by Joe Olivier | May 9, 2024 | How-tos, Pedagogy, Try IT
If you’re looking for ways to boost active learning and meaningful discussion in your course, Ed Discussion is a powerful tool worth exploring. During a workshop hosted by ATS last quarter, Borja Sotomayor, Senior Instructional Professor in the Department of...
by Michael Hernandez | Mar 26, 2024 | Try IT
As you prepare for the new quarter, you may be looking for a way to promote engagement with class reading and discussion. This blog post offers insights from our autumn quarter faculty panel on social annotation, a practice which many instructors find can do just...
by Thomas Keith | Feb 12, 2024 | How-tos, Instructional design, Pedagogy, Services
ATS instructional designers Michael Hernandez and Joe Olivier and Digital Pedagogy Fellow Kinley LaBerge contributed content to this article. The suite of digital tools supported by UChicago offers many applications that can enhance your pedagogical practice. In this...
by Michael Hernandez | Nov 6, 2023 | Events, Try IT
This post is part of an ongoing series to promote active learning strategies and teaching tools that can support instructors in using them. Since last Spring, Academic Technology Solutions (ATS) has hosted the new active learning series Try IT: Academic Tech for...
by Michael Hernandez | Feb 8, 2023 | Instructional design, Uncategorized
ATS instructional designer Thomas Keith and digital pedagogy fellow Sarah McDaniel contributed content to this article. If you’re an instructor who values the idea of writing-to-learn in your pedagogy, recent news of higher-quality AI-generated writing may have you...