Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology

The rapid spread of immersive technology is creating new possibilities for everyday existence where time and proximity no longer dictate the layers of the world in front of you. Virtual, augmented, and mixed realities are shifting our experience of education from the one-dimensional (physical) to...Read more

What do you see when you look at a cell, a newspaper ad, a blueprint, a historical photograph, or any other material of your discipline? What do your students see? Faculty members are invited to examine the possibilities of object-based learning in the classroom in the Close Looking Faculty...Read more

Each year, the Center for Teaching graduate fellows design and facilitate workshops as part of their work with the Center. In this Q&A series, we’ll feature each fellow, focusing on the process behind developing their workshops and the strategies presented in them. Nick Stroup, a second-year...Read more

We’re renovating the Center for Teaching! In the process, the following Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology (OTLT) staff members have temporarily relocated to 2800 University Capitol Centre (behind the ITS Help Desk): Lexi Atzen, Center for Teaching, graduate research assistant Anna...Read more

For Rima Afifi, Paul Gilbert, and other faculty of the Health Equity Advancement Lab (HEAL) of the UI College of Public Health, equity and health care equity are core concepts they hope students will learn. When they wanted to examine this on a global scale by creating a course that would connect...Read more

How do you update an aging audio system in a historic space that just happens to be the largest classroom on the University of Iowa campus? Last year, the Learning Spaces Technology (LST) team had to tackle that very problem after the team noticed an uptick in feedback about Macbride Auditorium:...Read more