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.
To help committee members create a strategic plan for the technological needs on campus,...Read more
The Executive Leadership Academy (ELA), is a program designed to support mid-to-senior level leaders at the University of Iowa in their efforts to develop, enhance, and apply their leadership skills on campus.
Once selected to join the academy, members are assigned to a project team....Read more
Coming Summer 2017, a reimagined suite called Turnitin Feedback Studio will be incorporated campus-wide through ICON (Canvas).
Turnitin Feedback Studio has been reimagined from front to back with an emphasis on providing instructors the tools to give relevant feedback that students will...Read more
Canvas Commons is a learning object repository that enables educators to find, import, and share content in the following Canvas tools: course presentation modules, quizzes, assignments, discussions, pages or documents.
Users can...Read more
Please join us in welcoming two new staff members to the Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology (OTLT) Center for Teaching.
As Communications Specialist for OTLT, Emily Elliott will create, coordinate, and analyze communication to faculty, instructors, and other constituents about...Read more
The University of Iowa has seen an uptick in the number of faculty members attending and presenting at national teaching conferences sponsored by professional organizations representing both their disciplines and higher education in general.
Last month, Associate Professor of Physics and...Read more
The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) has become an increasingly valuable resource for instructors seeking to improve their teaching based on evidence of student learning. Instructors engaged in SoTL utilize a variety of practices to examine and reflect on student learning in their own...Read more
Each January the Campus Academic Strategies and Technology (4CAST) event draws together UI instructors and support staff to examine how learning technologies can be leveraged to engage students, make connections between instructors and support staff, and...Read more
By Ashlie Wrenne, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemistry and UI Office of Assessment
As the Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology supports evidence-based teaching practice, it has increasingly become involved in researching teaching and learning at Iowa. This new...Read more
With the adoption of Canvas as the engine that drives ICON, instructors have gained many new functions within our course sites that help us collaborate and engage with other users in the course. One such tool is known as “Groups.”
Groups is a powerful tool in Canvas that can help...Read more
