The Working Group for Active Teaching and Learning (sponsored by Academic Affairs, CAS, UO Libraries and the Committee for Academic Infrastructure) is holding a panel discussion and dialogue on their experiences with active teaching and learning activities. Come hear how UO faculty and students are taking advantage of new active learning environments to enhance their… Continue reading →
Kassia and Lindsey were in Portland last week for the NorthWest Academic Computing Consortium‘s annual Instructional Technology Roundtable. The downtown Portland setting was an energizing one–it gave Lindsey, InTRO’s NYC refugee, a little taste of home! The roundtable is a small regional conference geared towards instructional technology practitioners. While overall numbers are small–roughly fifty people… Continue reading →
InTRO hosted its first on-campus event as an office at the end of October: we coordinated the University of Oregon’s participate in the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI)’s Fall Focus webinar, which were all about active learning spaces and creative classroom technologies! “Reimagining Learning Spaces: Design, Technology, and Assessment” was a two-day webinar featuring speakers from… Continue reading →
The InTRO team had a number of “firsts” in October, including… Traveling to our first conference, Hosting our first on-campus event, and making an initial report of our office’s early findings to UO’s educational technology committee. We also doubled our referrals in October–going from six projects open to twelve! As of this date, half of… Continue reading →
As a long-time advocate for active learning and creative pedagogies in the undergraduate classroom, I’m naturally a big fan of NITLE (the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education). This summer, in consultation with the Associated Colleges of the South, they’ve been putting out a total of sixteen new case studies showcasing different efforts in technology… Continue reading →
