The Technology and Information Literacy Initiative, or TILI, is a an innovative program that seamlessly blends technology and technology training, information literacy training, bibliographic instruction, support resources, and other electronic information tools to buttress the learning process. TILI has three main components: Campus-based computing laboratories at Cuyahoga Community College (CCC), computing laboratories and specialized programming located throughout the Greater Cleveland area, and the TILI Portal.

The TILI Portal is a dynamic online experience for CCC students and faculty, K-12 students, and community users. The TILI Portal creates a virtual learning community for these different user groups, and is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from any computer equipped with an Internet connection.

For CCC students and faculty, the TILI Portal presents students and faculty with research and instructional resources to support the CCC curriculum. By providing faculty and students with greater opportunities to understand how people learn, and by offering tools to help them learn more effectively and succeed at CCC, TILI offers clear and valuable sources to support the process of lifelong learning.

TILI enhances CCC's ability to provide instruction through the platform of technology. The Portal supports Campus-based and Distance Learning classes with high quality resources to augment those physically found at CCC. Current innovative technologies and links to tutorials or classes on their use are made available to faculty along with technology and information literacy training to enable both students and faculty to better assess their need for information and effectively make use of the information that they locate.