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
Elements of Success (EoS) is an innovative, analytics dashboard tool in ICON that promotes students' self-regulated learning. It provides students with real-time feedback, data visualizations, relevant resources to support learning, and targeted messages to help...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
Innovation can be described as a process of implementing new solutions to meet new requirements or needs. In teaching, innovation might spark from a need to increase student motivation, enhance course delivery, or improve learning outcomes....Read more
The Academic Technology Advisory Council is seeking proposals from instructors for the Innovations in Teaching with Technology Awards (ITTA) . This program aims to enhance teaching and learning at the University of...Read more
It’s as true in teaching as it is in marketing, political, or religious speech: The most effective communication goes beyond simply imparting new information.
Communicating with...Read more
A new resource for students and instructors at the UI Libraries seams together teaching and learning with the thread of information literacy.
Located on the second floor, south end...Read more
Where can UI faculty members team up with instructional designers, instructional technology support staff, and educational researchers all with years of experience in research-based teaching practices? Answer: In the University of Iowa’s new Learning Design...Read more
