Since 1999, the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning has gained valuable insight and experience by developing hundreds of projects and working with more than 3,500 faculty to advance the purposeful use of technology in education. We now combine this experience with current breakthroughs in digital communication technologies to extend the scope and reach of our work. CCNMTL's strategic initiatives focus on the integration of digital technologies and media in education with full cognizance of the world's problems and promise.
The Global Learning initiative mobilizes the power of emerging network technologies to expand the collaborative efforts of the world's educational community. Global Learning projects take advantage of the distributed locales of its participants, leveraging diverse on-the-ground expertise in order to create common understandings, skills, and professional practices that address the prevailing dilemmas of the global community.
The Triangle initiative creates digital tools and capacities that simultaneously serve the intersecting interests of education, research, and the larger community. By creating new economies of development, the positive effects of research and education are magnified in the interest of communities in need.
The Digital Bridges initiative defines innovative pathways between digitized collections and the classroom. Developed in partnership with Columbia faculty and librarians, Digital Bridges projects create learning environments that afford students "hands-on" use of curated, persistent, high-quality digital resources, raising the stakes for learning in the information age.
