Thanks for joining us for a year of experimentation with the Instructional Technology Referral Office. While the office is still open and managing referrals, this blog will no longer be actively updated. For more timely updates, follow us on Twitter @UOInTRO.
The Digital Scholarship Center is bringing back its popular Arduino workshop later this month! Join Scott Austed and the DSC staff for an afternoon of hardware prototyping. Wondering how to get started with physical computing, and what kind of stuff you can do with it? Sign up for this workshop! July 17, 2015. 1-4 PM.… Continue reading →
The intrepid InTRO team has released its report on its first year of activities! We were charged by the Educational Technology Advisory Committee not only with conducting instructional technology referrals, but with inventorying campus efforts. Over the course of the year, our charge expanded to include significant research into the digital education efforts of over twenty-five comparator… Continue reading →
Overview Last month I participated in what was one of the strongest webinars the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative has put out thus far—a two-hour session on the various means through which the ed tech community is assessing the quality of (new) digital education initiatives. Conceived as part show-and-tell, part commentary on the state of the field,… Continue reading →
Summary Throughout April, the InTRO team was actively collaborating with other units in the development of new campus resources. We also established concrete plans for continuing our comparator research, and began to collate data for our upcoming annual report. Highlights! 20 technology staff from across UO attended the first meeting of the UO Educational Technology… Continue reading →
This post was originally created for the new UO Ed Tech Community of Practice. I’m cross-posting it here for informational and archival purposes. –Lindsey Introduction For the first meeting of our new Ed Tech Community of Practice, we developed a structured activity. We asked everyone in attendance to answer four questions on a notecard: Who are… Continue reading →
Summary March was a transitional month for InTRO. We completed our initial round of comparator research, began sharing our findings with both internal and external audiences, and established a framework for our upcoming annual report. An opportunity to attend the UPCEA national conference provided context for our findings and showcased a wide variety of potential… Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
