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
Presentations and Publications
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Inside Higher Ed
Treat Your Students Like Scientists
July 21, 2026
“If we want to motivate undergraduates to learn science and persist in the field, we need to explicitly treat them like scientists, and not just like memorizers of science facts,” writes Kristi Rudenga, director of Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence.
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From vision to action: a theory of change for introductory biology education reform
June 16, 2026
This paper describes how Notre Dame’s Department of Biological Sciences developed and implemented a new introductory biology course sequence using a theory of change (ToC) to guide a second-order, department-wide reform effort. Coauthored by 11 Notre Dame faculty members including Kathy Quardokus Fisher of Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence, it appeared in the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education.
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