experiences in both online and traditional classroom settings.
Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT)
Housed in the Office of Information Technology and working hand-in-hand with Notre Dame Learning, the Teaching & Learning Technologies team specializes in a range of areas related to teaching with technology, including learning management systems (e.g., Canvas), academic software, learning spaces, learning analytics, and emerging technologies.
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Searchable Resource Library
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Teaching with Canvas
Support for working with the Canvas learning management system
Consultation Requests
Customizable help available to individual instructors and academic units
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Presentations and Publications
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Presentations | 2026 Midwest Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
April 23, 2026
From crafting a memorable first five minutes of class to evaluating wearable AI, the topics covered by 10 members of the Notre Dame Learning team across eight presentations at the 2026 Midwest Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning offered a window into the wide range of the organization’s pedagogical work.
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Podcast | Are Wearables The Next Big Thing in Higher Ed Tech?
March 09, 2026
Steve Varela, director of teaching & learning technologies at Notre Dame, recently appeared on EDUCAUSE’s Shop Talk podcast along with Elena Mangione-Lora, a teaching professor of Spanish language and culture at the University, and Madeline Link, a doctoral student in Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute, to discuss their research on using smart glasses to support accessibility in teaching and learning.
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