by Cecilia Lo | Sep 25, 2018 | De-Promote
Graduate Students and Postdocs, would you like to gain experience in digital pedagogy, help promote pedagogically-sound use of educational technology at UChicago, and get ready to teach blended or fully-online courses? We are hiring Digital Pedagogy Fellows for...
by Cecilia Lo | Sep 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Academic Technology Solutions (ATS) is piloting Poll Everywhere, a student response system, in a limited number of courses for the Winter 2018 and Spring 2018 quarters. Instructors can use Poll Everywhere to promote discussion among students, quickly gauge their...
by Cecilia Lo | Sep 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Academic Technology Solutions (ATS) has opened up its first One Button Studio prototype in Regenstein Library, Level A, for limited piloting in Spring Quarter 2018. Based upon similar successful facilities at a number of other universities, the One Button Studio is a...
by Cecilia Lo | Sep 1, 2018 | Instructional design
What are Blogs? Why use them as Assignments? A blog (the shortened version of the original term, “weblog”) is an online, chronological collection of first-person reflective essays that are often linked to supportive writings and media on the internet. Many instructors...
by Cecilia Lo | Aug 31, 2018 | Instructional design
UChicago offers a variety of platforms to students, faculty and staff for storing and sharing files. Among these, Google Drive and Box are the most useful for teaching purposes as they are FERPA compliant and have features that support collaboration. Below is a...