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 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
The beginning of winter quarter brought a number of new referral projects to InTRO, due in part to increased outreach efforts! Six new projects came our way this month. Four of these projects have been completed, one other has been referred out. One project, in progress, is waiting for responses to plan and proceed, Our referrals… Continue reading →
December brought the InTRO team time and space to finalize some early projects and to get prepared for winter quarter, with a revamped website and new ticketing system. Over the next few months we will continue to inventory UO services and instructional technology needs, and conduct comparator research to set this information in context. One big highlight… Continue reading →
A number of bloggers have begun making their end-of-year ed tech lists already, including Audrey Watters, Eric Stoller, and the ProfHacker team. There are some odd commonalities on these lists, and it’s unclear whether or not that’s due to my own self-selected reading patterns, or broader trends in higher ed that extend beyond any one individual.… Continue reading →
