The Instructional Technology Referral Office (147A Knight Library) will be closed from Monday, March 30 through Friday, April 3. InTRO program staff will be attending a conference in Washington, DC. E-mails, service requests, and telephone messages will receive a response upon our return. Live chat will be offline for the duration of our time away.… Continue reading InTRO closed for first week of Spring Quarter
For the past three months, our office has been engaged in the first stages of a long-term research project, examining digital education trends at educational institutions comparable to the University of Oregon. After a test run with seven initial questions–which we used to write up our summaries of the University of Washington and the University of… Continue reading An Update on InTRO’s Comparator Research Project
What if you held a conference about higher education without any educators present? Who is present at educational technology events? The absence of faculty from these discussions is commonly bemoaned as an intractable, unsolvable problem. What isn’t often presented, however, is an iterative solution that will allow for a slow-but-steady integration of technology and teaching.… Continue reading Engaging Faculty in Online Education
Initiating new technologies into complex institutions can be a challenge, especially when hundreds of users with varying technical skills, disciplinary approaches, and time commitments are involved. Integrating new technologies into teaching and pedagogical practices within widely disparate experience groups only increases that challenge. Creativity, innovation – and skill – can grow organically with “passionate users”… Continue reading Building User Communities
Comparator research was the focus of InTRO’s efforts during February. Initial findings indicate that peer institutions centralize the services that deliver instructional technology and digital learning to a much greater extent than UO. Organizational structures and objectives differ to some degree, but the majority of our peers have initiated innovative digital education programming through strategic… Continue reading InTRO happenings, February 2015
UO faculty, instructors, and GTFs can join training sessions to gain an understanding of creating, developing, and implementing course sites in Canvas, the new Learning Management System going live in Spring 2015. There are multiple workshops for creating a course from scratch and for migrating a course from Blackboard to Canvas. Register today for this… Continue reading Canvas Training Sessions Now Open