Welcome to the Teaching for Learning Network

The Teaching for Learning Network (TfLN) grew out of pedagogical development activities funded by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI), a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). TfLN was established in order to extend and expand these activities.  

Both the University of Cambridge and MIT have distinctive educational characters. Part of the goal for TfLN was to determine what specific practices and approaches to teaching and learning contribute to these - while at the same time seeking to identify areas of commonality across the two institutions and higher education as a whole.

TfLN provided support for faculties, departments and other groups in undertaking research and development projects with a specific focus of improving teaching and learning.  In 2006-2007 these activities were located within Cambridge and MIT; subsequently, the network extended to include partners in other higher education institutions.

Directed at Cambridge by Keith Johnstone (Plant Sciences), David Good (Social and Political Sciences) and Patrick Carmichael (Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies), the TfLN was designed as a network supporting both intensive collaboration within its constituent projects and 'at-a-distance' sharing of approaches, interpretative frameworks, findings and outcomes.