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Participate with NITLE

NITLE invites non-profit, undergraduate-centered colleges, universities, and educational organizations to participate in the NITLE Network: a strong, responsive system of exchange, innovation, and collaboration that crosses professions, disciplines, and institutions. Participating institutions and organizations use this virtual network to share their knowledge, skills, and experiences, working together to advance undergraduate-centered higher education through the effective use of digital technologies.

Participation in the NITLE Network is available for an annual fee of $2,500, with the standard participation-year beginning on July 1. (Pro-rated rates are available.) To enroll your institution or organization in the NITLE Network, please send an e-mail message to participate@nitle.org. Our participant relations team will be happy to answer your questions and get you started with enrollment, including designating your institution's liaison to NITLE.

Institutions and organizations that participate in the NITLE Network receive

• 10 virtual seats in a multipoint, interactive videoconferencing (MIV) "room" reserved for the participating institution's use. Using their personal desktop or laptop computers, members of the faculty and staff can communicate, interact, and collaborate with colleagues and students--on and off campus--in a web-based environment that includes audio, video, a shared whiteboard, group and private chat, and application-sharing. NITLE also supports community discussion about using MIV to help participating institutions use this tool to best purpose.
• Access for up to 100 users and 10 courses in both the Moodle and Sakai open-source learning management systems. Participating institutions can test one or both systems and explore the potential of NITLE's information services via shared, hosted instances of Moodle and Sakai. All server and application maintenance operations are included.
• Eligibility to participate in NITLE's professional development programs and to subscribe to NITLE's information services. NITLE's professional development programs engage participants in a range of events, workshops, and other activities relevant to teaching effectively with technology and integrating technology into the teaching and learning environment; technology services give campuses easy-on, easy-off access to key technologies. Additional participation fees apply. Network participants pay only for the professional development programs and technology services they choose.
• Access to information and resources available only to Network participants, including access to NITLE's peer communities (e-mail lists and collaborative web resources), regular updates from NITLE about available offerings, and other participant services.

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