The Universal Design Online Content Inspection Tool (UDOIT) can be implemented to check areas of ICON courses for accessibility, and provides an easy way to identify areas of a course’s ICON site that may prevent people using assistive technology from accessing...Read more
The Academic Technology Advisory Council (ATAC) assists the Provost’s Office and CIO in setting directions and priorities for the use of instructional technology needs at the University of Iowa.
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Teaching in higher education can pose many interesting challenges, from helping students engage in academic discourse with honesty and integrity, to facilitating effective group work, to going beyond traditional...Read more
Faculty members and instructional staff at the University of Iowa have the opportunity to enhance their teaching through attending various workshops and conferences. In this periodic series, we will share the benefits instructors find in attending an array of...Read more
If you’re looking for a place to share ideas with fellow instructors or simply need an excuse to read more, then look no further—the Center for Teaching now offers three low-prep reading groups for faculty, TAs, and other...Read more
For the past 11 years, the Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology and the UI Libraries have teamed up to host the annual 4CAST (Campus Academic Strategies and Technology) faculty conference.
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As part of the Digital Bridges for Humanistic Inquiry project—a collaboration between the University of Iowa and Grinnell College and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—four Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology Student Instructional Technology...Read more
When the Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology made the move to Canvas (the new LMS that powers ICON), we understood that access to previous Desire2Learn (D2L) content would be of value to instructors. For this reason, the ICON Team has built an ICON...Read more
Today’s community of teaching in higher education provides a rich supply of ideas: from helping students engage in academic discourse with honesty and integrity, to facilitating effective group work, to going beyond traditional teaching methods and “flipping”...Read more
The Giant Ice Age Sloth, a complete skeleton of a 47-foot Atlantic right whale, a diorama of the Devonian Coral Reef from 380 million years ago, and a hall of over 1,000 birds. Along with more than 130,000 objects in storage collections, these are just a few of...Read more
