Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology

Canvas will release new feature enhancements on Saturday, July 18, including: Due and Availability Date Bulk Edit: The Assignments page supports editing all graded assignment, discussion, and quiz dates in a single page. The page also displays assignments with multiple due dates. Limiting...Read more

Extreme changes require extreme flexibility. Instructors who eight weeks ago may have never been interested in digital content may now find themselves searching for ways to introduce eTexts and online learning platforms into their courses. ICON Direct is the University of Iowa's initiative for...Read more

The Course Design Institute is an intensive, multi-day workshop that provides hands-on guidance in the process of developing or revising a course, including focusing on course content, developing assessments, and creating effective learning experiences. The OTLT Center for Teaching will hold the...Read more

When Megan Lorenz became a Center for Teaching graduate teaching fellow, she was a seventh-year PhD candidate in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. She was also balancing teaching full time, managing a new baby at home, dissertating, and applying for jobs. Today, she is an...Read more

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

For Brandon Myers, a lecturer in computer science, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning has provided a framework to carefully evaluate strategies he’s already trying in the classroom. “In the second introductory computer science course, we found that students needed solid conceptual...Read more