NITLE (pronounced "nightly") is a community-based, non-profit initiative that provides professional development programs, managed information services, and peer networking opportunities to independent, undergraduate-centered institutions of higher education that participate in our Network. We are dedicated to advancing learning through the effective use of digital technologies. Faculty members, librarians, instructional and information technologists, and other staff members from our participating institutions use our offerings to promote innovation in institutional and individual practices to enrich undergraduate education. In all its activities, NITLE leverages the expertise inherent in its participant community and provides a forum and resources to enable the strategic understanding and effective adoption of digital technologies.
Established as the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education in September 2001, NITLE is an initiative of Ithaka, a not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education around the world. NITLE received early support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and reorganized under Ithaka in January 2006. NITLE continues to receive generous support from the Mellon Foundation.
The 2006 reorganization brought together four Mellon-funded instructional technology initiatives: NITLE, the Center for Educational Technology (Middlebury, Vermont), the Associated Colleges of the South Technology Center (Georgetown, Texas), and the Midwest Instructional Technology Center (Ann Arbor, Michigan). NITLE now operates as a unified initiative providing programs and services to colleges, universities, and non-profit educational organizations in the United States and abroad. Through its offerings, NITLE promotes innovation and collaboration around the effective use of digital technology for teaching, learning, scholarship, and information management.
NITLE's staff develops and delivers its programs and services from offices located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Georgetown, Texas.