by Thomas Keith | Nov 30, 2021 | Instructional design, Services
Gradescope is a software tool that can significantly streamline the grading process for handwritten work. With Gradescope, you can create a living rubric and use it to assess student work, adjusting the rubric as you go to maintain grading consistency across...
by Thomas Keith | Nov 29, 2021 | Events, Symposium for Teaching with Technology
Save the Date! The 2022 Symposium for Teaching with Technology will be held online on Wednesday and Thursday, April 20-21, 2022, from 1:00 to 5:30 P.M. It will feature speakers from throughout the University community presenting on their use of technology to enhance...
by Ziting Wang | Nov 23, 2021 | Accessibility, Instructional design, Pedagogy, Services
Gamification in Higher Education: What and Why? Most people, when they think about gamers, picture teenage boys who are so addicted to games that they are glued to their computers. But the actual statistics show that the population of adult women gamers outnumbers...
by Thomas Keith | Nov 5, 2021 | Events
Clockwise from top left: Samantha Fenno, Kendra Burbank, Petra Goedegebuure, Paul Poast On Oct. 29, 2021, Joe Lampert, Interim Director of the Chicago Center for Teaching and Learning, led the panel “Reengaging the In-Person Classroom: A Mid-Quarter Faculty Panel,”...
by Sarah McDaniel | Nov 3, 2021 | Digital Accessibility, Services, Universal Design for Learning
This post focuses on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) as a resource for digital accessibility. For more on digital accessibility at UChicago, please visit the Center for Digital Accessibility (CDA), and consider registering for the upcoming workshop “Accessibility...