Fields of Opportunity: UI's Black Migration Stories is a three-day event that unites the UI Press publication of Invisible Hawkeyes: African Americans at the University of Iowa during the Long Civil Rights Era and Hancher’s commission of Step Afrika!’s The Migration: Reflections of Jacob...Read more
On behalf of the Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology (OTLT), a warm welcome to all new and returning faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants. Every fall semester on campus is exciting, but that enthusiasm is especially accentuated this year with new buildings and road...Read more
With the University of Iowa’s adoption of Canvas, we wanted to share some of the advantages the new ICON learning management system (LMS) brings to the University, as well as a few pointers for instructors.
At the start of each new semester, the most common question students ask the ITS...Read more
Have you wondered how Open Education Resources are being used by college instructors? Want to guide students through discussions about topics that challenge assumptions and stereotypes? Or create more effective strategies for assessing student writing?
Fall 2016 Center for Teaching...Read more
The Academic Technologies Advisory Council is seeking proposals from instructors for the Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards (ITTA) . This program aims to raise the level of teaching and learning at the University of Iowa by funding significant and innovative instructional technology...Read more
Starting this fall, UI students will have a more convenient way to provide instant response to professors’ polls and questions during class. Instead of bringing separate clicker devices to class as they have in the past, they’ll be able to use other wireless-enabled personal devices—like laptops...Read more
As graduation events take place at the end of each semester, students and parents often ask about the significance of graduation regalia. The style, colors, and meaning of academic dress have a venerable history —one that arose in Europe and now is generally shared across most institutions of...Read more
The UI Senior Exit Survey underscores the fact that students appreciate the great work being done by faculty and staff at UI. Administered at the time students file to graduate, the survey includes an opportunity for graduating seniors to identify faculty and staff members who have made a...Read more
Last fall the Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology Center for Teaching launched the Early Career Faculty Academy (ECFA), a community of seventeen first-year, tenure-track assistant professors from five colleges across campus who, with the encouragement of their DEOs, focus on balancing...Read more
The Center for Teaching lending library has a wide variety of books, teaching & learning journals, and DVDs on various teaching topics.
The Center for Teaching staff members have put together a list of recommended books available for checkout in the Center's lending library. Stock up...Read more
